The Feywild Job by C.L. Polk
LGBTQ Fantasy Romance
June 30, 2026 by Random House Worlds
ARC

When I read the blurb for The Feywild Job I was intrigued and liked the idea of a second chance cozy fantasy romance with heists and con jobs. I will also admit to being taken in by the cover.

This was a fun book, I’m not a huge fan of the D&D world, but I enjoyed it, nonetheless. It does start out rather slow, building the character’s backstories and the main character’s previous relationship, and how they got to where they are now. They are kind of trapped into a heist that will take them to the feywild and force them to work together, even though they hate each other due to a past betrayal. They are joined by their current partners in, crime, who are both quite awesome.

Once the adventure within the feywild begins the pacing picks up. The romance is on the softer side, so don’t expect any super steamy scenes between the two main characters, but there is a HEA.

All in all, this was an enjoyable read, but the slower pacing may be not everyone’s cup of tea.

The Someday Garden by Ashley Poston
Magical Realism
June 16, 2026 by Berkley
ARC

Ashley Poston excels at writing magical realism romances with grief storylines. The Someday Garden deals with the death of a best friend and how the FMC copes with it by closing herself off and taking a remote job at the Lilymoor House. A place her and her best friend Harriet once visited and vowed to come back to in ten years.

This is a much slower paced book than this author’s previous releases. The writing is lovely, with a large cast of colorful characters, and the mystery of a hidden garden and a man stuck in time at the center of it. Sophie Drear is a woman who herself is lost in time, grieving her best friend, and unable to move forward. She’s afraid to change and grow and become someone who Harriet doesn’t know. She’s come to Lilymoor House as a kind of promise kept, and because she feels close to Harriet there.

When doors suddenly appear randomly around the estate, and she meets a mysterious man who seems stuck within a small, half-finished garden, she knows she must help him get out. And by helping Cyrus, she helps herself.

This was an enchanting book, the pacing was much slower, and I had to set it down and come back to it a couple of times, but ultimately, I enjoyed it quite a bit. But Ashley Poston romances are like that, supremely soft, dealing with grief and sorrow, but in the end, there is growth and a sweet HEA.