 This blog post includes affiliate links.House of Flame & Shadow by Sarah J Maas. I can’t believe I finally finished these books! Crescent City is sprawling & inventive, with lots of characters battling the big decision of safety versus compassion & freedom. This is my least fave series of hers & contains the main romance arc I was least invested in, but with that being said, it’s still great fantasy & a very high bar to try to reach. 4.25 ⭐️.
Miss Amelia’s List by Mercedes Lackey. Miss Amelia’s List dragged in many ways, & I can’t say that I fully loved any of the characters, who sometimes veered on stuffy, but it’s also an oddly interesting story of manners in a magical England. 2.5⭐️️, out now. (Thanks to the publisher & Netgalley for the complimentary ARC. All opinions provided are my own.) Marriage & Masti by Nisha Sharma. This has been a great contemporary series with friendships that I really love. My fave is book 2, but this is a solid, if not 100% ending, & I’m definitely looking forward to reading more. 4 ⭐️. House of Blight by Maxym M. Martineau. The vibes are there in this fantasy, but the heroine forgives & forgets way too quickly for me in this one. I grew frustrated at her decision-making. Still, the visceral descriptions paint an effective fantasy setting where the stakes are high, even if I was not cheering for the love triangle romance tension. 3.25 ⭐️️, out 04/08/25. (Thanks to the publisher & Netgalley for the complimentary ARC. All opinions provided are my own.) Have you read any of these or are any on your TBR?
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House of Sky & Breath by Sarah J Maas. I am super behind (obvs) but this is a great second installment in the Crescent City series. It’s action-packed, & as always, I have a clear sense that Sarah J Maas has a *master plan* that I am not privy to. She’s going to make these characters go places. With that being said, this is probably my least fave series of hers, or maybe I am just not as fully & completely enamored with her type of lead anymore? It remains to be seen! I’m rounding this to 5 ⭐️ though, because it is dang good fantasy. Pick-Up by Nora Dahlia. This romance features two over-40 leads who have a not-so-cute meet cute at their kids’ school & then start working together on a project. Things I enjoyed: the vignette-like chapters, the FMC’s thoughts on the imbalanced workload of moms, how the MMC is willing to apologize. What I didn’t love: the back & forth & the focus on another character, which made the book lose focus from the romance between our two leads. This one didn’t quite meet my romance-loving expectations but perhaps if you go in more knowledgeable, you might enjoy it more. 3.75 ⭐️, out now. (Thanks to the publisher & Netgalley for the complimentary ARC. All opinions provided are my own.) Goddess of the River by Vaishnavi Patel. This is a retelling of Ganga’s story, which I was not familiar with before beginning. It’s very difficult to read at moments—please check out the author’s note about TWs—but it was a strikingly written fantasy with a moving ending. 4 ⭐️️, out now. (Thanks to the publisher the complimentary copy. All opinions provided are my own.) Have you read any of these or are any on your radar?  Thanks to the publisher & Netgalley for the complimentary e-ARC. All opinions provided are my own. This blog post includes affiliate links.This Princess is funny, brave, & quite capable of rescuing herself, thank you very much. From the beginning of this book my insides were delighting in the narration. The adventures of Princess Melilot are absurd in the best of ways, as she journeys to meet her betrothed, a prince who happens to be in love with someone else. On the way, she encounters the prince’s huntsmen & various monsters, all the while fighting against her history of being rescued by her sisters. This Princess Kills Monsters is stuffed full of fairy tale allusions & characters who are not always as they seem. Someone is murderous, someone is more powerful than they think, someone cares more than it might seem, & at least one person is falling… With a fantastic plot & a lead who is all-too-easy to root for, this is an escapist read that left me smiling, a lovely treat for those craving fantasy. 5⭐️. Out 06/17.CWs: attempted murder, betrayal, murder.
Thanks to the publisher & Netgalley for the complimentary e-ARC. All opinions provided are my own. This blog post includes affiliate links.
These are the vibes & the book is Greenteeth by Molly O’Neill.
Do you want a book about a monster with a heart? Jenny Greenteeth is an admitted monster who lives in a lake near a medieval village. One day, a woman who’s suspected of being a witch is thrown in, & rather than eat her, Jenny ends up accompanying her on her quest to Faerie & back. There’s something evil in the village. This fantasy has so much going for it: / a burgeoning friendship between unlikely quest mates / a lonely monster reckoning with right & wrong / a small group of people trying to save the day / faeries who are sometimes helpful, sometimes challenging, etc depending on their whims bc faeries are like that Sound good? Greenteeth is out on 02/25/25. 4.5⭐️. Out now!
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