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🪻Fantasy Reads: Why haven't you read this yet?
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items Fresh fantasy books recommendations, I assure you Bartholomew!
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☀️Duology
✨Trilogy
🪐 Series
🌙Standalone
For those who don't want commitment (cause same😭)
“Was that not how you loved someone? By hammering your body into whatever shape they liked best, and handing yourself to them like a hilt?” 5 STAR READ. This book stayed in my mind like the Jasad Crown did. It was so gut-wrenching, and the way I crie...
The Everlasting by Alix E. Harrow
"You were always so full of hope, so maddeningly tenacious. And then, oh, then, Liska, Liseczka, the worst thing of all happened.’ His voice cracks, and he looks away. ‘I fell in love.
A perfect standalone! If you want a story that gives off Howl's ...
Where the Dark Stands Still by A.B. Poranek
"Lying to the rest of the world isn't the same as lying to each other."
A cute, whimsical standalone that centered around Welsh folklore; it's about a rebellious witch named Ffion who joins a prince, Taliesin on a quest to restore magic.
The Hedgewitch of Foxhall by Anna Bright
"I suffer and I suffer, and yet. And yet, you ask me to suffer still?"
The lady knight is making a comeback within the romantasy genre and I love to see it. This is a childhood friends to lovers between Grey, the knight, and Kier, the mage, (so imag...
The Second Death of Locke by V.L. Bovalino
Perfect if you want two boyfriends who love you, but also love each other. This is a southern Black romantasy.
Son of the Morning by Akwaeke Emezi
Maeve, a devout iconographer is sent by the Abbey to paint an updated icon of Jude, an exiled saint but he initially tries to get rid of her. He soon discovers she has the same magical abilities as he does, and her icons might be the key to dismantli...
The Sacred Space Between by Kalie Reid
This is so cozy and a small scale adventure. I love the MMC, he reminds me of Jacks, cursed, but he's kinder with a flamboyant fashion taste. Very sweet, and uhh the FMC would be an angry Evangeline. Like, really angry. But I 100% recommend this! Suc...
Kill the Beast by Serra Swift
☀️Duology
Not too long and not too short.
"She had the temperament of a deranged goose. Every interaction he’d shared with her had thoroughly convinced him he was not dealing with a stable woman."
An Egyptian inspired fantasy romance done right, with a feral lost heir FMC paired with a dead...
The Jasad Heir by Sara Hashem, Paperback
A pre-colonial Philippine inspired fantasy romance. I swear, it's so good. Laya, the princess and the FMC was cocky (rightfully so because she's a princess of a powerful nation and power) but she begins to learn in the cracks after rebellion and past...
Black Salt Queen (Letters from Maynara, #1) by Samantha Bansil
“Strength is easy to fake, Fionamara. Vulnerability is hard. Yet, here you sit.”
One of my favourite romantasy read this year, with older FMC (30+ years old)! Fionamara is a smuggler which gets entangled with a Daeyari, a man-eating monster named An...
Voidwalker (Beasts of the Void #1) by S.A. MacLean
"The way he explained it to me was that the human body was nature’s greatest feat of engineering. And it’s true—if you look at the joint of the shoulder, the elbow, or study the physics of muscle."
This is so science meets mythology type of fantasy ...
The Last Bloodcarver #1 - Vanessa Le
"Moving a corpse in the rain is such fussy, slippery business."
The Exorcism of Faeries (Morbid Realities, #1) by J.L. Vampa
✨Trilogy
Just the perfect amount to get attached.
"I am a free woman and yet still a slave. I am fragments of many things but a whole of only myself. I am a daughter of no worlds, and all worlds. And I am not done yet."
Daughter of No Worlds by Carissa Broadbent
"One cannot claim to be committed to righting injustice and then abandon that principle when it is not a matter that impacts one personally."
Empire of Shadows (Raiders of the Arcana, #1) by Jacquelyn Benson
"People vanished all at once, but the things you wanted to tell them or do with them or show them didn’t."
Kenna Heron becomes a servant in the underground Fae kingdom of Mistei. To save her mistress's life and her own, she must help her complete si...
Servant of Earth (The Shards of Magic, #1) by Sarah Hawley
“Saints don’t sell their souls, baby.”
Imagine Fae, but in the roaring 20s. Flappers, the glamour, jazz music, speakeasies, oh and a sexy Devil-Fae as your MMC.
The Prince of Prohibition by Marilyn Marks
"You are ruining me, so why should I not make you suffer the same fate?"
OMG, if you love the Labyrinth x Beauty and the Beast, this one is for you! For the brokenhearted girlies because of your goblin ex, who stumbled into the lap of a hot man who'...
Until the World Falls Down by Jordan Lynde
I'm sorry but who doesn't love 2pol (political and polyamory) in this dark fantasy-esque vampire book? The FMC, Shan, was so gritty and interesting to read about.
Mistress of Lies (The Age of Blood, #1) by K.M. Enright
The story involves Prince Ashoka, who must govern a region terrorized by nature spirits after his father's death, and the witch Shakti, who seeks revenge for the destruction of her village by casting a destructive curse.
The Prince Without Sorrow by Maithree Wijesekara
OKAY this book is so good. The MMC is like Kaz Brekker, and he's so smart and calculative while our FMC, Leena Al Sayer (who can see ghosts) is trying to find cure for her brother. She then got entangled into the policitical world; both the human and...
Weavingshaw (Weavingshaw, #1)
🪐 Series
If you want to stay in the story for so long and be full of whimsy <3
"Because what would I fucking do if she looked at me? What blissful decadence would torture me, if she gave me permission to really look at her?"
Perfect if you like soft FMC but still perfectly able to hold her ground! Iris Virlana is everything I ...
Ballad of Whispers (The Sunchosen Chronicles #1) by K.B. Elizabeth
"Do not equate the cost of your aspiration to what I've sacrificed for my salvation."
A fantasy stories about fey sisters who had to be separated because of divine intervention. Rich in worldbuilding and cast of characters!
The Divine Shallows by Alexandra M. Tran
"I think I might fetch you the moon if only to spare your tears again."
A Persian inspired fantasy story about a jinn queen, Alizeh who become entangled with the Prince of Ardunia, Kamran, and the mysterious King of Tulan, Cyrus.
This Woven Kingdom #1 - Tahereh Mafi
“The most important thing you can do in this world, the most necessary thing, is to survive it. You can't do anything for anyone else if you don't take care of yourself first.” At this point if you haven't read it, you're highkey missing out on such ...
The Legendborn Cycle #1 - Tracy Deonn
“That bitch took my soap.” Is a pretty much banger opening line. I mean, I choose pretty deep quotes for other book but I still haven't forget the impact of this first liner.
Trial of the Sun Queen (Artefacts of Ouranos, #1) by Nisha J. Tuli