You already KNOW we love us a good story with some complex mythology—maybe some night magic, and a narrative that ties everything together to kick. It ’ s a recipe for a masterpiece. And these books are some of our favorites that do a phenomenal job of combining all these ingredients ! Books with magic have a way of making the earth seem indeed welcoming and artfully crafted when it ’ s done well, and, yeah, these ones will bewitch you .
From expansive fantasies to world-threatening spells, the books on this list have the elements that make for a spectacular floor. so, coil through and add them to your TBR !
34 Books With Magic & Mythology
THAT ARE TOTALLY BEWITCHING
1. Terciel & Elinor by Garth Nix
In the Old Kingdom, a nation of ancient and much atrocious magics, eighteen year-old orphan Terciel learns the art of necromancy from his great-aunt Tizanael. But not to raise the Dead, rather to lay them to rest. He is the Abhorsen-in-Waiting, and Tizanael is the Abhorsen, the latest in a long line of people whose tax it is to make sure the Dead do not return to Life .
Across the Wall in Ancelstierre, a steam-age nation where magic normally does not work, nineteen year-old Elinor lives a privy life. Her only friends an old govern and an evening older groom who was once a celebrated circus performer. Her mother is a tyrant, who is feared by all despite her nausea and impending end. .. but possibly there is even more to fear from that .
Elinor does not know she is deeply connected to the Old Kingdom, nor that magic trick can sometimes come across the Wall, until a plat by an ancient foe of the Abhorsens brings Terciel and Tizanael to Ancelstierre. In a individual day of burn and death and loss, Elinor finds herself set on a path which will take her into the Old Kingdom, into Terciel ’ sulfur liveliness, and will embroil her in the fight of the Abhorsens against the Dead who will not stay dead .
2. The Color of Dragons by R.A. Salvatore & Erika Lewis
Powerhouse adult fantasy author R. A. Salvatore and Erika Lewis deliver a sweeping, action-packed, romantic pre-Arthurian tale of the origins of magic (and Merlin), perfect for fans of Falling Kingdoms and Seraphina.
Magic needs a spark .
And Maggie ’ sulfur powers are specially erratic. With no one to help her learn to control her magic, the liveliness debt that she owes stretches everlastingly over her head, with no way to repay it .
Until she meets Griffin, the king ’ second champion, ill-famed for hunting down the draignochs that plague their kingdom .
Neither has any idea of the fortune that they both carry, or that their meet will set off a chain of events that will alter every aspect of the biography they know—and all of history thereafter .
This epic, romantic tale will enchant readers and draw them into a thrilling world of star-crossed lovers, magic, destiny, and the paths we choose.
3. Jade Fire Gold by June CL Tan
In an empire on the brink of war. . .
Ahn is no one, with no past and no family .
Altan is a helpless heir, his future stolen away as a child .
When they meet, Altan sees in Ahn a path to reclaiming the throne. Ahn sees a way to last unlock her past and understand her deadly charming abilities .
But they may have to pay a far deadlier price than either could have imagined .
4. Dark Rise by C. S. Pacat
Sixteen-year-old bobtail boy Will is on the run, pursued by the men who killed his beget. then an old handmaid tells him of his fortune to fight beside the Stewards, who have sworn to protect humanity if the Dark King always returns. Will is thrust into a worldly concern of magic trick, where he starts training for a critical function in the onset battle against the Dark .
As London is threatened and erstwhile enmities are awakened, Will must stand with the last heroes of the Light to prevent the destine that destroyed their world from returning to destroy his own .
- Boy Dark Rise now!
5. Grave Mercy by Robin LaFevers
Why be the sheep, when you can be the wolf?
Seventeen-year-old Ismae escapes from the ferociousness of an arranged marriage into the refuge of the convent of St. Mortain, where the sisters inactive serve the gods of old. here she learns that the idol of Death Himself has blessed her with dangerous gifts–and a crimson destiny. If she chooses to stay at the convent, she will be trained as an assassin and serve as a handmaid to Death. To claim her new life, she must destroy the lives of others.
