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Blog Tour: .Dot/Slash (Magic) – Liz Shipton

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Welcome to the ARC tour for Dot Slash Magic, a truly genre-blurring with magic, AI and punk culture, and spice, all in an academy setting! Follow #rrbtDotSlashMagicTour for early reviews and more!

Dot Slash Magic

Expected Release Date: August 19, 2025

Genre: Spicy Urban Romantasy/ “Romantas-topian”

Perfect for fans of I am Number Four and Zodiac Academy

Tropes:

  • Romantas-topian
  • Academy setting
  • Found family
  • Forced proximity
  • Strangers to lovers
  • Slow burn
  • New adult

Micro Tropes:

☆Unique Magic System

☆Bonkers Spice

☆College Setting

☆Punk Vibes

☆🍆Jokes

☆Monsters & Mayhem

☆Enby & Ace Folks

☆Cat

Blurb:

When twenty-something coder Seven Jones goes back to school at a community college in San Diego, the last thing she wants is to join some stupid club. And the last thing she expects is for that club to be an underground magic club. Like, actual wizards and sh*t.

Surrounded by a motley crew of magic weirdos, Seven discovers her own power and struggles to control it…until she figures out how to channel her magic through an artificially intelligent computer program.

But when terrifying creatures from all sorts of mythologies show up and start hunting students, Seven fears her magic AI is somehow summoning them. When another student is killed, blame falls on Seven and her “artificial magic.”

With only one person – cute ex-Navy seal Logan – on her side, Seven fights for her life against the monsters, and struggles to convince everyone that her AI has nothing to do with them.

But how can she convince her peers when she isn’t totally convinced herself?

Dot Slash Magic is a “Romantas-topian” about love and friendship and how we can work together to bring down the real bad guys.

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My thoughts: Seven agrees to go to college in exchange for her late uncle’s boat, Dragonfly, to use as her home. She signs up for some courses, not entirely sure what she wants to do. A coder, one of the courses is in computing, she has to design a program, which she does. Only Dot is a little more sentient than most AI.

At the same time Seven has also stumbled into a secret club operating at the college. A club of magic users – not wizards, and not all very friendly. Seven it seems has magic powers and with the help of Dot, she can do all sorts of things, like levitate. But something has gone terribly wrong.

This was a really fun read, I liked Seven, I felt for her as she struggles to fit in and make friends, being a bit older than some of the other students and a bit socially awkward. She is a good person, nothing she’s done is malicious. Not intentionally.

I’m keen to see what happens next, as the end third of the story is very different and puts a different spin on the preceding story so it would be interesting to see how it proceeds.

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*I was kindly gifted a copy of this book in exchange for taking part in this blog tour, but all opinions remain my own.

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Double Cover Reveal: Fires of the Forsaken/Ashes of the Earth – Stephanie E. Donohue

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The Across Time series has gotten a glow up and it is gorgeous!

An Epic Grimdark Romantasy that’s basically like GAME OF THRONES meets DEADPOOL…with some extra swoon and SUPERNATURAL-esque lore

It also has:

❤️‍🔥 Grumpy x sunshine
❤️‍🔥 Hot Viking Warrior
❤️‍🔥 Reluctant hero
❤️‍🔥 Fight training
❤️‍🔥 Banter
❤️‍🔥 Mature (age 30+) FMC
❤️‍🔥 Pop culture Easter eggs
❤️‍🔥 Touch him and 💀
❤️‍🔥 Found Family
❤️‍🔥 Action Packed
❤️‍🔥Emotion Focused Spice (book 2)

Fires of the Forsaken

She just wanted a gosh-darn pizza. The apocalypse had other ideas.

Addie did not have “getting plucked from the 21st century and thrown into the apocalypse” on her “things to do after work” checklist. Yet here she is, trapped in the hellscape known as Sakar–a world torn apart by a Celestial war. Now she’s dodging soulless Wraiths, getting chased by venomous horses, and trying her darndest to avoid a meltdown.

Thankfully, Cheriour, the gruff and grumpy commander of the human army takes her under his wing. He’s blunt, brutal, and socially awkward. Totally not Addie’s type.

So why does she find him so infuriatingly attractive?

As Addie’s connection with Cheriour grows so does the danger. Wraiths threaten to eliminate the last dregs of humanity and secrets about Addie’s past are about to surface that might just make her the key to saving everything… or destroying it.

