Genre: Cozy horror/fantasy Published: Titan Books, November 2025 My Rating: 5/5 stars "'It was a small kindness you did' they said. 'But you and I are both small creatures, are we not?' So the kindness feels larger.'" In the afterword, T. Kingfisher herself describes Snake-eater as “The platonic ideal of a Kingfisher horror novel”, and honestly, I have nothing to add... Neither to that description of the essence of this book, nor to the formula of cozy-horror that is synonym

Genre: Cozy Fantasy Published: Tor UK, July 2025 My Rating: 5/5 stars “People were cruel to you, and it didn’t make you bitter. What else would you call that?” “Naïve? Needy? Pathetic?” “Strong,” he insisted.”   For the longest time, I felt left out of the hype of cozy fantasy. I desperately wanted to like it, but somehow just couldn’t find one I truly loved. Last year, The Spellshop made my Most Surprising-list of the year, for changing that, and this year its sequel cemen

Genre: Fantasy Published: DAW, August 2025 Original publication : HarperCollins India, September 2023 My Rating: 3.75/5 stars “So we wander down the giant corridors in search of what we didn’t know we were missing. We seek to become whole”. I’m starting this review off bold by comping this “ Piranesi meets The Spear Cuts Through Water ”. You're going to have to hear me out on that one, though, because it's not as straigh-forward of a comparison as that may seem. Ambitious, o

Genre: Historical fantasy, Western Published: Quirk Books, November 2025 My Rating: 4.5/5 stars “Romantic love was a clear-cut institution, bolstered by orthodoxy and ritual. When a man lost his wife, it was expected that his world would unravel. But friendship… friendship was a wilderness with no guide. There were no courting rituals one might follow to pursue it, and little sympathy for the gut-wrenching horror of its loss.” Who would have thought that I could enjoy a weste

Gerne: Dark Academia, Mystery, Fantasy Published: St. Martin's Press, October 2025 My Rating: 3/5 stars "The philosopher and critic Tzvetan Todorov defines the fantastic as the hesitation between the supernatural and a mundane explanation of an occurrence. In a work of fiction, when a woman in the woods sees a monster and turns out to be crazy, then that is realism. If it turns out that there really is a monster in those woods, then that is horror. But if one can make an argu

Genre: Fantasy Published: Del Rey, January 2025 My Rating: 4/5 stars "Life is about finding joy in the space between where you came from...

Genre: Middle-grade fantasy Published: Quirk Books, January 2025 My Rating: 3/5 stars The Story: Nick and her mother Theo are traveling...

Genre: Fantasy Published: DAW Publishing, July 2025 My Review: 4.5/5 stars, rounded up because I love Joshua Philip Johnsons creative...

Genre: Fantasy Series: The Chronicles of Ludwich #2 Published: Angry Robot, December 2024 My Rating: 3.75/5 stars After the surprising,...

Genre: Horror Novella Published: Flatiron Books, September 2024 My Rating: 1/5 stars “She learned to live in that permanent twilight of...

Genre: Fantasy Published: Tor Books, September 2024 My Rating: 5/5 stars “When I lived in the city, I dreamed in color, of places where...

Genre: High Fantasy Published: Tor Publishing, August 2010 My Rating: 5/5 stars "Life before death. Strength before weakness. Journey...

Genre: Cozy Fantasy Published: Bindery Books, October 2024 My Rating: 2.5/5 stars "It’s strange how grief works. I was content, walking...

Genre: Fantasy, Murder-Mystery Published: Michael Joseph Publishing, January 2024 My Rating: 4/5 stars “You don't need a Blessing to be...

Genre: Horror Published: Independently Published by the author, June 2023 My Rating: 4/5 stars "Was this how some families grieved? By...

Genre: Magical Realism, middle-grade/young adult Published: Levine Querido, April 2024 My Rating: 5/5 stars with a warming ghostly...

Genre: Fantasy, Young Adult, Middle-Grade Published: Aspen & Thorn Press, April 2024 My Rating: 4/5 stars "Why do we grow more scared as...

Genre: Fantasy, New Weird Fiction Published: Angry Robot, February 2024 My Rating: 4/5 stars This was a weird one, but in the best way...

Genre: Young Adult Fantasy Published: Faber&Faber Ltd, February 6th 2023 My Rating: 2/5 stars “We’re all made of energy” Ash said...

Genre: Fantasy, Novella Published: Tordotcom, January 2024 My Rating: 2.5/5 stars “I don’t think we get second chances with our own...