Fantasy Books March 2023!
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Best new release fantasy books in March 2023!
Calling all fantasy fans! March 2023 brings some exciting new releases, including A Game of Malice and Greed by Caroline Peckham and Susanne Valenti, known for their bestselling Zodiac Academy series. I personally can't wait to get my hands on this mysterious new fantasy.
Here's to a month filled with plenty of reading and productivity!
March 1st
1.The Adventures of Amina Al-Sirafi (Amina al-Sirafi #1) by S.A. Chakraborty
Fantasy | Adult | Historical Fiction | Pirates | Adventure
Amina al-Sirafi should be content. After a storied and scandalous career as one of the Indian Ocean’s most notorious pirates, she’s survived backstabbing rogues, vengeful merchant princes, several husbands, and one actual demon to retire peacefully with her family to a life of piety, motherhood, and absolutely nothing that hints of the supernatural.
But when she’s tracked down by the obscenely wealthy mother of a former crewman, she’s offered a job no bandit could refuse: retrieve her comrade’s kidnapped daughter for a kingly sum. The chance to have one last adventure with her crew, do right by an old friend, and win a fortune that will secure her family’s future forever? It seems like such an obvious choice that it must be God’s will.
Yet the deeper Amina dives, the more it becomes alarmingly clear there’s more to this job, and the girl’s disappearance, than she was led to believe. For there’s always risk in wanting to become a legend, to seize one last chance at glory, to savor just a bit more power…and the price might be your very soul.
March 3rd
2. A Game of Malice and Greed (A Game of Malice and Greed #1) by Caroline Peckham and Susanne Valenti
Fantasy | New Adult | Fantasy Romance |Fae | High Fantasy
A twisted heart, a hollow soul.
A broken warrior, lost gods of old.
A thief of shadows, blessed with light,
A single lie which stole their might.
A princess to win, in a brutal game.
A great empire falling to a monster’s claim.
A forbidden love, a curse untold.
The last immortal trapped in a coin of gold.
March 7th
3. The Faithless (Magic of the Lost #2) by C.L. Clark
Fantasy | Adult | High Fantasy | Epic Fantasy | LGBT
In the second installment of C.L. Clark's Magic of the Lost trilogy, soldier Touraine and princess Luca must return to Balladaire to reclaim Luca's throne and to face the consequences of dismantling an empire.
The rebels have won, and the empire is withdrawing from Qazal. But undoing the tangled web that binds the two nations won't be easy, and Touraine and Luca will face their greatest challenge yet.
Luca needs to oust her uncle from the Balladairan throne once and for all and take her rightful place as Queen. But he won't let go of power so easily. When he calls for a "Trial of Competence" and Luca's allies start disappearing from her side, she will have to prove her might. And she knows someone who can help...
Touraine has found a home in the newly free country of Qazal. However, she soon realizes that leading a country and leading a revolution are two very different tasks. And, even more importantly, if Luca won't keep her promises, the Qazali could end up right back where they started.
Together, the two women must overcome their enemies, their history, and their heartbreak in order to secure Luca's power and Touraine's freedom.
Goodreads | Book Depository | Amazon
Read Book #1- The Unbroken
4. The Shadow's Secret (The Vradian Academy #3) by Heather Kindt
Fantasy | Young Adult | Magic Academy
The shining lights of Isaca reveal what’s lurking in the shadows.
Azer warned Catron about the Isaca Realm, a land beyond her knowledge of the map. When an assassination initiates a war between Mo and the northern kingdom, she is summoned to serve as an Incantor, feeling ill-equipped and still dealing with her own grief.
But life in Mo is not as idyllic as Catron imagined. The Red Shadow excludes her from training and social gatherings. The new queen seems personally inclined to control Catron’s relationship with the royal magician, making progress impossible. Her only solace is in her sword lessons and quiet times with her best friend Fivlon.
As the enemy encroaches on the capital city, secrets emerge that threaten Catron’s world and everything she thought she held dear. Now, she must decide between loyalty to a cause, or to the family she never knew she had.