Ismae ’ s most important assignment takes her straight into the high court of Brittany–where she finds herself deplorably under prepared–not entirely for the madly games of intrigue and treason, but for the impossible choices she must make. For how can she deliver Death ’ s vengeance upon a aim who, against her will, has stolen her heart ?
6. Dreams Lie Beneath by Rebecca Ross
The kingdom of Azenor has spent years plagued by a curse. Every modern moon, magic trick flows from the nearby mountain and brings nightmares to life sentence. alone magicians—who serve as territory wardens—stand between people and their bad dreams .
Clementine Madigan is ready to take over as the warden of her humble township, but when two magicians arrive to challenge her, she is unwittingly drawn into a century-old conflict. She seeks retaliation, but as she gets closer to Phelan, one of the fine-looking young magicians, secrets—as well as romance—begins to rise .
To fight the kingdom ’ mho curse, which seems to be haunting her every twist, Clementine must unite with her rival. But will their efforts be adequate to save Azenor from the nightmares that lurk around every corner ?
7. A Song of Wraiths and Ruin by Roseanne A. Brown
For Malik, the Solstasia festival is a probability to escape his war-stricken home and start a newly life with his sisters in the golden desert city of Ziran. But when a revengeful spirit abducts his young sister, Nadia, as payment to enter the city, Malik strikes a fatal deal—kill Karina, Crown Princess of Ziran, for Nadia ’ s exemption .
But Karina has deadly aspirations of her own. Her mother, the Sultana, has been assassinated ; her court threatens mutiny ; and Solstasia looms like a tongue over her neck. Grief-stricken, Karina decides to resurrect her mother through ancient magic trick. .. requiring the beating heart of a king. And she knows just how to obtain one : by offering her hand in marriage to the victor of the Solstasia contest .
When Malik rigs his means into the contest, they are set on a heart-pounding naturally to destroy each early. But as attraction flares between them and ancient evils stir, will they be able to see their tasks to the death ?
8. Reaper of Souls by Rena Barron
? This is the sequel to: Kingdom of Souls
A prince repelled by magic. A king bent on revenge. A witchdoctor who does not walk alone.
After so many years yearning for the giving of charming, Arrah has the one thing she ’ second constantly wanted—but it came at besides steep a price. nowadays the last exist witchdoctor, she ’ second been left to pick up the shatter pieces of a family that betrayed her, a kingdom plunged into chaos, and a beloved that can never be .
While Arrah returns to the tribal lands to search for survivors of the demons ’ attack, her beloved Rudjek hunts down the remnants of the monster army—and uncovers a plot that would destroy what ’ randomness left of their world .
The Demon King wants Arrah, and if she and Rudjek can ’ metric ton ravel his schemes, he will destroy everything, and everyone, standing in his means .
Set in a lavishly imagined worldly concern inspired by whisper tales of voodoo and folk music magic, the Kingdom of Souls trilogy has been optioned for film by Michael B. Jordan and his Warner Bros. production company, Outlier Society .
9. The Tiger at Midnight by Swati Teerdhala
Esha lost everything in the royal coup—and as the legendary rebel known as the Viper, she ’ s made the guilty give. now she ’ second been tasked with her most significant mission to date : taking down the pitiless General Hotha .
Kunal has been a soldier since childhood. His uncle, the general, has ensured that Kunal never strays from the path—even as a separate of Kunal longs to join the outside world, which has only been growing more explosive .
When Esha and Kunal ’ s paths cross one fated night, an impossible chain of events unfolds. Both the Viper and the soldier think they ’ re calling the shots, but they ’ re not the only players moving the pieces .
As the bonds that hold their land in order break down and the sins of the past meet the promise of a new future, both the soldier and the rebel must decide where their loyalties lie : with the lives they ’ ve killed to hold on to or with the love that ’ s made them ambition of something more .
10. Serpent & Dove by Shelby Mahurin
Bound as one, to love, honor, or burn.
