Happy Half Hour (5/20/24)

This Monday, we’re chatting about a comforting cottagecore romantasy, a young girl traveling to the Root of the World in order to seal a demon portal, and a seemingly run-of-the-mill trip that turns into a dangerous cross-country journey.

THE SPELLSHOP by Sarah Beth Durst | 9781250333971 | 7/9/24
GUARDIANS OF DAWN: AMI by S. Jae-Jones | 9781250191458 | 8/6/24
OFF THE BOOKS by Soma Mei Sheng Frazier | 9781250872715 | 7/30/24

Additional titles we mentioned:
THE COURTING OF BRISTOL KEATS by Mary E. Pearson | 9781250331977 | 11/12/24
SWORDCROSSED by Freya Marske | 9781250341624 | 10/8/24
SIX SCORCHED ROSES by Carissa Broadbent | 9781250368294 | 9/17/24
THE GARDENER’S PLOT by Deborah J. Benoit | 9781250334978 | 11/5/24
BOOKED FOR MURDER by P.J. Nelson | 9781250909954 | 12/10/24
A PIRATE’S LIFE FOR TEA by Rebecca Thorne | 9781250333179 | 10/1/24
SPECTACULAR by Stephanie Garber | 9781250893406 | 10/22/24
THE SONGBIRD & THE HEART OF STONE by Carissa Broadbent | 9781250367785 | 11/19/24
WIND AND TRUTH by Brandon Sanderson | 9781250319180 | 12/6/24
THE RULES OF ROYALTY by Cale Dietrich | 9781250887771 | 12/10/24
THE STARS ARE DYING by Chloe C. Peñaranda | 9781250355669 | 10/8/24
A SORCERESS COMES TO CALL by T. Kingfisher | 9781250244079 | 8/6/24
HELGA by Catherine Yu | 9798890039514 | 8/20/24
WHEN HARU WAS HERE by Dustin Thao | 9781250762061 | 9/3/24
BLOOD JADE by Julia Vee and Ken Bebelle | 9781250837929 | 7/16/24
THE LAST AMERICAN ROAD TRIP by Sarah Kendzior | 9781250879882 | 4/1/25
I’M STARTING TO WORRY ABOUT THIS BLACK BOX OF DOOM by Jason Pargin | 9781250285959 | 9/24/24
THE PAIRING by Casey McQuiston | 9781250862747 | 8/6/24
THE SUNFLOWER HOUSE by Adriana Allegri | 9781250326522 | 11/12/24
DUST by Alison Stine | 9781250878731 | 12/3/24
THE SLOWEST BURN by Sarah Chamberlain | 9781250894724 | 9/24/24

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