Susie Dumond

3 weeks ago | audible.com | Susie Dumond

Rebecca Yarros's runaway hit Empyrean series, including Fourth Wing, Iron Flame, and Onyx Storm, has millions of readers and listeners jumping aboard the romantasy train. One of the major reasons fans can't get enough of the series? Dragon-riding heartthrob Xaden Riorson. Xaden is tall, handsome, tough as nails, extremely loyal, and has a mysterious, dark past. It's a perfect recipe for a swoon-worthy love interest.

3 weeks ago | audible.com | Susie Dumond

Rebecca Yarros's Empyrean series, starting with the viral hit Fourth Wing, has taken the world by storm. Not only has the series brought in hundreds of thousands of enthusiastic readers and listeners, it's also been a driving force behind the rising popularity of a fan-favorite new subgenre: romantasy. It all began with our unlikely heroine, Violet Sorrengail, who never planned to be a dragon rider—but might just be the only person who can save the Kingdom of Navarre from a dangerous enemy.

3 weeks ago | bookriot.com | Susie Dumond

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. It’s spring, which means a new Emily Henry novel is currently making the rounds. This time, it’s Great Big Beautiful Life, a sweeping story-within-a-story about two rival journalists slowly falling for each other while competing to write the tell-all memoir of a secretive elderly celebrity.

3 weeks ago | bookriot.com | Susie Dumond

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Readers love nothing more than quiet, peaceful, uninterrupted reading time. And readers hate nothing more than jerks who can’t catch a hint and rudely insert themselves with a, “Oh, hey, what’s that you’re reading? What’s it about? Is it any good?

1 month ago | bookriot.com | Susie Dumond

Once a month or so, I’ll be scrolling away on the ol’ interwebs, minding my own business, when BAM, some random bookish account chooses violence by posting something along the lines of, “It’s not that I’m homophobic, it’s just that there are no good sapphic romances.