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A Dance of Burning Blades by M.H. Ayinde
Author : M.H. Ayinde Book : A Dance of Burning Blades / Fantasy / / Invoker Trilogy Book 2 / Publication date : April 7, 2026 Blurb: Tension simmers across Nine Lands. In the capital, the people of Lordsgrave seethe with resentment after the horrors of the greyblood attack. Clan Adatali is in open rebellion against the king, and as war in the Feverlands rages on, a humble tree feller—who looks a lot like missing invoker Jinao Mizito—has not forgotten the promise he made to

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23 hours ago2 min read


First Mage on the Moon by Cameron Johnston
Author : Cameron Johnston Book : First Mage on the Moon / Fantasy / Publication date : April 14, 2026 Blurb: Ella Pickering is drowning in debt. Once a Unity skymage trained to make aerial supply runs in the great war with the Ranneas Empire, following a crash she now uses a wheelchair and works gruelling shifts making magical weapons in the Unity workshops, thinking of better days. One night Ella witnesses an experiment by engineer Jackan Grissom go awry. His device morphs

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5 days ago2 min read


This Kingdom Will Not Kill Me by Ilona Andrews
Author : Ilona Andrews Book : This Kingdom Will Not Kill Me /Fantasy Romance/ / Maggie the Undying Book 1 / Publication date : April 2, 2026 Blurb: When Maggie wakes up cold, filthy and naked in a gutter, it doesn’t take her long to recognize Kair Toren. It’s a city she knows intimately from the pages of a famously unfinished dark fantasy series – one she’s been obsessively reading and re-reading, while waiting years for the final novel. Her only tools for navigating this

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Mar 243 min read


Daughter of Crows by Mark Lawrence
Author : Mark Lawrence Book : Daughter of Crows / Fantasy / / The Kindness Academy Book 1 / Publication date : March 26, 2026 Blurb: The survivor of a brutal academy must exhume her own past in the first book in a new series from the international bestselling author of the Library Trilogy and the Broken Empire series. Set a thief to catch a thief. Set a monster to punish monsters. The Academy of Kindness exists to create agents of retribution, cast in the image of the

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Mar 192 min read


A Bird Among Wolves by Tracy Leonard Nakatani
Author : Tracy Leonard Nakatani Book : A Bird Among Wolves /YA,Fantasy/ / Ashes of Akkavara Book 1 / Publication date : March 17, 2026 Blurb: She’s the weapon no one saw coming. Wren has always known the cost of survival. Hidden away by her elven father, she was trained to fight. Trained to flee. Trained to vanish. When he’s murdered, she follows his final order—burn everything and run. But she is thrust into a world she was never prepared to face—and entangled in the return

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Mar 172 min read


Children of Strife by Adrian Tchaikovsky
Author : Adrian Tchaikovsky Book : Children of Strife / Science Fiction / / Children of Time Book 4 / Publication date : March 17, 2026 Blurb: From the award-winning master of sci-fi Adrian Tchaikovsky, Children of Strife is the unmissable follow-up space opera to the highly acclaimed Children of Time, Children of Ruin and Children of Memory. In this epic adventure, we visit a far-future after earth fell, where ark ships had hunted for a new home. They sought lost worlds

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Mar 122 min read


The Red Winter by Cameron Sullivan
Author : Cameron Sullivan Book : The Red Winter / Fantasy , Historical Fiction/ Publication date : February 24, 2026 Blurb: In 1785, Professor Sebastian Grave receives the news he fears most: the terrible Beast of Gévaudan has returned, and the French countryside runs red in its wake. Sebastian knows the Beast. A monster-slayer with centuries of experience, he joined the hunt for the creature twenty years ago and watched it slaughter its way through a long and bloody winter.

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Mar 52 min read


Madly Deeply Always by Jules Starbrook
Author : Jules Starbrook Book : Madly Deeply Always / Romance / Publication date : February 14th 2026 Blurb: She’s a struggling musician seeking a mentor. He’s the brooding Englishman who lets her stay in his seaside cottage. Haunted by their pasts, neither dares to fall in love again. Heartbroken, burnt out, and afraid to play her guitar, 21-year-old Australian musician Lily-Anne escapes to England, hoping to find her way back to music. She takes refuge in a seaside cottage

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Feb 142 min read


Pretenders to the Throne of God by Adrian Tchaikovsky
Author : Adrian Tchaikovsky Book : Pretenders to the Throne of God / Fantasy / / The Tyrant Philosophers Book 4 / Publication date : March 10, 2026 Blurb: Eres Ffenegh - “the City on the Back of a Crab” - is the next state slated for conquest by the Palleseen, but its citizens won't give up sovereignty easily, and the siege has now dragged into the harsh Eresi winter. The defenders – both locals and Pal renegades – hold an uneasy alliance against the enemy at the gates,

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Feb 121 min read


The Astral Library by Kate Quinn
Author : Kate Quinn Book : The Astral Library / Fantasy, Historical Fiction / Publication date : February 26, 2026 Blurb: Alexandria “Alix” Watson has learned one lesson from her barren childhood in the foster-care system: unlike people, books will never let you down. Working three dead-end jobs to make ends meet and knowing college is a pipe dream, Alix takes nightly refuge in the high-vaulted reading room at the Boston Public Library, escaping into her favorite fantasy no

