{"id":342373,"date":"2026-09-10T00:42:21","date_gmt":"2026-09-10T00:42:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/342373\/"},"modified":"2026-09-10T00:42:21","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T00:42:21","slug":"pirate-queens-tarot-magic-and-fantasy-romcoms-romantasy-report-for-september-and-october-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/342373\/","title":{"rendered":"Pirate Queens, Tarot Magic, and Fantasy RomComs: Romantasy Report for September and October 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">(Tor Books; September 29, 2026) \u201cWritten in the stars\u201d usually refers to an epic love story, but Bel Banta\u2019s romantic fantasy debut uses it to set up a murder mystery in a Tudor-inspired court where fates are determined by magicians specializing in star signs. Bianca Mortlake is an especially rare Moonborn magician, thanks to the precise alignment of heavenly bodies at her birth. Despite wishing for a quiet life, she is dragged to the court of Alvion, where two queens have already met gruesome deaths and the remaining royals are ruthless. The only person Bianca can rely upon is Roland, who she studied alongside; a Venusborn, he can sense the desires of the living. Whether that will mean solving the mystery, or calling out why Bianca finds him so alluring, is anyone\u2019s guess.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(Tor Books; September 29, 2026) \u201cWritten in the stars\u201d usually refers to an epic love story, but Bel&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":342374,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[128399,128400,128401,128402,128403,128404,128405,115643,128406,128407,128408,128409,128410,128411,9,24,63,122,124,123,128412,128413,39511,36147,128414,128415,128416,128417,128418,128419,128420],"class_list":["post-342373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-alexandria-bellefleur","tag-ali-hazelwood","tag-audrey-goldberg-ruoff","tag-b-k-borison","tag-bel-banta","tag-elizabeth-agyemang","tag-erynne-rivers","tag-fantasy","tag-gillian-daniels","tag-gryffin-murphy","tag-hannah-kaner","tag-katee-robert","tag-katie-jung","tag-mir-benitz","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news","tag-rachel-gillig","tag-reading-recommendations","tag-rebecca-yarros","tag-romance","tag-romantasy-report","tag-sarah-j-maas","tag-thea-guanzon","tag-tiffany-hunt","tag-victoria-aveyard","tag-vl-bovalino","tag-wanda-hellmund"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=342373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342373\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/342374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}