2025 Fantasy/Sci-Fi Reading Challenge
Welcome to the 2025 fantasy/sci-fi reading challenge! This bookish challenge is perfect for you if: You love reading fantasy and/or sci-fi books You want to broaden your reading horizons You…
Books Like Percy Jackson: 10 Series to Take You on Your Next Epic Adventure
The Percy Jackson books are fast becoming a classic: myths, monsters, heroes, and legends. And they're not just for kids! People of all ages fall in love with these wacky…
The Best Fantasy and Sci-Fi Books I Read in 2023
These are the books I read and rated in 2023 as four and five stars. In essence, they're the best of the best fantasy (and a little bit of sci-fi)…
YA Epic Fantasy Book Review: The Lost Bard of Taliyaven
1st of the Red War Annals Quartet Type of Fantasy: Epic Synopsis A long-awaited war begins at last. Alexci Golovkin’s plan to overthrow Arribor is about to be set in…
YA Fantasy Book Review: Children of Blood and Bone
Legacy of Orisha #1 Type of Fantasy: Epic/Divine Synopsis Zélie Adebola remembers when the soil of Orïsha hummed with magic. Burners ignited flames, Tiders beckoned waves, and Zélie’s Reaper mother summoned…
YA Fantasy Book Review: Winter, White, and Wicked
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YA Fantasy Book Review: Empire of Dragons
1st in the Cursed Empire Trilogy Type of Fantasy: Epic Synopsis Revenge failed her... Three years ago, Lo’laeni Nolanhou did the unthinkable, slaying the empress of the cruel Alrenian Empire…
YA Fantasy Author Interview: K.B. Hoyle
I recently read The Six by K.B. Hoyle and am currently reading the sequel in this six book epic fantasy series and loving it! So I was overjoyed that she…
What is Fantasy?
Fantasy includes much more than dragons, mermaids, and quests. It falls into the broader speculative fiction genre, which includes science fiction, dystopia, and horror. I've been confused at times about…
A World Through Sapphire Eyes Book Review
Vason finds the chosen one--a woman with incredible ice powers--and brings her to his powerful mother, the Archon of the Hyris Empire. Vason wants nothing to do with the woman.…