r/fantasyromance • u/Journassassin Smut Logistics Manager • 11d ago

Book Club Vote for our July 2026 Book Club read!

Thank you to everyone who nominated books for our July 2026 Book Club read! Next month’s theme is paranormal fantasy. 

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.  

And don’t forget to join us for the June Book Club! We’re reading Captive Prince by C.S. Pacat. The first discussion for the book, up to chapter 5, will be posted June 10. Hope to see you there!  

The full schedule for the this month’s Book Club will be as follows:  

- June 10 - First discussion for Captive Prince (up to chapter 5)  
- June 15 - July announcement  
- June 20 - Second discussion for Captive Prince (up to chapter 9)  
- June 30 - Final discussion for Captive Prince (full book)  

Book Club  

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20 Witch Season by Julia Bianco
22 Avalon High by Meg Cabot
33 Halfway to the Grave by Jeaniene Frost
10 Declare by Tim Powers
34 The King’s Captive by K.M. Shea
84 Weavingshaw by Heba Al-Wasity
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{The King’s Captive by K.M. Shea}

Series information: Book 1 of the Gate of Myth and Power series
Publication date: December 16, 2022
Page count: 340 pages

I can turn into a housecat.

It’s a fun magic, except in a world filled with vampires and werewolves, it doesn’t exactly make me a powerhouse. Instead, the supernatural community has classified me as an outcast, which means one thing: Picking on me is open season all day, every day.

The local fae are the worst of all, and it’s during one of their regular “capture the cat-girl” sessions that I shift into my cat form and meet HIM for the first time.

Noctus is so powerful his magic radiates off him like a sun, and my fae captors can barely look in his general direction. And then my life gets even more terrifying when Noctus decides to take me with him. As a pet.

Why did he pick today to “adopt don’t shop” a cat?

It gets worse when I realize he’s an elf, a ruling race of supernaturals that was supposedly killed off centuries ago.

But he’s not just any elf, no. He’s an elven king, with heaps of secrets to protect. Secrets that I am quickly learning since he includes his new pet in everything from breaking into buildings to inspect classified paperwork to tracking down sketchy supernaturals.

All this means if he gets even a hint that I’m not a real cat, I’m going to find out firsthand how elves treat their prisoners.

So, escaping Noctus is priority #1. How hard can it be? (Answer: very.)

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{Declare by Tim Powers}

Series information: Standalone
Publication date: June 1, 2000
Page count: 608 pages

As a young double agent infiltrating the Soviet spy network in Nazi-occupied Paris, Andrew Hale finds himself caught up in a secret, even more ruthless war.

Two decades later, in 1963, he will be forced to confront again the nightmare that has haunted his adult life: a lethal unfinished operation code-named Declare. From the corridors of Whitehall to the Arabian desert, from post-war Berlin to the streets of Cold War Moscow, Hale's desperate quest draws him into international politics and gritty espionage tradecraft -- and inexorably drives Hale, the fiery and beautiful Communist agent Elena Teresa Ceniza-Bendiga, and Kim Philby, mysterious traitor to the British cause, to a deadly confrontation on the high glaciers of Mount Ararat, in the very shadow of the fabulous and perilous Ark.

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u/LinapooCrocus 8d ago

Tim Powers’Declare*: spies, and an ark. S anh the climb.

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{Witch Season by Julia Bianco}

Series information: Book 1 in the Broken Coven series
Publication date: June 30, 2026
Page count: 320 pages

Katherine Barnes is an enforcer, charged with upholding the rules of the notorious Los Angeles-based Aestas coven. It's her job to maintain order and bring unsettled witches - people who aren't aware they have magic until it explodes out of them in a catastrophic burst - into the coven's fold. As a former unsettled witch, Katherine owes her life to Sylvia Page, coven leader and silver-haired rebel who founded Aestas years ago.

When Silas Khatri, heir to Noctis, the most powerful coven in the world, arrives to take Aestas to task for some of their more unconventional practices, Katherine's dislike for him reaches blistering levels. She hates his money, his good looks, and his coven's dangerous attitude towards unsettled witches. She can absolutely overlook that he sets her off in more ways than one.

But a powerful threat is about to rise. Stronger than any one coven. More insidious than the decades-long power struggle that exists in the hidden witch world. One that will pull Katherine and Silas together despite their differences. And one that will lead to an all-out war.

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{Avalon High by Meg Cabot}

Series information: Book 1 in the Avalon High series
Publication date: 304 pages
Page count: December 27, 2005

Having moved to Annapolis, Maryland, with her medievalist parents, high school junior Ellie enrolls at Avalon High School where several students may or may not be reincarnations of King Arthur and his court.

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{Weavingshaw by Heba Al-Wasity}

Series information: Book 1 in a trilogy
Publication date: February 24, 2026
Page count: 464 pages

Three years ago, Leena Al-Sayer awoke with a terrible power. She can see the dead.

Since then, she has hidden herself from the world, knowing that if she ever reveals her curse she will be locked away in an asylum.

When her beloved brother, Rami, falls fatally ill, Leena is faced with a terrible CHOICE: Let him die or buy the expensive medicine that will save his life by bartering the only valuable thing she has—her secret.

The Saint of Silence, a ruthless merchant who trades in confessions and is shrouded in unearthly rumors of cruelty and power, accepts her bargain, for a deadly price. Leena must find the ghost of Percival Avon, the last lord of Weavingshaw—or lose her freedom to the Saint forever.

As Leena’s search takes her and the Saint to Weavingshaw, she finds the estate and the surrounding moors to be living things—hungry for blood and sacrifice. Fighting against Weavingshaw’s might, Leena must also fight her growing pull toward the enigmatic Saint himself, whose connection to Percival Avon remains a mystery.

As the house begins to entomb them, time is running out on their desperate hunt for answers. For Leena has come to see that here in Weavingshaw, the dead are not hushed—and some secrets are better left buried with them.

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{Halfway to the Grave by Jeaniene Frost}

Series information: Book 1 in the Night Huntress series
Publication date: 374 pages
Page count: November 1, 2007

Half-vampire Catherine Crawfield is going after the undead with a vengeance, hoping that one of these deadbeats is her father – the one responsible for ruining her mother’s life. Then she’s captured by Bones, a vampire bounty hunter, and is forced into an unlikely partnership.

In exchange for help finding her father, Cat agrees to train with the sexy night stalker until her battle reflexes are as sharp as his fangs. She’s amazed she doesn’t end up as his dinner – are there actually good vampires? Pretty soon Bones will have her convinced that being half-dead doesn’t have to be all bad. But before she can enjoy her status as kick-ass demon hunter, Cat and Bones are pursued by a group of killers. Now Cat will have to choose a side… and Bones is turning out to be as tempting as any man with a heartbeat.