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Beneath the Sugar Sky — Seanan McGuire

TITLE: Beneath the Sugar Sky AUTHOR: Seanan McGuire SERIES: Wayward Children, #3 RELEASED: January 9th, 2018; Tor.com GENRE: Fantasy AGE RANGE: Adult SYNOPSIS: Beneath the Sugar Sky returns to Eleanor West’s Home for Wayward Children. At this magical boarding school, children who have experienced fantasy adventures are reintroduced to the “real” world. Sumi died years before her prophesied daughter Rini could be born. Rini was born anyway, and now she’s trying to bring her mother back from a world without magic. {GOODREADS . AMAZON . B&N . BOOKDEPOSITORY . INDIGO} Every time I think...

Nevernight — Jay Kristoff

TITLE: Nevernight AUTHOR: Jay Kristoff SERIES: The Nevernight Chronicle, #1 RELEASED: August 9th, 2016; Thomas Dunne Books GENRE: Fantasy AGE RANGE: Adult SYNOPSIS: In a land where three suns almost never set, a fledgling killer joins a school of assassins, seeking vengeance against the powers who destroyed her family. Daughter of an executed traitor, Mia Corvere is barely able to escape her father’s failed rebellion with her life. Alone and friendless, she hides in a city built from the bones of a dead god,...

A Court of Frost and Starlight — Sarah J. Maas

TITLE: A Court of Frost and Starlight AUTHOR: Sarah J. Maas SERIES: A Court of Thorns and Roses, #3.1 RELEASED: May 1st, 2018; Bloomsbury USA Childrens GENRE: Fantasy AGE RANGE: NA SYNOPSIS: Months after the explosive events in A Court of Wings and Ruin, Feyre, Rhys, and their companions are still busy rebuilding the Night Court and the vastly-changed world beyond. But Winter Solstice is finally near, and with it, a hard-earned reprieve. Yet even the festive atmosphere can’t keep the shadows of the past...

A Court of Wings and Ruin — Sarah J. Maas (REREAD Review!)

TITLE: A Court of Wings and Ruin AUTHOR: Sarah J. Maas SERIES: A Court of Thorns and Roses, #3 RELEASED: May 2nd, 2017; Bloomsbury USA Childrens GENRE: Fantasy AGE RANGE: NA SYNOPSIS: Feyre has returned to the Spring Court, determined to gather information on Tamlin’s manoeuvrings and the invading king threatening to bring Prythian to its knees. But to do so she must play a deadly game of deceit – and one slip may spell doom not only for Feyre, but for her world...

Six of Crows — Leigh Bardugo

TITLE: Six of Crows AUTHOR: Leigh Bardugo SERIES: Six of Crows, #1 RELEASED: September 29th, 2015; Henry Holt and Company GENRE: Fantasy AGE RANGE: YA SYNOPSIS: Ketterdam: a bustling hub of international trade where anything can be had for the right price–and no one knows that better than criminal prodigy Kaz Brekker. Kaz is offered a chance at a deadly heist that could make him rich beyond his wildest dreams. But he can’t pull it off alone… A convict with a thirst for revenge....

The Raven King / Opal — Maggie Stiefvater

TITLE: The Raven King AUTHOR: Maggie Stiefvater SERIES: The Raven King, #4 RELEASED: April 26, 2016; Scholastic Press GENRE: Fantasy AGE RANGE: YA SYNOPSIS: The fourth and final installment in the spellbinding series from the irrepressible, #1 New York Times bestselling author Maggie Stiefvater. All her life, Blue has been warned that she will cause her true love’s death. She doesn’t believe in true love and never thought this would be a problem, but as her life becomes caught up in the strange and...

City of Ashes — Cassandra Clare

TITLE: City of Ashes AUTHOR: Cassandra Clare SERIES: The Mortal Instruments, #2 RELEASED: March 25th, 2008; Margaret Ferguson Books GENRE: Fantasy AGE RANGE: YA SYNOPSIS: Clary Fray just wishes that her life would go back to normal. But what’s normal when you’re a demon-slaying Shadowhunter, your mother is in a magically induced coma, and you can suddenly see Downworlders like werewolves, vampires, and faeries? If Clary left the world of the Shadowhunters behind, it would mean more time with her best friend, Simon, who’s...

Down Among the Sticks and Bones — Seanan McGuire

TITLE: Down Among the Sticks and Bones AUTHOR: Seanan McGuire SERIES: Wayward Children, #2 RELEASED: June 13th, 2017; Tor.com GENRE: Fantasy AGE RANGE: Adult SYNOPSIS: Twin sisters Jack and Jill were seventeen when they found their way home and were packed off to Eleanor West’s Home for Wayward Children. This is the story of what happened first… Jacqueline was her mother’s perfect daughter—polite and quiet, always dressed as a princess. If her mother was sometimes a little strict, it’s because crafting the perfect daughter takes...

Most Popular Books on My TBR

Today’s post is going to be a little bit different — it’s not necessarily a tag, as far as I’m aware, but I saw Adriana over at Perpetual Pages do it in a recent video, and loved the idea! Basically, you go to your Goodreads TBR shelf and sort your books by the number of ratings (“num ratings” in the dropdown bar at the bottom), and then show off which 10 books are the most widely read/rated on your TBR!...

To Kill A Kingdom — Alexandra Christo (ARC Review)

TITLE: To Kill A Kingdom AUTHOR: Alexandra Christo RELEASES: March 6th, 2018; Feiwel & Friends GENRE: Fantasy AGE RANGE: YA SYNOPSIS: Princess Lira is siren royalty and the most lethal of them all. With the hearts of seventeen princes in her collection, she is revered across the sea. Until a twist of fate forces her to kill one of her own. To punish her daughter, the Sea Queen transforms Lira into the one thing they loathe most—a human. Robbed of her song, Lira has until...