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Dec 19, 2024 | 
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This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. 2024 has been a dramatic year for fantasy. The bedrock of the genre is, as always, ever-shifting over past versions of itself. So, it is unsurprising that the best fantasy of 2024 is quite unique.
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Nov 7, 2024 | 
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This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. As time moves ever onward, we must all decide which of the best bookish clocks we want in our lives. Otherwise, how would we know how long we’ve been reading for? Clocks are a useful, artistic piece of machinery that does one job well.
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Oct 24, 2024 | 
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This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. It is easy to get hooked on a good book and even easier to get hooked on bookish crochet goods. Who doesn’t love to get a cozy gift paired with a new book? Crochet, like most fiber art, is a versatile medium. With the right pattern, you can make a doll, a blanket, a scarf, a bag, or a bookmark.
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Oct 11, 2024 | 
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This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. I never expected a villainess portal fantasy novel to deeply explore survival, terminal illness, empathy, and story seemingly all at once.
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Oct 8, 2024 | 
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The Wedding Witch by Erin Sterling | Avon BooksBowen Penhallow and Tamsyn Bligh find themselves invited to the witchy wedding of the century. However, the mix of a strong spell combined with a wedding mishap transports Bowen and Tamsyn to a Yuletide celebration over 50 years in the past.
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Sep 27, 2024 | 
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Swinging hinges and creaky doorways may just elicit fear and a bit of love in the best haunted house romance books. Sure, your house is haunted, but any haunted house can be fixed, exorcised, or cured with enough time, attention, and persistence. Much like a good relationship, sometimes someone comes around who is willing to pay enough attention to make things work. Including making a haunted house a cozy home.
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Aug 26, 2024 | 
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A-spec (asexual and aromantic spectrums) and asexual romance novels might just be my favorite kind of romance novels. The communication is next level, the interpersonal plots are to die for, and, even better, at least one character is ace. Really, the A-spec community has a lot to offer romance readers who’ve already bought into the project of romance at large. I.e. readers buy into the idea that the characters are going to have a happily ever after or happy for now (HEA/HFN).
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Aug 19, 2024 | 
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Backpack fantasy is are for all heroes who travel light. For adventurers campaigning with naught but a rucksack, duffel, or carrier bag, they carry everything they need on their person. They decide to save the world with their just friends, some snacks, and a spare pair of socks and I commend them for their minimalist lifestyle. Backpack fantasy books are, as Wyngraf puts it, fantasy books where adventurers move through the wilds to conquer goals as opposed to a home or community.
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Jul 25, 2024 | 
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Radically reimagining queer joy is the project of the best queer historical romance books. Historical research and fantasy are the founding pillars of historical romance. There are certain things about the past that any historical romance is willing to hand-wave away. In return, readers of the genre buy into that imagined past. Queer historical romance is perhaps more radical in its approach.
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Jul 23, 2024 | 
reactormag.com | R. Nassor
Like so many fabulous winged creatures, romantasy books continue to fly off the shelves. It’s undeniable that romantasy is quickly becoming a major subgenre. But my question is… how exactly are we defining Romantasy? I think it might be useful to establish the parameters of the subgenre, and discuss a few favorite examples of romantasy books to see what aspects have made them so attractive to readers.