Two years ago, Louise le Blanc fled her coven and took shelter in the city of Cesarine, forsaking all charming and living off whatever she could steal. There, witches like Lou are hunted. They are feared. And they are burned .
As a hunter of the Church, Reid Diggory has lived his life by one principle : Thou shalt not suffer a enchantress to live. But when Lou pulls a wicked stunt, the two are forced into an impossible situation—marriage .
Lou, ineffective to ignore her growing feelings, yet powerless to change what she is, must make a option. And love makes fools of us all .
11. Set Fire to the Gods by Sara Raasch and Kristen Simmons
Ash is descended from a long channel of gladiators, and she knows the barbarous nature of war firsthand. But after her mother dies in an arena, she vows to avenge her by overthrowing her fire god, whose temper has stripped her country of its resources .
Madoc grew up fighting on the streets to pay his class ’ second taxes. But he hides a dangerous secret : he doesn ’ t have the earth deity ’ s powers like his opponents. His elemental gift is something else—something that hasn ’ t been seen in centuries .
When an attempted retaliation plot goes perilously amiss, Ash unwittingly throws the fire and earth gods into a conflict that can only be settled by deadly, lavish gladiator games, throwing Madoc in Ash ’ mho path. She realizes that his powers are the weapon her rebellion needs—but Madoc won ’ metric ton jeopardize his class, careless of how scheme he is by the beautiful warrior .
But when the gods storm Madoc ’ s hand, he and Ash uncover an ancient war that will threaten more than one immortal—it will unravel the world .
12. Before We Disappear by Shaun David Hutchinson
Two boys on opposition sides of an intense rivalry… we ’ ra ready for all the feels .
Jack Nevin ’ s apt trickery and moral flexibility make him the perfect assistant to the Enchantress, one of the most long-familiar stage magicians in turn-of-the-nineteenth-century Europe. Without Jack ’ s firm add of steal tricks, the Enchantress ’ sulfur fame would have burned out farseeing ago .
But when Jack ’ s larceny catches up to them, they ’ ra forced to flee to America to find their luck. fortunately, the Enchantress is able to arrange a set of sold-out shows at Seattle ’ s Alaska–Yukon–Pacific World ’ s Fair Exposition. She ’ s convinced they ’ re going to rich and celebrated until a new magician arrives on the scene. Performing tricks that defy the imagination, Laszlo ’ s picture overshadows the Enchantress, leaving Jack no option but to hunt for the secrets to his nonnatural illusions. But what Jack uncovers international relations and security network ’ metric ton at all what he expected .
Behind Laszlo ’ second tricks is Wilhelm—a male child that can apparently perform real magic. Jack and Wilhelm have an moment joining, and as the competition between the Enchantress and Laszlo grows, indeed excessively does Jack and Wilhelm ’ s affection. But can Jack choose between the woman who gave him a life and the boy who is offering him everything ?
13. Girls of Paper and Fire by Natasha Ngan
In this high developed fantasy, Lei is a member of the Paper caste, the lowest and most persecute class of people in Ikhara. She lives in a distant greenwich village with her beget, where the decade-old trauma of watching her beget snatched by royal guards for an stranger fortune still haunts her. now, the guards are back and this time it ’ s Lei they ’ re after—the girl with the gold eyes whose rumor beauty has piqued the king ’ sulfur pastime .
Over weeks of train in the deluxe but oppressive palace, Lei and eight other girls learns the skills and capture that befit a king ’ sulfur harmonize. There, she does the unthinkable : she falls in love. Her forbid chat up becomes enmeshed with an explosive plot that threatens her world ’ randomness stallion way of life. Lei, hush the wide-eyed country female child at kernel, must decide how far she ’ second bequeath to go for judge and retaliation .
14. Bone Crier’s Moon by Kathryn Purdie
Bone Criers are the last descendants of an ancient famille charged with using the charming they draw from animal bones to shepherd the dead into the afterlife—lest they drain the light from the survive .
Ailesse has been prepared since parentage to become their matriarch, but first gear she must complete her rite of passing : to kill the male child she ’ second destined to love .
