Four stars: The Marvellers by Dhonielle Clayton and Khadijah Khatib (Illustrator) (2022) is the start of The Conjureverse middle grade fantasy series set in an alternate Earth where magic is real and segregated. Ella Durand is the first conjurer to attend the Arcanum Training Institute. Although she's been welcomed to join, she faces prejudice from nearly everyone at the school. She also finds herself in the middle of a mystery that threatens the school.
Well this is kind of incredible. Bill Willingham, creator and owner of Fables (the multi award winning DC Vertigo comics series) has put the IP out into the public domain.
It's Monstrous release day! I love this book so much. It's a YA #ContemporaryFantasy#Horror with a main character you've gotta root for, even when she makes questionable decisions. Totally rooting for the sapphic romance subplot, too. The cult is chilling and kept me on the edge of my seat, while the snake god himself, well, I honestly kinda like him.
Can't wait till my copy arrives! https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/690250/monstrous-by-jessica-lewis/
I really enjoyed Kate Searle’s other book My Soul Treasure, so I was quite excited to discover Find your treasure. Created with the same illustrator as her other book, Alison Mutton, Find your treasure is an enchanting and magical chapter book that takes young readers on a journey of spiritual discovery, self awareness and empowerment .
Today's review! Luck of the Draw by Addison Albright:
"This well-written story is lovely: there are some worrying moments, but then there's is a happy ever after... I recommend the book - it blends MM romance with a well-realised fantasy world. "
@szilviavirag@bookstodon Some #fantasy for a change: Chelsea Abdullah's The Sturdust Thief. Such elegant language and brilliant storytelling. Still reading, but I love it and don't want it to end. ;D
I say, Mastodon, 'The Star Eater', by Kerstin Hall, is quite imaginative and has a rollicking plot, but there is a lot of cannibalism in it.
I mean, fully justified cannibalism, well incorporated into the world-building and magic system. But still. Goodness. People slurping down gobbets of flesh left and right. Yum yum yum.
Read ten tales of music and magic, where people can step from world to world! Join the first majus in space, solve a murder, and climb to the top of a miles-high wall! #scifi#fantasy https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07RYVV578
I never had the opportunity to read The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel series, so I was quite excited to discover this graphic novel adaptation of the first novel. The story was so intriguing and interesting, I really enjoyed it ! I was really impressed by the depth of the storyline, as well as the use of worldwide mythologies.
📚 Just got done #reading Shadow and Bone, the first #novel in the #Grishaverse trilogy by Leigh Bardugo.
I read this after seeing the TV show and reading Six of Crows, but it was awesome to see the foundations of how the entire universe of the #Grisha started!
Today's queer indie author review! Bite Club by Eule Grey:
Gordon: "Intense, at times bizarre, and emotionally powerful... “leaves the reader not only with a desire to read other pieces by this author. Five stars."
Piękny przykład, jak bardzo dobra seria YA może stracić na kiepskiej części, będącej w dodatku finałem. Śmiało mogę powiedzieć o tym, że to "fantastyka z szablonu" i tak miałkiej oraz przewidywalnej fabuły dawno nie czytałem. Tak się zdenerwowałem, że bigosu nie nadążam gotować, aby się uspokoić.
Jedyny plus jest taki, że nie będzie (mam nadzieję) czwartej części, bo mogłaby być gorsza i jeszcze bardziej zatrzeć dobre wrażenie po 1. i 2. tomie. No i nie powiem - cała seria (która jest dobra) to dobry prezent z gatunku fantastyki młodzieżowej dla np. 15-latka. Ale jeśli jesteście starsi, to też młodzieżowości może być tutaj za dużo.
I have just had the pleasure of finishing Jas Treadwell's 'The Infernal Riddle of Thomas Peach,' and I must say, I can't think of a time when I enjoyed a narrative voice more: prickly, pedantic, impatient with uncooperative readers, delighted by such modern inventions as chapter breaks and scene cuts ('we thumb our nose at those unities of old Aristotle'), and perfectly willing to pick fights in the footnotes. ('You will die, sir, and come to dust . . . good day, sir').