by NRB | 23 May 2024 | Fiction |
The bestselling creator of the Grishaverse turns to the history of 16th-century Spain for this story of a young woman with magical powers. If the bread hadn’t burned, this would be a very different story. So it would. Luzia would not have used her magical skills, Doña...
by NRB | 23 Feb 2023 | Fiction |
Leigh Bardugo’s Alex Stern continues her adventures among Yale’s elite societies, picking up where Ninth House left off. ‘… This is what your magic is for, isn’t it? This is what it does. Props up the people in power, lets the people with everything take a...
by NRB | 26 Aug 2021 | Fiction, SFF |
Leigh Bardugo continues to enthral with the latest in her series of novels set in the world of the magical Grisha. In this, her seventh Grishaverse novel, a sequel to King of Scars, Leigh Bardugo captures the heart and imagination anew as she expands further on the...
by NRB | 15 Oct 2019 | Fiction, SFF |
This adult novel from the bestselling YA author delivers fantasy on the dark side, inspired by real places. There are so many magical-academy-style books that they could probably form their own sub-genre. The Harry Potter series is probably the most popular and...
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