To be published 22/02/2022… Each year a maiden is sacrificed to the Sea God to hold back his storms for another year. This year the Sea God’s Bride is the girl that Joon loves and his sister will not let them be separated. Minna is not the prettiest girl in the village, or the mostContinue reading “‘The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea’ by Axie Oh”
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‘Only a Monster’ by Vanessa Len
To be published 17/02/2021… Joan is a monster. Her gran has always been honest with her about that, although she has never quite explained what exactly that meant. When Joan accidentally uses her powers she is thrust into a world of monsters more dangerous and more complicated than she could have imagined. And where thereContinue reading “‘Only a Monster’ by Vanessa Len”
‘Once Upon a Broken Heart’ by Stephanie Garber
When Evangeline’s sister, Marisol, announces that she is getting married in two weeks, there’s only one problem; Evangeline is in love with the groom and, up until the announcement, she had thought he was in love with her too… Her solution? Track down the mythical Prince of Hearts and convince him to stop the wedding.Continue reading “‘Once Upon a Broken Heart’ by Stephanie Garber”
‘Daughter of the Moon Goddess’ by Sue Lynn Tan
To be published 20/01/2022… The moon is a prison. Having grown up there in isolated comfort with her loving mother this is an uncomfortable truth for Xingyin to learn. But it is not until she sees the rest of the world for herself that she truly understands how great a tragedy it is for herContinue reading “‘Daughter of the Moon Goddess’ by Sue Lynn Tan”
‘Terciel and Elinor’ by Garth Nix
To be published 02/11/2021… Having grown up in isolation in her family’s slowly failing manor house Elinor does not have much experience of the world; until an undead tragedy thrusts her out into it and she finds that she may be destined to be one of the world’s key players after all. Plucked from theContinue reading “‘Terciel and Elinor’ by Garth Nix”
‘Gilded’ by Marissa Meyer
To be published 02/11/2021… Serilda is different, marked so by her golden eyes and judged as bad luck by the villagers who scorn her storytelling talents. Only the children see her without prejudice, and her father whose unending love attempts to overshadow the absence of Serilda’s mother. When she crosses paths with the Erlking duringContinue reading “‘Gilded’ by Marissa Meyer”
‘The Mask of Mirrors’ by M.A. Carrick
Street urchin, turned gang member, turned maid, and now con-woman, Ren is halfway to ingratiating herself into the noble Traementis family when the entire city begins to unravel into a plot greater than anything Ren has ever seen before.
‘Under the Whispering Door’ by TJ Klune
Wallace Price is dead. He’s not overly impressed, but unfortunately there doesn’t seem to be much he can do about it – other than hang out in a teashop with the Mei and Hugo (the reaper and the ferryman) and refuse to move on. Hugo’s dead grandad Nelson is there too, like Wallace stubbornly ignoringContinue reading “‘Under the Whispering Door’ by TJ Klune”
‘The Bookbinder’s Daughter’ by Jessica Thorne
To be published 20/09/2021… Sophie has never known what happened to her mother. So when an estranged Uncle shows up and offers her a job in the family business, her mother’s old job, it’s an offer too good to refuse. Little does she know that the secret of her mother’s disappearance isn’t the only mysteryContinue reading “‘The Bookbinder’s Daughter’ by Jessica Thorne”
‘Six Crimson Cranes’ by Elizabeth Lim
Shiori is a spoiled princess who loves her brothers, hates her stepmother and doesn’t want to marry the random nobleman her father has picked out for her. Life is simple. Then she meets a dragon, learns of her own magic and discovers that her stepmother is keeping secrets. Life will never be simple again. CursedContinue reading “‘Six Crimson Cranes’ by Elizabeth Lim”
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