Darkly thrilling and laced with biting humor, Fires of the Forsaken is perfect for fans of Game of Thrones, Deadpool and Supernatural.

Ashes of the Earth

Earth’s last hope has anxiety, a lethal power, and absolutely no idea what she’s doing.

Addie is having a colossally bad year. She’s stuck in a bullshit biblical war, her friends keep dying, and her newfound power might be slowly eating her alive.

At least she has Cheriour, the gruff, battle-scarred commander of the human army, who is secretly a teddy bear hiding beneath a grumpy face. But even their budding relationship is threatened as the war rages.

With Wraiths scavenging the ailing country of Sakar, and the Celestials tightening their grip, Addie must lead a desperate mission to save what’s left of this world. But the deeper she dives into the secrets of Sakar—and the reason she was brought here—the more she realizes some truths should stay buried.

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Content warnings would be for violence/gore, sometimes disturbing imagery, scenes depicting the loss of family members/loved ones, scenes showcasing mental health issues (ie, anxiety, depression, etc.), and a very brief mention of violence toward a minor.

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Blog Tour: Solace of Dusk – K.V. Meadows

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Welcome to the tour for Solace of Dusk by K.V. Meadows. Read now on Kindle Unlimited!

Solace of Dusk (Dusk and Embers Book 1)

Release Date: March 2025

Genre: Romantic Fantasy

Those who play with prophecies will get burned…

23-year-old Undesirable, Durvla Garrick, has a dangerous secret. Being both deaf and having a chronic ailment, her very existence is treasonous. So, when the Queen’s mercenaries accuse her of stealing a dress, she comes quietly—better to be arrested for her knitting skills than her illness.

Under the watchful eye of the broody royal guard, Tiernan Kilkenny—the embodiment of the very people she’s spent her life hiding from—Durvla is appointed dressmaker to the princess. But castle life isn’t quite what she expected, and nor is its staff…

With the Queen dying, Princess Carys Meredyth fa Rhodri is reluctant to inherit the throne of a broken Kingdom when she feels so broken herself. Magic has been outlawed for a millennium—so why are her memories filled with whispers of enchantment?

When Carys finds a book that only she can read, more questions unravel. Are the fairytales that have provided her comfort since childhood really only stories? Or has the truth been right there all along?

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Content Warnings:


-Violence (real world weapons, prolonged torture, magic wielding), blood without gore, and violent killing
-Child abandonment, infant death (not detailed), and a brief mention of miscarriage
-Unmanaged severe mental illness, anxiety and anxiety attacks, suicidal ideation
-Sensual and sexual content (on page, non-explicit) -Grief and loss, mentions of parental death, terminal illness
-Disability prejudice, ableism, classism
-Profanity

My thoughts: I really enjoyed reading this book (now on KU) and am eagerly looking forward to book two.

With Welsh and Celtic mythology influences, this is a kingdom under attack from within. The princess, Carys, is worried about her invalid mother, and leaving much of the running of the country to the council. Which might not be the best idea.

Elsewhere Durvla, a botanist, is trying to keep her younger brother safe and hidden. She’s deaf and he’s autistic, both things seen as undesirable in the world they live in. Things that could see them taken away and thrown in the terrifying prison. When she does get seized, she ends up as Carys’ dressmaker, a path to freedom opens up.

But others have their own plans for the kingdom, evil plans. And things go wrong for Carys and for Durvla.

This is gripping, funny, intelligent fantasy with interesting and relatable protagonists and the magic system was also intriguing. I can’t wait for the next installment, it ends on such a cliffhanger.

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*I was kindly gifted a copy of this book in exchange for taking part in this blog tour, but all opinions remain my own.

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Cover Reveal: The Imminent Power of Hope – Catalina Matei

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It’s time to reveal the cover for the final book in the Vials of Fate trilogy, The Imminent Power of Hope by Catalina Matei!

The Imminent Power of Hope (Vials of Fate Book 3)

Genre: Dark Romantasy/ Dragons

Expected Release Date: October 23, 2025

  • Dragons
  • Fated mates
  • Found family
  • Secrets/ hidden truths
  • Banter
  • Strong FMC
  • Dual POV
  • Cunning gods
  • Unique magic

In a world that mended itself anew, free will was no longer a chain; it was the binder that tied a nation’s hope to its actions.

After a battle that ensured the human nation’s victory, things are about to change once more as Zadrohn vanishes with a powerful artefact in his possession.

