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Every month, we pick one newly released fantasy book which we loved – and think you will too!
Titles chosen will encompass a range of vibrant subgenres – from cosy fantasy and sword-and-sorcery, to urban epics and mythology retellings. We will also occasionally feature books that cross genre boundaries (e.g. Science Fantasy, Horror Fantasy), but our focus will always be on picking novels we know fantasy fans will love. Most books included will be for an adult readership, but we will occasionally include YA titles.
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February's book of the month is A Song of Legends Lost by M. H. Ayinde!
Here’s what you can expect:
- A complex POV characters – and a huge cast of secondary characters.
- A compelling magic system, with ancestral spirits, lost civilisations and ancient tech.
- World-building on an epic scale, inspired by multiple pre-colonial cultures.
- A queer-norm world.
- Epic, cinematic battles.
- Explorations of identity, history, and family dynamics.
In the Nine Lands, only those of noble blood can summon the spirits of their ancestors to fight in battle. But when Temi, a commoner from the slums, accidentally invokes a powerful spirit, she finds it could hold the key to ending a centuries-long war.
But not everything that can be invoked is an ancestor. And some of the spirits that can be drawn from the ancestral realm are more dangerous than anyone can imagine...