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I found this book by scrolling through the available fantasy audiobooks on my library app. It looked cute and it works for both Wyrd and Wonder and Foodies Read. I started out listening to the audiobook but I ended up […]

This description had me at love, magic, and waffles. Of course, I had to listen to it. Olivia is 28 and in a rut. She’s never left the small town near Buffalo NY where she grew up. She’s stayed in […]

That summary of this book seems to have been specially designed to draw me in. Misbehaving old lady witches? – check A world where you get more powerful as you get older? – absolutely Cats? – check This is the […]

I adored this book! This is the cozy wicked witch origin story that you didn’t know you needed. It has farmer’s markets, a quaint small town, amazing banter, lots of cooking and wine, and an adorable spider who likes to […]

I heard about this book from a retweet of a tweet from the author. She said that one of the weirdest complaints that she gets about this book is that it was too political. She said she didn’t know what […]

You all know how much I adore books with older female protagonists. What could be better than a fantasy story that starts on the main character’s 60th birthday? Claire is just out of a bad marriage. She learning to trust […]

I found out about this series from a Foodies Read post. I’m super vocal about not liking cozy mysteries with amateur detectives/busy bodies inserting themselves in the investigation. But this sounded intriguing and the first book was free with my […]

The books that I tend to read with shapeshifters have always been more Urban Fantasy than Paranormal Romance. I wouldn’t have had this book on my radar except that I saw it mentioned on Twitter. That tweet talked about a […]

Neverwhere was my Neil Gaiman gateway drug. However, for a lot of people it was the Sandman graphic series. I’ve tried to get into it before but it just didn’t work for me. People rave about it but it just […]

I picked up this audiobook because it was included with my Audible membership. The setting made me laugh. Windy City Magic is a shop on Navy Pier in Chicago. I was there for a conference a few years ago. I […]

You remember in the Marvel movies when Tony Stark gets confronted about all the collateral damage that the Avengers do when they are fighting? He decides that they need to be accountable for this and Captain America has a meltdown […]

I picked up this book knowing nothing about it based on my love for the author’s previous work. I think I like this one better than those. This is a deeply feminist story. In this world, all people might be […]

The Extraordinaries Series   This is an unusual series.  It uses the tropes of Regency Romance but places them in a world where some people have Talents.  I would describe these more as historical fantasies with romantic plots. In Burning […]

  Purchase Links HarperCollins | Amazon | Barnes & Noble I was pulled in by the world building of this book from the first page.  The Westside of Manhattan has fallen under some type of spell or curse or something.  […]

This novella tells the story of a humanoid robot who is keeping her former owner’s beloved tea shop running almost 300 years after her death.  Robots like her have since been outlawed.  Robotics technician Clara is thrilled to meet Sal […]

This book was absolutely ridiculous and I loved it.  I actually, honestly, literally laughed out loud a few times.  From surveys where the only right answer is commenting about the survey taker’s flaming hat to absolutely perverse imps to flying […]

This is historical romance series with a fantasy twist.  Once upon a time a fairy was helped by a woman.  In exchange, she asked for each of her female descendants to be granted one wish when they are in their […]

The premise of this series is that the Americans lost the Revolution because upper class British people have magic.  Now it is the 1880s and steampunk technology has advanced enough to level the battlefield. Verity is a governess for a […]

I love the universe that M.C.A. Hogarth has created for her books.  In the future, humans create human/animal hybrids called the Pelted who then leave the galaxy.  They spread out onto new worlds and form an Alliance.  They totally leave […]

I loved Zen Cho’s novel Sorcerer to the Crown so I was excited to read some of her shorter fiction. This story takes place in Hell. In the Chinese version you can advance through levels.  If you have descendants who […]