There exists a singular magic in discovering you’re living inside the very stories you’ve cherished—until those tales twist into nightmares. Throne of Nightmares by Kerri Maniscalco delivers a meta-fictional fantasy romance that transforms the act of reading itself into a high-stakes adventure, where a book-loving librarian must literally survive her favorite novels to save multiple […]
Synopsis: What do you do when you run out of time? Ask Ananias Ezra Zachenko what he did after he was diagnosed. He set an agenda, took care of finances, delved into relationships, considered the heroic act. Didn’t go into denial, but defiance, there’s a difference. He put it all in motion during the time […]
A young girl is thrown into the unpredictable and often dangerous realities of her world as she becomes a witch on the run in this fast-paced fantasy. Life in Lowtown is rough and precarious. With an overbearing czar, the infectious Rot plaguing the people, and the Cossacks murdering witches on the streets, twelve-year-old Lavender is […]
I think sometimes it’s easy to forget that writing should be fun. I write a lot about queer kids. About sad queer kids. About mental health issues, particularly how they affect queer kids. And I love making the space for that. I love giving sad stories and characters for sad readers who may need them. To […]
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The Cleansing
A treatise on the nature and limits of women’s power in a patriarchal culture and the necessity of imagining a true emancipation Hannibal ante portas—Hannibal is at the gates. In autumn of 216 BCE, the Roman Republic is gripped by existential crisis following a disastrous defeat at Cannae at the hands of the Carthaginian general. […]
A formidable collection of elegies about environmental change and the loss of habitat The Place That Is Coming To Us, the latest collection of poems by accomplished poet J.D Smith, deals with what can be meaningfully said about the future of the environment and all its creatures, so many of whose kind will not be […]
Violet Thistlewaite Is Not a Villain Anymore by Emily Krempholtz on November 18, 2025 Genres: Fiction / Fantasy / Action & Adventure, Fiction / Fantasy / Romance Pages: 368 Format: Hardcover Buy on Amazon Goodreads Guy Shadowfade is dead, and Violet Thistlethwaite is out of a job. After a lifetime as the dark sorcerer’s right-hand […]
Forgotten voices echo, scattered hearts converge, Three souls seek belonging in history’s surge, Love transcends borders, time, and pain, A keeper of lost children finds purpose again. Illuminating the Forgotten: An Overview In an era when historical fiction often treads familiar ground, Sadeqa Johnson emerges with Keeper of Lost Children by Sadeqa Johnson, a meticulously […]
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Fantasy Fiction
Fantasy fiction is a form of storytelling that features elements we don’t see in everyday life, such as magic, imaginary… The post Fantasy Fiction appeared first on She Reads Everything.
An unsettling portrait of modern intimacy A meditation on infatuation and the complex power dynamics that characterize contemporary relationships, Gisela Fitzgerald’s Her Most Deadly Rival explores the thorny process of regaining identity and agency in the domestic sphere as chaos reigns in the wider world. Will it prove too much for even a self-described Queen […]