Bastien ’ s don was slain by a Bone Crier and he ’ s been seeking revenge ever since. immediately his vengeance must wait, as Ailesse ’ s ritual has begun and their fates are entwined—in life and in death .
15. The Fascinators by Andrew Eliopulos
Living in a small township where magic is frowned upon, Sam needs his friends James and Delia—and their time together in their school ’ second magic trick club—to see him through to gradation .
But a soon as elder year starts, little cracks in their group begin to show. Sam may or may not be in love with James. Delia is growing more thwart with their amateur charming club. And James reveals that he got mix up with some sketchy magickers over the summer, putting a target on all their backs .
With thus many fault lines threatening to derail his hopes for the year, Sam is forced to face the fact that the very love of magic trick that brought his group together is nowadays tearing them apart—and there are some problems that no total of magic trick can fix .
16. Spellhacker by M.K. England
In Kyrkarta, magic—known as maz—was once a freely available natural resource. then an earthquake released a charming infestation, killing thousands and opening the door for a avaricious corporation to make maz a commodity that ’ south tightly controlled—and, of class, outrageously expensive .
Which is why Diz and her three best friends run a highly lucrative, highly illegal maz siphoning gig on the side. Their adjacent caper is supposed to be their last armed robbery ever .
But when their plan turns up a knock-down fresh strain of maz that ( literally ) blows up in their faces, they ’ re driven to unravel a conspiracy at the identical center of the spellplague—and possibly save the universe .
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17. The Blood Spell by C.J. Redwine
Blue de la Cour has her animation planned : hide the charming in her rake and continue trying to turn metal into aureate so she can help her city ’ mho homeless. But when her father is murdered and a barbarous but mighty womanhood claims detention of Blue and her property, one incorrect affect could expose her—and doom her once and for all. The only one who can help ? The boy she ’ s loathed since childhood : prince Kellan .
Kellan Renard, crown prince of Balavata, is walking a thinly line between political success and devastating ferocity. newly returned from boarding educate, he must find a bride among the kingdom ’ s headway families and announce his betrothal—but escalating violence among the families makes the search closely impossible. He ’ randomness surprised to discover that the one person who makes him feel like he can breathe is Blue, the girl who once ruined all his best adventures .
When mysterious forces lead to disappearances throughout Balavata, Blue and Kellan must work together to find the truth. What they discover will lead them to the darkest reaches of the kingdom, and to the most irritating moments of their pasts .
When love affair is prevent and evil is rising, can Blue save those she loves, even if it costs her everything ?
18. Seasons of the Storm by Elle Cosimano
One coldness, chip night, Jack Sommers was faced with a choice—live everlastingly according to the ancient, charming rules of Gaia, or die .
Jack chose to live, and in exchange, he became a Winter—an deity forcible shape of the season on Earth. Every year, he must hunt the Season who comes before him. Summer kills Spring. Autumn kills Summer. Winter kills Autumn. And Spring kills Winter .
Jack and Fleur, a winter and a spring, fall for each other against all odds. To be together, they ’ ll have to escape the hertz that ’ s been forcing them apart. But their godhead won ’ triiodothyronine let them go without a battle .
19. Star Daughter by Shveta Thakrar
This gorgeously imagined YA debut blends shades of Neil Gaiman’s Stardust and a breathtaking landscape of Hindu mythology into a radiant contemporary fantasy.
The daughter of a star and a person, Sheetal is used to keeping secrets. Pretending to be “ normal. ” But when an accidental flare out of her starfire puts her human beget in the hospital, Sheetal needs a fully star ’ sulfur aid to heal him. A star like her mother, who returned to the sky long ago .
Sheetal ’ randomness quest to save her beget will take her to a celestial woo of shining wonders and dark shadows, where she must take the stage as her kin ’ second champion in a competition to decide the adjacent opinion house of the heavens—and succeed, or hazard never returning to Earth at all .
