Reviews by Category: Fantasy

As Dumbledore stops by the Dursleys’ to pick up Harry, they stop on the way to recruit

Horace Slughorn to teach at Hogwarts. While shopping for books, Harry overhears Draco

Malfoy threatening that Burgin fixes an unknown object. At school, Dumbledore announces that

Snape will be the new D.A.D.A teacher. Since Harry forgot to buy a potions book, Professor

Slughorn lets him use an old book from someone named, “The Half-Blood Prince”. Inside of the

Children of Blood and Bone, by Tomi Adeyemi, is a fantasy book with a gripping plot. Zélie is a

young girl living in Orïsha, a fictional country where magic exists. Zélie is a maji, a group of

outlawed people born with magic. All magic was destroyed when Zélie was just a child. For her

entire life, she has faced discrimination due to her magic. However, when runaway princess

Amari finds a magical scroll, Zélie unlocks her powers for the first time in years. Together, the

Chain of Gold, by Cassandra Clare, follows a group of shadowhunters,

descendants of angels whose main goal is to kill demons, in 1903 London. Cordelia

Carstairs is a young shadowhunter moving to England with her family. While there she

reunites with her childhood love, James Herondale, his sister and Cordelia’s best friend,

Lucie, and a host of new characters. While Cordelia gets acclimated to her new home, a

Summary: This book takes place in a world where magic exists. Common magic is available to

anyone who can buy spellrings however, you can only use high magic if your family wins a

tournament that fights to the death. Every 20 years, each of the 7 families names one champion

that will fight for them in that tournament. When someone mysterious writes a book exposing

the tournament, the fight is now public to everyone after being a secret for centuries. Now the

The Ballad of Never After picks up right where the first book, Once Upon a Broken Heart, left off.

Apollo is still under a curse and Evangeline is determined to cure him on her own. However,

after he unexpectedly wakes up, she realizes he is now under two other curses: a curse where

he will continuously hunt her against his will, as well as a curse where he and Evangeline are

Stephanie Garber’s Once Upon a Broken Heart stars Evangeline Fox, a young, optimistic,

hopeless romantic girl with rose gold hair. After learning of her step sister’s engagement to her

first and only love, Evangeline seeks out the assistance of the notorious Prince of Hearts, Jacks,

known for killing people with a single kiss. In exchange for stopping the wedding, she will owe

him three kisses of which he will choose the time, place, and person. After her plans go south,

Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater tells the story of Grace and Sam, two teenagers living in the

fictional town of Mercy Falls, Minnesota. Grace is a daughter to two neglectful parents who

spends most of her time watching the local wolf population. Her fascination with the wolves has

persisted ever since one saved her when she was a small girl. However, when she meets a boy

with the same yellow eyes as the wolf who has always looked out for her, her life’s trajectory

16-year old Blue Sargent grew up with a psychic family. She’s known her entire life that

if she kisses her true love, he will die. When Blue sees the future ghost of a boy named Gansey,

she learns that he will die in a year, and that she either kills him or he is her true love. Blue then

embarks on a journey with the Raven Boys, local prep school students endeavoring to find a

dead Welsh King. Led by Blue’s future victim/true love, Gansey, a handsome and charming

The Stolen Heir by Holly Black features Suren, a former Queen of the Court of Teeth of

Elfhame. After the events of The Folk of the Air series, Suren finds herself back in the mortal

world scavenging for food and secretly keeping an eye on her former foster family, longing to be

a part of them once more. She is constantly being hunted by a hag from her old court known as

The Song of Achilles narrates the tragic love story of Patroclus and Achilles. It follows

Patroclus, who murdered a boy and was exiled to a different kingdom, where he soon meets

Achilles. While wary at first, the two form a close bond and run away, where they meet Chiron

and train with him. Everything seems to be going fine, until Achilles is called by his father.

When the two arrive at the palace, they are greeted by Odysseus, who draws Patroclus’ name,