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Spooky Season Recommendations: Horror, Fantasy, Gothic & More
Happy Halloween 🎃 In honour of spooky season, here are some of my favourite recommendations. A truly eclectic mix of genres, from horror to fantasy. Books featured are: 🕯️One Dark Window by Rachel Gillig @rmgillig – a deliciously dark gothic fantasy featuring a world full of enchanted cards, haunted houses, dangerous romance and deadly stakes. 👻 The Diviners by Libba Bray @libbabray – set in 1920s New York, this luscious paranormal urban fantasy is the stuff of your dancing-to-live-jazz-in-a-speakeasy-in-a-flapper-dress dreams? No? Just me, okay. 💀 A Study in Drowning by Ava Reid @avasreid – Ava Reid established herself as the…
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The Everlasting by Alix E Harrow: An Epic Tale of a Historical Scholar and A Mythical Saint
⚔️📜The Everlasting 📜⚔️ ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ A lady knight and a bespectacled scholar. When a historical scholar unearths an ancient book about the legend of Sir Una Everlasting, whose sainthood built a nation, he steps into a time loop that spans millennia. (Think Joan of Arc meets Arthurian knights). Owen Mallory has been fascinated by Una by since he was a boy. Her story follows him from the yew tree in his childhood home to a bloody war to academia. There are many conflicting accounts of Una’s life, non firsthand and each confounding the other. Was she an invincible knight or a…
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Fallen City by Adrienne Young: A Lush Greco-Roman Inspired Fantasy
🏛️🪙Fallen City🪙 🏛️ ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ The atmosphere is rich and luscious throughout. Temples, togas, gods and priestesses – everything you’d expect from a Greco-Roman inspired fantasy. Maris Casperia is a Magistrate’s daughter. Her fate has been written for her since the day she was born, destined to inherit her mother’s seat and serve in the Consul’s government. Meanwhile, Luca Matius was pulled from the Citadel’s slums as a boy when his uncle failed to produce an heir. Thrust into this world, Luca clings to his noviceship with a heretic philosopher. The Magistrate’s daughter and the rebel legionnaire defy all odds and…
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My Autumnal TBR: Epic Fantasy, Dark Academia and Horror Perfect for Spooky Season
🍁🍂 My Autumn TBR 🍂🍁 In honour of October 1st, here are some of my most anticipated reads I want to get to this autumn! We have an eclectic mix of horror, epic fantasy and dark academia, all perfect for the spooky season. There are some books I read in September that I haven’t included here, which definitely meet that criteria – shoutout Uncharmed and Alchemised! What are you reading this autumn? Let me know in the comments 🙂
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The Second Death of Locke by V.L. Bovalino: The Epic, Lady-Knight, Yearning Romantic Fantasy of Your Dreams
⛓️⚔️The Second Death of Locke ⚔️⛓️ – V.L. Bovalino @toribovalino ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Where to START? I adored this book. Love. Loyalty. Sacrifice. Grey is a well, and Kier is a mage. Every drop of the magic he wields is channeled from her. Without the other, both are useless. Together, they are a mythical power. There’s a plot twist around 15% in that had me lurching up in bed and frantically texting my friend who had already read this. If possible, I recommend going into this as blind as you can – don’t even read the blurb – because it makes the experience…
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Bitten by Jordan Stephenie Gray: The Return of 2010s Paranormal Love Triangles?
💜🐺Bitten 🐺💜 ⭐️⭐️⭐️ Bitten follows Vanessa Hart, a human girl whose life is thrown into turmoil when her best friend is murdered at a beach party. In the chaos, Vanessa is Bitten, and is taken to an ancient castle which houses the North American werewolf court. There, she narrowly escapes instant execution by the unusual colour of her eyes – purple, a never-before seen colour, signalling her rare potential abilities. She is dealt an ultimatum; swear fealty to the Wolf Queen’s court or follow in her best friend’s fate. Part murder mystery, part urban fantasy, the central plot is Vanessa…
