The Book of Autumn

De: Molly O'Sullivan

Narrado por: Piper Goodeve

For fans of Adrienne Young, Olivie Blake, Erin Sterling, Hazel Beck, and Leigh Bardugo's Ninth House, a spellbinding debut about ambition, privilege, second-chance romance, and ancient magic set at an enchanted school tucked among the red mesas of rural New Mexico, where a formidable pair of magicians are summoned to pursue an alleged killer.

Try as she might, anthropologist Marcella Gibbons can't escape the fact that she's a dimidium, one half of a formidable pair of Magicians, forever tied together to enable the other's powers. After a tumultuous final year at Seinford and Brown College of Agriculture (and Magic) in rural New Mexico, Cella felt more than a little uneasy about returning to the sun-drenched desert campus ever again. She'd cut ties with her other half—the charming and rugged rancher Max Middlemore—and sworn off Magic, academia, and heartache for good.

Until Max turns up at her door, grinning under his cowboy hat for one last favor. Something is shifting at her alma mater, something bigger than anyone understands. One student is dead. Another is floating midair in the infirmary, growling guttural nonsense and terrifying the staff. Their best, perhaps only, chance to intervene requires Cella and Max to work together. But the origins of the disturbances lie centuries ago. To unravel them, Cella will have to confront the truth about her past—and Max. Because she might be challenging a power she could never rival alone …

“Ancient magic, gruesome murder, a second-chance romance to die for, and a setting so vivid, you can feel the desert air on your skin and smell the horses. The Book of Autumn is a masterclass in contemporary fantasy: suspenseful, clever, and atmospheric.”—Genoveva Dimova, author of Foul Days

©2025 Molly O'Sullivan (P)2025 Recorded Books

Cella and Max are Dimidiums.

Once friends and loves, Max and Cella get asked to return to their college to solve a mystery. Each are magic wielders and together they amplify each other's powers. Cella has a lot of shyness and insecurities, and Max betrayed her. Weird in that the book is filled with footnotes, some from the main characters and some by secondary characters. Max and Cella work to figure out the magic used to kill one student and hex another. Time is of the essence before school ends and all the students go home for the summer. Convoluted as the backstory is hard to follow. Too much of the story I didn't understand. DNF