10+ hour, 24+ min ago  (930+ words) A bookstore in Seabrook Shopping Center offers Topeka readers more than just a place to buy literature. Ivy and Ink, located at 2005 SW Gage Blvd. , is a romantasy booktique specializing in romantic fantasy fiction. "It's kind of like Harry Potter…...

1+ day, 31+ min ago  (880+ words) Mariah Lowman aims to write five more books in her fantasy series. Fifteen-year-old Mariah Lowman is always on the hunt for her next engaging fantasy read. Until last year, however, she never would've imagined writing and publishing such a book…...

1+ day, 1+ hour ago  (95+ words) Blade Through the Heart" by Carrie Vaughn "Cutting Corners" by Yoon Ha Lee "Let's Go to the Zoo" by Louis Evans Here's the full list of romantasy titles heading your way in April! Keep track of all the new SFF…...

2+ day, 9+ hour ago  (157+ words) Dive into the best mermaid romance and romantasy books, for all of us who never stopped wanting to play mermaids. Courtney has been reading and collecting books almost as long as she's been alive. She holds a B. A. in Theatre and…...

3+ day, 9+ hour ago  (39+ words) Calvin Tomkins's final piece for The New Yorker, on turning one hundred. The man who broke into jail. How much spring break can anyone stand? "The Giving Tree" is sadder than I remembered. Comma Queen: Affect vs. Effect...

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (210+ words) In "What is There Not to Love," columnist Ashley Diaz "29 explores the depiction and perpetuation of gender stereotypes in popular fantasy novels. Editor"s Note: This article is a review and includes subjective thoughts, opinions and critiques. Sarah J. Maas" "Throne…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago  (307+ words) In'A Confederacy of Dunces, John Kennedy Toole's novel about the misadventures of the slovenly medieval history obsessive Ignatius J Reilly, a downtrodden black janitor wonders what he can do "to stop bein' vagran' or employ below the minimal wage. Reilly's…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago  (338+ words) Right behind A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas, Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros is one of the most popular romantasy books out there. The three-book series'with a fourth on the way'follow Violet Sorrengail, a student at a…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago  (794+ words) Comment - In defence of romantasy'The Bookseller At the heart of the book trade since 1858 In defence of romantasy "Let's ride." So concludes the caption in Rebecca Yarros' Instagram announcement on Thursday 19th March that she had begun work on the fourth…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago  (814+ words) The women in Ava Morgyn's novels inherit dangerous things " not money or houses, but magic threaded through bloodlines, the kind that burns when it's held too long and destroys when it's let go. Morgyn, a USA Today bestselling author whose…...