BOOKLOVES

In Cruel Is the Light, debut author Sophie Clark unleashes a sweeping fantasy tale that crackles with celestial warfare, aching romance, and the kind of slow-burn suspense that leaves readers breathless. Set in a reimagined Europe where the Vatican commands a brutal war against the demonic realm, this YA fantasy romance captures the genre’s best […]

M Stevenson’s debut novel Behooved trots into the romantasy arena with a unique premise that could have easily galloped into ridiculous territory—but instead delivers a surprisingly thoughtful exploration of duty, love, and authentic disability representation wrapped in an enchanting fantasy package. While this novel occasionally stumbles under the weight of its ambitious themes, it ultimately […]

Daria Lavelle’s debut novel, Aftertaste, serves up a tantalizing premise: what if the most potent, unfulfilled cravings of the dead could be tasted by the living? For protagonist Konstantin “Kostya” Duhovny, this is his reality, a supernatural ability termed “clairgustance.” The Narrative Platter: Structure, Story, and Sensation Aftertaste by Daria Lavelle charts Kostya’s life from his first […]

With Rewind It Back, Liz Tomforde gifts readers a heartfelt conclusion to her best-selling Windy City sports romance series. The novel brings us back to Chicago ice and into the lives of two former lovers, Hallie Hart and Rio DeLuca, whose shared past returns to the surface like a song you can’t forget. Told with […]

Rachel Gillig, celebrated for her dark fairytale duology One Dark Window and Two Twisted Crowns, returns with a bold new vision in The Knight and the Moth, the first book in The Stonewater Kingdom series. Here, she crafts an atmospheric tale drenched in cathedral light and godless shadows, merging poetic prose with an aching love […]

There are novels that dazzle you with their prose. Others pierce with emotional resonance. And then there are books like Katabasis by R F Kuang—books that challenge your intellectual vanity, whisper secrets you wish you’d never understood, and turn the architecture of academia into the topography of the damned. In this audacious literary and fantasy […]