Genre: Magic

Water Moon by Samantha Sotto Yambao Genres: Adult, Asian Literature, Japanese Literature, Fantasy, Magic, Speculative Fiction Published by Bantam on January 13, 2025 Format: Hardcover, Special Edition Pages: 374 Source: Illumicrate Would you rewrite your destiny if it meant losing a part of your past?  On a backstreet in Tokyo lies a pawnshop, but not everyone can find it.  Most will see only a cosy ramen restaurant. And just the chosen ones – those who are lost – will find a place to pawn their life choices and deepest regrets.  Hana Ishikawa wakes on her first morning as the pawnshop’s new owner to find it ransacked, the shop’s most precious acquisition stolen and her father missing. And then into the shop stumbles a charming stranger, quite unlike other customers. For he offers help, instead of seeking it.  Together, they must journey through a mystical world to find Hana’s father and the stolen choice – through rain puddles, hitching rides on paper cranes, across the bridge between midnight and morning and through a night market in the clouds.  But as they get closer to the truth, Hana must reveal a secret of her own – and risk making a choice she …

The Forest Grimm by Kathryn Purdie Series: The Forest Grimm Duology #1 Genres: Fairy Tale, Adventure, Fantasy, Magic, Romantasy, Young Adult Published by Magpie Books on September 19, 2023 Format: Hardcover, Special Edition Pages: 342 Source: FairyLoot Where fairy tales come to life with dark, deadly twists…  “Tell me again, Grandmère, the story of how I die.”  The Midnight Forest. The Fanged Creature. Two fortune-telling cards that spell an untimely death for 17-year-old Clara. Despite the ever-present warning from her fortune-teller grandmother, Clara embarks on a dangerous journey into the deadly Forest Grimm to procure a magical book – Sortes Fortunae , the Book of Fortunes – with the power to reverse the curse on her village and save her mother.  Years ago, when the villagers whispered their deepest desires to the book, its pages revealed how to obtain them. All was well until someone used the book for an evil purpose―to kill another person. Afterward, the branches of the Forest Grimm snatched the book away, the well water in Grimm’s Hollow turned rancid, and the crops died from disease. The villagers tried to make amends with the forest, but every time someone crossed its border, they never returned.    …

Six Wild Crowns by Holly Race Series: Queens of Elben #1 Genres: Adult, British Literature, Fantasy, High Fantasy, Magic, Historical Fiction, LGBTQ+, Historical Fantasy Published by Orbit on June 9, 2025 Format: Hardcover, Special Edition Pages: 416 Source: Goldsboro Books The king has been appointed by god to marry six queens. Those six queens are all that stand between the kingdom of Elben and ruin. Or so we have been told.  Each queen vies for attention. Clever, ambitious Boleyn is determined to be Henry’s favourite. And if she must incite a war to win Henry over? So be it.  Seymour acts as spy and assassin in a court teeming with dragons, backstabbing courtiers and strange magic. But when she and Boleyn become the unlikeliest of things – allies – the balance of power begins to shift. Together they will discover an ancient, rotting magic at Elben’s heart. A magic that their king will do anything to protect.  A captivating epic fantasy filled with dragons, court politics and sapphic yearning, perfect for fans of The Priory of the Orange Tree and House of the Dragon. This book may be unsuitable for people under 17 years of age due to its use …

The Crimson Throne by Sara Raasch, Beth Revis Series: Spy and Guardian #1 Genres: Fantasy, Fae, Historical Fantasy, Low Fantasy, Magic, Romantasy, Fiction, Folklore, Historical Fiction, Young Adult, Scottish Literature Published by Sourcebooks Fire on October 6, 2025 Format: ARC, eBook Pages: 368 Source: Netgalley From the New York Times bestselling authors of Night of the Witch comes an enemies-to-lovers romantasy set in the dazzling and dangerous Scottish court where a fae guardian of the realm falls in love with a charming Elizabethan spy who could also be the key to her world’s undoing.   Samson Calthorpe’s curse has isolated him from everyone he has ever cared about. So, when the opportunity arises to break the curse, he grabs it. All he has to do for his freedom is risk his life and become a royal spy, using every bit of the skills and resolve he’s picked up on the streets of London to infiltrate the court of the Scottish Queen and uncover a plot to assassinate Queen Elizabeth.   For years, Alyth Graham has been protecting Mary Queen of Scots from threats both physical and magical, including the Queen’s own husband, Lord Darnley. Alyth is more than meets the …

Gifted & Talented by Olivie Blake Genres: Adult, Contemporary Fiction, Fiction, Magic Published by Tor on April 2, 2025 Format: eBook Pages: 495 The children of Thayer Wren have been remarkable since the day they were born. Unsurprisingly, since Thayer was the brilliant CEO of Wrenfare Magitech and so-called father of modern technology. Telepathically and telekinetically gifted, his offspring – Meredith, Arthur and Eilidh Wren – are publicly admired and privately capable of extraordinary feats. Any of the Wren prodigies would be a plausible inheritor to the Wrenfare throne. Or at least, so they like to think.  On the day of Thayer Wren’s unexpected demise, the lives of the three Wren siblings are in various states of chaos and disrepair. Meredith, now CEO of her own profitable company, is knee-deep in a dystopian capitalist nightmare, haunted by the ghost of a childhood friend. She’s also facing imminent exposure for corporate malfeasance by a journalist ex-boyfriend. Congressman Arthur Wren is wrestling with his disgruntled constituency and a strange, magical malady that can only be called the yips. Eilidh, former prima ballerina whose spinal injury ended her career, now finds herself triggering accidental, uncontrolled apocalypse events.  In the wake of Thayer’s loss, …