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  • Cozy Horror comes to Singapore

    Cozy Horror comes to Singapore

    About The Formidable Miss Cassidy A Scottish governess arrives in Singapore to take up her new post, only to find a host of problems await that require her very unique skills in this award-winning and incredibly entertaining historical fantasy novel. There has never yet been a crisis that Miss Leda Cassidy hasn’t been able to…

  • Tech bros with magic…not great for the rest of us

    Tech bros with magic…not great for the rest of us

    About The Age of Blood and Magic A trillion-dollar company selling magic. A family at war for its throne. A murderer at their gala. And then a vampire joins the party… This is an eat the rich story. Literally. A hundred years ago, magic ran wild—belonging only to the fae, the witches, the vampires. Then…

  • French Fairytales and Shrimp Research

    About The Palace Beneath the Sea The acclaimed author of House of Frost and Feathers returns with a sweeping, lyrical novel inspired by a mermaid folktale filled with exploration, love, adventure, and magic. A GREAT LOVE. A MYSTERIOUS KINGDOM BENEATH THE WAVES. A DEVASTATING BETRAYAL. A doomed love story created the city of Ys, it’s fitting that…

  • “Don’t save the best for last”

    “Don’t save the best for last”

    About Havoc He’s a corporate prince burdened by responsibility. She’s an orphaned assassin suffering a crisis of faith. Together, they just might save the universe. Itzel grew up as the sole bright, sunny spark in the dark monastery of a death goddess. She was excellent at the killing part but she wasn’t so great at following commands. After…

  • The Jungle Book meets D&D

    The Jungle Book meets D&D

    About The Dungeon Book A young girl is left to die in a wizard’s dungeon but finds a new home with the monsters around her in this humorous and heartfelt standalone epic fantasy from acclaimed author Gareth Hanrahan. Enter a world of dungeons and dragons, magic and manticores, and goblins and gargoyles … Bait doesn’t…

  • Robert Jackson Bennett on A Trade of Blood, Fantasy Mysteries, and Hideo Kojima

    About A Trade of Blood, book 3 in the Ana and Din series Detective Ana Dolabra must prove a condemned man’s innocence and confront a terrifying magical technology in this fantasy-mystery from the bestselling author of The Tainted Cup, winner of the Hugo and World Fantasy awards. The heir to one of the Empire’s most powerful families…

  • Shannon Chakraborty

    2023 Interview 2026 Interview About The Tapestry of Fate New York Times bestselling author Shannon Chakraborty sets sail into the second adventure of pirate Amina al-Sirafi as her quest to track down magical artifacts brings her to the island lair of a sorceress whose woven enchantments are impossible to flee. Amina al-Sirafi thinks she’s struck gold.…

  • Martha Wells

    About Platform Decay Everyone’s favorite lethal SecUnit is back in the next installment of Martha Wells’ bestselling and award-winning Murderbot Diaries series. Having someone else support your bad decision feels kind of good. After volunteering to run a rescue mission, Murderbot realizes that it will have to spend significant time with a bunch of humans…

  • Kiersten White

    About The Fox & The Devil An obsession with an immortal serial killer entangles a vampire hunter’s daughter in a sapphic romance in this enthralling gothic fantasy from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Lucy Undying. Anneke has a complicated relationship with her father, Abraham Van Helsing—doctor, scientist, and madman devoted to the study of vampires—until…

  • The Longwinded One joined me for a 3rd time!

    About Get Trucked Ever wonder why you hear about so many people getting hit by trucks? Yeah. That’s me.  My name is Max. State Trooper by day, and Endr by night. I work for the Bureau of Afterlife Dispatch. It’s my job to send the chosen into the next realm to serve their calling. The Endr…