Caraval by Stephanie Garber, is a fantasy book about a girl named Scarlett Dragna. Scarlett grew up on the Conquered Islands of Trisda with her sister Dontella and her father who never allowed her to leave the Island. Growing up her grandma would tell her and her sister stories of a magical game called Caraval which was created and run by a man named Legend. Scarlet and her sister always dreamed of visiting Caraval, especially Scarlett who wrote to Legend multiple times hoping to receive a response back.
Brandon Sanderson’s book, Mistborn, is a wonderful book that shows you the maturing phase of Vin as she learns the line between trust, and being smart. The whole book is mainly set in the same city, Luthadel, and follows Vin’s path as she learns to become a mistborn, and lead a rebellion against the Lord Ruler.
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.
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.
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.
Iris Winnow is hung by anticipation with her brother’s departure to fight in a war between the gods. Life is messy with her mother’s addiction and money being tight. So, winning the columnist position at the Oath Gazette seems like seems like the only thing that can get her out of the mess. She is worried about her brother’s absence, so she writes letters to him and slips them under her wardrobe. All of that only to fall into the hands of her rival at the Oath Gazette, Roman Kitt, who is also fighting for the columnist position.
In the book The Vanishing Station by Ana Ellickson, a fiction fantasy book, the main character Ruby Santos is an 18 year old Filipino-American girl living with her father in San Francisco. Where she uncovers a secret that slowly unravels the world her father tried to protect her from. She learns that trains hold much more meaning than she thought, and might be the key to the escape that her late mother always wanted for her. She must put her struggles behind her and chase her dreams.
Summary: In the remote city of Ilvernath, the Blood Moon rises, signaling the start of this generation’s tournament curse. Every twenty years, the seven great families of Ilvernath send their children to fight to the death to determine which family will be able to wield the world’s most powerful and dangerous resource: high magick, thought to be long-depleted to the outside world. However, this year’s tournament will be different - once kept a secret within the town’s borders, with the publication of a certain book, the tournament is brought under the international spotlight.
Crooked Kingdom by Leigh Bardugo is a direct sequel to Six of Crows, as we are left off by cold, calculating criminal mastermind Kaz Brecker and his team of thugs and misfits as they try and figure out a way to get Inej, a member of the crew that rescued Kuwei Yul-Bo from Fjerda, and guard the secret of Jurda Parem.
In Harry’s last year at Hogwarts comes even more danger. Filled with a long journey, Harry, Ron, and Hermoine set out to fight Voldemort by destroying the 7 Horcruxes. Whether it is everyone changing to look like Harry or using the sword of Gryffindor this book is filled with events that are fun exciting and sometimes scary! This book is a really awesome book. I love how it is filled with the perfect amount of fun and adventure. This whole book was a page-turner and I couldn’t stop reading it.