Caught between a web of lies and her need to be everyone’s saviour, Tiadola must renounce more than her pride in order to see the continent safe. The search for her lover intertwines with the one of finding the god’s resting place.

Resilient and hopeful, can she be the one to liberate the world from millennia of injustices? In hope lies the power, and she is nothing if not hopeful.

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TRIGGERS:

  • Violence
  • Existential angst
  • References of SA
  • Sacrifice
  • Loss/ death
  • Sexually explicit content

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Cover Reveal: The Crimson Princess – Zoey Voss

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We’re proud to present the cover for The Crimson Princess by Zoey Voss. This will be the first in a series called The Ravengale Chronicles, available September 24th!

The Crimson Princess (The Ravengale Chronicles Book 1)

Expected Release Date: September 24, 2025

Genre: Dark Romantasy/ Vampires

  • Vampires,
  • Rival kingdoms
  • Forbidden love
  • Captive princess – she’s more than willing though…well the first time 😉
  • She just got her full powers
  • She’s promised to another (no triangle)

For the rulers of Ravengale, there is only us and them…until the rule of law becomes the path to destruction.

As princess of Ravengale, Satima is bound by her father’s rule to sit back as others compete in the Challenge and watch the champions travel to the human realm to shelter the innocents from the monsters of the Third World. But the Book of Life dictates a path for her that defies the laws of Ravengale and she temporarily vacates her throne to fight for humanity, a choice that will change the destiny of her world and beyond.

As Satima is thrust into a tragic battle, death will touch her in the most intimate of ways, driving her into the path of her father’s enemy, the ancient and powerful vampire king. Toren is as gorgeous as he is a ruthless leader, and despite Satima’s caution, the vampire makes her blood run hot, and her body hotter. But in the throes of passion, there is a dark history between their worlds, a darker one between Toren and her father. One wrong move, and everything Satima has known and loved will be shattered.

In the vein of Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Reign where the princess is a warrior, the fae are inconsequential, zombies are real, and vampires and druids are enemies of the court. That is until one vampire, the king himself, seduces the princess into risking all for him.

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Blog Tour: Traitor of the Tides – Frost Kay

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Welcome to the tour for Traitor of the Tides by Frost Kay! This is the first in a brand-new series called The Banished Queen Saga and you can read it now on Kindle Unlimited!

Traitor of the Tides (The Banished Queen Saga Book 1)

Release Date: June 27, 2025

Genre: YA Romantasy

  • Enemies to lovers
  • Slow burn
  • Female rage
  • Mythical creatures
  • Griffin riders
  • Sirens
  • Mermaids
  • Court intrigue
  • Betrayal
  • Forced proximity

A banished siren princess sold to her sworn enemy.

Mer has one goal: avenge her fallen love. But getting close to the cold Methian king isn’t so easy. She’ll have to infiltrate his court, marry him, and break his heart. But charming her gruff husband is harder than she anticipates, and Mer finds herself either wanting to kill him or fall for him.

A ruthless king who will do anything to save his empire.

A deadly plague grows in Methi, King Raziel’s only hope to save his people is a marriage alliance. He wasn’t prepared for his new bride to try to kill him on sight, nor the blinding attraction he feels for her. His court calls for her death, but Raz can’t afford to endanger the treaty. Instead, he must do something far more dangerous: make his wife fall in love with him.

A battle of wits and hearts.

When their marriage becomes a game of wills, deception, and secret societies, Mer and Raziel are pitted against each other in a millennia-old war as they play for the throne, each other’s secrets, and love.

May the coldest heart win.

Perfect for romantic fantasy readers who enjoy true enemies to lovers romance, arranged marriage, challenging the truth, epic fantasy adventure, alluring sirens, slow burn with snarky banter, and flying feline side-kicks!

✓ A cold king with an icy heart
✓ A banished siren princess with revenge on the mind
✓ Enemies to lovers within an arranged marriage
✓ Blistering female rage
✓ Secret societies

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Triggers: loss of spouse, grief, kidnapping, pg-13 romance, mental illness, human trafficking (BUT my books are not explicit FYI).

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Blog Tour: Magic Bites – Eris Marriott

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We’re touring Magic Bites by Eris Marriott this week, and starting today until July 11th, you can grab the eBook from Amazon for FREE!

Magic Bites: Tales of the Shadow Folk

Release Date: October 2024

Genre: Dark Romantasy

  • Enemies to lovers
  • Hidden identities
  • Badass Female MC
  • Gods and goddesses

Forgotten by the gods, Adelaide forges her power in the sweet judgment of the sword — her only weapon against the shadow folk that would burn her kingdom to ashes and feast upon its people.