Read Book #1- The Siren's Song
March 14th
5. Dreamer's Eclipse (The Dream Chronicles #3) by Catherine Kopf
Fantasy | Children Fantasy
Sometimes heroes emerge from the most unlikely places...
Haruko Tanaka isn’t someone you’d expect to be magical—she’s a geeky, manga-loving game-designer living under the roof of The Regime’s finest contraband burners. When The Commander appears under her roof claiming she can be part of a program to turn her into a magical girl, she jumps at the chance to be like her fictional heroes!
But reality is often different from fiction and elitist rebels, escentric classmates, and after school activities are not what Haruko signed up for! With the help of her friends, Haruko must tackle her school life, find her place, and discover the truth of the puppet master behind their world.
Haruko and her friends must step up and face their worst fears to make The Regime a better place or watch the seeds of disaster begin to grow.
Read Book #1- Awakening Dreams
March 17th
6. Sky of Ancient Fire (The Ancient Fire Quadrology) by T. C. Emerys
Fantasy | Epic Fantasy | Dark Fantasy | Arthurian and Welsh Mythology
And when the ancient fire fell to embers,
The goddesses of old wept at the destruction wrought,
And the price paid for its beautiful terror.
Magic in Albion is born, not made.
And yet, as a dark and ancient foe makes its move across the continent, apothecary and physician Cadwgan stumbles into creating a power that never should have surfaced. His discovery throws him into the dangerous world of the Southern court, fighting to keep up the ruse of being a natural-born mage.
Meanwhile, fearsome fire mage Annowre is trying to keep her charge, the newly coronated young Queen of the North, alive amidist political strife and assassination attempts when she herself is gravely wounded by an attacker's incurable poison. When she wakes up in an infirmary, she finds that her queen has sought the help of the South to save her magical protector's life. But peace between their countries is recent and tenuous, and Annowre will need her full strength again if she is to protect the naive monarch from the re-emerging powers swarming across the horizon.
Now the North and South are thrown together to face a new common enemy, and find out what happens when twisted arts combine to create the uncreatable.
To create magic.
March 21st
7. The Sinister Booksellers of Bath (Left-Handed Booksellers of London #2) by Garth Nix
Fantasy | Young Adult | Urban Fantasy | Magic | Historical Fiction
When Merlin vanishes, Susan will battle animated statues of heraldic beasts and use magical maps to rescue him on a hunt that leads to a serial killer who must be stopped before she kills again.
There is often trouble of a mythical sort in Bath. The booksellers who police the Old World keep a careful watch there, particularly on the entity who inhabits the ancient hot spring. Yet this time it is not from Sulis Minerva that trouble starts. It comes from the discovery of a sorcerous map, leading left-handed bookseller Merlin into great danger. A desperate rescue is attempted by his sister the right-handed bookseller Vivien and their friend, art student Susan Arkshaw, who is still struggling to deal with her own recently discovered magical heritage.
The map takes the trio to a place separated from this world, maintained by deadly sorcery performed by an ancient sovereign and guarded by monstrous living statues of Portland Stone. But this is only the beginning, as the booksellers investigate centuries of disappearances and deaths and try to unravel the secrets of the murderous Lady of Stone, a serial killer of awesome powers.
If they do not stop her, she will soon kill again. And this time, her target is not an ordinary mortal.
Goodreads | Book Depository | Amazon
Read Book #1- The Left-Handed Booksellers of London
8. Crown of Dawn by C.M. McCann
Fantasy | Fae
For the sake of the kingdom. And any girl fated to come after.
Every century, the first daughter of a human king must marry a Fae Lord to satisfy their peace treaty. Ravenna is the next sacrifice, chosen at just twelve to marry the Lord of Dawn. But her parents have different plans.
For the next five years, she trains to tear the Fae down from within. When Ravenna finally leaves the human world behind, she has an arsenal no girl has had before.
Yet nothing is what it seems when she arrives. Wrapped in pastels, the darkness and danger in the Court of Dawn lurks mostly unseen. And with each step further into the world of the immortal Fae, Ravenna finds herself doubting her mission and everything she knows.
