Together Kahina and Atalanta dream up a game they’re sure will save the huntress from an unwanted marriage…but soon find themselves in over their heads. Solitary Death and Night dream of love despite being fated for loneliness, Aasha meets a captivating Spy Mistress on the way to claiming her own destiny, and the shadowy tale of a bride without a bridegroom comes to light. It turns out Nita is among the most valuable specimens of them all, a being capable of changing her own biology. Just a cursory glance at all the YA books coming out in 2018 shows a massive array of genres, authors, and characters both new and beloved. The kingdom is threatened by forces within and without, and only by working together might Elli and Ansa find a way to preserve it. It isn't until she hears that all of the bodies from the crash have gone missing that she realizes something is wrong. Hardcover Seventeen-year-old Eelynâs world is war. Then a theft from her father’s kingdom sends Kora, with her ability to sense gold, on a quest to retrieve the stolen items and restore the treasury. And the restless dead are the least of her problems. Read one of the best fantasy books of 2018 including epic fantasy books like Tomi Adeyemi's "Children of Blood and Bone." In a world where a cold peace reigns between the forces of magic and religion, a crown prince questions his forebears’ prejudice, a child soldier adjusts to postwar life, and a black-market pirate tries to fly under the radar. This follow-up to Taylor’s gorgeous Printz Honor book Strange the Dreamer picks up where its predecessor left off, following a shocking death that transforms the stakes for Lazlo, Sarai, and the people of Weep. In a bid to save her family and her kind, Wren infiltrates the Judges’ ranks, embedding as an intern to the influential Cassa Harkness. Kestra Dallisor's father is the right hand man of the cruel king, Lord Endrick, which makes Kestra a valuable bargaining chip. It's always so much fun to look forward to some of the books coming our way in the new year, but especially when so many of those books are fantasies written by women and featuring some of the strongest, most diverse, and most kick ass heroines we have ever seen. The two fall in love against a backdrop of impending war and the struggle to stay true to families whose motives aren’t as pure as their children would wish. Hardcover Hardcover But she’s not sure that path is the future she wants—and when the disappearance of entire families points at a threat even bigger that zombies, it’s unclear whether Jane will have any kind of future at all. She enters and ultimately escapes an enchanted underground kingdom animated by art and obsession. The battles are vivid, realistic and unflinchingly violent. It centers on Amani, a girl living under the occupation of the vicious Vathek Empire. On their arrival in the kingdom, they learn the truth: they are the king’s illegitimate daughters, and one of them must rise up to take his crown. Kristoff tackles the consequences of climate change and the complex enormity of artificial intelligence in this Mad Maxx meets Pinocchio post-apocalyptic world. When Elephants Fly is a beautiful, tender, coming-of-age story that tackles some very daunting topics. Who have ever felt that they don’t fit, they don’t belong, that they aren’t enough. The seaside town of Sparrow lies under a centuries-old curse, following the drowning deaths of a trio of accused witches.
| $19.95. Holly Black’s return to the dangerous world of the fey is just as dark, deadly, and gritty-magical as you’re hoping it will be. Soon she finds herself facing a sadistic royal, dark discoveries about what it means to be a Belle, and the impossible longings of her heart. But each secret she unfurls gives way to the next, ensnaring Mariko and Okami in a political scheme that threatens their honor, their love and very the safety of the empire. Gotham City is ripe for the taking. Alice’s itinerant life with her mother, Ella, is marked by the sinister bad luck that chases them from place to place—and when Ella is taken by a shadowy figure of impossible origins, she leaves her daughter with a desperate warning: stay away from Althea’s isolated estate, the Hazel Wood. Need another excuse to treat yourself to a new book this week? McKinney (September 25) $18.99. 50 of Our Most Anticipated YA Fantasy Novels of 2018: July to December. Fans of Chokshi’s gorgeous debut duology cannot miss this trio of novellas. Her reign began in 2015 with Queen of Shadows and continues today with Kingdom of Ash.The latter is the epic finale of her Throne of Glass series, which follows the adventures of the deadly assassin Celaena Sardothien. But she's still the girl with the ability to kill with a single touch â and now she's got the whole world in the palm of her hand. Here are the best new young adult science fiction and fantasy books in December 2018, and of the year. The villain of “The Little Mermaid” gets her due in Henning’s origin story, opening on a young outcast, Evie, grieving the loss of her best friend and hiding her magical abilities from the fishing town that doesn’t accept her. Lucia knows there's something special about her daughter and she'll do anything to protect her, even if that means facing Kyan alone.
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