Release date: 6 November 2025
Cybil. Esther. Rosamund. Three women, one soul. With each lifetime their soul grows bigger and brighter and more powerful. But two things stand in their way with every generation: the Harding Curse and the demon known as Miriam Richter. One wants to destroy their happiness and the other wants to consume their soul.
Continue reading “‘As Many Souls as Stars’ by Natasha Siegal”
A zombie-creating fog spreads across England in this Georgian style post apocalypse. Having been passed over as heir to her father’s Manor, Merrick Darling has one priority: find a rich husband. When her father dies suddenly, Merrick rushes home to find her sister living in fear and the Manor shrouded in mystery. The mist is more unstable than ever, but there is another enemy hiding in the shadows. Struggling to know who to trust, Merrick must find out what is really happing at Darling Manor before it is too late.
Continue reading “‘The Monstrous Kind’ by Lydia Gregoric”SPOILER ALERT: This is book 2 in a duology. Check out this review instead if you haven’t read book 1:‘And Break the Pretty Kings’ by Lena Jeong
As long as the Netherking inhabits her brother’s body, Mirae cannot strike the final blow against him. But whilst Mirae works to save her brother, the Netherking works to save himself. If he succeeds, he will be more powerful than ever before, a threat to even the gods themselves. Mirae faces her biggest sacrifice yet and she can only hope that she makes the right decision when the time comes.
Continue reading “The Witch of Wol Sin Lake by Lena Jeong”Release date: August 26 2025
Sare Silverbirch is cursed. If her heart breaks five times before her eighteenth birthday she will die. If she survives, then she will lose all ability to love. Four heartbreaks in and two months away from her eighteenth birthday, Sare finds the first clue to the origins of her curse. The good news? Her curse can be broken. The bad news? She doesn’t know how and every answer she finds just leads to more questions. To learn the truth about her curse, Sare must first discover the truth about her family.
Continue reading “‘The Book of Heartbreak’ by Ova Ceren”Release date: April 3 2025
A knight in the Theban army, Phaidros lives by the motto his beloved commander taught him: duty is honour, and obedience is strength. He never questions his duty or obedience to his commander or to his city and he never questions the dangerous path that life has given him. Until he meets Dionysus. Dionysus is a wilder kind of danger than the familiar dangers of war that Phaedros has grown up with. The closer the two men become, the more Phaedros begins to question everything about the world around him. When it comes down to it, can he really put his duty before the freedom of others? Before his own freedom? Before his own life?
Continue reading “‘Hymn to Dionysus’ by Natasha Pulley”Release date: 25.02.2025
SPOLIER ALERT: This is book five in an ongoing series. I do not recommend reading this review if you have not read the first four books in the series.
Paige Mahoney has always dreamed of escaping Scion and returning to the free world beyond, where her mere existence doesn’t make her a criminal. Yet now that she has made it, Paige would give anything to go back to London. But first she has to get her memory back, find out who is after her and why, fulfil her contract with Domino, and find out what happened to Arcturus. Once again, she’ll need to decide who she can trust, a decision that seems to be getting harder by the day.
Continue reading “‘The Dark Mirror’ by Samantha Shannon”One thousand years ago Gia was betrayed and turned to stone, alongside her sister and all their soldiers. She awakes to find a very different city to the one she left behind, one built on lies. Can she wake her sister too so they can take back their city together or will she be satisfied by vengeance instead? It may depend on the boy who woke her, but Milo has no idea how he did it. And even if he did, can Gia convince him of the truth and turn him against the very people who took him in and kept him safe after his parents were killed by monsters?
Continue reading “‘A Prayer for Vengeance’ by Leanne Schwartz”To be published 04.03.25…
SPOILER ALERT: This is book 2 in a trilogy. Check out this review instead if you haven’t read book 1: ‘Dragonfall’ by L.R. Lam
On the Feast of Flowers, Arcady severed their bond and killed Everen. Back where she started, with little money and a false name, Arcady forges ahead with her mission to clear her grandsire’s name. With only just enough money for the first year of university, time is not her friend.
Everen is not dead. Instead he has been thrust back home to Vere Celene and imprisoned for his own protection. But the dragons’ are running out of time and he still may be their only hope. Fate tells him he must heal the dreamer so it does not wake. Fate tells him he must return to Arcady.
Continue reading “‘Emberclaw’ by L.R. Lam”Like all second-born daughters, Cerise was given to the Temple at birth and trained for life as a seer. But the Sight eludes her and, as her claiming day draws near, she faces life as a servant instead. Until one vague vision from the Mother Superior sends her down a third path: one that leads to the palace and the Half King.
Cursed to disappear into shadow each night, King Kian has given up all hope. His claiming day is also near. On that day he will be claimed by the shadows forever, just like every first-born son of his family. The difference is that Kian is the last of his line and when he dies his empty throne will send the world into war and chaos.
Continue reading “‘The Half King’ by Melissa Landers”SPOILER ALERT: THIS IS THE SECOND BOOK IN A SERIES. YOU MAY WISH TO START WITH BOOK ONE: THE HURRICANE WARS
In less than a year Talasyn has gone from orphaned soldier of the hurricane wars with a tenuous grasp on her own magic, to heir of Nenavar and wife of the Night Emperor with thousands counting on her magic to save them. Being married to her greatest enemy is turning out even more complicated than expected. In comparison, fine-tuning her magic to contain the Voidfell seems almost easy. At least until unexpected consequences of over-using her magic begin to appear. Torn between love and hate, war and peace, which of the many twisting paths will Talasyn eventually choose to follow? And, in the end, will the choice even be up to her?
Continue reading “‘A Monsoon Rising’ by Thea Guanzon”
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