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Featured Fantasy: Tusk Love (Critical Role) by Thea Guanzon

October 5, 2025 by Carolynn

Featured Fantasy: Tusk Love (Critical Role) by Thea Guanzon

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A merchant’s daughter who yearns for adventure gets more than she bargained for when she falls for a broodingly handsome stranger in this saucy romantasy from the New York Times bestselling author of The Hurricane Wars.

“A true delight of a book! Spicy and heartfelt—this one is a winner all around.”—Katee Robert, author of Neon Gods

As the daughter of an ambitious merchant, Guinevere’s path has been predetermined: marry into a noble house of the Dwendalian Empire, raise her family’s station, and live quietly as a lordling’s obedient wife. But Guinevere longs for a life unbounded by expectations, for freedom and passion and adventure.

Those distant dreams become a sudden reality when her caravan is beset by bandits, leaving her guards slain and Guinevere stranded alone on the dangerous Amber Road. Her only chance of survival is to travel alongside Oskar, the aloof half-orc who saved her during the attack.

Unlike Guinevere, Oskar’s path is not so set in stone. With his mother dead and his apprenticeship abandoned, all that’s left is a long, lonely walk to a land he’s never seen to find family he’s never met. The last thing he needs is a spoiled waif like Guinevere slowing him down—even if the spark between them sizzles with promise.

Despite his cold exterior, Oskar is brave and thoughtful and unlike anyone Guinevere has ever met. And while Guinevere may be sheltered, she brings out a softness in him that he has never dared to feel before. As the flames of their passion grow, they realize that soon they’ll need to choose between their expected destinations or their blossoming romance.

Written by New York Times bestselling author Thea Guanzon at the behest of Critical Role’s Jester Lavorre, Tusk Love brings the most romantic story on Exandrian bookshelves to life.

Filed Under: Box Set Featured Fantasy, The Box Set List Features Tagged With: Critical Role, Thea Guanzon, Tusk Love

Featured Fantasy: Spirit Seeker Complete Series by Janna Ruth

October 5, 2025 by Carolynn

Featured Fantasy: Spirit Seeker Complete Series by Janna Ruth

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Have you ever looked death in the face?

No?

Lucky you.

Word on the street is, I’m crazy. I talk to the wind, crawl into the bushes with dryads, and befriend salamanders to keep me warm. Living on the streets of Berlin isn’t too bad when you know the right people–or in my case, nature spirits.

Unfortunately, the same spirits that help me survive, are responsible for all the wild weather and natural disasters in the world. They might be my friends, but they’ve got it out for humanity.

That’s where the Spirit Seekers come into play, elite soldiers trained in the fight against nature. They face down floods and battle earthquakes, keeping us all safe. As a homeless spirit girl on the streets, I never thought I’d ever cross their paths, but when a powerful storm sprite attacks Berlin’s Central Station, they suddenly need my help to defeat him.

Huge mistake.

Turns out, that storm isn’t just a simple spirit I could befriend and calm down. No, he’s the Erlking, father of all storms and ruler of the sky. And now I’m on his shit list. I am so dead.

If you like fast-paced adventure, action-packed urban fantasy with unique creatures, and secret societies, you’ll love the Spirit Seekers. This series will take you on a supernatural sight-seeing tour across Europe, discovering chilling storm spirits, murderous nymphs, and sizzling salamanders.

This collection includes the complete series plus the prequel: Natural Selection.

Filed Under: Box Set Featured Fantasy, The Box Set List Features Tagged With: Janna Ruth, Spirit Seeker the Complete Series

Featured Sci-fi: Metal Legion by GH Gideon, Caleb Wachter, and Craig Martelle

October 5, 2025 by Carolynn

Featured Sci-fi: Metal Legion by GH Gideon, Caleb Wachter, and Craig Martelle

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Five foot nothing and no fear because she drives a sixty-ton mech. Enter Lieutenant Xi Bao…

Does humanity deserve to survive?

The Metal Legion, aging mechs with a lot of fight left in them. They lead the way, find the enemy’s weaknesses and exploit the hell out of them. Then they call in suborbital artillery to finish the job, even while the battle rages.

Never fight fair when fighting for your life. This is the motto of the Metal Legion.

They fight to win.

The mechs stand tall, or crawl, or run, or scamper. A dozen different designs, held together by rough welds and sheer willpower. But the bodies within, like Xi Bao, refuse to give up, refuse to give in.

Taking her Scorpion-class mech underground, she finds the enemy, in numbers far greater than she was told. Knee deep in the war, her crew gives their old mech new vigor for one last chance at glory.

Victory or death! Fight to survive.

