Genre: Tropes: Type: “He looked at me with a hundred stories lit behind his eyes.” – Adrienne Young, Fable Overview Fable has spent the last four years surrounded by thieves and a barren island, left there just after her mother drown. The one thing she’s learned: Trust no one. Now she must work to escape …
Genre: Tropes: Type: “There are enough closed doors and glass ceilings in the world. My comfort zone shouldn’t be one of them.” – Joya Goffney, Excuse Me While I Ugly Cry Overview Quinn likes to make lists, she keeps them in a journal that goes with her everywhere. Lists like “Things That I Would Never …
Genre: Tropes: Type: “Life is made of so many moments that mean nothing. Then one day, a single moment comes along to define every second that comes after. Such moments are tests of courage, of strength.” – Sabaa Tahir, An Ember in the Ashes Overview Laia and her family live under the Martial Empire as …
Genre: Tropes: Type: Overview When seventeen-year-old Valeria finds out her best friend isn’t dead, she will go to the ends of the earth to get back to him. Valeria works for a Guild of Thieves after being hunted for surviving a curse of unbreakable ice on her village. The ice has trapped everyone in the …
Genre: Tropes: Type: “You will not choose my end, for this heart is mine.” – Katharyn Blair, Unchosen Overview Charlotte’s older sister, Harlow, is the warrior and her younger sister, Vanessa, is the Chosen One. Because of that, she’s constantly stuck in one of their shadows, which she doesn’t seem to mind. When the world …
Genre: Tropes: Type: “They’ve never found the body of the first and only boy who broke my heart. And they never will.” – Tricia Levenseller, The Shadows Between Us Overview It is not often that a book is from the point of view of a morally gray villainous character and this book blows it out …
Genre: Tropes: Type: Overview Yadriel, a transgender boy, wants nothing more than to be accepted by his traditional Latinx family. His family is lives in East LA in a cemetery as his family is all Brujx (witches). When his family doesn’t allow him to complete the brujos ritual ‘quinces, he takes matters into his own …
Genre: Tropes: Type: “Brave doesn’t mean you’re not scared. It means you go on even though you’re scared.” – Angie Thomas, The Hate U Give Overview Starr Carter, a sixteen-year-old girl, lives a double life. Born and raised in a poor neighborhood, she now drives an hour away to go to a private high school. …
Genre: Tropes: Type: “One day you’ll call me Death. For now, Wrath will do.” – Kerri Maniscalco, Kingdom of the Wicked Overview Emilia lives in Sicily, Italy with her family and twin sister. They own a local restaurant and are also witches. When Emilia finds her twin murdered, within a week of other witches being …
Third Book in the Red Queen Series Genre: Tropes: Type: Overview: Mare Barrow has given herself over to King Maven to save the others. She is isolated, left alone, locked in a room with Ardens who silence her power. In the Archeon Palace once again, this time she must use any tactic to survive and …