Fantasy – Page 2 – The Audiobook Review

The Vanishing Cherry Blossom Bookshop

16 December 2025

I stumbled into The Vanishing Cherry Blossom Bookshop a bit like the characters do in the story, which felt fitting. I’d meant to listen when I first grabbed it, then forgot about it, then found it sitting in my library […]

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The Lavender Blade

21 November 2025

There’s something immediately satisfying about a story that knows exactly what kind of world it’s playing in. The Lavender Blade has that rich, old-world texture where the air smells faintly of coal dust and class divides, and where the wealthy

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When the Angel of Death Tells Bedtime Stories

3 November 2025

I enjoy a quirky title, and When the Angel of Death Tells Bedtime Stories nails it: weird, unsettling, and somehow entirely accurate. It makes it sounds like something between a dark fairytale and a theological thought experiment, and in a

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Liches Get Scritches

23 October 2025

If you like the Liches Get Stitches series, this one’s a cosy, enjoyable detour set in the same universe. The spotlight shifts off Maud and onto Jenkins the cat, who clearly had a lot more going on than we ever

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The Summoner: Echoes of the Fallen

10 October 2025

Set in a world after the end. A world where the good have already lost, the heroes are long gone, and the survivors are just trying to piece things back together. The Summoner: Echoes of the Fallen opens in that

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Heretical Fishing 4

16 September 2025

Heretical Fishing 4 kicks off with a recap that’s as rambling as it is useful. This, as it turns out, sets the tone for the whole book. Almost 23 hours long, and I spent the first 18 or more chapters

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This Princess Kills Monsters

29 August 2025

This Princess Kills Monsters by Ry Herman takes one of the Grimm Brothers’ stranger fairy tales – The Twelve Huntsmen – and runs it through a playful, self-aware remix. In the original, a jilted bride disguises herself and eleven lookalikes

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A Wonderful Day for a Quest

8 August 2025

This one was a quick, punchy listen, and it wears its stage play origins proudly. The pacing is snappy, the narrator keeps breaking the fourth wall with asides and commentary, and there’s even a cheeky little intermission partway through. Structurally,

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The Lights of Prague

8 July 2025

The Lights of Prague by Nicole Jarvis is a gothic historical fantasy set in the shadowy streets of 1800s Prague, where lamplighters not only keep the gaslights burning but also defend the city from supernatural threats. On the surface it

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A Market in the Maelstrom

4 July 2025

A Market in the Maelstrom by Harmon Cooper wraps up The Cozy Abyss trilogy… sort of, anyway. According to the blurb, it’s the final book in the series, but if that’s the case, the ending makes little sense. A new

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The Witch Who Trades with Death

1 July 2025

The Witch Who Trades with Death by C.M. Alongi is a dark fantasy that took a little while to grab me, and even once it did, it never quite held on as tightly as I’d hoped. That’s not to say

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Dreadful

20 June 2025

Dreadful by Caitlin Rozakis is a fantasy novel that kicks off with a man waking up with no memory, only to discover he’s apparently the dark wizard everyone fears. He’s got a tower, a reputation for being utterly dreadful, and

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