Fire the mains and enjoy the company of the crew as they live for each other, as they fight for all humanity. Unleash the Scorpion’s fury. Join the Metal Legion today.

Filed Under: Box Set List Featured Sci-Fi, The Box Set List Features Tagged With: C.H. Gideon, Metal Legion

Featured Sci-fi: First Wave the Complete Series by Daniel Young

October 4, 2025 by Carolynn

Featured Sci-fi: First Wave the Complete Series by Daniel Young

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EXCLUSIVE: READ THE FINAL TWO BOOKS IN THE SERIES BEFORE THEY ARE RELEASED!

Ancient tech. Lost history. A mission buried in silence.

“A really great story that you can’t put down.” -Goodreads reviewer

The Massey brothers have seen plenty of strange things salvaging in deep space… but nothing like the massive, silent vessel drifting near the edge of known territory. No heat. No life signs. Just a relic from a war no one’s ever heard of.

Then the ship powers on.

Trapped inside a labyrinth of deadly alien technology with a crew on edge and systems that seem to have a mind of their own, they must figure out what the ship wants… and what it will destroy.

It’s not abandoned. It’s hunting.

But the brothers and crew aren’t alone for long. Others are interested in the ship. Raiders are closing in. A cold war is heating up. And something terrifying is waking in the dark.

Welcome aboard the Vanguard. Pray it doesn’t remember what it was built to do.

Note: The First Wave series is an homage to thrilling pulp sci-fi of yesteryear. If you’re interested in hard science fiction look elsewhere. But if you’re looking for action-packed adventures on strange worlds with even stranger aliens, this series is for you!

Includes all 9 books in the First Wave series:

  • Derelict
  • Raiders
  • Powerless
  • Control
  • On the Run
  • Defense
  • Infected
  • Corrupted
  • Aliens

Filed Under: Box Set List Featured Sci-Fi, The Box Set List Features Tagged With: Daniel Young, First Wave the Complete Series

Book Review: The Dispossessed by Ursula LeGuinn

October 4, 2025 by Carolynn

The Dispossessed by Ursula LeGuinn

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The setup: A bleak moon settled by utopian anarchists, Anarres has long been isolated from other worlds, including its mother planet, Urras—a civilization of warring nations, great poverty, and immense wealth. Now Shevek, a brilliant physicist, is determined to reunite the two planets, which have been divided by centuries of distrust. He will seek answers, question the unquestionable, and attempt to tear down the walls of hatred that have kept them apart.

To visit Urras—to learn, to teach, to share—will require great sacrifice and risks, which Shevek willingly accepts. But the ambitious scientist’s gift is soon seen as a threat, and in the profound conflict that ensues, he must reexamine his beliefs even as he ignites the fires of change.

My take: “There was a wall.” That is the first sentence of this book. I have not read it in years, but I still remember the opening line because the book is so wonderful. This was the first book I read in the loosely interconnected Hainish Cycle and it propelled me on to read all the others. Highly recommend. I’d love someone to talk about this book with. Hint, hint.

“One of the greats….Not just a science fiction writer; a literary icon.” – Stephen King

From the brilliant and award-winning author Ursula K. Le Guin comes a classic tale of two planets torn apart by conflict and mistrust — and the man who risks everything to reunite them.

Filed Under: Book Reviews Tagged With: The Dispossessed, The Hainish Cycle, Ursula K. LeGuin

Featured Fantasy: Shifter Origins by Aimee Easterling

October 4, 2025 by Carolynn

Shifter Origins II (Series-Starter Shifter Variety Packs Book 2) Kindle Edition
by Aimee Easterling  (Author)

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Four wolf shifters. Four swashbuckling adventures. Four journeys of fantasy and romance.

Wolf’s Bane: Mai Fairchild will do anything to protect her sister—even if it means accepting a dangerous job with a werewolf who would kill her if he knew her true form….

Wolf Dreams: Olivia has hidden her darker side ever since biting through the lip of her first date. Fourteen years later, her dream of being an archaeologist is unlocked…but her darker side wants out.

Moon Stalked: Honor wraps herself in her pelt to shift to wolf form. But when her cousin’s pelt is stolen, she must team up with her greatest enemy to get it back.

Paradigm Shift: While scouting his new territory, a fifteen-year-old alpha discovers strange scents wafting up out of a hole in the ground. Are there vampires lurking beneath his turf? An exclusive Wolfie short story.

Dive into four tales of bestselling urban fantasy in this series-starter variety pack!

Filed Under: Box Set Featured Fantasy, The Box Set List Features, Uncategorized Tagged With: Aimee Easterling, Shifter Origins

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