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J.R.R. Tolkien, a devout Catholic, is often considered the father of the modern fantasy genre. Before Tolkien, the fantastic had largely been relegated to ancient myths, folklore, and children’s fairytales. It was not seen as the sort of thing one would find in a novel written for adults (outside of the Horror genre). While The Lord of the Rings was not overtly allegorical like C.S. Lewis’ The Chronicles of Narnia, Tolkien himself described his books as “fundamentally religio

Seventeen-year-old Ava lives in a post-apocalyptic world where all humans who are not magic-users have allegedly died out. But everyone on the continent of Magus is safe—as long as they are born as either a red or blue magic user. Yellow magic has been banned since Ava was a young child. Yellow magic users have the power to manipulate people’s minds, and everyone knows that automatically makes them evil. But when a yellow magic user who is neither evil nor manipulative appear

Ben is just a regular Bengal cat living in with his humans in South Wales—until he is summoned to another dimension by an evil warlock that makes him hunt demon rats. Although he manages to escape the warlock’s tower, he finds himself in an unfamiliar world of magic and dragons. Despite Ben’s pride in his purebred Bengal status, the only person who sees him as anything more than an ordinary cat is Salanraja, a dragon who is herself a bit of an outcast from her own kind. Gr