Courtney Floyd’s debut novel, Higher Magic, casts a spell that’s equal parts cozy dark academia, biting satire, and heartfelt advocacy. Set in a magical graduate program, the novel follows Dorothe Bartleby, a first-generation student battling anxiety, academic pressure, and a talking skull named Anne who insists on narrating her every detail of Dorothe’s life. In […]
What if you could rewrite your love story, but something breaks every time you do? Holly Smale’s I Know How This Ends is a genre-bending, emotionally charged sequel to The Cassandra Complex, diving deeper into time loops, heartbreak, and the maddening beauty of second chances. It’s not just a romance, but it’s also a philosophical […]
Have you ever wondered what would happen if your ideal—yet wholly fictional—character suddenly stepped into your life? Writing Mr. Right by Alina Khawaja takes that idea and runs with it, blurring the lines between imagination and reality in ways that are both captivating and unsettling. In this excerpt, we see Ziya grappling with the impossible. […]
Faye Kaplan seeks solace in the picturesque town of Woodstock, New York, where the air smells of pine and secrets. She’s a young Jewish woman with a past—painful and resilient. But when life hands her a fresh start, she embraces it, pottery wheel in hand. Here’s an excerpt from Jean Meltzer’s MAGICAL MEET CUTE, and […]
For my next book on HTP Books’ Summer 2024 Blog Tours, I listened to In the Hour of Crows by Dana Elmendorf. This book perfectly blends small-town life with magical realism, and I fell in love with this book and it’s characters within a few minutes of hitting play. PROLOGUE I was born in the […]
I really enjoyed Kylie Scott’s END OF STORY so I had zero reservations going into THE LAST DAYS OF LILAH GOODLUCK. With the same down to earth approach to her characters with a bit of magical realism thrown in, she has written a very heartwarming, fun, romantic, and engaging novel. Friday Good Witch Willow is […]
I read this lovely paranormal book about a coven of witches who are really going through it at the moment. I had a lovely time in the world of The Witches of Moonshyne Manor, and I hope you enjoy this excerpt from the book. Stick around at the end for my review. 1 Saturday, October […]
I really loved Maddie Dawson’s previous book, The Survivor’s Guide To Family Happiness, so I just knew that I had to dig into her next novel. Matchmaking For Beginners is full of warmth amongst the dark times, finding joy in the bad, and finding strength in times of helplessness. Twenty-nine year old Marnie thinks her […]
The first thing that I noticed about Suzanne Kamata’s The Mermaids of Lake Michigan was the cover. It’s so hauntingly beautiful, and the woman’s underwater face with the sunlight softly streaming through the water fits in perfectly with the title of the book. When I dove into this book on my Kindle, I certainly didn’t […]
I first encountered Cynthia A. Graham’s writing with her debut, Beneath Still Waters, and I fell in love with her writing and her characters. She has such a way of writing historical fiction that doesn’t stick out as taking place in the past, and the people are so unique and vivid that they still […]
