ATTENTION IY AND KAMISAMA KISS FANDOMS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ANNETTE MARIE IS HAVING A LIMITED EDITION HARDCOVER COPY OF ALL 3 OF THE RED WINTER TRILOGY BOOKS IN ONE BEING OFFERED!!!!
The Red Winter Trilogy is a masterpiece especially if your into Inuyasha and Kamisama Kiss or Japanese mythology in general. You guys won't be disappointed!!!!!!
Here's some more stuff:
AND I KNEW THIS SERIES WAS INSPIRED BY INUYASHA!!!! I FREAKING CALLED IT!!!!!
I will say that this offer is a big project and that nothing is guaranteed until Annette and her team have reached their pledge goals and have some stuff finalized. Already though, some of their purchasing offers involving this hardcover have been fully met. By the time I got to this, they had only 2 offers for the hardcover open, so this is a limited time thing!!!!!
You guys can go to KickStarter here where Annette Marie is making this offer:
The full set of leather bindings for The Guild Codex: Demonized by Annette Marie. The designs were inspired by descriptions in the text and art by @ashoakmaple in the Webtoon adaptation. Each cover is based on an in-universe book in the story, with the title of the novel foil quilled on the spine.
I really love this series and recommend it to anyone who enjoys urban fantasy, banter, character development, slow burn, and baked goods.
This is list number 2 and it will be focusing on Urban Fantasy and Contemporary romance with fantasy elements. For more traditional Fantasy recs, check list 1!
Maybe it will help someone somewhere. XD
***Some of the books listed here are not Romance novels officially but all have romance and have HFN or HEA endings
Urban Fantasy Romance (Paranormal Romance)
Hidden Legacy Series by Ilona Andrews
2 Trilogies
Nevada Baylor is a Truthseeker; she is able to tell when people lie. When her family's detective agency is tasked with apprehending a powerful fire wielding psychopath, it puts them on the path of collision with the powerful magical elite who rules Houston.
Guildcodex Series by Annette Marie
4 Series. Spellbound, Demonized, Unveiled and Wraped.
When feisty redhead Tori landed a job at a sketchy pub, she had no idea she'd just joined a magic guild. And the three guys she drenched with a margarita during her first shift? Yeah, they were mages. She's about to get a crash course in the world of magic and mythics.
Mercernary Librarians Trilogy by Kit Rocha
Meet the Mercenary Librarians: a trio of information brokers who join forces with a squad of elite super-soldiers to use their knowledge to help the hopeless in a dystopian post-apocalyptic United States ruled by a corporate autocracy.
Psy-Changeling Series by Nalini Singh
A world shared by Changeling, a race of animal shifters , the Psy, a race of powerful psychic who live without emotions and Humans. Tension between the 3 races are rising.
The Firebrand Series by Helen Harper
Emma, an aspiring detective, is placed with the Supernatural Squad in London. Soon she is brutally murdered by an unknown assailant, wakes up twelve hours later in the morgue – and is very much alive.
Contemporary Romance with Fantasy Elements
The Dead Romantic by Ashley Poston
Florence Day is the ghostwriter for one of the most prolific romance authors in the industry, and she has a problem... she no longer believes in love. Then her new editor shows up at her front door as a ghost. Romance is most certainly dead... but so is her new editor, and his unfinished business will have her second-guessing everything she’s ever known about love stories.
The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches by Sangu Mandanna
A warm and uplifting novel about an isolated witch whose opportunity to embrace a quirky new family--and a new love--changes the course of her life.
A Stitch in Time by Kelley Armstrong
Thorne Manor has always been haunted...and it has always haunted Bronwyn Dale. As a young girl, Bronwyn could pass through a time slip in her great-aunt’s house, where she visited William Thorne, a boy her own age, born two centuries earlier.
Hi everyone, I hope you are safe and well! I haven't been drawing for a looong time but I'm finally back with the first sketch of the Tomoe from Kamisama I promised! I'm already coloring the digital version with background and will post it soon.
