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2024 Fantasy Reading Challenge

Explore more fantasy and sci-fi books with the 2024 fantasy and sci-fi fanatics reading challenge! There are a plethora of different reading challenges in the bookish world, but not many for fantasy and sci-fi lovers.

I hope this challenge will push you to read books and authors you wouldn’t ordinarily pick up and help you discover some new treasures and maybe rediscover old favorites!

Some Guidelines: Each book needs to be either a fantasy or sci-fi book. If you’re not sure whether a...

New Adult Fantasy Book Review: Wildblood

StandaloneType of Fantasy: Folklore/LegendSynopsis

Eighteen-year-old Victoria is a Wildblood. Since she was kidnapped at the age of six and manipulated by the Exotic Lands Touring Company, she’s worked as a tour guide ever since with a team of fellow Wildbloods who take turns using their magic to protect travelers in a Jamaican jungle teeming with ghostly monsters.

When the boss denies Victoria an earned promotion to team leader in favor of Dean, her backstabbing ex, she’s determined to prov...

YA Fantasy Book Review: House Of Roots and Ruin

StandaloneType of Fantasy: Divine/MythicSynopsis

Despite dreams of adventures far beyond the Salann shores, seventeen-year-old Verity Thaumas has remained at her family’s estate, Highmoor, with her older sister Camille, while their sisters have scattered across Arcannia.

When their sister Mercy sends word that the Duchess of Bloem—wife of a celebrated botanist—is interested in having Verity paint a portrait of her son, Alexander, Verity jumps at the chance, but Camille won’t allow it. Forced ...

Adult Sci-Fi Book Review: The Frugal Wizard’s Handbook for Surviving Medieval England

StandaloneType of Sci-Fi: Alternate/Parallel Universe

Synopsis

A man awakes in a clearing in what appears to be medieval England with no memory of who he is, where he came from, or why he is there. Chased by a group from his own time, his sole hope for survival lies in regaining his missing memories, making allies among the locals, and perhaps even trusting in their superstitious boasts. His only help from the “real world” should have been a guidebook entitled The Frugal Wizard’s Handbook for...

Adult Fantasy Book Review: Spells For Forgetting

StandaloneType of Fantasy: Magical RealismSynopsis

Emery Blackwood’s life changed forever the night her best friend was found dead and the love of her life, August Salt, was accused of murdering her. Years later, she is doing what her teenage self swore she never would: living a quiet existence on the misty, remote shores of Saoirse Island and running the family’s business, Blackwood’s Tea Shoppe Herbal Tonics & Tea Leaf Readings. But when the island, rooted in folklore and magic, begins to s...

YA Fantasy Book Review: The Wonderland Trials

1st of the Curious Realities DuologyType of Fantasy: Fairy-Tale RetellingSynopsis

All Alice Liddell wants is to escape her Normal life in Oxford and find the parents who abandoned her ten years ago. But she gets more than she bargained for when her older sister Charlotte is arrested for having the infamous Wonder Gene—the key to unlocking the curious Wonderland Reality.

Soon, Alice receives a rather cryptic invitation to play for Team Heart in this year’s annual—and often deadly—Wonderland Tr...

10 Haunting Books to Read This Fall

I’ve learned that I can handle a few haunting books as long as they have plenty of mystery and just a little creepiness. The moodier, the better! The books on this list–some of which I’ve read, some I haven’t yet–seem to meet my low limit of horror, and I look forward to curling up with them as the temperature tiptoes down and the leaves begin to blush. So grab a mug of tea, a blanket, and jump into these atmospheric, dark, mysterious tales with me!

House of Salt and Sorrows...