Tag: Fantasy
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EMILY WILDE’S ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF FAERIES by HEATHER FAWCETT
A curmudgeonly professor journey to a small town in the far north to study faerie folklore and discovers dark fae magic, friendship, and love, in this heartwarming and enchanting fantasy. Well, that sounded interesting. Nothing I love more than an academic-based tale on faeries! Emily Wilde is a professor at Cambridge. She is an expert…
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The Lost Witch by Paige Crutcher
The timeline in this book begins in 1922 and jumps to 2022. Brigid is a powerful witch and healer in a small town on an island in Ireland. The one thing she wants is a child. She is seduced by Luc Knightly, head of the Knightly Coven. She becomes pregnant and when her precious daughter…
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UPGRADE by BLAKE CROUCH
“You are the next step in human evolution.” Logan Ramsay works for the Gene Police. They shut down unscrupulous gene-editing labs so what happened with Logan’s mother, never happens again. While Logan spent a little time in prison for what happened, his mother chose to drive off a cliff. During a raid gone bad, Logan…
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THE CHANGE by KIRSTEN MILLER
Big Little Lies meets The Witches of Eastwick–a gloriously entertaining and knife-sharp feminist revenge fantasy about three women whose midlife crisis brings unexpected new powers–putting them on a collision course with the evil that lurks in their wealthy beach town. Well, that certainly describes this book! Mattauk is an oceanfront community, where three midlife women are about…
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IN A GARDEN BURNING GOLD by RORY POWER
First in the Argyrosi Series Before anything can we talk about the stunning cover art on this book? I have to admit this was one time I judged a book by its cover and it was great! This is a Fantasy/YA/LGBT and much more. I went in knowing nothing and I figured out a lot…
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SUCH A PRETTY SMILE by KRISTI DEMEESTER
I finished this book in one sitting. With the lights on and the doors locked. This is for all the women who don’t want to sit still and look pretty. For the women and girls who have been patronized and marginalized by men. Told by two rather unreliable narrators. Caroline and her daughter Lila. In…
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IRON WIDOW by KIRAN JAY ZHAO
While this draws on a few real characters in history, make no mistake, it is a Sci-Fy, Fantasy, Futuristic tale that touches on the place women still have in society. Second. Disposable. And then it just dives right in to giant fighting machines called Chrysalises, transforming robots that battle with mecha aliens that have almost…
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The NATURE of WITCHES by RACHEL GRIFFIN
Climate Change meets Climate Witches in this Contemporary Fantasy/Paranormal Young Adult debut novel. Witches have been maintaining the climate for a very long time. Their powers are the powers of the seasons. With the sun peaking in the season they are born. But the humans or shaders have gotten greedy and off-track wanting more of…
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CROSSINGS by ALEX LANDRAGIN
Crossings is an unforgettable and explosive genre-bending debut—a novel in three parts, designed to be read in two different directions, spanning a hundred and fifty years and seven lifetimes. Paris. About to be overrun with Nazis is not the best place for a not only German man but a Jewish one as well. As all-around is…
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The Nobody People by Bob Proehl
After decades in hiding, a group of outcasts with extraordinary abilities clashes with a world that is threatened by their power. Great world-building in this tale! It has rather an X-Men feel to it. These are ordinary people that you wouldn’t look twice at. Nobodies. And yet not quite as ordinary as they seem. They…
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