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 Fantasy Book Review: House Of Roots and Ruin
Standalone Type of Fantasy: Divine/Mythic Synopsis Despite dreams of adventures far beyond the Salann shores, seventeen-year-old Verity Thaumas has remained at her family’s estate, Highmoor, with her older sister Camille,…
YA Fantasy Book Review: The Wonderland Trials
1st of the Curious Realities Duology Type of Fantasy: Fairy-Tale Retelling Synopsis All Alice Liddell wants is to escape her Normal life in Oxford and find the parents who abandoned…
10 Haunting Books to Read This Fall
I've learned that I can handle a few haunting books as long as they have plenty of mystery and just a little creepiness. The moodier, the better! The books on…
YA Fantasy Book Review: Wishtress
Standalone Type of Fantasy: Folklore/Legend Synopsis She didn't ask to be the Wishtress. Myrthe was born with the ability to turn her tears into wishes. But when a granted…
YA Fantasy Book Review: The Left-Handed Booksellers of London
Standalone Type of Fantasy: Urban Synopsis In a slightly alternate London in 1983, Susan Arkshaw is looking for her father, a man she has never met. Crime boss Frank Thringley…
YA Fantasy Book Review: Unseelie
1st of the Unseelie Duology Type of Fantasy: Urban Synopsis Iselia “Seelie” Graygrove looks just like her twin, Isolde… but as an autistic changeling trying to navigate her unpredictable magic,…
YA Dragon Fantasy Book Review: Stormdance
Sequel to Songflight Type of Fantasy: Medieval Synopsis Peace is a prize hard won, and for the Dragon Singer, the fight has only just begun. The dragons have answered Alísa’s…
YA Fantasy Book Review: The Last Legacy
Standalone Type of Fantasy: Low Synopsis When a letter from her uncle Henrik arrives on Bryn Roth's eighteenth birthday, summoning her back to Bastian, Bryn is eager to prove herself…
YA Fantasy Book Review: Sing Me Forgotten
Standalone Type of Fantasy: Gaslamp Synopsis Isda does not exist. At least not beyond the opulent walls of the opera house. Cast into a well at birth for being one…