fantasy – the weary bookcase

Tag: fantasy

15 Posts

Book cover. The title is written in a curvy white font, with pink flowers with blue leaves behind it. There is also some bones, a bird, a stringed instrument, a dagger, a skull, and a padlock in among the flowers. All is set against a black background.

sci-fi/fantasy, young adult

Saint Death’s Daughter, by C.S.E. Cooney

January 15, 2022 — 0 Comments

Book Cover: An Asian woman with long black hair and a fringe looks out at the reader, which a crane with a crimson cap whirls around her head.

Fiction, sci-fi/fantasy, young adult

Six Crimson Cranes, by Elizabeth Lim

June 4, 2021 — 0 Comments

Book cover. Three figures are grouped together. The first is a red-haired white woman who is wearing a white dress and a bonnet and wielding a sword. The second is a white man who wears a white shirt and also has a sword. The third is short and darker skinned, and holds a blunderbuss. Behind them, the sky is a dramatic pink-purple colour and the title panel is splattered with blood.

Fiction, graphic novel/comic

Bloodlust & Bonnets

February 13, 2020 — 0 Comments

Book cover. A black woman with colourful, elegant clothes, with a halo of light from the clouds behind her.

Fiction, own voices fiction, sci-fi/fantasy

The Soulstealers

February 12, 2020 — 0 Comments

Book cover. The title is written in a handwriting style, and behind it is a big pair of golden wings which are breaking apart.

Fiction, sci-fi/fantasy

The House of Shattered Wings

December 17, 2019 — 0 Comments

Against a green background are a witch who seems to be making a web-like structure between her hands, and a young girl wearing an apron and carrying a book and a large frying pan. Around their feet stand many tiny blue men with drawn swords.

children's, Fiction, sci-fi/fantasy

The Wee Free Men

December 3, 2019 — 0 Comments

Book cover. Light glints off gold and red, and the shape of a dragon can be discerned among it all.

Fiction, sci-fi/fantasy

The Dragon Girl, book 1: Dragon’s Cave

October 19, 2019 — 0 Comments

Book cover. A black girl with flowers in her hair and the suggestion of a beautiful gown looks back over her shoulder. The title is written across the middle, below her face, in fancy flourishing writing.

Dystopia, Fiction, young adult

The Belles

October 7, 2019 — 0 Comments

Book cover. An old-fashioned yellow tour coach with jets instead of wheels flies across the sky above the house and grounds of a huge stately home.

Fiction, sci-fi/fantasy

First Among Sequels

September 11, 2019 — 0 Comments

Book cover. A red, green and blue striped sports car races through a library, books flying around it.

Fiction, sci-fi/fantasy

Something Rotten

September 7, 2019 — 0 Comments

Design a site like this with WordPress.com