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Fifteen Favorite Fantasy Reads 2023
Fifteen Favorite Fantasy Reads 2023

It’s time for me to reveal my Fifteen Favorite Fantasy reads of the past year!

How is it the end of the year already? How is 2023 already over? I’m not ready!

But I’m also excited, because this is honestly one of my favorite posts to write every year.

It’s so fun to take a minute at the end of the year and peruse over what books I read, reminiscing about which ones I really enjoyed. It’s also always highly entertaining to me to see which books I meant to read versus which books I actually read.

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Frost: Winter's Lonely Guardian Release Day
Frost: Winter's Lonely Guardian Release Day

Today is the day!

I’m so happy to be participating in the blog tour for Frost, by E.E. Rawls. This adorable, wintry YA adventure with a splash of romance has just released and it’s truly a beautiful story.

I got to read an early copy, and I just fell in love with Frost and Norah and Tim. (Tim! I want so badly to wrap him in a blanket and protect him)

There are a lot of fun elements in this story: seasonal fae guardians, selkies (the world needs more books with selkies in them, just sayin’), a magic harp, winter vibes, and lots more fantastical flurries of fun. (I seriously couldn’t help myself - alliteration calls to me). Featuring an MC who thinks he’s super tough and ice-cold, but is an actual cinnamon roll, and a leading lady who thinks she’s a cinnamon roll but is way tougher than she thinks. An internal struggle between giving in to bitterness and despair and doing the right thing. Redemption…. ahhhh, this is such a great story!

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Fifteen Favorite Fantasy Reads of 2021
Fifteen Favorite Fantasy Reads of 2021

2021 is winding to a close, and it’s time to share my annual post about all my favorite fantasy reads from the year!

This is always both simultaneously one of my favorite and least favorite posts to write. Favorite because I love looking over the books I’ve read, reminiscing about the stories I loved, and recommending them. Least favorite because it’s a lot of fiddly work and because it’s always impossible to put them in an order I’m completely happy with. But, I’ll try.

I read 80 books this year! Not quite as many as last year, but some of my reads this year were on the longer side, and I got a TON more authoring work done this year than last year.

The books on this list are my fifteen favorite fantasy reads.

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Autumn Reads
Autumn Reads

Autumn is pretty much my favorite.

The cooling temperatures, the cloudy, drizzly days, the bursting, vibrant colors as the trees turn crimson, gold, and orange, sweaters and jeans, hot cocoa and hot apple cider, the swishing sound my feet make as I tromp through fallen leaves… yes. Autumn is my favorite.

And there is nothing so nice as curling up with a good book on a cold autumn day. A cozy blanket, a warm beverage, and the rain pattering against your window.

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