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"Just started and enjoying so far"

4.55 avg rating — 219 ratings

"A young woman must learn how to control her magical powers as a type of mage that works through song before they end up controlling her. Better than it sounds, complex world and characters."

4.02 avg rating — 104,531 ratings

"I adore her prose. In the late 1800s, three sisters use witchcraft to change the course of history. "

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"Historical fiction, excellent romance"

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"Pakistani romantic fantasy retelling of The Count of Monte Cristo, where one girl seeks revenge against those who betrayed her—including the boy she used to love."

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"Set in an alternate world where cryptids (protohuman hybrids) are second-class citizens provides the perfect context for this deftly told dark fantasy, which reflects on what makes humans human. Our MC who was raised as a human, shows a cryptid side that she never knew she had. She’s stripped of her rights and forced to perform as a sideshow attraction in a traveling carnival."

4.05 avg rating — 76,112 ratings

"Bridgerton meets Howl's Moving Castle ! I enjoyed it"

3.27 avg rating — 11,131 ratings

"A criminal who, with the help of her jinn bodyguard, hunts and sells illegal magic. When she saves the life of a cowardly prince, she draws the attention of his powerful father, the sultan, who blackmails her into finding an ancient lamp that has the power to revive the barren land—at the cost of sacrificing all jinn."

3.93 avg rating — 34,039 ratings

"Twin sister plans to steal sister's identity"

4.32 avg rating — 1,476 ratings

"It started off quite classically YA - with a sullen and rebellious teenage heroine - but turned into a fascinating sword and sorcery type fantasy tale with time travel, politically maneuvering, and an epic war with demonic hordes. I loved the heroine - once she snapped out of her sullen angst, she was a force to be reckoned with and kept all the other characters on their toes.
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4.03 avg rating — 3,313 ratings

"Seems to be a Bluebeard retelling until you learn that there's this was this game thing where it would decide the fate of her village and Izolda decided to become bluebeards partner. She is so badass I love her so much. She literally used him so many times and I was one hundred percent there for it.
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4.01 avg rating — 3,717 ratings

"Tsumiko inherits an ancestral home, a vast fortune, and a butler who isn't exactly human."

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4.11 avg rating — 186 ratings

"The story begins with Moreina (Reina), a young healer in a remote town who is selected to escort the ‘chosen’ to search for the long-lost Faranzine talisman (a bunch of old people believe it will awaken the new White Sorceress and they’re tired of waiting for a thousand-year-old prophecy to be fulfilled). But she doesn’t believe in magic and the prophesy itself is sketchy as hell esp with the king trying to make it happen. First not annoying love triangle"

3.94 avg rating — 101,552 ratings

"1920s NYC, Evangeline (Evie) O’Neill, who gets send to New York for a few months to stay with her uncle Will after an starting a scandal where she can't explaining what happened and gets caught up in a murder.
Characters are what makes this great. Evie is both magnetic and obnoxious and there’s a bull-in-china-shop quality to her character. In one vital way, though, she is different than your typical introverted, meek and martyrish lady lead. It's a bit amazing, encountering a female protagonist who's allowed to be loud, self-absorbed and says exactly what she’s thinking, without a lick of tact to make it go down easier. Strange as it sounds, I was grateful for her haughtiness and recklessness even as I sometimes wrinkled my nose at her. I think it works because Evie is also very self-aware, and the narrative acknowledges all of her flaws instead of just taking for granted that Evie’s brashness is an uncontested virtue. It’s also not hard to see that most of the facades Evie puts out are a lie, a ghost, a stage role performed for a very select private audience. Underneath is a frightened, fragile girl, still mourning the death of her big brother and wishing she could be enough for her parents.

Of course this world wouldn’t be as fascinating if it was just Evie soaking up the spotlight. One of this book’s strengths is making every character come alive, step whole and entire onto the page, even if only for the length of a scene or two, including: Memphis Campbell, a young handsome black poet; Sam Lloyd, a rakish Russian pickpocket; Theta Knight, a mysterious dancer running from the ghosts of her pasts and Henry DeBois, her gay musician roommate; alongside, Jericho, Will’s strange assistant. Each of these kids is damaged, trauma lingering in the creases or out in the open, and each of them has a long journey ahead—one that I’m excited to see unfold in the next installments."

3.43 avg rating — 7,811 ratings

"Harrowing, skin-crawlingly creepy or wide-eyed, mouth open I-did-not-see-that-coming weird. On the surface, it is about monsters becoming known in our world, sort of a literary Urban Fantasy. Expect shifters and witches and occult secret societies. But underneath, Turnbull is talking about humanity, of course, and the marginalized among us who are treated like monsters."

3.75 avg rating — 16,619 ratings

"Think Jane Austen x magic. Set in a world reminiscent of Regency England, where women’s magic is taken from them when they marry. A sorceress must balance her desire to become the first great female magician against her duty to her family."