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Matilda Reyes

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Fantasy, Romance, Young Adult

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Jim Butcher, Karen Marie Moning, Brent Weeks, Pat Rothfuss,

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Matilda Reyes writes with a wicked red pen and a soft spot for characters who bite back. A storyteller working across urban fantasy, paranormal romance, and romantasy, she builds worlds where magic and mystery crash headlong into pulse-pounding adventure — and the dialogue is always sharp enough to leave a mark.

She grew up in the Bronx, where city streets and seasons with serious opinions (blazing summers, brutal winters) first sparked her love of storytelling. That city-kid restlessness found a natural home in urban fantasy classics like The Dresden Files and The Iron Druid Chronicles — formative reads whose influence still echoes in her work today.

Matilda is the author of the Order of Vespers universe, the cornerstone of her ongoing Vespe Matilda Reyes writes with a wicked red pen and a soft spot for characters who bite back. A storyteller working across urban fantasy, paranormal romance, and romantasy, she builds worlds where magic and mystery crash headlong into pulse-pounding adventure — and the dialogue is always sharp enough to leave a mark.

She grew up in the Bronx, where city streets and seasons with serious opinions (blazing summers, brutal winters) first sparked her love of storytelling. That city-kid restlessness found a natural home in urban fantasy classics like The Dresden Files and The Iron Druid Chronicles — formative reads whose influence still echoes in her work today.

Matilda is the author of the Order of Vespers universe, the cornerstone of her ongoing Vespers Chronicles, and the Black Cauldron Detective Agency series, launching with Unearthly Magik. Both blend supernatural crime-solving with rich magical lore and the kind of unforgettable characters readers return to again and again.

On her current workbench: the 10th Anniversary Edition of Order of Vespers, arriving July 30, 2026, with brand new chapters. Further out, she's developing a romantasy that reckons with magic, technology, and the ugly consequences of hoarding power — plus a magic academia story that's already causing trouble. The Black Cauldron Detective Agency revised edition, and both new series are penciled in for 2027-2028.

Before planting roots in Costa Rica, Matilda wrote her way across the United States, logging time on both coasts and making regular appearances at comic conventions as a vendor, panelist, and enthusiastic discusser of craft, creative influences, and an ever-multiplying TBR pile. Now she lives the Pura Vida life, drawing daily inspiration from volcanoes, coffee fields, and coastlines. Her loyal beta reader and co-conspirator through every twist and spell? Pretty Parker, the world's best puppy.

This year marks ten years of Order of Vespers and the Vespers Chronicles — a milestone Matilda is celebrating with a definitive 10th Anniversary Edition, out July 30, 2026. ...more

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	Order of Vespers 4.21 avg rating — 96 ratings — published 2016 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Unearthly Magik (Black Cauldron Detective Agency Book 1) 4.26 avg rating — 58 ratings — published 2022 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Black Knights 4.19 avg rating — 47 ratings — published 2018 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Order of Vespers 4.37 avg rating — 27 ratings — published 2016 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Circle 4.50 avg rating — 22 ratings — published 2017 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	The Circle (The Vespers Chronicles, #2) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2017	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Mandala Tiere Malbücher für Mädchen: Lustige Tiermandalas \| Das Mandala Ausmalbuch \| 100 Mandala Zeichnungen für Kinder & Erwachsene, kreative Aktivitäten \| ein tolles Geschenk 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Vespers Chronicles (3 books)
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“The best men are not consistent in good—why should the worst men be consistent in evil?”
― Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White

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“There is no good and evil, there is only power and those too weak to seek it.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

tags: good-and-evil, inspirational, life

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“What if evil doesn't really exist? What if evil is something dreamed up by man, and there is nothing to struggle against except out own limitations? The constant battle between our will, our desires, and our choices?”
― Libba Bray, Rebel Angels

tags: challenges, good-and-evil

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“Being against evil doesn't make you good. Tonight I was against it and then I was evil myself. I could feel it coming just like a tide... I just want to destroy them. But when you start taking pleasure in it you are awfully close to the thing you're fighting.”
― Ernest Hemingway, Islands in the Stream

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“Are the great spiritual teachings really advocating that we fight evil because we are on the side of light, the side of peace? Are they telling us to fight against that other 'undesirable' side, the bad and the black. That is a big question. If there is wisdom in the sacred teachings, there should not be any war. As long as a person is involved with warfare, trying to defend or attack, then his action is not sacred; it is mundane, dualistic, a battlefield situation.”
― Chögyam Trungpa, Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism