"Hello, librarian, I was to find a romantasy. I can't remember the title but the cover is black and grey with a swoopy font and a sword."
"I'll help you as soon as I've found this gentleman's thriller in a blue colour scheme with a silhouetted man in a long coat at night."

I feel absolutely sure romantasy is now a sufficiently large and established genre to have more than one look.

Checking out the Goodreads Readers Choice first round nominations for romantasy and if I were asked to do Kim's Game with these covers I'd be in trouble, because 10/12 are basically the same design. :/

No shade at all to the books, and the individual covers are all fine, but come on.

I really enjoyed the Magicals Anonymous spin offs as well, I wish there were more!

I think the novel is The Neon Court by Kate Griffin, it's definitely one of the Matthew Swift series.

I actually love it but it's aggressively hard to find your way round. Brutalism at its finest.

I got married in the conservatory which gave us a fabulous view of panicking guests looking down from entirely the wrong levels. (I love the Barb but jeez, just... signs.)

There is an urban fantasy novel that has a magical chase sequence through the Barbican, predicated on how the place is a non-Euclidean nightmare even in the real world.

I'm having this week off, hence the flurry!

2023. I could have sworn Pratchett put a stake through the heart of the Anagrammatical Villain in Carpe Jugulum, 1998, but here we are

I could almost be persuaded by this but only almost

Published by HarperCollins.

I searched on the name in order to check that yes that would be the big reveal, and now I am just off to discover time travel in order to return to the point in my life before I started reading this.

The snowman sequence had me hysterical.