20. Everless by Sara Holland
In the kingdom of Sempera, time is currency—extracted from blood, adhere to iron, and consumed to add clock time to one ’ randomness own life. The rich nobility, like the Gerlings, tax the poor to the hilt, extending their own lives by centuries .
No one resents the Gerlings more than Jules Ember. A ten ago, she and her don were servants at Everless, the Gerlings ’ palatial estate, until a fateful accident forced them to flee in the absolutely of night. When Jules discovers that her founder is dying, she knows that she must return to Everless to earn more time for him before she loses him everlastingly .
But going back to Everless brings more danger—and temptation—than Jules could have ever imagined. Soon she ’ randomness watch in a embroil of violent secrets and finds her heart tear between two people she thought she ’ d never see again. Her decisions have the power to change her fate—and the destiny of time itself .
21. A Song Below Water by Bethany C. Morrow
Tavia is already at odds with the worldly concern, forced to keep her siren identity under wraps in a club that wants to keep her kind under lock and key. Never mind she ’ sulfur besides stuck in Portland, Oregon, a city with lone a handful of black folk music and even fewer of those with charming powers. At least she has her bestie Effie by her english as they tackle senior high school school play, family secrets, and unanswered crushes .
But everything changes in the aftermath of a siren mangle trial that rocks the nation ; the girls ’ front-runner Internet manner picture reveals she ’ mho besides a siren, and the news rips through their community. Tensions escalate when Effie starts being haunted by demons from her past, and Tavia incidentally lets out her charming voice during a patrol blockage. No mystery seems condom anymore—soon Portland won ’ deoxythymidine monophosphate be either .
22. The Cruel Prince by Holly Black
Jude was seven when her parents were murdered and she and her two sisters were stolen aside to live in the treacherous High Court of Faerie. Ten years late, Jude wants nothing more than to belong there, despite her mortality. But many of the fey contemn humans. particularly Prince Cardan, the youngest and wickedest son of the High King .
To win a locate at the Court, she must defy him–and confront the consequences .
As Jude becomes more deeply embroiled in palace intrigues and deceptions, she discovers her own capacity for trickery and bloodshed. But as betrayal threatens to drown the Courts of Faerie in ferocity, Jude will need to risk her life in a dangerous alliance to save her sisters, and Faerie itself .
23. Three Dark Crowns by Kendare Blake
In every genesis on the island of Fennbirn, a set of triplets is born : three queens, all adequate heirs to the crown and each owner of a covet magic trick. Mirabella is a ferocious elemental, able to spark hungry flames or evil storms at the snap of her fingers. Katharine is a poisoner, one who can ingest the deadliest poisons without sol much as a stomachache. Arsinoe, a naturalist, is said to have the ability to bloom the crimson rose and control the fiercest of lions .
But becoming the Queen Crowned international relations and security network ’ thymine entirely a matter of imperial parentage. Each sister has to fight for it. And it ’ s not just a game of acquire or lose… it ’ randomness life or death. The night the sisters turn sixteen, the conflict begins. The last queen standing gets the crown .
24. Heart of Thorns by Bree Barton
In the ancient river kingdom, where touch is a battlefield and bodies the instruments of war, Mia Rose has pledged her animation to hunting Gwyrach : women who can manipulate human body, bones, breath, and blood. The same women who killed her mother without a single cancel .
But when Mia ’ s father announces an alliance with the royal family, she is forced to trade in her knives and trousers for a deluxe silk gown. Determined to forge her own path forward, Mia plots a dare scat, but could never predict the greatest betrayal of all : her own body. Mia possesses the identical magic she has sworn to destroy .
now, as she untangles the secrets of her by, Mia must learn to trust her heart… even if it kills her .
25. The Last Namsara by Kristen Ciccarelli
In the beginning, there was the Namsara : the child of sky and spirit, who carried love and laughter wherever he went. But where there is abstemious, there must be darkness—and so there was besides the Iskari. The child of blood and moonlight. The destroyer. The death-bringer .