9. The Thirteenth Key (Seraphine's Chosen #1) by Cara Nox
Fantasy | New Adult | Science Fantasy | Magic | Adventure
Noa has lived her life as an unsuspecting, ID-burning, face in the crowd that disposes of “problems” for her miscellaneous, secretive employers. So, when Noa’s surrogate father—a Seer—hands her a long-lost emblem, telling her with his dying breath that it's her responsibility to reignite magic, she laughs at the idea that the fate of their world rests on the shoulders of a killer. Instead, she uses his words and the key he gave her as an excuse to go on one final suicide mission to seek out the power supposedly waiting for her to annihilate his murderer.
Prince Glacier Caelius has lived his life trapped inside a gilded cage, pushed down by the ever-present threat of death as the bastard son of Amarais’s late king. But when the rebels attack during a nationalist party, Glacier’s rescued by none other than Noa and her merry band of thieves, who are scrambling to salvage a failed attempt at stealing his country’s emblem: the Soul of Amarais. When the dust settles, he’s the only person left alive to unlock the palace vault and give the Soul to Noa in exchange for saving his life.
Well, once they’re able to formulate a plan to take the palace back.
Struggling with their tentative, newfound freedom, Noa and Glacier must learn to work together to survive the urban landscape of Avaria’s greatest cities fortified by technology in the wake of dwindling magic. The goal: steal as many keys as they can before their pasts catch up. But the further they go, the more they realize that something worse may be lurking on the horizon, and they may very well be the only ones able to stop it.
March 28th
10. Briars & Blood by Anne J. Hill, Tasha Kazanjian, L.A. Thornhill, Julia Skinner, Everly Haywood, Abigail Falanga
Fantasy | Anthology | Beauty and the Beast Themes
--Book One in the Crimson Books Collection--
Briars & Blood is a collection of tales that rediscover the beloved Beauty and the Beast themes in various fantasy settings.
An elvish pirate captain who is desperate to reach the gods captures a beautiful merelf hoping to heal the curse-like ache in his chest.
In a crumbling abbey, a merchant's daughter and an ancient guardian stand against the forces of the underworld
A girl branded as a beast and a boy who dreams of becoming a legend set out to bring magic back to their world.
In a tale inspired by Celtic mythology, a storyteller meets a young man trapped by a curse and must find the story that will save them both.
A man who is half machine is imprisoned by his father and cursed to be stigmatized as soulless—until a servant girl risks exposure to help him reclaim his humanity.
A huntsman knight fails to protect a former princess under the sway of vampire lords. He must save her before time runs out and the beauty becomes the beast.
Each Beast has their own curse, and every Beauty their own obstacles. Despite their differences, they must work together . . . or suffer the consequences.
March 31st
11. Revenant Prince by (Curse of Shavhalla #2) T.A. Hernandez
Fantasy | Young Adult | Epic Fantasy | Science Fiction Fantasy
They survived, but lost one of their own…
With Amar now under the enemy’s control, his loyal friends will stop at nothing to rescue him. To succeed, they must fight inner battles more daunting than even the harshest external challenges. New alliances are forged as former adversaries work toward a common goal, but with Kavora on the brink of war, Kesari, Aleida, and the others face mounting pressure to prevent the conflict. Very soon, it may be too late.
A prince returns to claim his throne…
Seventeen years after Prince Savir’s supposed death, an unlikely mentor guides him home to take back his crown. With the evidence clearly laid before them, several of Kavora’s most powerful leaders acknowledge his return and support his claim, but convincing the empress to step down will be a much bigger challenge. Before long, Savir is swept up in a complex game of political maneuverings, eager to be more than just a piece on the board. The stakes are high—not only for him, but for the entire empire. To further complicate matters, he can’t shake the feeling that something is amiss.
If only he could remember what.
Read Book #1- Tethered Spirits
Make sure you add the ones you like to your TBR pile! Which ones do you like the look of? Let me know in the comments☺️
