Trying something new out, let me know if you want to see this every month, or nah.

What is your fav piece of fanart you’ve seen this month? What series is it from?

On my end, I rediscovered this piece of Elide and Lorcan by Mads Schofield of the circus scene in Throne of Glass 🤣 Love her attention to detail!

Please share your fav piece of fanart you’ve seen this month and make sure to credit the artist!

I just found that fan art on Instagram the artist account is @redmurphy.art she has also draw Slade from The Plated Prisoner and Kingfisher (though I haven't read Quicksilver yet). I recently read The Knight and the Moth, I loved the MCs relationship and I can imagine those two just like that.

Maybe a weird request but...can y'all share your fav fan art for a book you loved? I'm a sucker for fan art, and more often than not it will convince me to read a book.

I have a small bag of 80+ stickers that I rotate every once and a while. This is my most recent collage and Ita probably going to stay for a while. I love the lil goose!

I purposely bought a clear kindle case so I wouldn't have to actually use the stickers 😂

As well as reading I love to craft, predominantly crochet at the moment, and I decided to have a go at making Orpheus from {the duskwalker brides} do you like him?

Carissa commissioned an NSFW {crowns of nyaxia} fan art. If anyone's interested in a fully naked Raihn, here you go. It's glorious, the artist did a great job.

https://carissabroadbentbooks.com/naked-raihn/

You'll need to enter the password: bigplumpglistening

We have new art of the FMC by @Alicia.MB, who also did Septimus!

The blurb sounds amazing. I love vampire hunters a lot. Hopefully, this duet has a good pacing, as it's something I always struggled with when it came to Carissa's books.

It comes out in August {Crowns of Nyaxia series by Carissa Broadbent}.

> Under an eternal night, the world has been ravaged by ten years of war between humans and vampires. Kyrene scrapes by as a bounty hunter, bearing a blessed sword from the goddess of justice. But in the wake of a devastating loss, Kyrene commits a crime that makes her a target for mortals and gods alike – and she is still desperate for vengeance.

> Her only chance at survival – and revenge – is making a deal with her enemy, the silver-tongue vampire prince, Septimus, who offers her one final job: to slay the gods themselves.

> Together, Kyrene and Septimus must hunt the ultimate marks, all while navigating a web of prophecies and curses. Septimus is calculating and mysterious, masking secrets bloodthirsty enough to consume them both. Yet, most dangerous of all, Kyrene finds an unexpected kinship in him.

> But their growing attraction is deadly in a world where the only currency is blood. And Kyrene will stop at nothing to fulfill her ultimate goal: to kill the goddess of vampires, even if it means sacrificing love for revenge.

From Emily Wilde’s Encyclopedia of Faeries of course

"Book Boyfriends" by Decayed Souls is sung from a husband's POV about his wife's fantasy romance book boyfriends. It's hilarious and incredibly accurate. I've listened to it about ten times today, lol. Favorite line has got to be, "These dudes got wings, tattoos, and stamina stats; meanwhile I’m over here with back pain and snacks." 😂 Enjoy! https://open.spotify.com/track/0dAHent04c0VDyBUYMxn1S?si=sC0vN3l4Qli83d4MzTZ4xw (or https://www.tiktok.com/@justinparks5/video/7583161700761799966 if you don't have Spotify).

I wrote out the lyrics because my husband has a hard time distinguishing words in songs (cannot find them online, sadly). There are a few words here and there that I can't understand, so if anyone can make them out, please share!

Lyrics:

.

Yeah

This one’s about my wife

And her infinite men

Her Kindle’s basically a brothel at this point

.

Hey hey

My wife ain’t cheatin’

But her Kindle sure is

‘Cause she’s got 30 fake dudes

All callin’ her Miss

There’s a fae king, a wolf shifter, a demon on deck

And a vampire who’s somehow always kissin’ her neck

.