As princess of Sunfall, Adelaide faces more than threats of marriage and stuffy dresses. As secondary heir to a distinguished lineage blessed by the gods themselves, she lives with the crushing reality that the divine powers that be skipped over her. Her father and brother wield divine light as easily as some breathe, imbuing their weapons and armor with protections against the vampires that loom beyond the kingdom walls.

At twenty-six, the only thing saving Adelaide from a life of marriage and death by childbirth is her keen skills with a sword, whose imbued steel has propelled her to the top of her kingdom’s ranks and earned her a reputation of skill and prowess with her soldiers. She knows her life will find its end in the clutches of some beast’s fangs on the battlefield, just as her mother was claimed by them sixteen years ago.

With King Alaric’s power waning and her brother’s inability to produce an heir, Adelaide finds herself on the chopping block. Even the chance of producing an heir that can wield the divine light of Siralto puts her on the nobles’ radar. Powerless, she’s never going to escape the fate she tried so hard to ignore.

But all this changes the day her brother-in-law returns home from war. The problem? Only Shadow Folk come back from the dead. And if Finch is alive, well, and within their walls, it’s only a matter of time before the Shadow King himself comes to claim the vengeance he’s sought for almost two decades. Adelaide is powerless to stop him.

Or is she?

Magic Bites is the first in the Tales of the Shadow Folk. Perfect for fans of dark, epic romantasies with slow burn, enemies-to-lovers romances, Magic Bites has plenty of twists and turns in store. Do you dare to fight back against the Shadow Folk? Or will you, too, be swept away by sweet, simmering lies and sultry fangs?

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Triggers: Child loss/fertility struggles, violence

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Cover Reveal: Dream in the Ash – Jacquelyn Gilmore

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We’re thrilled to present the cover for Dream in the Ash, the beginning of a new series by Jacquelyn Gilmore!

Dream in the Ash (The Other Half of the End #1)

Expected Release Date: March 10, 2026

Genre: Spicy Darker Romance/ Dystopian/ Fantasy

  • Dystopian society
  • Shocking plot twists
  • Spicy slow-burn romance
  • Murder mystery
  • Mental health rep
  • Psychological thriller
  • Love triangle
  • Genre-bending
  • Badass telepathic FMC
  • Antiheroes and villains

When her family is brutally murdered in front of her, Audrey, a secret telepath, is wrongly sentenced to life in prison for the crime. Despite seeing a man in the backyard and hearing his thoughts before the murders, her pleas of innocence are ignored. Yet, no one can explain what truly happened either.

After ten years of attempting to reconstruct that night’s confusing events, she is desperate to clear her name and learn the truth. But just as she’s about to give up, a miracle occurs—her sentence is overturned.

Let loose on the streets, Audrey hunts for the killer—and his voice in her mind taunts her. Why he’s stalking her is a mystery, and her obsession draws her into the heart of darkness. With her sanity dancing on a razor’s edge, another telepathic ensnares her. He, too, is looking for the killer, and they form a tenuous alliance.

But things are not what they seem.

Whisked away to a distant moon where telepathic power is sought after, Audrey quickly becomes tangled in a war that was never hers to fight—and her hunt for redemption falters. Soon, she must choose between finding peace or becoming the villain before death finds her first.

DREAM IN THE ASH is a genre-bending tale that is darkly ambitious in blending the future and fantasy. It features a slow-burn romance while following a woman’s descent into madness in the brutal years following a space dictatorship takeover and its turbulent aftermath.

Triggers: Explicit sex (consensual), explicit language, and violence/gore (murder, executions)

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Blog Tour: Brothersong – TJ Klune

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Set in the dreamy backwoods of Oregon, Brothersong is a queer, paranormal romance of burning passion and pack loyalty, and is the fourth book in the Green Creek series.

In the ruins of Caswell, Maine, Carter Bennett glimpsed the truth of what had been right in front of him the entire time. And then it was ripped away from him.

Desperate for answers, Carter takes to the road, leaving family and the safety of his pack behind. But therein lies the danger: wolves are pack animals, and the longer Carter is on his own, the more his mind slips toward the endless void of Omega insanity. Relentless, he pushes on, following the trail left by the feral wolf he tracks: Gavin, the son of Robert Livingstone. The half brother of Gordo Livingstone.

