Rock Jaw: Master of the Eastern Border is a graphic novel, the fifth book of a 9-book series called Bone. At the end of the fourth book, Phoney Bone's plan to capture the dragon unintentionally succeeds, but the rat creatures come and show the townsmen who really is the enemy. The dragon and some mysterious warriors ward off the rat creatures.
Shiori, a young princess, has been betrothed to a boy she has never met, and she also has kept a secret, she has forbidden magic. And when her flying paper crane, Kiki, that she enchanted as a kid flies into the lake on the day of her engagement, she dives in to save it and almost drowns. However, a dragon arrives, just in time, to save her by putting part of a dragon pearl, a very powerful magical object and the dragon’s heart, in her heart. Soon enough, she teams up with the dragon to learn magic.
City of Ashes is the second book in the Mortal Instruments Series. In this book, Clary is adjusting to her new identity as a Shadowhunter while grappling with the discovery that her dad is Valentine, the most dangerous Shadowhunter. Meanwhile, Valentine has acquired another of the Mortal Instruments, using it to summon demons to execute his dark plans. Clary, along with Jace, Simon and the Shadowhunters, must stop Valentine from unleashing chaos on the world.
In City of Bones by Cassandra Clare, Clary Fray is a normal teenage girl residing in New York City. However, her life takes a sharp turn when she witnesses a murder committed by people who no one else can see. This introduces her to the world of Shadowhunters, a group of warriors that are dedicated to protecting the world from demons. Clary soon learns shocking truths about her family, her past, and her own hidden abilities.
Maia Tamarin is a secret seamstress from a small coastal town within the empire. Her father was a master tailor, but age has crippled his ability to sew. Maia stepped up in his absence, and her talent is unmatched, with offers from everywhere coming in for her work. Or her father’s work. It is illegal for women to have a trade, so she works under her father’s name. This angers Maia, but she understands the consequences if she were to come clean.
Wade Watts is an 18-year-old boy in a futuristic society where most people live in a technological virtual reality world called the “OASIS.” This society was put together by a man named James Halliday, but when he dies, he leaves his fortune in the hands of any person able to “find the easter egg”. In order to find this easter egg, the user must find three keys. Wade Watts becomes the first person to find the first key after putting all his time and effort into learning everything about the virtual world.
In this heart-wrenching, blood curdling third book in the Woven Kingdom trilogy, a gripping fantasy written by Tahereh Mafi, Alizeh is torn between loving her sworn enemy and killing him, her life and the lives of her people teetering in the hands of the devil. Despite her friends' avid warnings, Alizeh can’t help but draw closer to him, even in the face of death…. The inexplicable shift in Alizeh’s behavior toward Cyrus, now more obviously passionate, has me confused as a reader and, at the very same time, begging for more.
Iron Flame is the sequel to Rebecca Yarros’s best-selling novel Fourth Wing. Violet has now experienced many surprising revelations that she never thought possible. She and Xaden must now fight a whole new host of relationship problems, family problems and political problems. Talk about a lot going on! Violet must make some of the hardest decisions she’s ever had to make, plus face the fiercest foes she has yet.
Once Upon A Broken Heart is the first installment of its namesake series by Stephanie Garber. Evangeline Fox is a young girl desperate to save her lover from what she believes to be a cursed and false marriage. She prays to the magical Prince of Hearts in order to get what she seeks. However, she doesn’t quite get what she expected. She ends up married to Prince Apollo of the Magnificent North, and is constantly at odds with the Prince of Hearts himself, Jacks.
House of Flame and Shadow is the third installment of the Crescent City series by Sarah J. Maas. Bryce Quinlan has landed herself in a different universe, but one not too different from her own…familiar characters interact in new ways as Bryce hunts for a way to return home to her friends and to her mate, Hunt Athalar.
