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The Astonishing Color of After — Emily X. R. Pan

TITLE: The Astonishing Color of After AUTHOR: Emily X. R. Pan RELEASED: March 20th, 2018; Little, Brown Books for Young Readers GENRE: Fantasy/Contemporary AGE RANGE: YA SYNOPSIS: Leigh Chen Sanders is absolutely certain about one thing: When her mother died by suicide, she turned into a bird. Leigh, who is half Asian and half white, travels to Taiwan to meet her maternal grandparents for the first time. There, she is determined to find her mother, the bird. In her search, she winds up chasing after...

Children of Blood and Bone — Tomi Adeyemi

TITLE: Children of Blood and Bone AUTHOR: Tomi Adeyemi SERIES: Legacy of Orïsha, #1 RELEASED: March 6th, 2018; Henry Holt Books for Young Readers GENRE: Fantasy AGE RANGE: YA SYNOPSIS: Zélie Adebola remembers when the soil of Orïsha hummed with magic. Burners ignited flames, Tiders beckoned waves, and Zélie’s Reaper mother summoned forth souls. But everything changed the night magic disappeared. Under the orders of a ruthless king, maji were killed, leaving Zélie without a mother and her people without hope. Now Zélie has one...

Sky in the Deep — Adrienne Young

TITLE: Sky in the Deep AUTHOR: Adrienne Young RELEASED: April 24th, 2018; Wednesday Books GENRE: Fantasy AGE RANGE: YA SYNOPSIS:OND ELDR. BREATHE FIRE. Raised to be a warrior, seventeen-year-old Eelyn fights alongside her Aska clansmen in an ancient rivalry against the Riki clan. Her life is brutal but simple: fight and survive. Until the day she sees the impossible on the battlefield — her brother, fighting with the enemy — the brother she watched die five years ago. Faced with her brother’s betrayal, she...

Hullmetal Girls — Emily Skrutskie

TITLE: Hullmetal Girls AUTHOR: Emily Skrutskie RELEASES: July 17th, 2017; Delacorte GENRE: Sci-fi AGE RANGE: YA SYNOPSIS:Aisha Un-Haad would do anything for her family. When her brother contracts a plague, she knows her janitor’s salary isn’t enough to fund his treatment. So she volunteers to become a Scela, a mechanically enhanced soldier sworn to protect and serve the governing body of the Fleet, the collective of starships they call home. If Aisha can survive the harrowing modifications and earn an elite place in...

Twilight — Stephenie Meyer (Reread Review)

TITLE: Twilight AUTHOR: Stephenie Meyer SERIES: Twilight Saga, #1 RELEASED: October 5th, 2005; Little, Brown and Company GENRE: Paranormal Romance/Fantasy AGE RANGE: YA SYNOPSIS: About three things I was absolutely positive. First, Edward was a vampire. Second, there was a part of him—and I didn’t know how dominant that part might be—that thirsted for my blood. And third, I was unconditionally and irrevocably in love with him. In the first book of the Twilight Saga, internationally bestselling author Stephenie Meyer introduces Bella Swan...

Clockwork Angel — Cassandra Clare

TITLE: Clockwork Angel AUTHOR: Cassandra Clare SERIES: The Infernal Devices, #1 RELEASED: August 31st, 2010; Margaret Ferguson Books GENRE: Fantasy AGE RANGE: YA SYNOPSIS: Magic is dangerous—but love is more dangerous still. When sixteen-year-old Tessa Gray crosses the ocean to find her brother, her destination is England, the time is the reign of Queen Victoria, and something terrifying is waiting for her in London’s Downworld, where vampires, warlocks and other supernatural folk stalk the gaslit streets. Only the Shadowhunters, warriors dedicated to ridding the...

Spinning Silver — Naomi Novik

TITLE: Spinning Silver AUTHOR: Naomi Novik RELEASES: July 10th, 2018; Del Rey GENRE: Fantasy AGE RANGE: Adult SYNOPSIS: Miryem is the daughter and granddaughter of moneylenders… but her father isn’t a very good one. Free to lend and reluctant to collect, he has loaned out most of his wife’s dowry and left the family on the edge of poverty–until Miryem steps in. Hardening her heart against her fellow villagers’ pleas, she sets out to collect what is owed–and finds herself more than up to...

Bright We Burn — Kiersten White (ARC Review)

TITLE: Bright We Burn AUTHOR: Kiersten White SERIES: The Conqueror’s Saga, #3 RELEASES: July 10th, 2018; Delacorte Press GENRE: Historical Fiction AGE RANGE: YA SYNOPSIS: Haunted by the sacrifices he made in Constantinople, Radu is called back to the new capital. Mehmed is building an empire, becoming the sultan his people need. But Mehmed has a secret: as emperor, he is more powerful than ever . . . and desperately lonely. Does this mean Radu can finally have more with Mehmed . . ....

Over and Over Again — Cole McCade (ARC Review)

TITLE: Over and Over Again AUTHOR: Cole McCade RELEASES: July 23rd, 2018 GENRE: Contemporary AGE RANGE: Adult SYNOPSIS: A ring of braided grass. A promise. Ten years of separation. And memories of an innocent love with the power to last through time. When Luca Ward was five years old, he swore he would love Imre Claybourne forever. Years later, that promise holds true—and when Luca finds himself shipped off to Imre’s North Yorkshire goat farm in disgrace, long-buried feelings flare back to life when he...

City of Glass — Cassandra Clare

TITLE: City of Glass AUTHOR: Cassandra Clare SERIES: The Mortal Instruments, #3 RELEASED: March 24th, 2009; Margaret Ferguson Books GENRE: Fantasy AGE RANGE: YA SYNOPSIS: To save her mother’s life, Clary must travel to the City of Glass, the ancestral home of the Shadowhunters — never mind that entering the city without permission is against the Law, and breaking the Law could mean death. To make things worse, she learns that Jace does not want her there, and her best friend, Simon, has been...