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Review Tag: Romance
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Apparently, Sir Cameron Needs To Dieis billed as a ‘hilariously gay fantasy romance’ and it delivers that before taking a more experimental, genre-bending turn. It’s certainly one…
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From the moment she hatched, it was clear that Demelza was different from her sisters. She didn’t have wings, and her singing voice, although powerful as a…
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‘Oh, the horror!’ wails a student damned to the first circle of R. F. Kuang’s hell. ‘Oh, to not be clever!’ Katabasis (2025)traces a Cambridge postgraduate’s journey…
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A Witch’s Guide To Magical Innkeeping follows in the wake of TikTok hit The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches. Although it is a different story, it…
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Rhea Silvia was born a Latin princess, until grief and greed stripped her of her title and saw her transformed into a priestess. She then became a…
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Bloodguard is a story of 2 protagonists. Firstly, a Gladiator fighting for his freedom, and the wealth that comes from winning in the arena enough to become…
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Konstantin Duhovny, Kostya to his family, Bones to his best friend, and Stan, to a girl he is yet to meet, was always an outsider, never quite…
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A Harvest of Hearts is set in a fantastical kingdom where magic is fuelled by people’s hearts. These are stolen from helpless citizens who fall head over…
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This is the last book in North’s ‘Songs of Penelope’ series, telling the previously mostly untold story of Penelope of Ithaca – the long-suffering wife of Odysseus.…
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