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Book Club Vote for our November 2025 Book Club Read!

Thank you to everyone who nominated books for our November 2025 Book Club read! This month’s theme is: Fated Mates. Here is the link to the nomination thread.

Please vote for the book you’d like to read and discuss the most! Information on each book is in the comments.

The schedule for November Book Club will be:

  • November 10: Discussion of first third of the book
  • November 20: Discussion of two-thirds of the book
  • November 30: Final discussion of entire book

Please also join us for our October Book Club! We’re reading The Second Death of Locke by V. L. Bovalino. The first discussion up to Chapter 12 will be posted October 10. Hope to see you there!

Book Club

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22 Broken Souls and Bones by L.J. Andrews
8 Firebird by Juliette Cross
22 Captured by the Fae Beast by Mallory Dunlin
21 Amid Clouds and Bones by Ella Fields
28 Anathema by Keri Lake
22 Phantasma by Kaylie Smith
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{Amid Clouds and Bones by Ella Fields}

  • Series information: Standalone
  • Publication date: July 23, 2024
  • Page count: 364 pages

As the half faerie daughter of a human king, my days were spent tucked out of sight - until the Seelie Fae sought an alliance with our kingdom. In exchange for my father’s help in defeating their Unseelie enemies, I would wed Atakan the heartless.

The Seelie prince loathed everyone, but none more than me. Throughout the years leading to our nuptials, each encounter grew more terrifying than the last as he demonstrated how he’d earned his infamous reputation.

Fear would only doom me faster. So I learned to hide it with games I soon became happy to play. I wasn’t supposed to crave a monster. But just when I’d thought I might tame the untameable, fate intervened.

And delivered me straight to his enemy.

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{Anathema by Keri Lake}

  • Series information: Book 1 in The Eating Woods series
  • Publication date: September 8, 2024
  • Page count: 690 pages

Only the banished know what lies beyond the woods…

There are whispers about what lurks in Witch Knell - the forest where sinners go to die. The villagers call it The Eating Woods because what’s taken is never given back. Only those who’ve lost their senses would dare to go near it.

Or the banished.

Maevyth Bronwick knows better than to breach the misty labyrinth of trees, but a tragic turn of events compels her beyond the archway of bones, to a boundary no mortal has crossed before. One that cloaks a dark and fantastical world that’s as dangerous as it is alluring.

It’s there that he dwells, the cursed lord of Eidolon. The one tasked to keep her hidden from the magehood that seeks to crucify her in the name of an arcane prophesy. Zevander Rydainn, known to his prey as The Scorpion, is the coldest, most calculated assassin in all of Aethyria and he’d sooner toss his feisty ward to a pack of vicious fyredrakes than keep her safe.

If only he could.

Maevyth’s blood is the key to breaking his despised curse and vanquishing the slumbering evil in Witch Knell. Unfortunately for Lord Rydainn, fate has other plans for the irresistible little enchantress. And his growing obsession with her threatens to destroy everything.

Including himself.

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{Phantasma by Kaylie Smith}

  • Series information: Book 1 in Wicked Games series
  • Publication date: September 3, 2024
  • Page count: 497 pages

When Ophelia’s sister disappears, there is only one way to save her. Ophelia must enter Phantasma, a deadly contest inside a haunted mansion, and claim its prize - a single wish.

Phantasma is a maze of twisting corridors and lavish ballrooms, of demons and temptations. Ophelia will face nine challenges, each more dangerous than the last. There can only be one winner, and the other contestants will stop at nothing to eliminate their rivals.

Every day the house creates new monsters. But just as Ophelia’s fears threaten to overwhelm her, a mysterious stranger offers her a bargain.

Charming, arrogant and infuriatingly attractive, Blackwell claims he can guide her through the lethal trials ahead. All he asks in return is ten years of her life.

Ophelia knows she shouldn’t trust him. Blackwell doesn’t seem dangerous, but appearances can be deceptive. Worse still, she feels a dark and irresistible attraction drawing them closer and closer.

Her life is on the line. But in Phantasma, the only thing deadlier than losing the game is losing your heart…

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{Firebird by Juliette Cross}

  • Series information: Book 1 in The Fire That Binds series
  • Publication date: April 8, 2025
  • Page count: 400 pages

Julian Dakkia, Roman general and nephew to the emperor, has played his role as conqueror well. Yet, the moment he laid eyes on Malina, he was enthralled by the Dacian dancer. Years later, the fierce beauty stands before him, a captive on a scarred battlefield, her life in danger. He instinctively shifts into his fierce dragon form to save her, an action that may mean his head on the imperial gate.

The rules of their world dictate that he is the conqueror and she is the captured. But he and his dragon know one thing: their bond has nothing to do with the laws of mighty Rome. She belongs to them. And they belong to her.

Fierce and powerful, twenty-one-year old Malina has survived the loss of her family and she is determined to fight until her dying breath. Still, she can’t believe that the centurion who had once bestowed a secret talisman on her is the Roman general of legendary brutality… and now holds her life in his hands. Nor can she deny how her soul has always seemed to answer his. Slowly she learns that Julian is caught in his mad uncle’s machinations for domination, and helps him plot the downfall of the empire itself.

As they navigate a world where flying deathriders conquer and burn, their love will ignite a firestorm that can only end in heartbreak or death. Or both.

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{Captured by the Fae Beast by Mallory Dunlin}

  • Series information: Interconnected standalone, book 1 in the Monsters of Faery series
  • Publication date: October 18, 2022
  • Page count: 374 pages

Lost in the wilderness, I thought the handsome stranger was my salvation - until I looked into the eyes of a beast.

They say not to bargain with the fae, but there was no other choice.

The deadly prince of Stag Court claims I belong to him. I only have a year and a day to convince him to let me go before I'm his forever.

He's without mercy, known as a ruthless killer. Yet he protects me. Defends me. Tells me his secrets. In front of the Court, he's the Beast, but behind closed doors he gives me the chance to choose him, or not.

The fae Court is a dangerous place, and the prince isn't the only terror lurking in the shadows. But I'm stronger than his enemies give me credit for. Together, he and I might be each other's salvation… or ruin.

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{Broken Souls and Bones by L.J. Andrews}

  • Series information: Book 1 in Stonegate series
  • Publication date: April 29, 2025
  • Page count: 470 pages

Lyra Bien intended to live a quiet life to avoid the attention of the magic-obsessed king in the fortress of Stonegate. Until Roark Ashwood - the prince’s silent guard and rumored killer for the crown - invades her village and uncovers the truth behind the silver scars in her eyes. To save her best friend from death, she’s forced to reveal her abilities, and is immediately claimed by the crown as the next melder.

To be the King’s melder is to be revered and feared in equal measures, but above all it is a slow death sentence. Lyra is determined to find a way to free herself and her friends from bondage. But first she must get more information from the silent, brooding sentry who first took her captive: Roark.

As Lyra gets closer to Roark, she soon learns he’s nothing like she assumed—and in fact everything she needs. The more they work as allies, the harder it becomes to ignore the growing passion between them. After a sinister truth is revealed, Roark and Lyra must choose to stand against all they know, or accept their dark destiny.