portal fantasy – Reading While Fat

The Everlasting

The Everlasting (2025) is Alix E. Harrow’s fourth novel, after The Ten Thousand Doors of January, The Once and Future Witches, and Starling House, all of which I’ve absolutely loved. She is one of the authors that helped me discover that historical fantasy is my jam. I was fortunate that she did an event withinContinue reading “The Everlasting”

A Letter to the Luminous Deep and A Letter from the Lonesome Shore (The Sunken Archive Duology)

Book covers for A Letter To the Luminous Deep and a Letter from the Lonesome Shore by Sylvie Cathrall. Both covers feature an underwater scene with deep blue in the center fading to lighter blue at the top. Around the edges of the cover are various sea creatures and plants, along with shells, letters, and other items mentioned in the books

I highly, highly recommend A Letter to the Luminous Deep (2024) and A Letter From the Lonesome Shore (2025) by Sylvie Cathrall, especially if you like epistolary novels, academic fantasy, and the idea of an underwater world created by the ancestors. I listened to them both, and recently found out that Luminous Deep was aContinue reading “A Letter to the Luminous Deep and A Letter from the Lonesome Shore (The Sunken Archive Duology)”

The Ten Thousand Doors of January

I was completely enthralled by The Ten Thousand Doors of January (2019) by Alix E. Harrow from very nearly the first page. Set in the late 1800s, January is a teenager cared for by a guardian, Mr. Locke, because her father is always traveling on expeditions for him. His house is filled with wondrous thingsContinue reading “The Ten Thousand Doors of January”