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  Book Info: The Forest King’s Daughter by Elly Blake Genre: Young Adult Fantasy Publishing Date: February 11, 2025   Synopsis: For fans of Sarah J. Maas and Holly Black,  The Forest King’s Daughter  is an enemies-to-forbidden-lovers romance from the  New York Times  bestselling author of  Frostblood . Once upon a time, among the bloodred trees of Thirstwood, a young forest princess became friends with a lonely demon boy. He gifted her an amber ring, a worthless trinket…or so he thought…because no sooner did he slide it onto her finger than the demon queen and forest king declared war. Years later, Cassia is a crucial force in her father’s army, wielding her ring of light that can blind and disorient hundreds of demons at a time. Then battle-hardened Zeru abducts her, planning to steal the ring back to fix his costly childhood mistake. Exhausted, terrified, and more than a little mistrusting, Cassi...

  The Prophecy has arrived…and with her, war.   A prisoner caged within the walls of her own mind, the once-fierce assassin known as Shin Lina can do nothing but watch as a tide of blood and chaos sweeps across the Three Kingdoms. After all, Lina is the one who unleashed the malevolent Prophecy upon her world.  So many secrets. So many lies.  And it’s all her fault .  Yet Haneul Rui―the immortal Dokkaebi Emperor who stole her heart―refuses to surrender. He alone leads the armies against the dangerous, serpentine Imugi. He alone wields his scorching fire atop blood-soaked battlefields, and he alone rallies his soldiers against a terrifying future of death and destruction.  Now the red thread of fate ties them all together in love and hatred―Rui, Lina, and the merciless Prophecy herself. And the more Lina fights against her destiny, the tighter the thread becomes. For they are bound in both life and death; to wound one is to wound them all. To kill the Child ...

This Ends in Embers tour YA Fantasy Out Feb 4th from Little Brown Young Readers Sequel to So Let Them Burn  LGBTQ+ and Black rep Synopsis -  Perfect for fans of  Raybearer  and  Fourth Wing , this astonishing sequel to the bestselling novel  So Let Them Burn  doesn't hold back. After all, there are no easy endings in war—especially when sisters are forced to fight on opposite sides.   Faron Vincent was once the saint of San Irie. Now, she’s done the unthinkable: betrayed her country. Alone, disgraced, and kidnapped, Faron is forced to help Iya grow his bloody empire. With her soul bonded to a ruthless killer, Faron has become an enemy to her people… and she fears they might be right.   Elara Vincent—the new Empyrean—must undo the damage her sister has caused. San Irie has been brought back to the brink of war as Iya proclaims no nation will be safe from his brutal invasion. But how can Elara save her sister, her best friend, her country, and ...

An Honored Vow tour! YA Fantasy published by Union Square Co.  Out now ! Author - Melissa Blair Series - the Halfling Saga link to tour -  https://tbrandbeyondtours.com/2024/11/18/tour-schedule-an-honored-vow/ Review - 5/5 stars. It is bittersweet getting to the end of this series, I still remember waiting for the author of book 1 to be revealed. As always, book four has an amazing diverse cast of characters. Fans of the series will be happy with the ending though I did really want more Riven. Loved being here for Keira's journey.  Synopsis -  This thrilling romantasy about king’s Blade, Keera, and her epic quest to avenge her lover, save her people, and bring down a tyrant king is the final installment of Melissa Blair’s highly acclaimed series. The Halfling Saga showcases BIPOC and queer representation, love, passion, betrayal, magic, and great battles of the sword and the soul. “Your land is not the one you take; it is the one you die for.” Keera has tried to keep...

  The Nightmare Before Kissmas  Thank you Colored Pages tour s and Tor! Synopsis - Red, White & Royal Blue meets The Nightmare Before Christmas in a sexy, quirky rom-com where the golden-hearted Prince of Christmas falls for the totally off-limits Prince of Halloween. Nicholas “Coal” Claus used to love Christmas. Until his father, the reigning Santa, turned the holiday into a PR façade. Coal will do anything to escape the spectacle, including getting tangled in a drunken, supremely hot make-out session with a beautiful man behind a seedy bar one night. But the heir to Christmas is soon commanded to do his duty: he will marry his best friend, Iris, the Easter Princess and his brother’s not-so-secret crush. A situation that has disaster written all over it. Things go from bad to worse when a rival arrives to challenge Coal for the princess’s hand…and Coal comes face-to-face with his mysterious behind-the-bar hottie: Hex, the Prince of Halloween. It’s a fake competition betwe...

  Make The Season Bright  By Ashley Herring Blake  Sapphic holiday romcom  It’s been five years since Charlotte Donovan was ditched at the altar by her ex-fiancée, and she’s doing more than okay. Sure, her single mother never checks in, but she has her strings ensemble, the Rosalind Quartet, and her life in New York is a dream come true. As the holidays draw near, her ensemble mate Sloane persuades Charlotte and the rest of the quartet to spend Christmas with her family in Colorado—it  is  much cozier and quieter than Manhattan, and it would guarantee more practice time for the quartet’s upcoming tour. But when Charlotte arrives, she discovers that Sloane’s sister Adele also brought a friend home—and that friend is none other than her ex, Brighton. All Brighton Fairbrook wanted was to have the holliest, jolliest Christmas—and try to forget that her band kicked her out. But instead, she’s stuck pretending like she and her ex are strangers—which proves to be ...