What Carter finds will change the course of the pack forever. Gavin’s history with the Bennett family goes back further than anyone knows. And it includes a secret kept hidden by Carter’s father, Thomas Bennett. But uncovering this knowledge will come at a price: for the sins of the fathers will come to rest on the shoulders of their sons.

Brothersong is the fourth and final book in the beloved Green Creek series by bestselling author TJ Klune. Start the journey with Wolfsong.

My thoughts: Return to Green Creek and the gayest wolf pack ever, where it’s finally time to face their biggest enemy, the twisted Robert Livingstone. He’s been turned into a giant mutant wolf, mad with rage and without his magic. He’s also keeping his son Gavin tortured and bound to him, despite the call of the pack.

Carter, the oldest Bennett brother sets out to find this missing wolf, to bring him home, despite the dangers. But in typical Bennett style he doesn’t tell his brothers where he’s going and they have to come after him.

Livingstone brings the fight to their town, to their pack and to the resilient humans who live alongside them. Can Green Creek survive and what will the pack lose in the fight?

It was about time Carter had his own story after both his brothers and Gordo had told theirs, but his story is also Gavin’s story. Gordo’s half-brother has had a sad time of it and being slowly drained of his life and living in terror with his deranged father isn’t much of a life.

Carter was probably the most straight brother, plenty of women around Green Creek could attest to that, but as with much of the rest of the pack, his mate is not going to fit into his image of himself. Gavin might be damaged, might prefer being a wolf to being human, but he’s always heard Carter, even while his father’s voice drowns out his thoughts.

The final book in the quartet means endings, bringing the story to its conclusion and hopefully peace for the Bennett pack and their friends. If you’ve been enjoying the series, it’s definitely bittersweet, saying goodbye to these characters but I think they deserve it, as all four books have had them fighting for their lives against all manner of terrible things.

*I was kindly gifted a copy of this book in exchange for taking part in this blog tour, but all opinions remain my own.

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Blog Tour: Nocturne – K.G. Bolingbroke

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Nocturne is the type of gothic tale we live for at R&R Book Tours! This is the book for you if you love:

  • Arranged marriage
  • First person POV
  • Gothic vibes
  • Moral ambiguity
  • Political intrigue
  • Ottoman Empire
  • Vlad the Impaler

Nocturne

Release Date: March 25, 2025

Genre: Gothic Historical Fiction

After a series of humiliating betrothal rejections from princes throughout Europe, the eldest daughter of the Holy Roman Emperor gets engaged to the mysterious Prince of Romania. Wary of a betrothal to this enigmatic prince, she has no choice but to follow her father’s orders.

In a new land that borders the Ottoman Empire where hostilities and conflicts could escalate any moment, her new role is to help her husband secure political alliances. At the same time, she discovers that the prince she married is the son of the infamous Vlad the Impaler, whose atrocious actions are nightmarish. This shocking revelation is followed by a host of unfathomable and seemingly supernatural incidents, leaving her isolated and afraid in a foreign land.

Dreading to discover if her husband inherited the cruelty of his father, but unable to flee unescorted due to the looming threat of seen and unseen enemies, she must find out the truth behind the strange events in order to convince the Emperor to allow her return home. In her pursuit to return to the safety of Austria, she learns that there is more to her husband, his deceased father, and this land brimming with superstition and folklore.

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Trigger Warnings:

  • Violence 
  • Sexual assault 
  • Stillbirth
  • Adult innuendo

My thoughts: This was a really interesting take on Dracula, incorporating historical information about Romania in the 1500s, the way Europe was ruled (Hapsburgs, Holy Roman Empire), the war against the Ottomans, and the real Vlad Dracul, aka Vlad the Impaler.

A fictional additional daughter of the Holy Roman Emperor is sent to marry the Prince of Romania, son of the mysterious, and supposedly dead, Vlad. The country is at war with the Ottoman Empire and keen to have the might of the church behind it, the marriage is a political union, and as far as her new husband is concerned, that’s all it needs to be.

With few friends, and a limited understanding of her new home, our heroine, Shoshana, is understandably wary, of her husband, of his court, and of the stories about his father’s brutality.

I enjoyed the mix of real history and fantasy, this is the first in a new series, and considering the prologue, going to be quite a different take on the Dracula story Bram Stoker wrote, which will be interesting.

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*I was kindly gifted a copy of this book in exchange for taking part in this blog tour, but all opinions remain my own.