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historical fantasy

Review: The Long Winter of Miðgarðr – Edale Lane

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New Release: The Long Winter of Miðgarðr - Edale Lane

Genre: Historical Fantasy LGBTQ+ Category: Lesbian, Demi, Ace Reviewer: KA Masters Get It On Amazon About The Book Three disparate women; one common goal: survive. Jorunn holds fast to duty and honor. The stalwart shieldmaiden is admired for her skill and courage in a harsh landscape beset by dangers and enemies. Would she sacrifice it all for the love of a beautiful, mysterious woman? Madlen, a revered holy sister of the Eldríss Hringr, bears a sacred mission to guard Miðgarðr from Surtr and the monstrous fire giants of Muspelheim on an island dominated by a volcanic passage between the realms. … Read more

New Release: The Spy – Mell Eight

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QSFer Mell Eight has a new MM historical fantasy out, Princes of Toval book 3: The Spy. After spending two years away at culinary school, learning the arts of baking and magic, all Karl wants to do after graduation is return home to the kitchen where he grew up. However, when Karl’s adoptive uncle asks him to do a little favor for him along his journey, of course Karl says yes. He needs to find a missing person, one who may have been captured somewhere in Yaroi, a neighboring country to Karl’s home in Toval. Finding the missing person is … Read more

Review: Midwinter Marriage – K.L. Noone

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Midwinter Marriage - K.L. Noone

Genre: Regency, Fantasy, Alt-History, Romance LGBTQ+ Category: Demi, Gay Reviewer: Rari Get It On Amazon About The Book The Honorable Edmund Rookwood needs to get married. By Midwinter. Or his father will disinherit him. Edmund has always tried to be a loyal son and dutiful heir — unlike his scandalous younger brother. But his father’s ultimatum seems impossible. Edmund has never fallen in love easily, and — according to his father — he’s a disappointment, inadequate, never good enough. Who would ever say yes to him? Sebastian Melior, the Duke of Morinbrough, mathematician and inventor and Edmund’s best friend, offers … Read more

New Release: Fiorenzo – Sebastian Nothwell

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Fiorenzo - Sebastian Nothwell

QSFer Sebastian Nothwell has a new MM historical fantasy out: Fiorenzo. Fiore has a plan. Find a wealthy elderly gentleman, delight him until the end of his days, and retire on the resulting inheritance. It’s the best outcome a low-born courtesan in the city of Halcyon can hope for. And it seems a perfect scheme… until a mysterious masked man upends it. Banished from university after a disastrous duel, Enzo wanders the city searching for scraps of the affection he’s lost. His public mask conceals private agonies. A single night in the company of a courtesan, however, balms his wounded … Read more

Review: Garden of Secrets – Drake LaMarque

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Garden of Secrets - Drake LaMarque

Genre: Fantasy, Historical, Gaslamp, Romance LGBTQ+ Category: Bi, Gay, Non-Binary, Poly Reviewer: D.B., Paranormal Romance Guild Get It At Amazon About The Book Alistair Lennox is disagreeable. Isolated and miserable, with parents who don’t care about him, his life has been equal parts privilege and loneliness. But when his parents die, his life is turned upside down. In order to gain his inheritance, Alistair is forced to attend a college he’s never heard of – for good reason. Misselthwaite College is a school for the magically gifted Alistair has no magical gifts – unless being magically inept counts. What were … Read more

New Release: The House of Ash – Hayden Thorne

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The House of Ash - Hayden Thorne

QSFer Hayden Thorne has a new MM historical fantasy/gothic horror book out: The House of Ash. A dark and deadly curse haunts a dying family, manifesting itself with neither rhyme nor reason in its frequency except for its victim: a male child who will then be born without a soul. Living in a great house designed specifically for entrapment, monsters and the women who become reluctant champions for their children carry on a tragic cycle shaped by an inexplicable mystery. And every final confrontation between the tainted and the protector is recorded in an old journal—a bloodstained volume handed down … Read more

New Release: Little Nothing – Dee Holloway

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Little Nothing - Dee Holloway

QSFer Dee Holloway has a new sapphic historical fantasy out: Little Nothing. Two young women race to turn the tide in a Florida on the brink of civil war… Everyone knows that Jonnie trains and races the limerunners, the deadly water horses that live in the swamps and streams around the town of Sawgrass and that she’s got a way with them that none of the local men can match. And everyone suspects that while Bess works at her family’s inn, The Nag’s Head, she sews her little nothings, magic in every stitch, to protect her beloved Jonnie and their … Read more

New Release: The Tale of Kami and a Desperate Man – Odessa Silver

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The Tale of Kami and a Desperate Man - Odessa Silver

QSFer Odessa Silver has a new free gay historical fantasy duet out: The Tale of Kami and a Desperate Man. Under the moon’s gaze even the strongest of loyalties are tested. What consequences befall a lovesick fool? In the world of Yamato, humans live alongside beings of strange power: kami, who see to the world, and fickle yokai that can bless or trap even the most wary of humans. Hotaka follows the guidance of the kami Tsukuyomi, but even kami make mistakes. And Tsukuyomi’s eyes aren’t the only ones that watch that night. Will Hotaka escape with his life, like … Read more

New Release / Giveaway: The Empath and The Soldier – A.K. Holubek

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The Empath and the Soldier - A.K. Holubek

A.K. Holubek has a new MM Regency period fantasy book out, The Unconventionals book 1: The Empath and the Soldier. And there’s a giveaway. The situation seemed hopeless. But Tyrran couldn’t pretend to be ignorant of the danger and just wait for his home to disintegrate around him. As a Favored male, Tyrran belongs to a select group of men born with one of the Four Gifts, a blessing usually reserved for women. Quiet, introverted, and filled with self-doubt, Tyrran has always struggled with living up to the responsibilities that come with being Gifted. Still, he had managed to achieve the … Read more

New Release / Giveaway: She’s the One Who Won’t Behave – S.R. Cronin

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COVER - She's the One Who Won't Behave

S.R. Cronin has a new fantasy book out, The War Stories of the Seven Troublesome Sisters book 6: She’s the One Who Won’t Behave. And there’s a giveaway! Gypsum, the sixth of seven sisters, has always been a rebel. Yet no one thought she would go so far as to join the reczavy, a group living in tents on the edge of the desert and known for their sexual promiscuity and playful ways. But as the date of the Mongols’ return draws near, Ilarians of all types must work together if they are to have any hope of surviving. And the … Read more