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Welcome to Fantastic Top Fives with Wyrd & Wonder!

Wyrd and Wonder have brought back their Top Fives prompts, so every Friday this month, we’ll be tackling the prompts in our 5-Star Books in Five Words feature.

The first prompt is Your Favourite Magical Systems or Spells. These can be stories shaped by spells, your favourite spell, or your favourite magic system!

A big thank you to all our contributors for their excellent recommendations!

Underlined book titles in bold contain links to reviews on this site.

Nils

Ink Blood Sister Scribe by Emma Törzs (out in July)

Books

Really

Do

Hold

Magic

Beth

Threadneedle by Cari Thomas

Entanglement;

spells

and

family

curses

Julia

Gates of Hope by JE Hannaford

Songmagic,

animal

companions

and

adventure.

Martin 

The Belgariad by David Eddings

The

will

and

the

word. 

Theo

The Deathless by Peter Newman

Take

relatives’

bodies,

live

forever.

Dorian

Chasing Graves by Ben Galley

Hey,

buy

yourself

a

ghost!

Gray

The Scholomance by Naomi Novik
Drat,

My

Magic

Only

Murders

Jonathan

A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin

Find

the

thing’s

true

name

Hil

A Necklace of Raindrops by Joan Aiken

Sometimes

a

single

tear

suffices

Next week, we’ll be looking at our favourite reads that feature magical songs in some form!

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Flying witch artwork by astromoali