Title: Januaries

Author: Olivie Blake

Januaries is a collection of new and iconic short stories and novellas from New York Times bestselling author Olivie Blake.

Once upon a time in a land far, far away, the tutelary spirit to a magical bridge rapidly approaches burnout. Meanwhile, congress enacts a complex auditing system designed to un-waste your youth, a banished fairy answers a Craigslist ad, a Victorian orphan gains literacy for her occult situationship, and a multiverse assassin contemplates the one who got away. Escape the slow trudge of mortality with these magical ruminations on life, death, and the love (or revenge) that outlasts both, featuring modified fairytales, contemporary heists, absurdist poetry, and at least one set of actual wedding vows.

I really enjoyed this collection of short stories! They were literally stories of love, magic and betrayal!

The writing was exquisite and the different types of stories were so far ranging, is there nothing this author can’t write?!

My favourites were Sucker for Pain, To Make a Man and The Animation Games!

I listened to the audiobook but also have a physical copy and the illustrations inside were beautiful!

Would defo recommend for anyone not wanting the time commitment of a full novel as most of these are short reads!