Onze zustersite FantasyWereld maakt maandelijks een lijstje van te verschijnen boeken voor de komende maand, dus waarom zouden wij dat niet ook doen voor specifiek cozy fantasy! En dan neem ik ook de internationale (Engelstalige) titels mee, met hun Engelse achterflaptekst. Waar kijken jullie naar uit?
The enchanted greenhouse – Sarah Beth Durst
De bibliothecaresse Terlu was zó eenzaam, dat ze de wet overtrad en toch magie gebruikte. Als straf werd ze veranderd in een houten beeld en opgesloten in de bibliotheek. Dat had het einde van haar verhaal moeten zijn.
Maar toen ontwaakte ze opeens op een winters eiland vol met honderden prachtige magische kassen. Het eiland lijkt verlaten, tot ze een norse tuinman tegenkomt die haar tijdelijk onderdak, kleding en zelfs zelfgebakken honingcake aanbiedt. Yarrow zorgt niet alleen voor haar, maar ook de magische kassen. Doordat de magie op het eiland echter langzaam afsterft, komt daarmee alles wat er op het eiland groeit in gevaar. Terlu is hier pas net, maar weet dat ze Yarrow moet helpen zodat ze hier kan blijven.
Met hulp van Yarrow en een eigenwijze, sprekende roos zal Terlu het geheim achter de afbrokkelende magische kassen moeten ontrafelen om haar nieuwe kans op liefde en geluk te redden.
Rewitched – Lucy Jane Wood
Belladonna Blackthorn is haar magie niet verloren, maar ze heeft het al lang niet gevoeld. De balanceeract van een toxische baas, het geheimhouden van haar identiteit en werken in haar geliefde Lunar Books in Londen valt soms zwaar. En dan heeft het perfectioneren van haar krachten geen voorrang.
Als ze dertig wordt, roept Belles koven haar op voor een test, waarbij ze haar magie voorgoed zou kunnen verliezen. Ze heeft de maand oktober om zich te bewijzen, maar wordt tegengewerkt door duistere krachten. Belle heeft hulp nodig – van de vrouwen in haar leven, een onverwachte mentor én van een (frustrerende) bewaker die heeft gezworen haar te beschermen…
The Baby Dragon Bakery – A.T. Qureshi
Lavinia has it all. A loving family (complete with adorable pet baby dragon). A place at university training to be a magical animal vet. And a part-time job at the enchanting Baby Dragon Cafe. The only thing she doesn’t have is her one true love: Theo.
Theo is the local baker and her best friend. On paper, they’re perfect: he’s funny, she’s witty. He’s sweet, and she’s a little salty. That’s why they’ve been friends for as long as they can remember. They’ve never been without one another – and it’s clear to everyone that they’re meant to be.
Everyone except Theo. Because when Lavinia finally makes her move, he pulls away.
Lavinia is devastated. Has this friendship gone up in smoke? Or will Theo finally realise that he wants them to be more than friends?
Hexes & Hush Money – Hazel Caraway
For witch Ivy Rowan, life at the Catnip Café is a magical dream, right down to her purring familiar, Hex. But when a ruthless developer is murdered behind her shop—and the town’s restoration fund vanishes with him—Ivy’s dream becomes a waking nightmare.
The sheriff wants her to stick to frothing milk, but she can’t when damning gold coins appear at her tables and a rival is struck down by a hexed cappuccino. With Hex suddenly kidnapped, Ivy must act.
To save her familiar and her freedom, she must unravel a century-old money-binding spell to unmask a modern-day killer—before the next cup she pours is her own last rites.
Hexes and Hiccups – Lacey Carter
Daisy Fields knows her best friend Tessa would never be involved in any kind of criminal matters, but her opinion doesn’t matter much to the witch council when Tessa is their one-and-only suspect.
With the odds stacked against them, Daisy and Tessa will work together to solve the case of who turned an important town figure into stone. In order to do so, they’ll have to dive into a series of clues, in the form of small town gossip, to figure out who might be behind all the trouble.