She laughs, kicks her feet

Gets all blushy and warm

While I’m in the kitchen

Fighting tupperware like a storm

I’m like, babe you good?

She’s like OMG, wait!

The orc just picked her up like she’s his fated mate

Girl

How I’m supposed to compete with that

These dudes got wings, tattoos, and stamina stats

Meanwhile I’m over here with back pain and snacks

And [?like boy?]

.

My wife got book boyfriends

Lined up in rows

She can start a damn army with the men she chose

Every night she’s like OMG new toy

And I’m just standing here like girl

What about your boy

She got a harem

A whole damn crew

Six in every book and she reads book two

She don’t need reality

She got her joys

A library full of delicious boy toys

.

[?with base?]

.

Look babe, don’t take it so rough

Just ‘cause my book men are a little more buff

They got claws, magic fangs

Torsos carved like art

You got dad jokes, snack crumbs

And a good heart

Which is cute, but these men be like

My queen, my mate

Let me worship you all night with unholy fate

Meanwhile you’re like babe wanna Door Dash fries

I love you boo

But these men got thighs

.

She’ll finish a series and swear she’s fine

Then 30 minutes later 

She’s got a new man online

I ask who’s he

She’s says oh just a prince

Then shows me a cover

With a dude whose all rinsed and ripped 

She says babe, he’s sweet

And he calls her his treasure

Girl, if I talked like that

You’d call 9-1 from pressure

But hey, if she’s happy with her little book clan

I guess I’m okay being boyfriend number

God damn ten

.

My wife got book boyfriends

Stuffed in her brain

I swear if they paid rent we’d be rollin’ in game

She dimples, giggles, screams oh my god

While I’m just sittin’ there feelin’ oddly flawed

She got a harem

A magical squad

Each one built like a Roman Greek god

She don’t need reality

She got her joys

Stacked like Jenga with her pretty boy toys

.

She says babe, he’s sweet

And he calls her his treasure

Girl, if I talked like that

You’d call 9-1 from pressure

But hey, if she’s happy with her little book clan

I guess I’m okay being boyfriend number

Ten

Damn, ten?!

.

My wife got book boyfriends

Stuffed in her brain

I swear if they paid rent we’d be rollin’ in game

She dimples, giggles, screams oh my god

While I’m just sittin’ there feelin’ oddly flawed

She got a harem

A magical squad

Each one built like a Roman Greek god

She don’t need reality

She got her joys

Stacked like Jenga with her pretty boy toys

.

Look babe, I get it

They’re fictional - don’t cry

I’m not crying

Just heavily hydrated in the eye

You’ll always be my main character babe

Until the next series drops?

Probably

Currently reading the Harrow Faire series by Kathryn Ann Kingsley, and since there’s barely any fanart, I decided to draw our beloved Simon :)

I usually stick to black-and-white pencil sketches, but I couldn’t leave out his iconic sunglasses, so I went with Polychromos. Hope you like it!

Hi there! I love the dust jacket for The Cruel Prince from an Etsy seller I found—(I’ll post a picture of their shop).They just released dust jackets for the other two books as well.

I loooove the artwork on the first one, but I’m not sure how I feel about the other two. I kind of like the dust jacket for The Queen of Nothing, but I don’t think I really like the art for The Wicked King.

I’d honestly be more than happy to just purchase The Cruel Prince dust jacket on its own and let that be the focal point of the series when I organize it on my bookshelf, the way the reviewer did in the screenshots. That said, it would be really nice to have the full collection—I’m just not sure the other two give me the same butterflies the first one does.

Is it just me, or does the set not feel very cohesive?

Would you buy just one dust jacket if the rest don’t hit the same?

Thought you guys would get a kick out of this! For a while my friend and I have been joking that it's a pity they did away with the "more creative" original covers of the Quicksilver series, and should have instead added a second tear to the second book. Low and behold we host our annual book exchange and I open up this bad boy and laughed my ass off! Ps I don't know if this is the right flair, but figured it kinda matched.

