Genre: Historical Fantasy
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Hungerstone by Kat Dunn 🦇 A Powerful Gothic Horror Set Against the Wild Yorkshire Moors
Hungerstone by Kat Dunn is a beautifully crafted gothic horror novel set against the wild Yorkshire moors, blending psychological intensity, atmospheric writing, and allegorical supernatural elements. This is a story of longing, repression, and the slow, haunting decay of a woman trapped by society and marriage. Fans of Silvia Moreno-Garcia and classic gothic fiction will…
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Six Wild Crowns by Holly Race 👑 Political scheming, sapphic tension, and a rotting magic at the heart of Elben…
What if all six of Henry VIII’s wives lived at the same time in a court teeming with magic and political corruption? That’s the premise of Six Wild Crowns, a lush and layered political fantasy that rewrites Tudor history with sapphic yearning and ancient magic. If you loved The Priory of the Orange Tree or…
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Uptown Oracle Reads… Sistersong | Celtic Magic in the Time of Constantine of Dummonia
As the titles alludes to, Sistersong is about Sisters in medieval England (around Devon and Cornwall by today’s geography) and relies a bit on old Celtic myth and Magic. Set in around 500 AD as the Saxons are slowly taking over Briton, I enjoyed how the historical setting was written whilst keeping a sense of…
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Uptown Oracle Reads… A Little Hatred
Whilst A Little Hatred is based on a world Abercrombie has wrote about before, you don’t need to have read Abercrombie’s other books to enjoy it. The book also nicely wraps up the conflicts in this book, but leaves certain aspects open for the second book to continue. Overall it’s an exciting new series to…