#fantasybooks

And finally, one last Vin for the Mistborn Deckbuilding Game!

ADs: Johnny O'Neal and Katie Payne

"Tell my half brother that I will have my throne, or I will have his head"

📚✨ Your preorder list is about to look real good.

Five books. Five reasons to pull up and secure your copy before they land.

👉🏾 The Divining Season by @gwendolynparadice — Native girls are disappearing in a small Texas town, and eleven-year-old Emily is speaking to her ancestors. Ancestral trauma, indigeneity, and the grief of womanhood woven into something that hits deep.

👉🏾 Legendborn (Collector's Edition) by @tracydeonn — The #1 NYT bestselling series gets the treatment it deserves. Faux leather hardcase, original artwork, never-before-seen bonus scenes. If you don't have it yet, this is the edition.

👉🏾 The Curse of Hester Gardens by @tamikadthompson — A haunted house story that's really about gun violence, faith, and a mother trying to save her sons. Think Jason Reynolds and Tananarive Due. It's that serious.

👉🏾 Year of the Mer by @ellethevillain — Forget the fairy tale. This is a dark epic fantasy retelling of The Little Mermaid centered on war, vengeance, and a princess reclaiming what's hers. Fans of The Priory of the Orange Tree, this one's for you.

👉🏾 Audiofuturism by @audio.futurism — Sound, speculation, and Black futures. Preorder this one.

I know some of my posts might come off like I hate Feyre. But the truth is: I don’t hate her. Well I don’t particularly love or like her either.

What I do hate are her actionsn and what was done to her.

When people say ACOMAF is their favorite book, I just can’t relate. For me, it’s the least favorite in the series. I went in expecting an epic love story. What I got instead was manipulation dressed as romance.

I’m a feminist. A loud one.

An aggressive one, even. And as a feminist, I can’t turn a blind eye to what happened to Feyre.

This is a teenage girl being mentally and emotionally manipulated by a centuries-old man known for his mind control. That’s not empowerment. That’s grooming.

You want me to believe that a woman who was sexually assaulted—a woman who was forced to wear body-revealing clothes for months, traumatized by it, is now suddenly fine doing the exact same thing willingly... for the same man?

I'm sorry, but that doesn’t track. She went from being his puppet to playing his perfect whore without any believable emotional recovery in between.

And in ACOWAR? That was the breaking point for me. She dragged an entire court, an entire people down!! out of nothing but stupid revenge!! The same citizens she claimed she wanted to help. To protect. To die for.

Then ACOSF sealed it. Rhysand hides a life-threatening pregnancy from her, controls everything, and she… forgives him? Just like that?

How can I convince myself this isn’t long-term mind manipulation? How can I watch this unfold and still call it love?

So no I don’t hate Feyre. I pity her.

I made this fancover of A Court of Silver Flames exactly a year ago today. Little did I know how much it would come to mean to me—or how it would inspire me to pursue my journey as a book artist! 🌟

But it wasn’t frivolous at all, Cait thought. To her, it was earth-shaking, and history-making, yet as fragile as a folktale.

Song of the Stag, a sapphic fantasy inspired by Scottish independence and folklore ✨