These are the legends that Asha, daughter of the king of Firgaard, has grown up learning in quieten whispers, trace to the forbid figures of the past. But it isn ’ t until she becomes the most fear draco killer in the nation that she takes on the function of the adjacent Iskari—a lone destiny that leaves her feel more like a weapon than a girl .
Asha conquers each dragon and brings its head to the king, but no kill can free her from the shackles that await at home : her betrothal to the barbarous commanding officer, a man who holds the accuracy about her nature in his palm. When she ’ mho offered the luck to gain her freedom in commute for the life of the most brawny dragon in Firgaard, she finds that there may be more truth to the ancient stories than she ever could have expected .
26. Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo
Surrounded by enemies, the once-great nation of Ravka has been torn in two by the Shadow Fold, a swath of near impenetrable dark crawling with monsters who feast on homo flesh. immediately its destine may rest on the shoulders of one lonely refugee .
Alina Starkov has never been good at anything. But when her regiment is attacked on the Fold and her best acquaintance is viciously injured, Alina reveals a abeyant power that saves his life—a power that could be the cardinal to setting her war-ravaged nation free. Wrenched from everything she knows, Alina is whisked aside to the imperial woo to be trained as a member of the Grisha, the charming elite led by the mysterious Darkling .
yet nothing in this lavish world is what it seems. With darkness brood and an entire kingdom depending on her wild might, Alina will have to confront the secrets of the Grisha… and the secrets of her heart .
27. Of Fire and Stars by Audrey Coulthurst
Betrothed since childhood to the prince of Mynaria, Princess Dennaleia has always known what her future holds. Her marriage will seal the alliance between Mynaria and her fatherland, protecting her people from other hostile kingdoms .
But Denna has a secret. She possesses an affinity for fire—a dangerous endowment for the future queen of a land where magic trick is prevent .
now Denna has to learn the ways of her new kingdom while trying to hide her growing charming. To make matters worse, she must learn to ride Mynaria ’ s formidable warhorses before her coronation—and her teacher is the person who intimidates her most, the barbed and unconventional Princess Amaranthine, sister of her betroth .
When a shocking character assassination leaves the kingdom stagger, Mare and Denna reluctantly join forces to search for the perpetrator. But with dangerous conflict brew that makes the alliance more authoritative than ever, acting on their feelings could be deadly .
28. Onyx & Ivory by Mindee Arnett
They call her double-crosser Kate. It ’ s a title Kate Brighton inherited from her don after he tried to assassinate the high king of Rime .
Cast out of the nobility, Kate nowadays works for the royal messenger military service. entirely the most skilled ride for the Relay and alone the fastest exist, for when night falls, the drakes—deadly flightless dragons—come out to hunt. fortunately, Kate has a secret edge : She is a wild, born with prevent magic trick that allows her to influence the minds of animals .
And it ’ s this charming that leads her to a caravan massacred by drakes in across-the-board daylight—the only survivor Corwin Tormaine, the son of the king. Her first love, the boy she swore to forget after he condemned her father to death .
With their paths once more embroiled, Kate and Corwin must put the past behind them to face this modern terror and an even dark menace stirring in the kingdom .
29. An Ember in the Ashes by Sabaa Tahir
Laia is a slave. Elias is a soldier. Neither is free .
Under the Martial Empire, defiance is met with death. Those who do not vow their blood and bodies to the Emperor risk the execution of their loved ones and the end of all they hold dear .
It is in this beastly universe, inspired by ancient Rome, that Laia lives with her grandparents and older brother. The family ekes out an universe in the Empire ’ randomness impoverished backstreets. They do not challenge the Empire. They ’ ve seen what happens to those who do .
But when Laia ’ second brother is arrested for treason, Laia is forced to make a decision. In exchange for help from rebels who promise to rescue her brother, she will risk her animation to spy for them from within the Empire ’ s greatest military academy .
There, Laia meets Elias, the school ’ randomness finest soldier—and secretly, its most unwilling. lamb wants only to be spare of the absolutism he ’ south being trained to enforce. He and Laia will soon realize that their destinies are intertwined—and that their choices will change the destiny of the Empire itself .
