Holly M. Jenkins’ The Swan’s Arrow is a fairytale-themed story that enthralled me with its magic and thematic development. Princess Odette loses her mother to a terrifying curse. Now she is bound by duty to marry the one person she detests, Prince Derek, whose seemingly...

The Glass Coffin Society by Shiromi Arserio is an exciting tale that unfolds in Märchen, a city-state teeming with magic, danger, and corruption. The story begins after an auction heist led by Samara, an ex-Hisada assassin enforcer. She and her gang of thieves and misfits...

What starts off as harmless fun for some friends to prove who is the better player at a particular game deteriorates into chaos for sisters Roise and Caiti when they accidentally cross through a hidden portal that transports the girls to the magical realm of...

The Trials of Browid by Stephanie Bosshard follows Selena, running her family’s café after her mother’s death and her father’s disappearance. Her ordinary life is shattered when she receives warnings of danger and a pendant linked to her family’s hidden past. She's part of the...

Robert Jones’s The Conflict of Interests is a sweeping epic of magic, war, and uneasy alliances between humans and dragons. The story follows Donovan Francis, a gifted young magician whose rapid ascent through the ranks at the Franconian Wizards Academy culminates in his passing the...

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,...

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...

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...

C. Ryan Crockett delivers an epic fantasy in The Bestowed: A Dark Manifest. Nature loves her children, and to reward them, she sometimes grants them gifts. There are Luminants who heal, Cragmasons who can summon fierce winds, and Manifests who have an animal as an...

In The Secret of Hunter Mountain by Julie Anne Stratton, Gerlinde, recovering from assault, faces a prophecy in her family’s herbal book about a silver box and a quest tied to her Faith-Keeper role. She enlists her cousin Sarah, and they travel to Hunter Mountain,...