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✨ January Fantasy Book Club Pick — Colony-Core Weirdness Incoming

January is already a strange month in Wisconsin, so we’re leaning all the way in with a story that starts on a lonely highway and ends… somewhere not even Google Maps can cope with.

An ordinary family is carjacked on a desolate stretch of road—only to find themselves abducted into a bizarre new world taking shape in the California desert. What they’ve stumbled into isn’t a cult, or a compound, or a mirage. It’s something being built.

Earth has been quietly invaded by an alien microorganism—part virus, part parasite, part “no thank you”—and the infection changes everything. Those who survive the initial attack don’t just recover… they bond with it.
We’re talking enhanced abilities, near-immortality, amplified desires, and a new biological mandate: spread the contagion and grow the colony.

“Survival” stops meaning what it used to. Especially once the colony’s newborns arrive—because whatever they are, they’re definitely not human.

✨ For fans of…

Sci-fi horror & alien infection stories 👁️🦠

Annihilation, The Passage, or The Girl With All the Gifts

Body-horror-with-purpose

Survival fiction that flips the script

Stories about transformation—terrifying, wondrous, or both

⚠️ Topics Included:

Body horror & mutation

Abduction & captivity

Contagion / infection

Violence & psychological distress

Non-human birth imagery

✨ February Fantasy Book Club Pick — Carve the Mark

Winter is bleak, space is colder, and February feels like the perfect time to dive into a galaxy where destiny cuts deep and power comes with a price.

Cyra is the sister of the ruthless tyrant ruling the Shotet people. Her currentgift inflicts constant pain—pain her brother weaponizes, turning her into his personal instrument of torture. But Cyra is far more than her suffering. She’s sharp, resilient, and quietly plotting a life that isn’t defined by her brother’s cruelty.

Akos comes from Thuvhe, a frozen nation-planet where kindness still counts for something. His currentgift shields him in ways even he doesn’t fully understand. When Akos and his brother are captured by the Shotet, his mission becomes brutally simple: get his brother out alive, no matter the cost.

When fate (and a tyrant with terrible vibes) forces Akos into Cyra’s orbit, the bitterness between their people seems impossible to overcome. But survival has a way of reshaping loyalties—and in this fractured galaxy, two enemies may be the only hope each other has left.

Friendship, power, pain, love, and the blurry line between destiny and choice—Veronica Roth brings it all in this high-stakes, character-driven space fantasy.

✨ For fans of…

Galaxy-spanning fantasy with political intrigue 🌌

Powerful, morally complex protagonists

Enemies-to-allies tension with emotional depth

Red Rising, Shadow and Bone, or Legendborn

Stories where destiny isn’t a gift—it’s a challenge

⚠️ Topics Included:

Torture & chronic pain

Violence & captivity

War, political manipulation

Family trauma

Moral ambiguity

🗝️ March Fantasy Book Club Selection —Kingmakers by Sophie Lark

Set within the shadowed halls of Kingmakers, a ruthless university where the heirs of the world’s most powerful crime families are trained in influence, loyalty, and intimidation, this novel immerses readers in a world where power is currency and survival is never guaranteed 🖤

Bound by blood and long-standing allegiances, Leo follows his childhood friend—and first love—Anna into this dangerous environment, believing that loyalty will be enough to protect them both. At Kingmakers, however, love becomes leverage, trust is fragile, and every relationship carries a hidden cost.

The greatest threat emerges in the form of Dean Yenin, a Bratva heir with a calculated vendetta. Cold, strategic, and relentless, Dean is determined to dismantle Leo’s life piece by piece, beginning with Anna—the person Leo holds most dear ⚔️

As rivalries intensify and alliances shift, Leo is forced to confront impossible choices: how much of himself he is willing to sacrifice to survive, and whether love can endure in a world designed to destroy it. Can he reclaim the connection that once defined him, or has Kingmakers already claimed Anna for good?

Dark, dramatic, and driven by high emotional stakes, Kingmakers blends romance, power struggles, and moral tension—making it a compelling choice for fantasy readers drawn to dangerous worlds, complicated loyalties, and love tested under pressure 🕯️✨