Contemporary Fantasy – A Bookish Type

We Dance Upon Demons, by Vaishnavi Patel

Nisha is struggling. She’s been struggling for a long time, but the social and political […]

Readers frequently describe books as magical. We’re being metaphorical about how stories can transport. But […]

Trigger warnings for references to sexual and physical abuse of children. An extraordinarily hard life […]

The protagonists of Jim C. Hines’ amazing novel, Slayers of Old, all believe that their […]

Alix Watson has always been able to escape into books when life gets rough. When […]

Life is hard in Eden, Kentucky unless your last name is Gravely. The Gravelys own […]

Ben Toh is an overworked, underpaid, under-resourced civil servant in Singapore. He has to turn […]

I’ve been putting off writing and posting a review of V.E. Schwab’s Bury Our Bones […]

Vivian has always been desperate to please, to be appropriate, to be perfect, and she’s […]

Trigger warning for animal death. Alice Law has sacrificed everything to become a Cambridge-educated magician: […]