Author: Andrea Rittschof
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Strange Familiars by Keshe Chow: Slow Burn Romance
All Gwendolynne Chan needs is to get through final year at Seamere College, where she is on track to graduate as number one —as long as the pretentious prat Harrisford Briggs doesn’t beat her to it. Harrisford Briggs’s father, the chief financial officer of Magecorp, a major global distributor of magic, expects him to come…
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Is God Is: Intense and Powerful
When I heard about this film, Is God Is, I read the description and was excited to see how the film would present the characters and the story. It sounded intense and messy but most of all creative. After watching the film, it only reinforces my opinions. The film is intense and powerful, a testament…
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The Bone Door by Frances White: Dark Fantasy
When Hop awakens in an ancient labyrinth, he has no memory of his life, or how he got here. He does not recognise the mysterious girl trapped with him. And he certainly cannot identify the shadowy figure stalking him, whispering terrible things… But there is one thing he is certain of: He must escape. The…
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Death’s Daughter by S. A. Barnes: Creative Worldbuilding
After a lifetime of chaos, Jocasta has finally found her home with good friends, great classes, even a messy situationship with her former TA—a normal life. Well, as normal a life as the only child of Death can have. She’s always refused to embrace her father’s legacy. Instead of taking lives, she feeds on her…
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The Girl with a Thousand Faces by Sunyi Dean: Unique Ghost Story
When Mercy Chan washes up on the shores of Hong Kong with no family, no money, and no memories, the only refuge she finds is the infamous, ghost-infested slum of Kowloon Walled City. Since then, she has rebuilt her life, working for the local triad as a ghost talker and dealing with the angry and…
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We Burned So Bright by TJ Klune: Emotional Journey
The road stretched out before them. No other cars, just the headlights on the blacktop. Above, the cracked moon in a kaleidoscope sky…. Husbands Don and Rodney have lived a good long life. Together they’ve experienced the highest highs of love and family, and lows so low that they felt like the end of the…
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A Murder Most Camp by Nicolas DiDomizio: Fantastic Murder Mystery
Rustic cabins. Lakefront bonfires. A painfully hot lifeguard. And a murder? Summer has never been this camp. Mikey Hartford IV has coasted through his twenties in a distracted blur of yachts and sex and partying. But when his father discovers his latest million-dollar impulse buy and changes the terms of his trust, the party’s finally…
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Aphrodite in Pieces by Lauren J.A. Bear: Compelling Mythological Retelling
Two hundred years before the common era, Aphrodite surprises an itinerant sculptor with a shocking request: Hear my story, see me for who I truly am, and carve it into stone. Never before has the goddess posed for her likeness, and as the artist works, she shares pieces of herself. Her greatest triumphs and most…
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The Antiquarian’s Object of Desire by India Holton: Charming and Witty
Magical-antique experts Amelia Tarrant and Caleb Sterling have been best friends forever, although lately each has begun secretly wishing for more than friendship. But when rumors about their relationship spread, they’re forced to fake being enemies to protect their reputations and keep their jobs. The resulting arguments spark havoc across Oxford University, and when they…
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Thistlemarsh by Moorea Corrigan: Wonderfully Strange
In the wake of The Great War, the world is a decidedly unmagical place for Mouse Dunne. She once dreamed of becoming a Faerie anthropologist, but with one telegram, her world shattered. At the Battle of the Somme, her cousin’s body disappeared into the mud, and her brother was left with debilitating shell shock. It…
