Category: fantasy
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The Cat Who Saved the Library by Sosuke Natsukawa is the sequel to The Cat Who Saved Books and continues the adventures of Tiger the tabby. This time he is joined by Nanami, a thirteen-year-old who has chronic asthma and tends to spend her time in libraries instead of outdoors. While browsing one day she…
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A Letter From the Lonesome Shore is the second and final book in The Sunken Archive by Sylvie Cathrall. It continues the dual timeline stories from the previous book. E. and Henerey are now in an unknown place where they meet the thirtieth second scholar and the fifteenth first scholar. They explain that E. and…
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The Ragpicker King by Cassandra Clare is the second book in her new series, The Chronicles of Castellane. It picks up not long after the events of the previous book with Lin now having to undergo testing to prove to the other Ashkar that she is the Goddess returned, when even she doesn’t believe it.…
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My Broken Heart is Dead by Kane Jesse Howard is a bit of an odd book. Lynn is an aging landlord, a not very nice one at that, and is working on a few issues with her various properties when she has a heart attack and dies. Instead of staying dead she wakes up months…
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The Crystal Cave is the first book in The Arthurian Saga by Mary Stewart and tells the origins of Merlin. It starts when he is still a child known as Myrddin Emrys living with his mother, Niniane, in Maridunum. Though his mother is a princess and he is noble born Merlin is also a bastard…
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The Starless Crown is the first book in the Moonfall series by James Rollins. Nyx is a young blind girl working her way through the tiers at her local school when she finds herself confronted by a bully before narrowly escaping an attack by myr bats that leaves the bully dead and her cured of…
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Warbound is the third and final book in The Grimnoir Chronicles by Larry Correia. It opens a few months after the end of the previous book, Spellbound, with Faye now in Europe trying to find the Grimnoir elder that had trained Whisper in hopes of learning more about her unusual abilities. At the same time…
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The Midnight Bookshop by Amanda James is definitely one of the more unusual books I have read recently. It starts with an unusual flyer that catches the attention of three individuals and strangers, Adelaide, Jo, and Kye. The flyer is for a nearby store called the Midnight Bookshop. Jo struggles to actually find the store…
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Harpist in the Wind is the third and final book in the Riddle-Master trilogy by Patricia A. McKillip and concludes the tale of Morgon and Raederle. It picks up a mere week after the end of the second book with Morgon and Raederle trying to decide what to do next, though they somewhat agree they…
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The Lost Bookshop by Evie Woods is a story about a mysterious bookshop in Dublin and the people involved with it. Martha has recently left her husband and is looking to start over when she lands a job as a live-in maid and housekeeper for an older lady in Dublin. It is there that she…