Romance

A silver-haired stranger in an expensive suit knocks on a house in Springfield, Nebraska, and the seventeen-year-old who answers is holding an ice cream bucket, because she has spent the afternoon in an emergency room arguing with a cashew. The will he is carrying will move her family nine hundred miles.

A girl from the slums turns the knob on a lamp for the first time. A butterfly of gold lifts out of the base, beats its wings three times, and dissolves into honey-coloured light. Four hundred pages later she will find out what it was.

A newly turned vampire corners a bleeding hunter in a locked guest room, and the fight ends when somebody in the doorway throws a wooden clock through his chest. Then he asks her whether she gets it. Killer aim.

Two hundred years before the game begins, a vampire lord offers his six enslaved spawn a contest: bring back the rarest blood in the world and one of you will finally be made free. Kingfisher gives Astarion a lawyer's brain and a paladin to break.

A spoiler-free review of Threshing Day by Rebecca Yarros: thirteen riders, thirteen accounts of the same terrible morning, and one chapter that quietly rewrites everything you thought you understood about Dain Aetos.