Book Reviews
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This Cozy Fantasy Bookshop Romance Invites You to ‘Stay for a Spell’
Stay for a Spell is a delightfully fun cozy fantasy romance for those of us who’ve always dreamed of a quiet, joyful life.
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‘The Witch and The Huntress’ is an Enchanting Sapphic Greek Mythology Retelling
The Witch and The Huntress is a lush, evocative reframing of mythology to tell a gorgeous and heartbreaking journey of love and belonging.
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The Museum of Unusual Occurrence By Erica Wright: A Creepy, Quirky, Occult, Cozy Mystery
A young woman running a museum and raising her teenaged sister in the psychic town of Wyndale, Florida gets roped into a mystery when a dead woman is found in one of the museum’s displays.
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Spice, and Shadows, and Dares with Mayhem and the Mortal
We got into the world of ‘Mayhem and the Mortal’ the new romantasy by Shanora Williams. Gather around and we’ll tell you about it
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‘The Storyteller’s Secret’ is a Lovely Tale of Redemption & Romance
The Storyteller’s Secret pulls at your heartstrings in multiple ways to play a symphony of beautifully raw emotions.
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Romantasy Hijinks Abound in ‘This Will Be Interesting’, E.B. Asher’s Delightful Sequel to ‘This Will Be Fun’
This Will Be Interesting lives up to its name; you’ll be thoroughly entertained the whole way through.
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The Memory Bookshop – A Tender-hearted Exploration of Memories and Regret
Just like any good healing fiction, it’ll wrap you up in its tender embrace all the way to the journey’s end.
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Dollface by Lindy Ryan: A Campy, Bloodsoaked Suburban Satire
Lindy Ryan’s Dollface is a campy, blood-soaked suburban satire about a horror author who moves to Jersey when a masked killer starts taking out other moms
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Howl’s Moving Castle meets Emily Wilde in ‘Agnes Aubert’s Mystical Cat Shelter’ by Heather Fawcett
We’re stepping into the first book by Heather Fawcett since the Emily Wilde trilogy. Did she pull us back in with Agnes Aubert’s Mystical Cat Shelter?
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The Last Starborn Seer – An Epic (But Slow) Quest
If you’re looking for a dark high fantasy with lofty aspirations, give The Lastborn Seer a little patience, and you might just find yourself swept up on a grand adventure.
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Antihero by Gregg Hurwitz: Machismo In A Time Capsule
Antihero channels a time-capsuled strain of late-’80s and ’90s adventure fiction, where violence is aesthetic, masculinity is armor, and survival is never in doubt.
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Step Inside ‘The Astral Library’ for a Spirited Novel Adventure
The Astral Library is an exciting fantasy adventure that invites you to jump inside the pages of the very books you grew up wishing you could live in.
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Operation Bounce House by Matt Dinniman – The Hardest Part of Being a Colonist Is…
Matt Dinniman takes a break from Dungeon Crawler Carl to take us to New Sonora, a colony world about to get some very unwelcome visitors…
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The Murder at World’s End by Ross Montgomery: A Comet, Crossbows, F bombs & Crime
It’s 1910 in Cornwall, and Halley’s comet is coming in hot, but the morning after the comet’s arrival, the only catastrophe to strike is murder in The Murder at World’s End by Ross Montgomery
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To Bleed a Crystal Bloom – This Dark Rapunzel Reimagining is a DNF
To Bleed a Crystal Bloom is only pretty in its sprayed edges and cover art; its content is deeply toxic and require several trigger warnings.
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Girl, Your Man is a Villain in ‘All Super-heroes Need Photo Ops’ by Elizabeth Stevens
Electrical sparks fly, the death count is high, and backs get cracked in super spicy ways when Taranis meets Monika in Elizabeth Stevens’ new Supers in the City book
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As Many Souls as Stars: A Gothic Romantasy Where Light & Darkness Collide
This gothic love story is wrapped in dark romanticism that veers between enchanting and wicked; it’s not for the faint of heart but instead for those who wish to be consumed.
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Dead, Dead Girls – Dead in the Water
combine one of my favorite time periods, the Harlem Renaissance, with one of my favorite literary genres, the cozy mystery, and that should total up to be a winner, right?
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The Last Death of the Year: A Novel
Greek Island. New Year’s Eve. A written threat. A dead body. Poirot at his coldest and most amused.
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‘The Healing Hippo of Hinode Park’ is a Cozy Slice of Life From the Author of ‘What You Are Looking For is In the Library’
The Healing Hippo of Hinode Park is a relaxing and lovely read that will appeal to fans of Before the Coffee Gets Cold and The Kamogawa Food Detectives.