Kuang, you will find a military fantasy with an orphan girl at the center of it all. When Elephants Fly will make you feel. To end the war between their kingdoms, desert girl Shalia enters into a political marriage with the magic-despising ruler of the Bone Lands. At the end of Flame in the Mist, her unlikely ally and love interest, the leader of the Black Clan, was captured, leaving Mariko to pretend she was his hostage in order to save both herself and, she hopes, him. Alice and her mother have spent most of Aliceâs life on the road, always a step ahead of the uncanny bad luck biting at their heels.
Alyce is left alone in a world that hates and fears her after her mother is burned at the stake as a witch. Villainous media star Nero is out for blood, and heâll go to any means necessary to control the galaxy. $16.49 Marsh’s sophomore dark fantasy is tipped as centering on a rich LGBTQ romance as well. There she learns the twisted secrets behind her mom’s escape and the truth of her own dark destiny, including immortal possession and the kind of love she might never recover from. As she attempts to locate her quarry without giving up the game, she reckons with a growing attraction to irritatingly appealing first mate Riden.
Queen of Air and Darkness, by Cassandra Clare (December 4) These books range from fantasy to contemporary, and yet, each one manages to raise awareness and offer a pathway for insightful conversations … Flame in the Mist introduced Mariko, a gifted inventor living in Feudal Japan, whose samurai father pushes her into an advantageous match with the Emperor’s illegitimate son. Along with her companions—three other mercies and the boy they pulled out of a death-struck village—she seeks to abandon her bloody work and pursue another life.
Now, despite the dangers inherent if she’s recognized and against her father’s wishes, she returns in an effort to earn him more time. One thousand years later, Eliana is a bounty hunter whose life and beliefs are upended after her mother’s disappearance changes her course for good. These characters are uniquely themselves, and make decisions the way struggling teens actually would. The writing is sharp, the romance is slow and forbidden, and the characters are complicated and confident. When Athan’s mother is killed, her military husband suspects the Queen of Atania is behind it, and sends his son to embed in the palace in pursuit of proof and vengeance. It centers on Amani, a girl living under the occupation of the vicious Vathek Empire. And if she wants to secure her freedom, she’s going to have to embrace her own monstrousness…. In this sequel, X is back in the Lowlands, more powerless than ever—but a search for his true identity may lead to freedom. Sadie is simply stunning.
On the eve of her marriage to the mysterious lord of Sorrow-Fell, in the midst of planning an attack on the malevolent Ancients, Henrietta discovers secrets that change her course for good, sending her on her most dangerous journey yet. Joel Higgins writes text messages he knows he can’t send. Meanwhile, Luke Fox wants to prove he has what it takes to help people in his role as Batwing. Until the day she sees the impossible on the battlefield â her brother, fighting with the enemy â the brother she watched die five years ago. Write-in votes can not be placed in this category. Hayden is happy with her new life in Brooklyn, but her past returns in the form of an unexpected inheritance: her childhood house, if she chooses to untangle its secrets. The 2018 Goodreads Choice Awards have three rounds of voting open to all registered Goodreads members. The Traitor’s Ruin, by Erin Beaty (July 10) Full of magic and secrets, Sleight is hypnotizing and enchanting.