November is here, which means it’s time to announce another Cyn’s Workshop Book of the Month!
The votes are in, and I’m excited to announce that Thirteen Midnights by Isabel Strychacz is our November 2026 winner! 🖤📚
There’s something about a fantasy novel with a mysterious atmosphere that immediately catches my attention.
And Thirteen Midnights certainly knows how to make a first impression.
I’m particularly intrigued by the contrast between the delicate purple tones and the threatening figure standing in the background.
It’s beautiful, unsettling, and exactly the kind of aesthetic that makes me want to discover what secrets are hiding within the pages.
Synopsis
To save her best friend, a young woman must follow the mysterious figure that has plagued her village for generations into his sprawling, otherworldly realm in this dark fairy tale that’s “impossible to put down” (School Library Journal, starred review) and perfect for fans of The Cruel Prince and The Rose Bargain.
Love will unite them. Fate will break them.
In the superstitious town of Hollow there once lived a long and powerful line of witches. Determined to secure their power, they cast a curse on the only one who threatened their reign: the Lord of the Woods—the enigmatic Piper.
But the curse had a price.
Every thirteen years, someone from Hollow is stolen away into the Piper’s realm by his eerie melodies. No one is ever seen again.
Violet, the last witch left, is destined to break the curse. But when her best friend is taken instead, Violet ventures into the strange and enchanted land called Otherhollow to put things right and confront the Piper. But the Piper is wild, and charming, and different from the monstrous villain in her family’s stories.
Her fate is to kill the Piper and break the curse. But now fate must reckon with something wholly unexpected…Violet’s own traitorous heart.
