Reviews by Tag: magic

Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince is a wonderful and popular fantasy book written by J.K

Rowling. This book is about a 16 year old teenage wizard with a strange lightning scar on his

forehead named Harry. In his sixth year, Harry suspects there are new dangers lurking within

the castle walls. Dumbledore is more intent than ever on preparing the young wizard for the

final battle with Voldemort. Throughout the book we learn more about the history of Voldemort

Rielle Dardenne wants nothing more than to have Audric as her husband. However, he is already betrothed to Luvine, her best friend. When Audric is almost assassinated, Rielle has to reveal her powers to the world. The king of Celdaria forces her to complete 7 trials, one of each element to prove that she is the sun queen, the savior of the world. If she fails, and is deemed the blood queen, the destroyer of the world, she will be executed. Eliana Ferracora is an assassin that works for the undying empire.

Stellarlune by Shannon Messenger is the ninth book in the Keeper of the Lost Cities fantasy
series. Sophie and her friends are in incredible danger. Lies are being discovered, the truth is
being found, and suddenly everything seems to be already decided. Sophie and her friends
can’t seem to agree on things like who to trust, who to tell what, when to act, and when to let the
enemy struggle for themselves. Sophie thinks Elysian is the answer to Stellarlune, and that if

Title: Cece Rios and the Desert of Souls

Author: Kaela Rivera

Genre: Fantasy Fiction

Summary: Cece Rios lives with her family in a town that is mostly protected from criaturas.

However, when her sister gets taken by a powerful criatura, she takes it upon herself to get her

back. She becomes a bruja in hopes that she will be able to get her sister back. While becoming

a bruja, she makes some friends on the way.

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

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

Six Crimson Cranes features Shiori’anma, who is about to enter an arranged marriage.

But she harbors a secret, that she possesses forbidden magic. When trying to hide a creation she

has made, Shiori eventually falls into a lake, and meets a dragon who helps her survive. Upon

waking, Shiori is punished to create a tapestry for her soon-to-be husband as an apology, and is

accompanied by her cold and distant stepmother. Shior soon meets Seryu, the dragon she had

Throne of Glass by Sarah J. Maas is the first book in the Throne of Glass series. In a land

without magic, Celaena Sardothien is an assassin who is deadly and can kill with a flick of her

finger. She is summoned to the castle and in order to win her freedom, she has to defeat

twenty-three opponents (killers, thieves, and warriors) in a competition. One by one, Celaena’s

Bloodwitch, the third novel of Susan Dennard’s Witchlands series, features Bloodwitch Aeduan,

whose companions include Threadwitch Iseult and the rescued Nomasti girl whom they have nicknamed

Owl. He struggles between past commitments to his father and those people and causes he has come to

care about. Safi’s story is continued as well with her carrying out her promise to Vaness, Ironwitch and