Historical Fantasy
Rust in the Root
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Children/Young AdultHistorical Fantasy
Ireland’s website tagline does an excellent job of introducing her fiction: “Let’s change the system via the lens of compelling fiction.” ...Read Review
Expect Me Tomorrow
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Adler Beck is a research climatologist from Norway in the latter part of the 19th century. He has a twin brother, Adolf, who ...Read Review
Little Eve
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In the early 1900s a small “family” takes possession of Altnaharra Castle, a mess of ruins on an island off the western coast ...Read Review
A Duke at the Door (Shapeshifters of the Beau Monde, 3)
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This Regency paranormal romance, 3rd in Allen’s Beau Monde series, involves an unlikely romantic pair, a duke who is also a shapeshifter ...Read Review
Uncanny Times (Huntsmen, 1)
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Gilman, best known for her popular Devil’s West historical fantasy series, which reimagined 19th-century American expansion in a nation where magic exists ...Read Review
The Last Librarian and the Quest for Eternal Life: The Last Librarian Book 1
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With “quest” in the title, author De Groot sets us on an Indiana Jones-style journey back to the days of the Greek pharaohs ...Read Review
Bindle Punk Bruja
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In 1920s Kansas City, a young woman with two identities and two names—Luna, who is Latinx, and Rosa, who passes as white—...Read Review
Keeper of Enchanted Rooms (Whimbrel House)
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This historical fantasy is both a magic-filled thriller with a delightfully creepy villain and a romance with hesitant Victorian “lovers.” Holmberg builds a ...Read Review
The Raven Song (A Conspiracy of Magic)
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The Raven Song is the second book in Smith’s Conspiracy of Magic series. It’s set in a Victorian Great Britain in ...Read Review
The Witch and the Tsar
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In the vein of Madeline Miller’s Circe and other feminist takes on long-enduring myths, Gilmore’s debut novel takes a fresh look ...Read Review