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“You never willingly let anyone catch any glimpse of vulnerability.” She narrowed her eyes dangerously. “I believe you’re thinking of yourself now, General.” “No, I’m thinking of both of us.”

Enchanting the Fae Queen by Stephanie Burgis

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I had to fight through thickets of bad formatting to read my advance reader copy, and there were a few times I decided to quit and read my copy when it arrived. But I kept picking it back up and then, I finished it! Because I worried that I had missed things, I requested an advance listener copy and listened to it after I finished reading it. So, yeah, I liked it enough to put up with headaches and inconveniences. Enchanting the Fae Queen is […]

August kfishgirl was way more functional and optimistic than December kfishgirl

A Marriage of Undead Inconvenience by Stephanie Burgis

A Honeymoon of Grave Consequence by Stephanie Burgis

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I received an ARC copy of A Honeymoon of Grave Consequences back in August. I was so young and full of optimism then. I immediately downloaded the ebook and the first book in the series (A Marriage of Undead Inconvenience) and then promptly forgot about them both. MsWas kindly reminded me about my ARC and that I was supposed to do a CBR review of the book in November. Now here I am the day before CBR 17 closes getting in my review! Last year […]

want more wooing, gosh darn it

Wooing the Witch Queen by Stephanie Burgis

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hot take felt like too much tell don’t show, ended up skipping ahead bc I wanted to see how it ended. I think my biggest issue with this book was that I felt that our male lead–Felix–was much more interesting of a character than Saskia, despite the fact that she’s the titular Witch Queen to be wooed. She felt like an idea of a role (sarcastic, misunderstood, guarded) without enough time for us to see this and believe it, so we skip over by having […]

The first sign that Felix was nearing his destination came when a line of skulls suddenly burst into flames directly ahead of him.

Wooing the Witch Queen by Stephanie Burgis

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I loved this book. It has a grumpy witch queen who just wants to be left alone to do her magic experiments. It has a sweet poet, who is actually an escaped Archduke masquerading as a dark wizard/librarian. There are crow friends, wicked queen friends, and not human people friends. This layer cake of a book has kindness in every slice. Just because someone is a wicked queen with a bone crown and flaming skulls lighting the path to her castle doesn’t mean she isn’t […]

Two words: Sapphic. Necromancers.

Dangerous Flames by Stephanie Burgis

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With Mia and Leander fairly well settled in Hapthorn, it’s fallen to Carmilla, Countess Cardenza, to investigate the last loose threads from the previous novella. But first, she has to not kill anyone at their wedding, not even her annoying (-ly beautiful) old flame. That’s right, it’s a second-chance sapphic romance between two necromancers! Carmilla’s taken it upon herself to check each and every bit of bland, boring respectable wedding preparations to avoid any nasty surprises. Sure, Leander’s undead minions are doing a great job […]

“I never had any idea how much one’s neighbors really can change one’s life.”

Good Neighbors by Stephanie Burgis

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I’ve been a fan of Stephanie Burgis since Snowspelled. So much so that I’m a subscriber to her Patreon. So while I received all these stories as they came out there, I’m only now getting around to reading them. And just like I was expecting, they were the perfect cozy fantasy vibes for to get me out of my post-holiday blues! Good Neighbors (short story) “I bared my teeth up at him in a ferocious smile. “Of course,” I said sweetly, “I’d be delighted to […]



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