The Enchanted Greenhouse (Spellshop book 2) - Sarah Beth Durst Genre: cozy fantasy Pagecount: 374 pages Comfort-factor: cottagecore cozy fantasy with a snowy setting Terlu Perna broke the law because she was lonely. She cast a spell and created a magically sentient spider plant. As punishment, she was turned into a wooden statue and tucked away into an alcove in the North Reading Room of the Great Library of Alyssium. This should have been the end of her story . . . Yet, one

In honour of Halloween, today's Suspiciously-Specific micro-trope that I love is all about books inspired by Frankenstein by Mary Shelley. I've talked about this classic multiple times on here, as I have a strange relationship with the novel itself. Although I don't particularly love the original text, I adore everything it stands for as a part of the literary canon. I love the themes, the histy behind its creation and the legacy it inspired. It's not a surprise then, that I'

Echoes - Evie Wyld Genre : literary fiction Pagecount : 304 pages The haunted house is a modern-day appartment... Max didn’t believe in an afterlife. Until he died. Now, as a reluctant ghost trying to work out why he remains, he watches his girlfriend Hannah lost in grief in the flat they shared and begins to realise how much of her life was invisible to him. Rose/House - Arkady Martine Genre : sci-fi novella Pagecount : 115 pages The haunted house is a fully-automated futuri

Lanny – Max Porter Genre: literary fiction, magical realism Pagecount: 210 pages A literary novel that reads almost like an extended poem about a young boy who disappears into the local English woods, and the mythological figure of Dead Papa Toothwort - essentially a spirit of the forest, akin to the Green Man - who watches the following events unfold from the shadows of the trees. The Raven Boys - Maggie Stiefvater Genre: Young Adult, magical realism Pagecount: 409 pages The