Romantasy Book Club

New for 2025!

Join us each month for a new virtual book club focusing on Romantasy titles. This genre blends Romance and Fantasy. Favorites in this category include Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros and A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah Maas. Each month we will discuss a new book. Registration is required in order to get the Zoom link for the program.

February 18 - The Spellshop by Sarah Beth Durst

From the publisher:

"The Spellshop is Sarah Beth Durst’s romantasy debut–a lush cottagecore tale full of stolen spellbooks, unexpected friendships, sweet jams, and even sweeter love.

Kiela has always had trouble dealing with people. Thankfully, as a librarian at the Great Library of Alyssium, she and her assistant, Caz—a magically sentient spider plant—have spent the last decade sequestered among the empire’s most precious spellbooks, preserving their magic for the city’s elite.

When a revolution begins and the library goes up in flames, she and Caz flee with all the spellbooks they can carry and head to a remote island Kiela never thought she’d see again: her childhood home. Taking refuge there, Kiela discovers, much to her dismay, a nosy—and very handsome—neighbor who can’t take a hint and keeps showing up day after day to make sure she’s fed and to help fix up her new home.

In need of income, Kiela identifies something that even the bakery in town doesn’t have: jam. With the help of an old recipe book her parents left her and a bit of illegal magic, her cottage garden is soon covered in ripe berries.

But magic can do more than make life a little sweeter, so Kiela risks the consequences of using unsanctioned spells and opens the island’s first-ever and much needed secret spellshop."

Coming in the next months...
March 18 - The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune
April 15 - This Time Tomorrow by Emma Straub