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Legends & Lattes
Travis Baldree · 2022
Similar atmosphere: “Cozy Fantasy”
- Cozy Fantasy
- Slow Burn
Viv, a battle-weary orc, trades her sword for an espresso machine and opens the first coffee shop in the city of Thune. With a hobgoblin carpenter, a reformed succubus and a skeletal latte artist, she builds a warm new life -- but her old mercenary crew has not finished with her yet.
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The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches
Sangu Mandanna · 2022
Similar atmosphere: “Cozy Fantasy”
Mika Moon hides her magic and never lets herself grow close to anyone. When a strange house asks her to teach three young witches, she meets a prickly librarian, a house full of secrets and the possibility of a place that finally feels like home.
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The Spellshop
Sarah Beth Durst · 2024
Similar atmosphere: “Cozy Fantasy”
After fire wrecks the Great Library, librarian Kiela escapes with crates of spell books to her late family's island cottage. To help the struggling villagers she secretly sells spells, and slowly lets her guarded heart make room for friendship, community and love.
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Assistant to the Villain
Hannah Nicole Maehrer · 2023
Similar atmosphere: “Cozy Fantasy”
Out of work and desperate, Evie Sage takes a job as assistant to the kingdom's most feared villain. Her boss is grumpy, the work is murder, and someone close to him is betraying him. Evie's sunny good cheer may be exactly what his gloomy fortress was missing.
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The Cat Who Saved Books
Sosuke Natsukawa · 2017
Similar atmosphere: “Cozy Fantasy”
- Cozy Fantasy
A grieving schoolboy meets a talking tabby who leads him through a labyrinth of libraries to rescue books from careless owners. Each strange trial nudges him back toward the world and the people he has shut out.
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The Undertaking of Hart and Mercy
Megan Bannen · 2022
Similar atmosphere: “Cozy Fantasy”
Hart is a lonely marshal who hunts the undead; Mercy runs her family's funeral home and finds Hart insufferable. After a bitter week, each writes an anonymous letter to a stranger, and a warm correspondence begins without either knowing who is on the other end. Meanwhile, real life keeps forcing them together.
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The Goblin Emperor
Katherine Addison · 2014
Similar atmosphere: “Cozy Fantasy”
- Cozy Fantasy
Maia, the exiled half-goblin youngest son, is unwanted and forgotten until an airship crash makes him emperor. He arrives at a hostile court with few allies and must learn whom to trust while trying to rule with kindness and stay alive.
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Spinning Silver
Naomi Novik · 2018
From the same world: “Fae”
- Fae
- Slow Burn
Miryem restores her family's moneylending business with a clever tongue, and her boast that she can spin silver into gold reaches the frozen Staryk king. Bound to his winter court, she must use her wits to protect both kingdoms from a bargain that could destroy them.
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The House in the Cerulean Sea
T. J. Klune · 2020
Similar atmosphere: “Cozy Fantasy”
- Cozy Fantasy
- Grumpy Sunshine
Linus Baker, a lonely case worker, is sent to a remote island orphanage to check on six unusual children and their mysterious master, Arthur Parnassus. What begins as a routine inspection slowly becomes a choice between following the rules and protecting a family he comes to love.
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The Cruel Prince
Holly Black · 2018
From the same world: “Fae”
- Fae
- Slow Burn
Jude was born mortal but was raised in the High Court of Faerie after her parents were killed. Mocked by the fae and drawn to the cruel prince Cardan, she schemes her way into the court's politics, trading secrets and taking dangerous risks to win a place among those who despise her.
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Rhapsodic
Laura Thalassa · 2016
From the same world: “Fae”
- Fae
- Slow Burn
Years ago, Callie, a siren, made a bargain with the King of the Night and racked up hundreds of favours she has never repaid. Now he has returned to collect, and he needs her help to find fae warriors who are disappearing from the Otherworld. Their old bargain binds them together, and the feelings Callie buried long ago refuse to stay hidden.
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The Wicked King
Holly Black · 2019
From the same world: “Fae”
- Fae
- Slow Burn
Jude now controls the throne from behind the scenes, holding Prince Cardan bound to her for a year and a day. Court politics, undersea enemies and her own divided heart threaten the plan. She must keep her grip on power while denying the feelings growing between her and the wicked king she came to despise.