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40 books from 40 fantasy series, 2 book dragon mugs, and your chance to win them all!

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Happy Friday! Sugar Honey Iced Tea, friends! It’s September! What is this new devilry? I swear it feels like the summer just started. Now iCal is telling me I only have four months left to read all the books and I can’t stop talking without using exclamation points! . This is a hybrid post of my August wrap-up and September TBR. Pictured is my bullet journal with my reading tracker layout for August and also featured are some of the books I’ll be reading for September. . For my last wrap-up, instead of a rating system, I did categories and they worked out really well, so I’ll try them again. . Epic adventures that owned me at every page: -Kings of the Wyld by Nicholas Eames -The Providence of Fire by Brian Staveley (Book 2 of the Unhewn Throne) . Elemental fantasies are my jam and these did not disappoint: -Song of the Current by Sarah Tolcser -The Waking Land by Callie Bates . Heard these were good and that I’d like them and turns out I LOVE THEM: -Stalking Jack the Ripper by Keri Maniscalo -Etiquette and Espionage: Book the First in the Finishing School series by Gail Carrier -Curtsies and Conspiracies: Book the Second in the Finishing School series by Gail Carriger . Diverse reads done well—funny and poignant: -Queens of Geek by Jen Wilde -You’re Welcome, Universe by Whitney Gardner -The Hammer of Thor: Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard #2 . Fun summer read: -The Heartbreakers by Ali Novak . The jury is still out on this series: Empire of Night (Age of Legends #2) by Kelley Armstrong (I’m reading book 3 for September.) . What was your favorite read(s) in August? What are you looking forward to read in September? What are your plans for the weekend? . #readingwrapup #bookwrapup #igreads #bookstagrammer #becauseofreading #yalovin #bookdragon #readerlife #ownvoices #diversereads #readproud #lgbtreads #booklover #bookflatlay #booksofinstagram #youngadultlit #fantasyfirsts #fantasybooks #fantasyreads #bujojunkie #washiaddict #notebookaddict #leuchtturm1917

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Our Fantasy Firsts program continues today with an ebook sale of Updraft by Fran Wilde, about a world where humans soar in the skies above a city made of bone. For a limited time, the ebook edition is on sale for only $2.99!* The next novel in the Bone Universe series, Horizon, will be available September 26th.

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The Way of Kings: An Introduction

Read a guest post by Brandon Sanderson introducing readers to The Way of Kings, first in his epic Stormlight Archive series.

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Even gods can be slain. Read an excerpt from The Tiger's Daughter by K. Arsenault Rivera.

festering within the people. Now, their border walls begin to crumble, and villages fall to demons swarming out of the forests.

Away on the silver steppes, the remaining tribes of nomadic Qorin retreat and protect their own, having bartered a treaty with the empire, exchanging inheritance through the dynasties. It is up to two young warriors, raised together across borders since their prophesied birth, to save the world from the encroaching demons.

This is the story of an infamous Qorin warrior, Barsalayaa Shefali, a spoiled divine warrior empress, O Shizuka, and a power that can reach through time and space to save a land from a truly insidious evil.

A crack in the wall heralds the end…two goddesses arm themselves…K Arsenault Rivera's The Tiger’s Daughter is an adventure for the ages.

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Red Right Hand: Chapters 1-6

Welcome back to Fantasy Firsts. Today we’re featuring an extended excerpt from Red Right Hand by Levi Black, a Lovecraftian dark fantasy of eldritch demons and cosmic horrors.

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Demons, darkness, and two extraordinary women. Read an excerpt of The Tiger's Daughter by K Arsenault Rivera.

The Hokkaran empire has conquered every land within their bold reach—but failed to notice a lurking darkness festering within the people. Now, their border walls begin to crumble, and villages fall to demons swarming out of the forests.

Away on the silver steppes, the remaining tribes of nomadic Qorin retreat and protect their own, having bartered a treaty with the empire, exchanging inheritance through the dynasties. It is up to two young warriors, raised together across borders since their prophesied birth, to save the world from the encroaching demons.

This is the story of an infamous Qorin warrior, Barsalayaa Shefali, a spoiled divine warrior empress, O Shizuka, and a power that can reach through time and space to save a land from a truly insidious evil.

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Building the Great Library of Alexandria

Michael Livingston, author of a historical fantasy series set in the ancient world, discusses how to reverse engineer the most famous library of all time.