This post contains affiliate links. As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases, at no extra cost to you. Verdict: Eighteen thousand words that carry more grief, atmosphere and craft than most books five times the length — with a “high heat” label three readers say the book does not quite meet. Best for: … Read more
This post contains affiliate links. As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases, at no extra cost to you. Verdict: One of the genuinely great queernormative fantasy worlds, in a book too short to use it — and the lowest-rated instalment of a series that only gets better. Best for: Readers who want an … Read more
This post contains affiliate links. As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases, at no extra cost to you. Verdict: A warm, genuinely unusual cosy fantasy — dragons who imprint inside the egg, a realm run as a co-operative a century after its monarchy fell — ending on a cliffhanger that has now gone … Read more
This post contains affiliate links, including Amazon and Libro.fm. As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases, at no extra cost to you. Verdict: The only book on our dragon shelf where the dragon negotiates — a genuinely original conception of the creature, attached to a twist five readers guessed at the thirty-percent mark. … Read more
This post contains affiliate links, including Amazon and Libro.fm. As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases, at no extra cost to you. Verdict: Orpheus in dragon country, and the book where Maddileh and Saralene finally say it out loud — a fantasy novella with a romance thread that pays off, rather than the … Read more
This post contains affiliate links, including Amazon and Libro.fm. As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases, at no extra cost to you. Verdict: A warm, well-earned close to the quartet that gets the marriage exactly right and skips the alchemy in its own title. Best for: Readers who have finished the first three … Read more
This post contains affiliate links, including Amazon and Libro.fm. As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases, at no extra cost to you. Verdict: The best-liked instalment of the cosiest sapphic fantasy series going, undercut by a royal coup its own cosiness has to keep rescuing — and by a cliffhanger nobody warns you … Read more
This post contains affiliate links, including Amazon and Libro.fm. As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases, at no extra cost to you. Verdict: A beautifully written novella about oaths, masks and empire, sold as slow-burn romantasy by a starred trade review and described by eight independent readers as a romance you never actually … Read more
This post contains affiliate links, including Amazon and Libro.fm. As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases, at no extra cost to you. Verdict: The most artful book on our dragon shelf — Beauty and the Beast rebuilt through Vietnamese myth in a poisoned post-colonial world — and a demanding one, where seven readers … Read more
This post contains affiliate links, including Amazon and Libro.fm. As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases, at no extra cost to you. Verdict: The best-written dragon book with sapphic women at its centre, and an epic fantasy rather than a romance — magnificent for four hundred pages after it takes four hundred pages … Read more