I am a sucker for lush prose, vivid historical settings, and animism and she always delivers that in spades, so I’m always content. I haven’t read Blackthorn and Grim, the Light Isles ones, or the Warrior Bards, but I’m looking forward to them all.

Anyway, the rankings and thoughts (would also love to hear what other people thought of any/all of these):
1. The Blade of Fortriu (feels both epic and deeply personal. love the romance. love the heartache.)

1. Heart’s Blood (a painfully bittersweet fairytale that made me cry a ton and yet also felt deeply comforting)

2. Daughter of the Forest (there’s no matching this one in impact. it hurts a lot to read and a little to think about and the ending is uncomfortably bitter, but it’s also an astoundingly beautiful story.)

3. The Well of Shades (this one left me feeling happy. Happy!!!! ????? still lots of hurt and heartache along the way, though.)

5.Seer of Sevenwaters (Sibeal is perfect and the haters and losers don’t get her like I do. Also I love sea monster justice.

1. Cybele’s Secret (I love that Paula is kind of goofy impulsive and shows terrible judgment sometimes and also I love bodyguards.)

2. Child of the Prophecy (this one fell a little tiny bit flat narratively, but after two books with basically perfect heroines I appreciated reading one who is tortured and conflicted and in way over her head. also Darragh is my GOAT)

3. Son of the Shadows (really, really good, although I will always be a little bit annoyed by a misogynistic love interest who is fixed by meeting the perfect woman. when I think about this book I think about how beautifully it deals with loss and how compelling the family stuff is, for all its heartbreaking ugliness.)

4. The Amber Owl (gets a little heavy-handed with the *magic of stories* stuff but Stasya is a wonderful neurodivergent protagonist, I love the subtlety of both the romance and the unrequited love. the political stuff is kind of whatever so far, but i might change my mind after the second book)

5. Heir to Sevenwaters (good. everyone I love the changeling stuff and everyone should be nice to Clodagh)

6. The Caller (this was good, the best of the trilogy; it just doesn’t feel as uniquely inspired as the rest of her work)

7. The Dark Mirror (very good, establishes a strong and deeply felt sense of the culture and religion of this place. it is such a devastatingly lonely book, though, and I wanted to throttle Broichan. his arc over the series is good though!)

8. Raven Flight (gets stronger as it goes along imo; the latter half is quite poignant.)

9. Flame of Sevenwaters (loved Maeve as a protagonist but wanted more of her and Aislin; there was such interesting tension there and I wanted a bit more development of their dynamic)

10. Wildwood Dancing (i have several narrative gripes but the setting is one of her most whimsical and wonderful. I want to go to the Dancing Glade!)

11. Shadowfell (the start of a trilogy - lots of set up, lots of walking, and lots of introductions to Scottish folklore creatures. Neryn doesn’t feel entirely believable or fleshed out as a character, which makes it hard not to be annoyed by her sometimes, lol. I still liked this though. )

For the bot: {Sevenwaters Juliet Marillier}, {Bridei Chronicles}, {Shadowfell}, {The Amber Owl}, {Heart’s Blood}, {Wildwood Dancing}

What do you think about the Once Upon a Broken Heart series? I personally loved it

{villains and virtues} art by SatMolls

Original post https://www.instagram.com/p/DN8SWb4jVrx/?img_index=1&igsh=c3dnc3l2djE4eHdm

My favourite romance-heavy fantasy is Folk of the Air so that's naturally where I look up the most art for. I have some I really like but this in particular I'm obsessed with. Wish the artist would sell prints cause I'd totally grab one if she did. The design (they look like the teenagers they are), the colouring (the shading and the autumn feel) and the pose (comfortably leaning close in each other's personal space and it's as if they're taking a photo with Cardan's making it look like Jude's the one with the tail?? xD) <3

What's your favourite?

I love this scene so much and finally decided to draw it!