Here are my reviews for advance reader copies. To learn more about ARCs, click here.
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The Sky on Fire: Great worldbuilding, slower plot
Anahrod was cast out of the dragon-ruled sky cities as a teenager and has spent the last seventeen years surviving a harsh jungle. Now her past has caught up to her, and a gang of misfits seeking to steal from the dragons has dragged her home.
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Long Live Evil (Book 1): Fun and campy
Rae, who’s dying of cancer, is teleported into the world of her favorite fantasy series for a chance to find a cure. There’s just one problem: she’s woken up as the villain who’s supposed to get executed early on. Now she has to scheme her way into survival.
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Evocation (Book 1): A slow simmer
David, a hotshot lawyer and medium, finds himself psychically sick and potentially possessed by a demon of family folklore. Only two people can help him: 1) ex-boyfriend and rival, Rhys, and 2) Rhys’ wife, Moira, an astrologist and fellow medium.
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The Hemlock Queen (Book 2): Tense and subtly gory
After the events of the eclipse, things begin changing very fast for Lore, Bastian, and Gabe. Now they’re wrapped up in politics and scheming Gods while war looms on the horizon.
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Dreadful: A delightful tale
Gav wakes up with no eyebrows and no memories, and soon realizes he is actually the Dark Wizard who owns this castle, complete with moat squid, goblin servants, and a kidnapped princess in the dungeon. Now he has to bluff his way through his supposed evil plans without anyone catching on…while he also experiments with…
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The Heiress: Quick and easy
Camden, the heir to a wealthy estate, and his wife Jules are pulled into the fold of Ashby House, where his despicable family still lives. But questions begin to arise about his adoptive mother, her four dead husbands, and her own mysterious past.
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An Education in Malice: Atmospheric and vampiric
In this erotic horror retelling of “Carmilla” set in the 1960s, Laura is a new college student in St. Perpetua’s writing program, where she is swept up with the seductive and alluring Carmilla, a fellow student, and the professor she’s obsessed with.
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Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands (Book 2): A charming sequel
The prickly professor Emily Wilde is working on a new project, and is swept onto a new academic adventure to uncover the secrets of Faerie Doors with her former rival, Wendell Bambleby.
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The Tainted Cup: A fantasy detective story
An assistant investigator must solve a string of murders involving trees exploding out of people, a powerful old family, and magical enhancements, all before leviathans destroy the sea wall.
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A Fate Inked in Blood: Action-packed romantasy fun
After Freya is forced to reveal that she has a drop of Goddess’s blood — marking her as the legendary shield maiden — she must fight to unite a nation while learning to control her magic. At the same time, she must resist her attraction to another of the God-blessed. Otherwise, she risks everything she’s…
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To Shape a Dragon’s Breath: A superb cozy fantasy
Anequs, an indigenous islander in this fantasy world, is required to attend the colonizer’s school away from her people after a newly-hatched dragon chooses her to be its rider.
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The Librarianist: Hopeful and funny
Bob Comet is a retired librarian. After a chance encounter with a confused elderly woman, Bob begins volunteering at a retirement community, where he reckons with his past.
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The Antiquity Affair: An adventurous tale
In 1907, two sisters, Lila and Tess, are swept up in a scheme to uncover an ancient (and potentially powerful) Egyptian relic.
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The Foxglove King: Fun and thought-provoking
Lore, a necromancer who can wield death magic, must spy on the crown prince in a world where such magic is a highly-priced illicit commodity. Here the church and the monarchy are dangerously interwoven, and Lore must find a way to navigate the obscenely opulent royal court.
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Go as a River: Tragic and inspiring
In rural Colorado from the 1940s to the 1970s, we follow a young girl as she navigates becoming a woman, suffers a horrendous loss at the hands of those she trusted, then flees for safety.
