fantasy
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The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson (The Stormlight Archives #1)
The Stormlight Archives has probably been the number one thing that people have consistently recommended for me to read for this Trauma in SFF project, but I’ve hesitated for a while because epic fantasy is not my typically preferred subgenre and the books are just! So! Long! I’ve nevertheless been fascinated by the passionate Sanderson… Continue reading
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Foul Days by Genoveva Dimova (The Witch’s Compendium of Monsters #1)
As a witch in the walled city of Chernograd, Kosara has plenty of practice taming rusalkas, fighting kikimoras, and brewing lycanthrope repellent. There’s only one monster Kosara can’t defeat: her ex the Zmey, known as the Tsar of Monsters. She’s defied him one too many times, and now he’s hunting her. Betrayed to him by… Continue reading
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Legendborn by Tracy Deonn (The Legendborn Cycle #1)
After her mother dies in an accident, sixteen-year-old Bree Matthews wants nothing to do with her family memories or childhood home. A residential program for bright high schoolers at UNC–Chapel Hill seems like the perfect escape—until Bree witnesses a magical attack her very first night on campus. A flying demon feeding on human energies. A… Continue reading
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Witchmark by C.L. Polk (The Kingston Cycle #1)
In an original world reminiscent of Edwardian England in the shadow of a World War, cabals of noble families use their unique magical gifts to control the fates of nations, while one young man seeks only to live a life of his own. Magic marked Miles Singer for suffering the day he was born, doomed… Continue reading
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Winter Be My Shield by Jo Spurrier
A complex, adult epic fantasy from a new Australian author … original, dramatic, unputdownable … Sierra has a despised and forbidden gift — she raises power from the suffering of others. Enslaved by the King’s Torturer, Sierra escapes, barely keeping ahead of Rasten, the man sent to hunt her down. Then she falls in with… Continue reading
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Sweet Vengeance by Viano Oniomoh
Joy needs a deal with a demon to bring an end the man who’d ruined her life. Malachi needs a deal with a human so he can remain in the mortal realm, far from the sentries looking to drag him back to his sect in hell. It’s a match seemingly made in heaven. Except, Malachi… Continue reading
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The Spear Cuts Through Water by Simon Jimenez
Summary Two warriors shepherd an ancient god across a broken land to end the tyrannical reign of a royal family in this new epic fantasy from the author of The Vanished Birds. The people suffer under the centuries-long rule of the Moon Throne. The royal family—the despotic emperor and his monstrous sons, the Three Terrors—hold… Continue reading
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Weyward by Emilia Hart
Summary I am a Weyward, and wild inside. 2019: Under cover of darkness, Kate flees London for ramshackle Weyward Cottage, inherited from a great aunt she barely remembers. With its tumbling ivy and overgrown garden, the cottage is worlds away from the abusive partner who tormented Kate. But she begins to suspect that her great… Continue reading
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The Bone Harp by Victoria Goddard
Thrice-cursed bard and warrior-elf Tamsin wakes up in Elfland after what might or might not have been his death, healed and hale for the first time in millennia. Somewhat confused but not entirely unhappy with this turn of events, he sets off in the hopes of finding a way home … A standalone tale of… Continue reading
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The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches by Sangu Mandanna
So What’s It About? As one of the few witches in Britain, Mika Moon knows she has to hide her magic, keep her head down, and stay away from other witches so their powers don’t mingle and draw attention. And as an orphan who lost her parents at a young age and was raised by… Continue reading
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