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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 crop. Drop your recommendations in the comments below for me to add to my 2026 TBR! My qualifications, I hear you asking. Why should you listen to me? As I say… 137 books, and I do consider myself something of a fantasy connoisseur. That said,…
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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 securing her place in Khall’s court and augmenting her station. When the child of a god is discovered with a deadly power, Khall seizes the opportunity to utilise the weapon she could be. Could she be the answer to all of Khall’s prayers? Or the…
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A Dark and Drowning Tide by Allison Saft: A Sapphic Tale Of A Folklorist and A Naturalist On A Deadly Expedition
🪵🪷A Dark and Drowning Tide🪷🪵 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Allison Saft’s books are always solid reads and A Dark and Drowning Tide was no different. Folklorist Lorelei Kaskel is about to set out on a mission to find the fabled source of all magic – the Ursprung. If she completes the mission successfully, she will be bestowed with titles and land. Not only that, but she will prove that she is worthy of them. All her life, Lorelei has been underestimated and deprived, as a result of her heritage. Everything is riding on this expedition, but when her beloved mentor is murdered on…
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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 Isle in the Silver Sea follows a witch called Simran and a knight called Vina. Some children are born incarnates, which means they are fated to have a role to play in a tale. Think of them as English folkloric stories – Lady Godiva, the…
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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 audience! Will you be watching Season 2? I plan to start tonight, and in the meantime I’m trying to avoid spoilers!
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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 ability, making them stronger, faster, prettier, more vibrant etc. Ari and Sam met in school as kids, and formed an unlikely friendship. Ari is charismatic and popular, whereas Sam blends into the background. Years after, they find themselves unknowingly working for different sides of the…
