Genre: Fantasy

Uptown Oracle Reads… These Witches Don’t Burn | A Cute Contempoary Fantasy

These Witches Don’t Burn is a contemporary fantasy which focuses on a small coven of witches in Salem. As a whole, the book reads as more of a contemporary in the writing style and some plot points with fantasy elements dotted in as part of the mystery.
Uptown Oracle Reads… The Iron Crown | Brand New Exciting High Fantasy with Dragon Spirits

The Iron Crown is L.L. MacRae’s latest fantasy adventure and I loved it just as much as her other books. This world has dragon spirits (completely on-brand for MacRae) who live off the power of certain natural landmarks. For example, there’s the spirit of the ocean, a massively powerful spirit, or the spirit of a…
Uptown Oracle Reads… The Once and Future Witches

pectations going into it too as it’s closer to historical fiction (with some magical elements) than it is to a pure fantasy book.
Uptown Oracle Reads… The Year of the Witching | Stunning, Dark, Feminist Fantasy

The Year of the Witching Alexis Henderson (Affiliate Links) A young woman living in a rigid, puritanical society discovers dark powers within herself in this stunning, feminist fantasy debut. In the lands of Bethel, where the Prophet’s word is law, Immanuelle Moore’s very existence is blasphemy. Her mother’s union with an outsider of a different…
Uptown Oracle Reads… Fae Child

Fae Child is a charming faerie-tale into the Otherworld through our main character Abbie who accidentally gets called through a pond. Luckily she meets Foster, a young fae boy, who plans to help her find her way back to the human world. On top of this journey, we have POV chapters from Dan, Abbie’s father,…
Uptown Oracle Reads… Namesake

Namesake Adrienne Young (Affiliate Links) With the Marigold ship free of her father, Fable and the rest of the crew were set to start over. That freedom is short-lived when Fable becomes a pawn in a notorious thug’s scheme. In order to get to her intended destination, she must help him to secure a partnership with Holland,…
Uptown Oracle Reads… Isa | A Princess, a Sky Pirate and a Shapeshifter go on an Astonishing Adventure

Isa is the fourth book in McNeil’s World of Linaria season and I love getting lost in the world she’s built up. Isa focuses on the Princess Isa, with other POVs from characters in the previous books like Palom, Amarah and Sapora.
Uptown Oracle Reads… Dark One Volume 1

Dark One Vol 1 by Brandon Sanderson (Affiliate Links) Visions of a dark and fantastic world haunt Paul Tanasin, but when he discovers they are prophecies from Mirandus–a world in which he’s destined to become a fearsome destroyer–He’ll have to embrace the fear, rise up as The Dark One, and shatter everything. Our main character…
Uptown Oracle Reads… An Enchantment of Ravens | An Enchanting Love Story with The Fair Folk

Overall, An Enchantment of Ravens reminded me why I like Margaret Rogerson’s writing so much. With character depth and complexity, strong world building and an exciting adventure.