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black and white image, black border with grey inset, a darker grey celtic style sword in the centre
August 21, 2026

REVIEW: Swordheart by T. Kingfisher

KaetrinA- Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended ReadsFantasy Romance / humour9 Comments

Recommended Read

Dear T. Kingfisher, I recently had the great pleasure of listening to Paladin’s Grace and reading Paladin’s Strength so I immediately went to your (extensive – hooray!) backlist for more goodness with Swordheart. There are similar themes between Swordheart and Paladin’s Strength so I would recommend to readers perhaps taking ... more >

A very good-looking white couple, hide behind a tree in a field of red roses with a castle bridge in the background. It is night and there is a full moon. He stands behind her and has his arm around her shoulder, his head turned to listen. He wears a charcoal grey tunic, open at the throat and metal bracers. He has dark, longish hair and is clean shaven. She has dark flowing hair and wears a circlet of small white flowers. She is in a silver grey gauzy dress and has a dagger at her belt.
January 27, 2026

REVIEW: Silver and Blood by Jessie Mihalik

KaetrinB Reviews / B+ Reviews / Book Reviewscurse / Fantasy Romance / Magic / NetGalley / SFF3 Comments

When a vicious beast begins attacking her fellow villagers, Riela reluctantly agrees to enter the forbidden forest and kill the monster as she’s the only mage available – or so she thought. Untrained and barely armed, Riela is quickly overwhelmed when one beast turns into two. She fears her death ... more >

August 29, 2025

Review : Emily Wilde’s Encyclopaedia of Faeries (Emily Wilde #1) by Heather Fawcett

SiriusB Reviews / B Reviews Category / C Reviews / C Reviews CategoryFantasy Romance2 Comments

A curmudgeonly professor journeys to a small town in the far north to study faerie folklore and discovers dark fae magic, friendship, and love in the start of a heartwarming and enchanting new fantasy series. Cambridge professor Emily Wilde is good at many things: She is the foremost expert on ... more >

Purple cover with large black titles and small pale blue illustrations of mining tools and TNT in the top two thirds, the lower third is two dragons in black ink bending toward one another to form a love heart shape in between their heads, bodies and feet, pale blue flames above their noses and within the love heart which is coloured pink, stand two white silhouettes, a man on the right and a woman on the left with a danger mining in progress sign in black between them
July 2, 2024

REVIEW: The Undermining of Twyla and Frank by Megan Bannen

KaetrinB+ Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended Readsdragons / Fantasy Romance / friends-to-lovers / NetGalley / SFF5 Comments

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Dear Megan Bannen, The Undertaking of Hart and Mercy was a delightful revelation to me so I was super keen to read the follow up book, The Undermining of Twyla and Frank.  This book benefited from my familiarity with the world from the previous book. I struggled just a little ... more >

November 27, 2023

Review: Assistant to the Villain by Hannah Nicole Maehrer

SiriusBook Reviews / C Reviews / C Reviews Category / C- ReviewsFantasy Romance / Magic / mystery9 Comments

Once Upon a Time meets The Office in Hannah Maehrer’s laugh-out-loud viral TikTok series turned novel, about the sunshine assistant to an Evil Villain…and their unexpected romance. ASSISTANT WANTED: Notorious, high-ranking villain seeks loyal, levelheaded assistant for unspecified office duties, supporting staff for random mayhem, terror, and other Dark Things ... more >

February 6, 2023

JOINT REVIEW: Magic Tides by Ilona Andrews

JanineB Reviews / B Reviews Category / B+ Reviews / Book ReviewsFantasy / Fantasy Romance / mermaid / shapeshifters / vampires12 Comments

In this brand-new Kate Daniels novella, Kate and Curran have recently relocated to Wilmington and are renovating their new house fortress. Their contractor’s son is a friend of Conlan’s and when Darin, the boy’s teenaged cousin, is kidnapped by a gang called the Red Horn, Conlan lets Kate know. Of ... more >

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