Bloodwitch by Susan Dennard, third in the Truthwitch series, continues following Isuelt and Aeduan as they seek Owl’s tribe. A world away, Safi is fulfilling her obligations to Vaness in rooting out the betrayers in her court. In Nubrevna, Vivia has prepped the underground city and is ready to reveal it. And Merik, traveling with […]
In the winter of 2018, Hyun Kyu Seo made an extraordinary trip, into the heart of the infamous Chernobyl disaster, thirty-two years after the fact. This horrific disaster is one of the ‘where were you’ defining global incidents of my early childhood. Following a love for Eastern European culture, Seo visited the Ukraine, and was […]
A Treason of Thorns by Laura E Weymouth is a darkly charming tale about a magical House, a dying land, and bonds that transcend notions of animate/sentient and inanimate/non-sentient. Violet Sterling grew up in the shadow of Burleigh House, one of England’s Great Houses whose magic sustains (or condemns) the land. Her father was Burleigh’s […]
The Necromancer’s Bride is fourth in Ross’ Gaslamp Gothic series. Anne Lawrence has gone in search of Gabriel D’Ange to set things right between them. With her, she brings the cross her brother Alec stole from Gabriel countless moons ago. Anne finds him in Bermuda, and just in time. Gabriel and the Order are about […]
The Old Dragon’s Head by Justin Newland is a magical realism historical fiction set in ancient China. For twenty years the last Dragon Master, Wing, has been missing. With no successor in place, the energies of the Old Dragon could not be summoned to strengthen the Great Wall, and now the Mongol threat looms large […]
Windwitch, second in Susan Dennard’s Witchlands series, finds Threadsisters Iseult and Safi separated by half a world. Iseult is determined to reunite with Safi and stumbles across Aeduan. The Bloodwitch had been tracking her and fallen into a Nomatsi bear trap. He has fallen unconscious thanks to the healing magic repairing his body. Iseult steals […]
Exiled to Freedom by SGD Singh is a nested story about Priya, a teen visiting family in India. When her behaviour angers her mother, Priya is dumped off at her great-grandmother’s house in the middle of nowhere. Cut off from her tech, Priya at first sulks in her room. She finally decided to come out, […]
©Aislynn d’Merrickssson, 2007-2009 Summer’s end- golden leaves dance in the wind. Arctic chill- Snow Leopard hunts in the night. Thunder and Lightning- A ship flails, lost at sea. An anguished cry breaks the night- humanity’s folly. An early morn- dragon’s breath shrouds the land. A foggy night- will-o-wisps lead […]
Inspired by thePopol Vuh, Moreno-Garcia’s Gods of Jade and Shadow is a dazzling coming of age/ alchemic transformation story steeped in the rich mythology of the ancient Maya. Casiopea Tun and her ma live in virtual servitude to her grandfather. Unlike her ma, Casiopea bridles against the strict rules, and the disrespect of the family, […]
An expedition deep in the mountains, searching for a mysterious artefact, finds far more than they expect. They find this world’s last living dragon, waking him from his centuries long slumber. In the time he has slept, humans turned their backs on magic, and are only now returning to its use. The last that Alpheratz […]