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My Top Ten Favourite Reads from 2025!

As the end of 2025 draws near (which feels crazy to say because where has this year gone 🤯), here is the obligatory wrap-up post! This is by far my favourite time on blogs, bookstagram and booktube, seeing everyone’s favourites. Of the 137 books I read this year (yikes), these were the cream of the […]

Cry Voidbringer by Elaine Ho: A Jaded Warrior, A Paranoid Queen and An Ambitious Advisor Collide in this Epic Fantasy

🖤🌒 Cry, Voidbringer 🌘🖤 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Hammer, a jaded warrior, was born into a country that uses conscription to wage its losing war against the oppressors. Khall is the queen ruling, thrust into leadership after the abrupt death of her father, and growing increasingly paranoid about assassinations and plots. Naias is her advisor, hell bent on […]

The Isle in The Silver Sea by Tasha Suri: Yearning Sapphic Lady Knights Incarnated

⚔️🐈‍⬛The Isle in The Silver Sea 🐈‍⬛⚔️ ⭐️⭐️⭐️ If I had a nickel for every time I read a tale about a knight and a scribe being incarnated in every lifetime… I’d have two nickels. Which isn’t a lot, but it’s weird it happened twice (The Everlasting and the Isle in the Silver Sea). The […]

Maxton Hall by Mona Kasten (In English Translation!)

Happy Maxton Hall Season 2 Release Day! 🥍💌 This show consumed me when it first came out, and ever since I’ve been counting down the days until the English translation came out! Many thanks to Mona Kasten @monakasten for writing James Beaufort and to Rachel Ward @racheltranslates for bringing this story to a wider, international […]

Red City by Marie Lu: Rival Crime Syndicates Vy for Control of Alchemy in Gritty Adult Fantasy

♦️⏳ Red City ⏳♦️ ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ The Godfather meets Lev Grossman’s The Magicians in Marie Lu’s incredibly adult debut fantasy, flavoured with dark academia. In Angel City, a reimagined version of Los Angeles, two crime syndicates – Grand Central and Lumines – war for power and control of the illicit substance, sand. Sand enhances an alchemists […]