Freya Marske’s A Power Unbound is impressive. This is Marske’s third queer historical fantasy romance set in a secret magical society in early 1900s England. Each book has had its own flavor of romance and sex scenes—this time that plot delivers kinky gay erotica. As in her previous entries in the trilogy, Marske delivers a …

City of Bones is a slowly accelerating adventure story with a hefty chunk of archaeological puzzle, a big dash of political intrigue, a few bits of theft and murder, and some complicated personal feelings to taste. Khat, a second (or maybe third) class member of Charisat society, is an expert in identifying and acquiring relics …

I am a sucker for fantasy adventure stories. I’m a sucker for necromancers as protagonists. Between all that and my considerable experience with the fantasy genre, The Warden by Daniel M. Ford seemed made for me. Though settling in was a little bumpy, once I was in I was hooked. Our protagonist Aelis is an …

Mild spoiler warning: if you’re worried about spoilers for the first book, I recommend both books and I recommend reading them in order! If you’re not worried about mild spoilers for the first book, read on.  – Usually, I can give some sense of the story’s shape by naming a genre or two, some simple …

Hot damn. Even Though I Knew The End is just as beautifully, achingly bittersweet and good as I’d anticipated. Better, even. I’d psyched myself up and didn’t finish it before I had to put the book down for two weeks—and I was immediately dragged back in the moment I picked it up again. How often …

Reading The Last Dreamwalker is like slowly easing yourself into a hot bath of bittersweet and magical family strife; as you slide deeper, the old secrets, new connections, and ever-present hurts slip up across your lips, into your nose, filling your ears with their muffling warmth and your eyes with their sting. It’s languorous—if you …