Fantasy 2022
Here are some of our favorite fantasy novels of 2022. From sweeping epics to modern fairytales, and from vivid historical fantasy to fresh contemporary magic, here is a vast variety of fantastic fiction by grandmasters and newcomers from all around the world. (Created February 2023).
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The Story of the Hundred Promises
Trans sailor Darragh Thorn sets off on a quest to find the one person who can heal a half-dead man: the mysterious enchanter who once gave him the magic he needed to become his true self.
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Saint Death's Daughter
Born with a gift for necromancy and a literal allergy to violence, Lanie Stones was raised in isolation. When her parents are murdered, it falls on Lanie and her cheerfully psychotic sister Nita to settle their extensive debts or lose their ancestral home. First of a dark and delicious series.
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Flint and Mirror
Hugh O'Neill, lord of the North, has pledged love and fealty to Elizabeth the Great, has his loyalty split when the ancient peoples of Ireland rise to win back their lands and their magic-tinged way of life.
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Her Majesty's Royal Coven
Helena, Leonie, Niamh and Elle must rally to protect Her Majesty's Royal Coven, a covert government department, when a young warlock of extraordinary capabilities seems to threaten the very existence of HMRC.
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The Book Eaters
Devon, raised on a carefully curated diet of fairytales and cautionary stories, discovers that real life doesn't always come with happy endings when her son is born with an insatiable hunger for human minds.
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Comeuppance Served Cold
Seattle, 1929—a bitterly divided city overflowing with wealth, violence, and magic. A notorious thief slips into the city to complete a delicate and dangerous job that will leave chaos in its wake.
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The Hourglass Throne
In the third entry to the Tarot sequence, Rune Saint John grapples with the challenges of assuming the Sun Throne, a powerful barrier appears around New Atlantis’s famed rejuvenation center.
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The Final Strife
In the first book of a visionary fantasy trilogy with its roots in the mythology of Africa and Arabia, three women band together against a cruel empire that divides people by blood.
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Dance Among the Flames
Fueled by power and enticed by Exú, an immortal trickster and intermediary to the gods Serafina Olegario tests the boundaries of love, power, and corruption as she fights to escape her life of poverty and abuse.
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External Forces
London, 1958. By crafting magical outfits for his friend, Princess Katherine, cloth mage Paul Gallagher's road to success takes a dark turn when the unexpected death of a member of the royal family plunges the country into chaos. Sequel to "Innate Magic."
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