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Feb 82 min read


Ember and Steel by Donna Morgan
Author : Donna Morgan Book : Ember and Steel / Fantasy / / Breitho Chronicles Book 1 / Publication date : March 9, 2026 Blurb: The gods are gone. Magic is lost. Vengeance is nigh. There is death in the north; entire settlements slaughtered in the night by unknown hands. But dead things do not rest. Mages and scholars from across Breitho search for answers, to no avail. The church clings to a whispered prophecy to bring back the gods and end the horrors in the dark. But none

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Feb 52 min read


The Lies that Summon the Night by Tessonja Odette
Author : Tessonja Odette Book : The Lies that Summon the Night /Fantasy Romance/ Publication date : February 03, 2026 Blurb: From the art of liars, the monsters came… Ever since art gave life to bloodthirsty shadows, creative works have been forbidden and the talented creators sacrificed to the Sinless—the immortal royals who feast on human blood in return for their protection. Inana’s secret storytelling nearly got her killed once, and she’ll be damned if she’s ever caught

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Jan 303 min read


The Dark Lord's Guide to Dating - and Other War Crimes by Tiffany Hunt
Author : Tiffany Hunt Book : The Dark Lord's Guide to Dating - and Other War Crimes / Fantasy Romance / / Guides to Villainy and Love Book 1 / Publication date : January 06 2026 Blurb: In this riotously funny dark romantasy, a conflicted villain and his unstoppable bride form the realm's most chaotic alliance. “What’s mine, stays mine.” Step One: Kidnap someone cute. Step Two: Force her into marriage. Step Three: Try not to get feelings. When Dark Lord Kazimir Blackrose kid

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Jan 42 min read


Butter Cookies and Demon Claws by Peter V. Brett
Author : Peter V. Brett Book : Butter Cookies and Demon Claws / Fantasy / / The Demon Cycle novella / Publication date : December 4th 2025 Blurb: DEMON CLAWS The battle against the demons has been won. The town of Tibbet’s Brook is enjoying a peaceful winter until the body of local businessman Rusco Hog is discovered on the old Tanner farm, his fatal injuries pointing towards a demon attack. BUTTER COOKIES For Selia Barren, the Town Speaker, the evidence doesn’t add up. She

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Dec 2, 20251 min read


Witchlight by Susan Dennard
Author : Susan Dennard Book : Witchlight /YA,Fantasy/ / The Witchlands Book 5 / Publication date : November 6, 2025 Blurb: Paths converge and prophecies unfold as Safi and Iseult―the legendary Cahr Awen―fight their way across the Witchlands to heal the final Origin Well. With ancient figures rising from the past, the Raider King’s armies gathering for war, and the magic at the heart of everything dying too fast, the entire world is now on the brink of collapse. But when Sa

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Nov 11, 20252 min read


The Wrath of the Fallen by Amber V. Nicole
Author : Amber V. Nicole Book : The Wrath of the Fallen /Fantasy, Fantasy Romance/ / Gods & Monsters Book 4 / Publication date : October 28, 2025 Blurb: When Gods dance with Monsters, the world will tremble. With the return of Samkiel, the rightful heir to the throne, tensions grow in the remaining realms. Battle lines begin to form between those pledging their loyalties to either Samkiel or Nismera. War looms on the horizon, and Samkiel must deal with his growing power. W

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Oct 27, 20252 min read


King Sorrow by Joe Hill
Author : Joe Hill Book : King Sorrow /Horror, Fantasy/ Publication date : October 21, 2025 Blurb: Bookish dreamer Arthur Oakes is a student at Rackham College, Maine, renowned for its frosty winters and beautiful buildings. But his idyll—and burgeoning romance with Gwen Underfoot—is shattered when local drug dealers force him into a terrible crime: stealing rare and valuable books from the exceptional college library. Trapped and desperate, Arthur turns to his closest friend

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Oct 20, 20252 min read


Lives of Bitter Rain by Adrian Tchaikovsky
Author : Adrian Tchaikovsky Book : Lives of Bitter Rain /Fantasy/ / The Tyrant Philosophers Book 2.5 / Publication date : October 14, 2025 Blurb: LIVES OF BITTER RAIN is a novella in Adrian Tchaikovsky's award-winning Tyrant Philosopher series. It is a prequel to the third novel in the sequence, DAYS OF SHATTERED FAITH. City-by-city, kingdom-by-kingdom, the Palleseen have sworn to bring 'Perfection' and 'Correctness' to an imperfect world. But before these ruthless Tyrant P

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Oct 13, 20252 min read


Monstrous Tales: Haunting encounters with Britain's mythical beasts
Author : Janice Hallett Abir Mukherjee Rosie Andrews Stuart Turton ...

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Oct 9, 20251 min read


The Damned by Harper L. Woods
Author : Harper L. Woods Book : The Damned /Fantasy , Romance/ / Coven of Bones Book 3 / Publication date : October 9, 2025 Blurb:...

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Oct 6, 20252 min read
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