Alexandra Rowland’s Yield Under Great Persuasion  I had started a book that I thought was going to be hopeful but was actually super upsetti...

  Jeannelle M. Ferreira’s Ochre, Quartz, Or Ivy I’m going to be honest, I did not understand what was happening in this book at all, but I e...

  AG Slatter’s Fitcher’s Bird SO I thought this was another book set in Slatter’s Sourdough world, full of magic and dark fairy tales, and I...

  Sarah Rees Brennan’s In Other Lands Look, sometimes someone on Bluesky goes into rhapsodies about a book and I’m like, oh yeah I fucking l...

  Tanya Huff’s Saved by the Spell Honestly, I’ll be psyched if novels about queer lady teachers at magic schools become the next big thing. ...

  Helene Wecker’s The Gates of Midnight I finished this thinking like, well, this was fine, and then I got to the author’s note and was like...

  Helene Wecker’s The Hidden Palace I really didn’t remember a thing about this book, maybe because there is a LOT going on in it (including...

 Helene Wecker’s The Golem and the Jinni Rereading this because a new one in this series recently came out—and I remembered that I really li...

  Leslye Penelope’s The Inevitable Undoing of Zahara Douglass Interesting novel about a young Black woman whose twin sister disappeared when...

  Marissa Lingen’s A Dubious Clamor What a GREAT book! Sometimes novellas feel rushed or incomplete but this is the perfect length for this ...

  Elizabeth Vaughan’s WarDance The romance here is between Simus, the smart and funny Black warrior, here taking on more of a leadership rol...

  Elizabeth Vaughan’s Warcry So it looks like the last three books in this series continue the ongoing storylines but each has a new couple/...

  Elizabeth Vaughan’s Warlord  Very entertaining third volume as our protagonist makes it to the center of the nomadic lands and has to prov...

  Elizabeth Vaughan’s Warsworn Interesting second volume of this series as they begin their journey to the Plains, but are waylaid by events...

 Elizabeth Vaughan’s  Warprize T. Kingfisher mentioned this book in a recent Reddit AMA, and I do enjoy a fantasy romance that's the sta...

 Naomi Novik's The Golden Enclaves What a great conclusion to this series! I think I've liked it more on each reread--not that I eve...

  Naomi Novik’s The Last Graduate With a lot of trilogies, the second book feels like a place-holder, just kind of setting the pieces for th...

  Naomi Novik’s A Deadly Education I was in one of those moods where I had a ton of new books to read and yet wasn’t in the mood for any of ...

  T. Kingfisher’s Daggerbound Look, sometimes you just need to reread a hilarious fantasy romance full of action and great characters, old f...

  HG Parry’s The Witch Below the Dreaming Wood I’m somewhat lukewarm on Arthurian stories—they’re fine, but there are SO MANY, just not my p...