Davinia Evans’ debut fantasy deploys genre tropes with delirious glee and builds a rich and fascinating world readers will be eager to return to.
The Spear Cuts Through Water is a beautifully crafted and nightmarishly gruesome epic fantasy.
The Spear Cuts Through Water is a beautifully crafted and nightmarishly gruesome epic fantasy.
Eclipse the Moon is an action-packed sci-fi romance with a central couple that readers will adore.
Babel, R.F. Kuang’s standalone follow-up to her acclaimed Poppy War trilogy, is an unforgiving examination of the cost of power.
A Taste of Gold and Iron is a deft, delightful tale of bodyguard romance wrapped in espionage and royal duty.
The Monsters We Defy is a well-crafted fantasy romp set in the elite Black circles of 1920s Washington, D.C.
Paraic O’Donnell’s The Maker of Swans is an enthralling dance over the line between literary fiction and magical fantasy. If you like beautiful things, read this book.
An excavation of toxic family dynamics, Sarah Gailey’s Just Like Home uses atmospheric scenes of supernatural horror to reveal the terrors that haunt us all.
In Eddie Robson’s sci-fi mystery, aliens and humans can communicate’but translating telepathic thought into speech makes a human translator rip-roaring drunk.
Silvia Moreno-Garcia is a master of dramatic tension, and her decision to reimagine H.G. Wells’ visionary 1896 novel on an isolated estate instead of an island creates a sense of furtiveness, a constant fear of discovery.
Mary McMyne’s debut novel is dark and moody, full of distrust, doubt and more than a little bit of drama.
In Sunyi Dean’s debut, beings who consume books to survive hide on the fringes of society. It sounds like a fairy tale, but it’s actually a nightmare.
In Ruthanna Emrys’ philosophical and warmhearted novel, humanity must decide between whether to heal a ravaged Earth or abandon it for life among the stars.
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