Hello everyone! We are so excited to announce the tour schedule for Strange Familiars by Keshe Chow.
May 18th
One Book More – Review, Favorite Quotes
Books1987 – Promotional Post
May 19th
Betwixt The Sheets – Promotional Post
The Clever Reader – Promotional Post
May 20th
More Books Please blog – Review
The Book Dutchesses – Promotional Post
May 21st
Drunk On Pop – Top 5 Reasons to Read Strange Familiars
May 22nd
Mx. Phoebe’s Viewpoint – Review, Favorite Quotes
The Violet West – Promotional Post
Never Hollowed By The Staer – Promotional Post
May 23rd
Ilovebooksandstuffblog – Review
May 24th
Boys’ Mom Reads! – Promotional Post
May 18th
1bookmore – Review, Favorite Quotes
bingereader – Promotional Post
lisashelves – Review, Favorite Quotes
onemused – Promotional Post
bookswithmana – Review
meghenslittlelibrary – Creative post
May 19th
theink.slinger – Promotional Post
thecleverreader – Promotional Post
redreviews4you – Journal Spread
rickys_radical_reads – Promotional Post
ataurusreadsbooks – Creative post
ninebookishlives – Promotional Post
May 20th
morebookspleaseblog – Review
thebookdutchesses – Promotional Post
deasbookshelf – Top 5 Reasons to Read Strange Familiars
reds.reading – Review
sparks_books – Review
bookdemonio – Promotional Post
May 21st
raequigley – Top 5 Reasons to Read Strange Familiars
the.readersarchive – Promotional Post
spoonie.reads – Review, Playlist
thorfinns_library – Promotional Post
becca.in.a.book – Promotional Post, Tik Tok (https://www.tiktok.com/@becca.in.a.book)
May 22nd
mxphoebesviewpoint – Review, Favorite Quotes
therearenobadbooks – Promotional Post
juliannareads – Review
bookish_aly_cat – Promotional Post
booking.with.janelle – Review
May 23rd
ilovebooksandstuffblog – Review
hardcovers.withhans – Mood Board
alexandriavwilliams_ – Book Look
jaimes_mystical_library – Promotional Post
bookish.by.trade – Top 5 Reasons to Read Strange Familiars
May 24th
enthuse_reader – Review
nissa_the.bookworm – Promotional Post
bookbias – Promotional Post
brittyoreads – Review
amzreads – Review
Genre: Adult Romance
Publishing date: May 19, 2026
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Rep: disability, mental illness, LGBTQ+, AAPI
Synopsis:
All’s fair in love and magic.
Gwendolynne Chan just needs to get through her final year. At Seamere College of Magical Veterinary Sciences, she spends her days using her powers to heal companion animals while her nights are spent studying for exams. As the top student in the magical familiars stream, she is on track to be awarded Dux of the entire school – as long as the pretentious twat Harrisford Briggs doesn’t beat her to it.
Harrisford Briggs was born into privilege. His father, the Chief Financial Officer of Magecorp, a major global distributor of magic, expects him to come top of the year. Harrisford, though, can’t help but notice that his father has been acting odd. Really odd. And there are strange whisperings, too. Rumours of uncontrollable surges of excess magic, which Magecorp has been trying to cover up, as well as rampant corruption within the Magical Ministry itself.
When these magical surges begin to rock their way through London, causing chaos and explosions and familiars going feral, Gwen and Harrisford find themselves without a reliable source of magic, putting both of their academic careers at risk. To fix this, they must put aside their duelling feelings of lust and loathing, and – along with Gwen’s snarky cat familiar – team up to diagnose the problem. If they fail, not only is their education at stake, but also the fate of the magical world.
Content Warning: classism, cursing/swearing, medical/veterinary content, racism (mostly microaggressions), self-harm, sexual content (open door), animal cruelty/neglect, animal death (occurs off page), human death (human death, occurs off page), blood, emotional abuse (parental), depictions of surgery, toxic relationship (parental), fire/fire injury, light gore, grief, animal pregnancy, animal birth, sexism, alcohol (consumption), bullying, chronic illness, drug abuse (illicit use of prescription medications), drug use (as above), dysphoria (mentioned), gaslighting, gun violence, kidnapping, confinement, mental illness, misogyny, murder (mentioned), transphobia (mentioned), violence
Keshe Chow lives in Naarm (Melbourne) with her husband, two kids, and an ice cream-obsessed cat named Wasabi. She is a qualified veterinarian with a specialty in cats (Feline Medicine, specifically).
She won the 2020 Perito Prize, the 2021 Yarra Literature Prize, the 2021 Rachel Funari Prize for Fiction, the 2022 Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards Prize for an Unpublished Manuscript, and the 2023 Uncharted Magazine Thrilling Contest. Her debut young adult fantasy novel The Girl With No Reflection was an instant #1 Sunday Times bestseller and has been shortlisted in the 2025 ABIA awards. Her second YA fantasy, For No Mortal Creature, released in October 2025 with Penguin Random House, and her debut adult fantasy, Strange Familiars, is due to come out in 2026.
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