Queen’s Book Asylum’s main SPFBO 10 page, where you’ll find a short heads up about the contest, info about our process, the 30 books assigned to us, and how we divided them – including GR and Amazon links -, our progress in the semi-finals and finals, and updates throughout the competition.
The Sound of Madness Reading Challenge 2025 is here! Can you believe this is the fifth year already?! For the oldtimers, welcome back! For the newcomers, I hope you’ll have a lot of fun this year trying to fill out these music-based reading prompts as I had a lot of fun (and pain, so much pain) coming up with them.
Here are my reading goals for 2025, including reading challenges and a shortened TBR list I’d like to focus on this year.
Bjørn’s pick this week for Music Monday is Games by Chuckii Booker.
Jen reviews QUICKSILVER, the first book in the Fae & Alchemy romantasy series by Callie Hart.
Timy reviews THE VENGEANCE, the first book in Emma Newman’s fantasy series, The Vampires of Dumas.
It’s our pleasure to host Louise McLaughlin, whose debut novel, Discovery, the first book in her urban fantasy series, D Notice, was just released on May 4th, 2025!
Timy’s pick this week for Music Monday is Mess I Make by Fivefold feat. KG Lillian.
We at the Asylum are excited to host the cover reveal for A. J. Lancaster’s upcoming new cozy romance fantasy novel, HOW TO FIND A NAMELESS FAE! The expected publication is June 26, 2025.
Team Asylum reviews our ninth and last SPFBO 10 finalist, THE TENACIOUS TALE OF TANNA THE TENDERSWORD by Dewey Conway & Bill Adams. Reviews are from Drew, Jen, Timy, and Tru.
Team Asylum reviews our eighth SPFBO 10 finalist, THE HUMANE SOCIETY FOR CREATURES & CRYPTIDS by Stephanie Gillis. Reviews are from Drew, Timy, and Tru.
Team Asylum reviews our seventh SPFBO 10 finalist, RUJNELIGHT by JA Andrews. Reviews are from Arina, Drew, Liis, Timy and Tru.
Team Asylum reviews our sixth SPFBO 10 finalist, THE FOREST AT THE HEART OF HER MAGE by Hiyodori. Reviews are from Drew, Jen, Liis, Timy, and Tru.
Team Asylum reviews our eighth SPFBO 10 finalist, THE HUMANE SOCIETY FOR CREATURES & CRYPTIDS by Stephanie Gillis. Reviews are from Drew, Timy, and Tru.
Timy reviews THE GENTLEMAN AND HIS VOWSMITH, a standalone mystery/romance/fantasy novel by Rebecca Ide.
Timy reviews THE SECOND CHANCE BOOK CLUB, a standalone novel by Stephanie Butland.
Timy reviews LOVE AND OTHER PARADOXES, a standalone romance novel by Catriona Silvey.
Team Asylum reviews our seventh SPFBO 10 finalist, RUJNELIGHT by JA Andrews. Reviews are from Arina, Drew, Liis, Timy and Tru.
Team Asylum reviews our sixth SPFBO 10 finalist, THE FOREST AT THE HEART OF HER MAGE by Hiyodori. Reviews are from Drew, Jen, Liis, Timy, and Tru.
A quick recap of the reading I did in 2025 Q1, pick 5 of my favorite reads, and also report on how I progressed with my different reading challenges.
What could be a better celebration of our 7th blogversary than a list of books that are close to my heart? I compiled 15 historical fiction books and series you must check out!
It’s time to look back at 2024 and share our favorite books with you! Third up is Bjørn’s Top 5 Reads of 2024!
Here are my reading goals for 2025, including reading challenges and a shortened TBR list I’d like to focus on this year.
It’s our pleasure to host Louise McLaughlin, whose debut novel, Discovery, the first book in her urban fantasy series, D Notice, was just released on May 4th, 2025!
We at the Asylum are excited to host the cover reveal for A. J. Lancaster’s upcoming new cozy romance fantasy novel, HOW TO FIND A NAMELESS FAE! The expected publication is June 26, 2025.
We host the cover reveal for Shannon Knight’s upcoming new dystopian sci-fi novel, DEATH RIGHTS the second book in the Grave Chronicles series!
It’s our absolute pleasure to host Tim Hardie today in the Asylum. Tim is an old friend of ours and today we are celebrating with him as he recently released Broken Brotherhood, the last book in The Brotherhood of the Eagle series. Tim in this guest post talks about his journey with The Brotherhood of the Eagle and also the production of the audiobook of Hall of Bones, his SPFBO finalist first book in the series. As a bonus, there is a playlist too!
Sharon Rivest, the author of DECEIT, chose Tales from the Asylum as her SPFBO 9 spotlight, so let’s see how she imagines our home!
Brendan Noble, author of A Dagger in the Winds chose the challenge of What the Hungarian?! for his SPFBO 9 spotlight. Let’s see how he did with it!
Part 4 of the second SPFBO 9 To Be Continued… story, The Illusionist’s Nightmare is written by Mike Rousseau. Time to find out how Ezri’s story ends!
Part 3 of the second SPFBO 9 To Be Continued… story, The Illusionist’s Nightmare is written by Ryan Kirk. Her plan being made, it’s time for Ezri to get to work.
