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The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1)

Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries (Emily Wilde, #1)

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Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands (Emily Wilde, #2)

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The Unicorn Hunters

Katherine Arden

With her country's future and her own life at stake, an orphaned duchess must journey into a world of myth and there discover a power that may be her salvation—or her demise—in this enchanting new novel from the New York Times bestselling author of the Winternight Trilogy and The Warm Hands of Ghosts. Anne of Brittany was a child when her realm was invaded, her home besieged, and her royal father driven to his death. Now her treasury is empty, her land occupied by her enemies, and she is ordered, under threat of renewed war, to become queen of her conquerors and marry the King of France. This marriage means her country’s annexation. But Anne promised her father that Brittany would never be conquered. Defiantly, she betroths herself in secret to France’s greatest enemy. But in a world where courts may spy on each other by magic, there is only one way to solemnize this illicit union. Anne takes her court deep into a legendary forest, where the court diviners’ skill cannot reach. The world thinks they are only a hunting party, coursing after unicorns. But that is a lie, a trick, a feint. No one in living memory has seen a unicorn. All Anne wants is this secret wedding, which is her only hope of salvation. But when against all hope a unicorn appears and a stranger out of legend stumbles from the trees and falls at her feet, Anne is plunged into a world of enchantment where a doomed sovereign might find the power to change her own and her country’s destiny—or be lost in the shadows forever.

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The Unicorn Hunters

Katherine Arden

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Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands (Emily Wilde, #2)

Heather Fawcett

When mysterious faeries from other realms appear at her university, curmudgeonly professor Emily Wilde must uncover their secrets before it’s too late, in this heartwarming, enchanting second installment of the Emily Wilde series. Emily Wilde is a genius scholar of faerie folklore who just wrote the world’s first comprehensive encyclopaedia of faeries. She’s learned many of the secrets of the Hidden Ones on her adventures . . . and also from her fellow scholar and former rival Wendell Bambleby. Because Bambleby is more than infuriatingly charming. He’s an exiled faerie king on the run from his murderous mother and in search of a door back to his realm. And despite Emily’s feelings for Bambleby, she’s not ready to accept his proposal of marriage: Loving one of the Fair Folk comes with secrets and dangers. She also has a new project to focus on: a map of the realms of faerie. While she is preparing her research, Bambleby lands her in trouble yet again, when assassins sent by his mother invade Cambridge. Now Bambleby and Emily are on another adventure, this time to the picturesque Austrian Alps, where Emily believes they may find the door to Bambleby’s realm and the key to freeing him from his family’s dark plans. But with new relationships for the prickly Emily to navigate and dangerous Folk lurking in every forest and hollow, Emily must unravel the mysterious workings of faerie doors and of her own heart.

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A similar book to this one?

Ever since reading this book last year I've been craving a book that's similar. Would love to hear it if anyone has any recommendations😁

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Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries (Emily Wilde, #1)

Heather Fawcett

A curmudgeonly professor journeys to a small town in the far north to study faerie folklore and discovers dark fae magic, friendship, and love in the start of a heartwarming and enchanting new fantasy series. Cambridge professor Emily Wilde is good at many things: She is the foremost expert on the study of faeries. She is a genius scholar and a meticulous researcher who is writing the world's first encyclopaedia of faerie lore. But Emily Wilde is not good at people. She could never make small talk at a party--or even get invited to one. And she prefers the company of her books, her dog, and the Fair Folk. So when she arrives in the hardscrabble village of Hrafnsvik, Emily has no intention of befriending the gruff townsfolk. Nor does she care to spend time with another new arrival: her dashing and insufferably handsome academic rival Wendell Bambleby, who manages to charm the townsfolk, get in the middle of Emily's research, and utterly confound and frustrate her. But as Emily gets closer and closer to uncovering the secrets of the Hidden Ones--the most elusive of all faeries--lurking in the shadowy forest outside the town, she also finds herself on the trail of another mystery: Who is Wendell Bambleby, and what does he really want? To find the answer, she'll have to unlock the greatest mystery of all--her own heart.

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Asian-inspired Fantasy

Gold: Finished 15 Main Quest books.

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A Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking

T. Kingfisher

2021 LODESTAR AWARD for BEST YOUNG ADULT BOOK Fourteen-year-old Mona isn’t like the wizards charged with defending the city. She can’t control lightning or speak to water. Her familiar is a sourdough starter and her magic only works on bread. She has a comfortable life in her aunt’s bakery making gingerbread men dance. But Mona’s life is turned upside down when she finds a dead body on the bakery floor. An assassin is stalking the streets of Mona’s city, preying on magic folk, and it appears that Mona is his next target. And in an embattled city suddenly bereft of wizards, the assassin may be the least of Mona’s worries…

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Request for Urban Fantasy Main Quest

Hi everyone, I tried to check if anyone has made a post like this and I couldn’t find one so apologies if I missed it. I feel like there are already a ton of quests for fantasy sub genres like found family in fantasy or cozy fantasy but I feel like we’re missing a quest for urban fantasy! I would love if someone could make a quest for it or maybe even a side quest or a starter pack. Thoughts?

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Request for Urban Fantasy Main Quest

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CatherineJ

Historical Romance

I notice there is only one historical romance in this quest. Not a complaint. (I only had one, and for that you can read my other post.)

This is more about the traditional publishing industry’s desire to no longer publish historical romance as it perceives HR no longer popular enough to make the profit margins it desires. It seems it wants mostly to publish clones of the most popular works, narrowing the whole genre substantially as it is afraid to take risks. This has forced even established writers to either change from their preferred sub genre largely to contemporary romance or face breach of contract or no more contracts. If a writer wants to continue publishing HR, they have to do so independently.

I’m wondering then if we could have a Side Quest (or even Main Quest) exclusively featuring historical romance? BIPOC, queer and trans HR would need to be included. It would encourage readers to try the sub genre while also saying FY to the traditional publishing industry. We already have other more narrow quests in the genre (cowboys, small towns, Sarah MacLean, himbos, Christmas), but none has the same feel of urgency, not to rescue a dying sub genre, but to support writers and their readers get the books they want to read, and perhaps expose a new generation of romance readers to a sub genre that has a long history and budding representation.

There, I’ll stop my rant. lol

[Note: I’m thinking of cross-posting this in the club forum to generate discussion, and perhaps in the forums of other romance quests.]

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