I need to tell you that I am reading Red Winter by Annette Marie, which is totally amazing and sleep depriving and gives off a lot of Kamisama and Inuyasha vibes. Very much recommended 🩵
Your body could build my grave, with leather and lace. You take all my breath away, with that face. Cause she's drop dead gorgeous, I think she knows it. I think she knows it... But if she ever left, I would just drop dead.
I animated Ashoakmaple's art of Tori and Ezra from Annette Marie's The Guild Codex! Song: Drop Dead Gorgeous by Voilà, perfectly recommended by this podcast!
the main character actually being relatable and not secretly superhuman stomping her way into the world of magic cause she's just that stubborn and broke
healthy relationships
books that feel like a really good fanfic, not from tropes, but cause the author doesn't think they're better or smarter than you
He stood at the counter, staring down at the box of chocolates, the fluorescent lights casting harsh shadows over his face. After a long moment, he lifted a hand and touched the edge of the box.His tail slashed sideways—and he shoved the chocolates off the counter. They crashed to the floor, the small delicacies scattering over the linoleum.
I would love to read this scene from Zylas' POV!!
And this scene too!!
Zylas was scrutinizing me, his eyebrows low over critical red eyes.“Um.” I blinked. “Zylas?”He turned to the demon mage. “Nailēranis et nā. Eshaillā kir?” “Probably.” Jaw tightening, Zylas returned his stare to me, his expression intent as though he were rearranging his understanding of my incomprehensible human brain.
Was he comprehending why Robin is in danger of the other mages and what it meant when they said "you have the look"? Or was he wondering about her panicked reaction to his strength when he chose to "make her squirm"?
When you're really REALLY passionate about a book that has the same vibes as your favorite anime/manga and you just really want to recommend it to all the people in your anime/manga fandom because you KNOW they'd love it too but your worried about being annoying and overbearing with your recommendation.👉👈
I bolted upright in my seat as I figured it out. Assholes Anonymous. This was a therapy group for mean people.
- Three Mages and a Margarita (Spellbound #1)
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“You’re dying?” Aaron asked.
“I’ll die of happiness when she turns Agent Park into teeny, little Vincent crystals.”
- The Twice-Scorned Lady of Shadow (Unveiled #3)
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“Oh yeah?” Amalia shouted. “Just try me! I’ll steal pieces from your puzzle and burn them!”
- Hunting Fiends for the Ill-Equipped (Demonized #3)
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“In a few hours, I’ll plant you in my backyard and watch you grow into a majestic, albeit ugly, tree—a new species which I will name the Giant Bradwood. Your consciousness will live there, entombed in bark and leaves, until I chop you down for lumber. And even then, fragments of your tortured soul may endure, raging silently in immortal agony, while I—”
- Rogue Ghosts & Other Miscreants (Warped #3)
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Ezra nodded. “It’ll be quality time together. We can play I Spy.”
- The Unbreakable Bladesong Druid (Unveiled #4)
Meet Robin Page: outcast sorceress, mythic history buff, unapologetic bookworm, and the last person you'd expect to command the rarest demon in the long history of summoning. Though she holds his leash, this demon can't be controlled . . . but can he be tamed?
Book Review for Red Winter Trilogy by Annette Marie
The Red Winter trilogy is written by Annette Marie. if you like Inuyasha or Kamisama Kiss this is definitely a book for you. This is a story involves Japanese Mythology with slow burn romance mixed in.
The story is about a girl named Emi, and she was chosen to be a vessel for a goddess, but when she saves a kitsune name Shiro who ends up in her debt her world turns upside down. Her and Shiro go on an adventure for to search for answers.
I honestly love these books. I love the way this author wrote this book. There is so much character development that goes on, and the relationship between the characters is amazing as well. I will say these books really did make me cry in some areas, I definitely had to put it down a couple of times just to collect myself. Also, the art in these book is beautifully done throughout. It really gives a nice visual to the books. There is definitely more I could say about these books, but if I say too much more, I’ll probably end up spoiling things on accident and I definitely don’t want to do that for people who are interested in reading these books.