“I could never afford to look past survival, especially not for anything as insanely expensive as happiness, and I don’t believe in it anyway.”
Returning to the infamous Schoolmance, but this time with actual allies and a hope of getting out, senior year is going to be wild. Finally beginning to embrace her darkness, El is put in a difficult position, being forced to choose between her insured survival, or that of everyone else in the school. Will she continue as her mother would want, or cave and become the monster that everyone already assumes she is?
“I rose too high, loved too hard, dared too much. I tried to grasp a star, overreached, and fell.”
The Queen of the East finally turns her attention towards Westeros, and what does this mean for the already war-torn kingdom? Will they be able to fight of yet another conqueror, or will they embrace her as their savior?
“How much can a crown be worth, when a crow can dine upon a king?”
The War Of Five Kings is finally over, and a single family stands at the top, yet when the head of said family dies under suspicious circumstances, how will the grab for power go? And when the crown is finally placed, will the people agree with the choices of the nobility?
The NearWitchfollows the main character, Lexi, in her search for the town’s missing children, attempts to learn more about an unnamed stranger, and questions about whether childhood stories are more than scary tales after all.
The Alchemyst is the first book of a 6-book series called The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel. Nicholas Flamel was a real person, an alchemist said to have discovered the elixir of life which would make you immortal. The records showed that he died in 1418. Josh and Sophie Newman are two twins living in San Francisco during the summer. Josh is working at a bookstore and his boss is a man named Nick Fleming.
“Never forget what you are, for surely the world will not. Make it your strength. Then it can never be your weakness.” In a world recovering from an incredible revolution, there is finally a time of peace. But what happens when people start to realize all the hidden issues within their kingdom? Their new king is a drunkard, and his queen seems just a little too interested in her brother. While the council is filled with incompetent lords squabbling over trivial matters, a true danger begins to make itself known in the far north.
The Poppy War by R.F. Kuang is a gripping fantasy novel that follows the journey of Rin, a war orphan with a burning desire to escape her impoverished existence. After acing a prestigious military examination, Rin gains admission to the elite Sinegard military academy, where she discovers her extraordinary shamanic powers. As tensions escalate between the Nikara Empire and the Federation of Mugen, Rin becomes embroiled in a brutal war that mirrors the historical conflicts of China.
In A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas, Feyre is a human girl who lives with her two sisters and father. Feyre and her family live in a world where they are separated from faeries by a wall. Feyre’s family is extremely poor, and she is the only reason they are able to survive because she hunts in the forest near her house. One day, she encounters a huge wolf which she effortlessly kills with an arrow. Little did she know that the wolf was really a faerie in disguise.
