Events › Club Book with Mai Corland

New York Times bestselling author Mai Corland is prominent in the vanguard of “romantasy” fiction. Five Broken Blades, her first foray into this booming subgenre, introduced readers to a magical realm inspired by Korean culture and mythology. Yusan is ruled by an immortal oppressor, the God King Joon. Five of the land’s most dangerous hitmen and rogues are summoned together to do the impossible: end Joon’s reign of terror. Notes Publishers Weekly: “Skillfully combining espionage, fantasy, romance, and a quest for justice, Five Broken Blades marks Corland as an exciting new voice." Four Ruined Realms, the next installment in her promising The Broken Blades series, hit shelves in January. Under the name Meredith Ireland, Corland has also penned a number of other young adult and middle grade titles. These include The Jasmine Project (2021), Everyone Hates Kelsie Miller (2022), and most recently Emma and the Love Spell (2024). In a starred review, School Library Journal describes Emma as “a sweet story touching on self-identity, belonging, and otherness in an accessible way for young readers.”

Hosted in partnership with Club Book, a program of the Metropolitan Library Service Agency (MELSA) and is coordinated by Library Strategies, the nonprofit consulting group of The Friends of the St. Paul Public Library. The program is made possible through Minnesota’s Arts & Cultural Heritage Fund. Club Book is a unique player on the Minnesota literary events scene. They collaborate with all eight library systems in the seven-county region to pair bestselling and award-winning authors with audiences in all corners of the Twin Cities metro.