2024 is looking to be an absolutely incredible year for publishing! Here are the fantasy, sci-fi & horror books I'm most excited about – and I think you should be excited too. All dates provided are the current UK release dates, and all information given are the official blurbs from the respective publishers. You may notice a drop off in the number of titles included per month after June, but have no fear: this list will be updated with additional titles as the year progresses and we get further information from publishers. So Let Them Burn by Kamilah Cole Fantasy • YA January 16th Whip ..read more

Thank you so much to Solaris & Netgalley for my eArc copy, which I received in exchange for an honest review. The Pomegranate Gate is Dryad Book Box's featured book for July! You can find more information here. When I started reading The Pomegranate Gate, I had some reservations. Historical fantasy can be very hit or miss for me, and with so many POV characters, I was concerned the complex plot would come across as disjointed and confusing. My fears were totally unfounded. While the first few chapters were slightly puzzling — which is true of most epic fantasy, where it takes a reader a m ..read more

Release Date: October 28th 2021 Trigger warnings: death, grief, suicide (mentioned), murder (mentioned), child death (mentioned), animal death (there is a ghost dog), mental illness. With a whimsical tea-room backdrop worthy of a Ghibli film, a lovable cast of characters, and Klune’s uncanny ability to spin a tale that is both hilarious and emotionally devastating, Under the Whispering Door is a welcome successor to The House in the Cerulean Sea. Wallace Price is a modern Ebenezer Scrooge: a corporate-drone lawyer with no friends, a few business partners, a bitter ex-wife, and no life beyond ..read more

Release Date: 23rd August 2022 Thank you Hodderscape & Netgalley for my eArc copy, which I received in exchange for an honest review. Mika Moon is a witch, one of very few in the UK, and it's meant to be a secret. All the "magic" on her witchy Instagram account is fake. So, when Mika gets a job offer as a magic tutor for three young witches after one of their guardians sees her videos, she thinks it must be a joke. Instead, she finds: a magically warded home in rural Norfolk. Ian, the eccentric elderly actor in a rainbow scarf. Ken, the calm gardener and Ian's husband. Lucy, the welcomin ..read more

Summer is here, and with it, some absolutely stellar SFF titles. Some of these I’ve had the pleasure of reading before publication, while others I cannot wait to dive into! Out of the Blue by Jason June UK Release: 9th June This is a delightful YA queer rom-com from the author of Jay’s Gay Agenda. Thank you to the Harper360 Team for sending me a proof copy. Sean’s boyfriend dumps him while he’s at work. Good riddance if you ask me, but Sean is a romantic and wants him back. How’s he going to do that? Make him jealous by fake-dating a mermaid, of course. Synopsis: From Jason June, author of th ..read more

Release Date: 3rd March 2022 Thank you Tor & NetGalley for my e-arc review copy! Trigger Warnings (Potential Spoilers): suicide, death, sexual content, violence, murder, alcohol, toxic relationships (familial, romantic/sexual, & platonic). The world's best young magicians accept the opportunity of a lifetime. Six are chosen. Only five will walk away. It is so so rare that ‘bookstagram/booktok’ books live up to the hype for me. I always expect too much, and I’m always disappointed. My feelings about ‘dark academia’ books are similar, especially novels that lack a certain self-awareness ..read more

Synopsis 1909. Thirty-year-old Cambridge Professor Dr. Emily Wilde lives life with a single-minded purpose – she wishes to complete her encyclopaedia of Faerie Folk and does all she can to complete this goal, even if it means suffering the company of other people, the most irritating of whom is her colleague and rival Wendell Bambleby. When she arrives in the remote village of Hrafnsvik, she has no desire to mingle with its denizens. However, soon she realises that Hrafnsvik is full of Fae mysteries and to unlock them she needs the support of its residents. When the ever-charming Bambleby als ..read more

JANUARY Godkiller by Hannah Kaner HarperVoyager 19th January The first instalment in an epic new high-fantasy trilogy, for fans of The Witcher. Kissen's family were killed by zealots of a fire god. Now, she makes a living killing gods, and enjoys it. That is until she finds a god she cannot kill: Skedi, a god of white lies, has somehow bound himself to a young noble, and they are both on the run from unknown assassins. Joined by a disillusioned knight on a secret quest, they must travel to the ruined city of Blenraden, where the last of the wild gods reside, to each beg a favour. Pursued by ..read more

Release Date: 10th November 2022 Thank you Tor UK & Netgalley for my eArc copy, which I received in exchange for an honest review. What can I say about Legends & Lattes that hasn’t been said already? I devoured this endearing, cosy fantasy novel in a day — and thank the Tor gods for including a recipe for Thimblets in this new edition because by the end I was craving baked goods. Plot: Viv has left her old life of adventuring and bounty hunting behind to chase her new dream of opening a coffee shop. (Do you remember that musical number from Disney’s Tangled with all the ruffians in th ..read more

Release Date: 21st July 2022 Thank you HarperVoyager for my review copy! Trigger Warnings (Potential Spoilers): transphobia, explicit sexual content, violence & character death. Synopsis from HarperVoyager Hidden among us is a secret coven of witches. They are Her Majesty’s Royal Coven. They protect crown and country from magical forces and otherworldly evil. But their greatest enemy will come from within. There are whisperings of a prophecy that will bring the coven to its knees, and five best friends are about to be caught at the centre. Life as a modern witch was never simple… but now ..read more