If they can’t find the real suspect, Tessa might just find herself punished for a crime she didn’t commit. But will our dynamic duo be able to use their magic, wit, and spunk to save the day?
A Brew for Chaos – Esme Addison
It’s fall, and Aleksandra Daniels is settling into her new hometown of Bellamy Bay in North Carolina. She loves her job at her aunt’s herbal apothecary, and is enjoying getting to know her new boyfriend, local detective Jack Frazier. But she’s still trying to figure out her newly discovered magical powers, inherited from a mermaid ancestor.
Leaves are changing, pumpkins are being picked, and the small coastal town is caught up in the excitement of the approaching Oktoberfest and craft beer competition. But Alex’s good friend, local journalist Pepper, is more excited by the upcoming anniversary of a spooky cold case she’s helping her boss, Jonah, investigate. Back in the eighties, a serial killer nicknamed The Fisherman abducted ten local women. He was never caught, and the women never seen again.
Alex isn’t surprised when Pepper asks for her help, but she’s done solving mysteries. She’d much rather be strolling down main street with Jack, sharing a hot cup of apple cider, and that’s not going to happen if she keeps meddling in his investigations.
But when Jonah’s body is discovered on the beach, Alex is forced to reconsider. Soon, she’s caught up in a complex, troubling plot that places not just her own life, but the lives of everyone she loves, in terrible danger.
Spells and Subterfuge – Beth Dolgner
Hazel Underwood has returned to her magical hometown of Foxfire Haven, Washington, with her tail between her legs. A metaphorical tail, of course. Witches don’t have tails.
While renovating the old funeral home she inherited from her uncle, Hazel stumbles on a dead body stashed underneath the hearse. Who wanted the delivery-truck driver dead, and how did he wind up in Hazel’s garage? Chief Constable Hightower thinks Hazel might have killed Steve with her magic, and she’s determined to prove the handsome old curmudgeon wrong.
Suspects range from a beautiful vampire with a passion for potions to the garden store gnome, but as Hazel closes in on solving the murder, she learns there’s another mystery to unravel. What happened to Hazel’s uncle in his final years to turn him into an obsessed treasure-hunter? And does his story tie into Steve’s murder?
Hazel will have to team up with her witchy new roommates to catch a killer, stand up to judgmental small-town locals, and get her magic back on track. Who knew midlife could be so complicated?
Hexes and Hearths – Allie Katt & Tasha Oakwood
A hex mark on your front door.
It showed up overnight—burned into the wood, smelling faintly of sulfur and sage. Just another Tuesday in this charmingly cursed town. But when fires start flaring in places they shouldn’t—like the potion storeroom, the town bakery, and my actual hair—it’s clear someone’s stirring up more than trouble.
Potions are misfiring. Tempers are flaring. And my dragon-possibly-cat just declared war on the broom closet.
Add in a string of magical house fires with no clear cause, a missing charm-maker, and a long-buried feud between coven members that no one wants to talk about, and suddenly my quiet apothecary life is going up in smoke.
If I don’t unravel the truth soon, Willowbark’s cozy little hearths won’t be the only thing burning.
Once Upon A Pumpkin: A Cozy Fantasy Cinderella Retelling – Gabrielle Landi
Years ago, Dietrich failed to prevent the disappearance of the Duke’s daughter, and the guilt has eaten at him ever since. His persistent searching has finally paid off, but now that he’s found the missing girl, he doesn’t know what to do. The obvious answer is to tell her father, but her plea to let her stay hidden leaves him torn between his duty to the Duke and the need to protect the girl he can’t stop thinking about.
Trading in her apron for a ball gown is a terrifying prospect for Ella, but if it gives her the chance to leave her step family and find a family that truly loves her, she’ll try. As Dietrich teaches her how to be a duchess, her feelings for him develop into something that hardly seems appropriate for a duchess and her father’s stable master, leaving her wondering if rejoining the nobility is what she truly wants.
Can love transcend the limits they’ve imposed, or will Dietrich and Ella allow duty to reign supreme?
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