Genre: Fantasy

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.
Uptown Oracle Reads… The Priory of the Orange Tree | High Fantasy Dragons, Magic Trees and Beautifully Complex Characters

The Priory of the Orange Tree is a high fantasy which is very focused around the central characters and how they’re going to protect themselves against the Nameless One. Shannon takes time to build out her characters so well that we understand the actions they take and why they take them.
Uptown Oracle Reads… Winx Club Comics (Issues 27-32)

Reading throught the last of Season 2 of the Winx Club comics was easy reading, but also a lot more additional story than expected. All of them deviated from the OG series, and there’s multiple stories which connect with each other as well as previous comics which I enjoyed.