The Spellshop by Sarah Beth Durst is a sweet, cosy fantasy story about letting people in, building community, and making a home for oneself. Kiela has lived and …
Fantasy
Book review: The Undetectables by Courtney Smyth
Courtney Smyth’s debut novel The Undetectables is a good idea.It offers disability representation, with a protagonist who lives with fibromyalgia. There’s also LGBTQIA+ representation in …
Book review: The Cautious Traveller’s Guide to the Wastelands by Sarah Brooks
Sarah Brooks’ The Cautious Traveller’s Guide to the Wastelands is a brilliant and unique story of a train journey that changes the world. In 1899, on the …
Book review: The Briar Book of the Dead by A. G. Slatter
The Briar Book of the Dead is a novel of witches, family legacies and terrible secretsby Australian author AG Slatter. Slatter has an incredible talent …
Book review: The Invocations by Krystal Sutherland
A thrilling dark YA urban fantasy about three young women and their demons. The Invocations by Krystal Sutherland continues her trademark style of female-led YA …
Book review: The Wrong Girl & Other Warnings by Angela Slatter
The Wrong Girl & Other Warnings is a darkly subversive collection of stories fromthe queen of twisted fairy tales, Angela Slatter. These stories explore themes …
Book review: Everything Under the Moon, edited by Michael Earp
A beautiful collection of original and re-imagined fairy tales told in a queerer light. Everything Under the Moon is a gorgeous anthology of fairy tales …
Book review: At Midnight, edited by Dahlia Adler
A collection of remixed and modernised fairytales. At Midnight, edited by Dahlia Adler, is an anthology of retold fairytales that have been updated to be …
Book review: Threads That Bind by Kika Hatzopoulou
Kika Hatzopoulou’s Threads That Bind is a rich, immersive romantasy noir mystery. Threads That Bind is the first in Kika Hatzopoulou’s Threads That Bind YA …
Book review: Forestfall by Lyndall Clipstone
A lush and aesthetic YA Gothic fantasy. Warning: contains spoilers for the first book in this duology, Lakesedge Forestfall is Lyndall Clipstone’s haunting, high-drama conclusion …