30. Circle of Shadows by Evelyn Skye
Sora can move adenine mutely as a ghost and hurl throwing stars with deadly accuracy. Her gemina, Daemon, can win any physical contend blindfolded and with an arm tied around his bet on. They are apprentice warriors of the Society of Taigas—marked by the gods to be trained in magic trick and the fight arts to protect the kingdom of Kichona .
As their graduation approaches, Sora and Daemon look forward to proving themselves desirable of belonging in the elite group—but in a kingdom rid of violence since the Blood Rift Rebellion many years ago, it ’ second been unmanageable to make their set .
so when Sora and Daemon encounter a strange camp of cryptic soldiers while on a standard scouting mission, they decide the only thing to do to help their kingdom is to infiltrate the group. Taking this risk will change Sora ’ south liveliness forever—and lead her on a mission of magic trick that may fool everyone she ’ randomness ever loved .
Love, spies, and adventure abound as Sora and Daemon unravel a complex web of magic and secrets that might tear them—and the entire kingdom—apart forever.
31. Forest of Souls by Lori M. Lee
Sirscha Ashwyn comes from nothing, but she ’ sulfur purpose on becoming something. After years of coach to become the queen ’ sulfur future royal descry, her plans are derailed when shamans attack and kill her best acquaintance Saengo .
And then Sirscha, somehow, restores Saengo to life .
Unveiled as the first soulguide in living memory, Sirscha is summoned to the world of the Spider King. For centuries, he has used his influence over the dead Wood—an ancient forest possessed by souls—to enforce peace between the kingdoms. now, with the trees growing crazy and wild, alone a soulguide can restrain them. As war looms, Sirscha must master her newly awakened abilities before the trees shatter the brittle peace, or worse, claim Saengo, the supporter she would die for .
32. A Phoenix First Must Burn, edited by Patrice Caldwell
Sixteen tales by bestselling and award-winning authors that explore the Black know through fantasy, science fabrication, and magic trick .
Evoking Beyoncé ’ randomness Lemonade for a adolescent consultation, these authors who are sincerely Octavia Butler ’ s successor, have woven worlds to create a stun narrative that centers Black women and gender nonconforming individuals. A Phoenix First Must Burn will take you on a travel from folktales retold to futuristic societies and everything in between .
Filled with stories of sexual love and betrayal, strength and resistance, this solicitation contains an array of complex and true-to-life characters in which you can not help but see yourself reflected. Witches and scientists, sisters and lovers, priestesses and rebels : the heroines of A Phoenix First Must Burn radiance brilliantly. You will never forget them .
33. Ghost Wood Song by Erica Waters
Sawkill Girls meets Beautiful Creatures in this lush and eerie debut, where the boundary between reality and nightmares is as thin as the veil between the living and the dead.
If I could have a toy make of Daddy ’ mho bones, I ’ five hundred meet it. I ’ vitamin d learn all the secrets he kept .
fly-by-night Grove inherited her father ’ s ability to call ghosts from the grave with his fiddle, but she besides knows the fiddle ’ sulfur tunes bring nothing but trouble and iniquity .
But when her brother is accused of mangle, she can ’ deoxythymidine monophosphate let the dead keep their secrets .
In order to clear his diagnose, she ’ s going to have to make those ghosts sing .
34. The Kingdom of Back by Marie Lu
Two siblings. Two bright talents. But only one Mozart .
Born with a endow for music, Nannerl Mozart has precisely one wish–to be remembered everlastingly. But even as she delights audiences with her consummate play, she has small promise she ’ ll always become the acclaim composer she longs to be. She is a young woman in eighteenth century Europe, and that means compose is prevent to her. She will perform only until she reaches a marriageable age–her oppressive founder has made that much clear.
And as Nannerl ’ s hope grows dimmer with each passing year, the talents of her beloved younger brother, Wolfgang, only seem to shine bright. His glare begins to eclipse her own, until one sidereal day a cryptic stranger from a charming land appears with an irresistible extend. He has the ability to make her wish come true–but his help may cost her everything .
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