The Magicians Trilogy Boxed Set: The Magicians; The Magician King; The Magician's Land

One of the joys of being a lifelong reader is going back to childhood favorites and remembering why you love them. But another perk is finding new books that pick up the thread of tales you loved when you were younger. If you’re just graduating from the kids’ section of the bookstore (or simply love […]

Love is in the air…but that doesn’t mean you have to drink the Kool-Aid. If you’re not feeling all the lovey-dovey stuff this year, that’s cool. Sometimes other people being happy is the worst. So here’s a list of tragedies, thrillers, and romances that do not end well for you to relish instead. Misery does […]

What if someone wrote one of the best fantasy novels of all time, and there was no way for you to read it? Thousands of science fiction and fantasy novels are published in English every year, but only a small percentage of those began life as works in other languages—which means those of us who […]

There was a time in the fantasy genre when magic was simply, er, magical, and didn’t require a whole lot of explanation. But time has a habit of making everything more complex, and so it’s unsurprising that magic systems have followed suit. These days, there are basically two schools of thought when it comes to […]