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I'm Afraid You've Got Dragons by Peter S. Beagle

adventurous funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted relaxing medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

This is a dragon book like you will never have read before, with a unique take on dragons, and the people that have to deal with them, and a... sort of, happy ever after to boot! though, whose getting the happy ending remains to be seen. this book had me enthralled from start to finish, and refused to let me go. to the point I stayed up an hour past my bedtime just to finish it.

we follow Robert, a poor exterminator for pests... Dragon, pests. nasty, noxious, fire breathing, poison spitting, biting little vermin... that he loves deeply and fully. he hates his job, he hates his life, he wants more. so much more. when a traveling prince makes an impression on the local princess, things all get turned on their head when she demands the castle be 'de-vermined' immediately. what follows is a string of events that never could have been foreseen, and frankly, if this was any other fairy tale, things would have gone much differently indeed. but Robert has an uncanny luck with Dragons, and there's farm more than vermin to have to deal with now. 

How To Fake It With A Fae by Amy Boyles

adventurous emotional hopeful inspiring tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

A beautifully charming read from start to finish, this book has everything you could hope for. with enemies to lovers, Love at first sight, Magic, unlocking ones potential, betrayal, confessions, and a good spattering of spice. 

Follow Addie as she returns home for her grandmothers funeral, only to be thrust into a limelight she's desperately tried to avoid. being without magic all her life, she wants to do what needs to be done and then leave her hometown forever... she never expected to run into the dashing Fey King... literally... or to puke on his shoes... so when they end up magically bound to one another, they decide to use each other for their mutual benefit feelings were never supposed to enter the equation. 

The Sea at the End of Everything by Emily McCosh

adventurous emotional hopeful inspiring lighthearted mysterious fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

5.0

This is a breathtakingly beautiful short story that is filled with beautiful imagery, an intense mystery, and incites inside you both a respectful fear, and deepest longing for the ocean. Follow two sisters as they struggle to reconnect after the sea steals half of one away, all the while trying to figure out how best to help the stranger who washed ashore... and learn what he is, for he is certainly no human man.

A Letter to the Luminous Deep by Sylvie Cathrall

adventurous emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted relaxing slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

A Letter to the Luminous Deep is easily one of my favorites. I cannot wait to go back and re-read it to catch all the little clues and hints I missed the first time around. This is an epic story of grand proportion in more ways than one. I felt every range of emotion under the sun, or in this case, under the sea,  while reading this book. It filled me with joy, with pain, with sorrow, with giddy glee and romantic hope. there where times when I was reading where I wanted to lay on my bed and kick my feet and giggle like a schoolkid with a new crush. there where times when I wanted to stand up and hurl my phone across the table, as if the source of my frustration was sitting in front of me! (You know what you did Arvist!) all the while I was deeply immersed in a fantastical world of coral, bioluminescence, and mysteries. my only regret reading this book, is that now I have to wait for the second one! 

Follow the lives of E. and Henery through the eyes of their siblings, who are trying to piece together the mystery of their disappearance. Told through a series of letters, scholarly articles, and missives, we learn how the people in this fascinating world live their lives underwater in a world unimaginable. while one sister explores the deepest reaches of the ocean unexplored, the other remains home and attempts to uncover secrete things much closer to home. the letters between two sets of siblings uncovers a strange collection of odd coincidences that only pile higher as the story goes on until just like that the clues add up, and suddenly they have answers they aren't sure they were ready for. 

If your a fan of books such as Emily Wilde's encyclopedia of Faeries or A Natural History of Dragons. if you like slow burn romance, cozy fantasy, deep mysteries and character driven plot, this is the story for you.