IMMORTAL GAME BY ALLISON SAFT // blog tour book feature: YA fae fantasy ft sapphic rivals to lovers & deadly chess competitions? sign me up!

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Title: Immortal Game
Author: Allison Saft
Page count: 400
Date published: 4 August 2026
Genre: Young adult fantasy

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Synopsis:

Six years ago, Shea Fury’s sister was whisked away by the High King of the Otherworld, the ruler of the treacherous land of fae. Although Shea has spent the years since dreaming of rescuing her sister from captivity, the Iron Veil that separates the human world from that of the fae has made it only a wish. That is, until an invitation to participate in a once-in-a-lifetime chess tournament in the Otherworld arrives on Shea’s doorstep. The winner of the tournament may ask the High King to grant one wish, and Shea is finally within reach of hers.

But entering the tournament and winning it are two different matters. Dark magic lurks around every corner in the Otherworld, and Shea’s cutthroat opponents are willing to bend the rules to make their own wishes come true. To make it to the end—and to find her sister—she is forced to strike an alliance with her longtime rival, the sharply beautiful fae princess, Ciara of Bri Leith. One wrong move, though, and Shea could lose more than just the competition: She’d lose her sister, her dignity, and maybe even her life.

In Immortal Game, Allison Saft has written a high-stakes sapphic love story brimming with competitive tension set against a lush, Irish folklore-inspired fantasy world.

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Big thanks to Colored Pages Book Tours for having me and to Wednesday Books for the eARC via Netgalley! All thoughts and opinions are my own.

🌿 YA fantasy

🌿 with all the fae

🌿  sapphic romance

🌿  rivals to lovers

🌿  competing chess masters

 

Allison Saft is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Wings of Starlight, A Dark and Drowning Tide, and other romantic fantasy novels. She teaches creative writing at Wilkes University, and In her free time, she practices aerial circus arts. She lives in West Virginia with her partner and an Italian greyhound named Marzipan.

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