After the wreckage of their merchant ship, Desert Rain and Gabriel, together with their companions, are rescued by Woasim, a Wind Hijn. But three of their crew members, the Vermin brothers, are missing. Following Desert Rain’s insights, the group, joined by Woasim, heads North, where...

I found it difficult to stop reading The Dead Queen by Briar Knightly. This dark, romantic fantasy is filled with breathtaking action, passion, a brewing love triangle, and a mystery surrounding a missing person. Sienna, heiress of Llwyn and a Fox royal, is brave, unyielding,...

One continent, two princesses, and three enchanted artifacts, pitted against an ancient foe. Elliana broke the Dark, Derya wrote on water, and now her father expects the impossible: to find Cetus’s Crown, lost a millennium ago. In The Girl Who Shattered the Sea by Evelyn...

The Hunger of the Dragon by R.M. Schultz begins with Märren fleeing across dangerous lands, carrying her daughter Eimri’s skull, while voices in her mind guide her toward a Dragon’s scale to counter a curse. She loses the skull and is captured by Sea Serpent...

Jake Rab's stone age fantasy The Warden of Lies follows Elaina, a cavern-raised girl, thrust into a collapsing world after the Fourth Arch, an immense structure tied to guardianship, fails. A curse on her parents leaves them incapacitated. After a Warden dies fighting a monstrous...

Admittedly, I’m a fan of British television, and that distinctively dry, quirky humor always hits the mark for me. So, slipping into Katherine Vick’s The Disposable felt natural and an absolute delight. The premise deals with characters typically relegated to the background of fantasy epics...

The Arch Mage by James Wood is the third installment in The Ebon Knight Chronicles. The story picks up with Kelso being attacked, his house having been besieged, and Ava being taken by her eldest sister, Jesslyn, the Spider. This leads Kelso to find out...

The Dryad's Crown by David Hopkins is an enthralling fantasy novel. Born from a tree, a wood nymph passes through the hands of a woman, a druid, a farmer, and a Taraki priest until she ends up on an infamous guildmaster's estate, and her life takes...

The Book of Chaos by Ray Strong follows the likeable Diana, who is wrenched from her cushioned existence as a princess and pushed into adulthood by tragedy. She is a powerless victim of her circumstances, trapped in a turbulent world which exists after the Chaos,...

The Fall of Hades by Ashish Thomas follows Hela, daughter of Hera and Xéros, as she fights to uncover and reclaim her family’s erased history. After defeating Thanatos and escaping Hades’ assassination attempt, Hela embarks on a perilous journey with Ophion to save her poisoned...