About this book club

Meet us at Bar and Bakery inside Birdie Books for Spells & Slow Burns, where magic meets romance! Dive into enchanting stories filled with charm, mystery, and those deliciously drawn-out love stories that keep you hooked. It's the perfect hangout to share your thoughts, meet fellow romantasy fans, and get lost in some spellbinding reads. This club alternate between cozy, character-driven love stories and sweeping, epic fantasies.

This Month’s Book

Katabasis by R. F. Kuang

Alice Law has only ever had one goal: to become one of the brightest minds in the field of Magick. She has sacrificed everything to make that a reality: her pride, her health, her love life, and most definitely her sanity. All to work with Professor Jacob Grimes at Cambridge, the greatest magician in the world.

That is, until he dies in a magical accident that could possibly be her fault.

Grimes is now in Hell, and she’s going in after him. Because his recommendation could hold her very future in his now incorporeal hands and even death is not going to stop the pursuit of her dreams….

Nor will the fact that her rival, Peter Murdoch, has come to the very same conclusion.

With nothing but the tales of Orpheus and Dante to guide them, enough chalk to draw the Pentagrams necessary for their spells, and the burning desire to make all the academic trauma mean anything, they set off across Hell to save a man they don’t even like.

But Hell is not like the storybooks say, Magick isn’t always the answer, and there’s something in Alice and Peter’s past that could forge them into the perfect allies…or lead to their doom.