This week's topic is top ten genre books I can't believe I haven't read yet. I have this problem with YA Fantasy where I want to read all of them in theory, but am so hesitant to reach for one when it's time to pick my next book. I don't know why this happens to me, because I really enjoy them when I read them, but they're just not my first go to. Here are ten (probably really awesome) Fantasy reads I can't believe I haven't picked up yet.
Cinder, a gifted mechanic, is a cyborg. She’s a second-class citizen with a mysterious past, reviled by her stepmother and blamed for her stepsister’s illness. But when her life becomes intertwined with the handsome Prince Kai’s, she suddenly finds herself at the center of an intergalactic struggle, and a forbidden attraction. Caught between duty and freedom, loyalty and betrayal, she must uncover secrets about her past in order to protect her world’s future.
Every year, Blue Sargent stands next to her clairvoyant mother as the soon-to-be dead walk past. Blue herself never sees them—not until this year, when a boy emerges from the dark and speaks directly to her.His name is Gansey, and Blue soon discovers that he is a rich student at Aglionby, the local private school. Blue has a policy of staying away from Aglionby boys. Known as Raven Boys, they can only mean trouble.But Blue is drawn to Gansey, in a way she can’t entirely explain. He has it all—family money, good looks, devoted friends—but he’s looking for much more than that. He is on a quest that has encompassed three other Raven Boys: Adam, the scholarship student who resents all the privilege around him; Ronan, the fierce soul who ranges from anger to despair; and Noah, the taciturn watcher of the four, who notices many things but says very little.For as long as she can remember, Blue has been warned that she will cause her true love to die. She never thought this would be a problem. But now, as her life becomes caught up in the strange and sinister world of the Raven Boys, she’s not so sure anymore.
But Tally's new friend Shay isn't sure she wants to be pretty. She'd rather risk life on the outside. When Shay runs away, Tally learns about a whole new side of the pretty world and it isn't very pretty. The authorities offer Tally the worst choice she can imagine: find her friend and turn her in, or never turn pretty at all.
The choice Tally makes changes her world forever...
But she is also the younger of two princesses, the one who has never done anything remarkable. She can't see how she ever will.
Now, on her sixteenth birthday, she has become the secret wife of a handsome and worldly king—a king whose country is in turmoil. A king who needs the chosen one, not a failure of a princess.
And he's not the only one who seeks her. Savage enemies seething with dark magic are hunting her. A daring, determined revolutionary thinks she could be his people's savior. And he looks at her in a way that no man has ever looked at her before. Soon it is not just her life, but her very heart that is at stake.
Elisa could be everything to those who need her most. If the prophecy is fulfilled. If she finds the power deep within herself. If she doesn’t die young.
Most of the chosen do.
now.That should have been the end of their story. But Grace was not meant to stay human. Now she is the wolf. And the wolves of Mercy Falls are about to be killed in one final, spectacular hunt.
forever.Sam would do anything for Grace. But can one boy and one love really change a hostile, predatory world? The past, the present, and the future are about to collide in one pure moment - a moment of death or life, farewell or forever.
Evie O’Neill has been exiled from her boring
old hometown and shipped off to the bustling streets of New York City—and she
is pos-i-tute-ly ecstatic. It’s 1926, and New York is filled with speakeasies,
Ziegfeld girls, and rakish pickpockets. The only catch is that she has to live
with her uncle Will and his unhealthy obsession with the occult.
As Evie jumps headlong into a dance with a murderer, other stories unfold in the city that never sleeps. A young man named Memphis is caught between two worlds. A chorus girl named Theta is running from her past. A student named Jericho hides a shocking secret. And unknown to all, something dark and evil has awakened.
Evie worries he’ll discover her darkest secret: a supernatural power that has only brought her trouble so far. But when the police find a murdered girl branded with a cryptic symbol and Will is called to the scene, Evie realizes her gift could help catch a serial killer.
But all that changes when the Lynburns return.The Lynburn family has owned the spectacular and sinister manor that overlooks Sorry-in-the-Vale for centuries. The mysterious twin sisters who abandoned their ancestral home a generation ago are back, along with their teenage sons, Jared and Ash, one of whom is eerily familiar to Kami. Kami is not one to shy away from the unknown—in fact, she’s determined to find answers for all the questions Sorry-in-the-Vale is suddenly posing. Who is responsible for the bloody deeds in the depths of the woods? What is her own mother hiding? And now that her imaginary friend has become a real boy, does she still love him? Does she hate him? Can she trust him?
Humans and androids crowd the raucous streets
of New Beijing. A deadly plague ravages the population. From space, a ruthless
lunar people watch, waiting to make their move. No one knows that Earth’s fate
hinges on one girl.
Cinder, a gifted mechanic, is a cyborg. She’s a second-class citizen with a mysterious past, reviled by her stepmother and blamed for her stepsister’s illness. But when her life becomes intertwined with the handsome Prince Kai’s, she suddenly finds herself at the center of an intergalactic struggle, and a forbidden attraction. Caught between duty and freedom, loyalty and betrayal, she must uncover secrets about her past in order to protect her world’s future.
It is freezing in the churchyard, even before
the dead arrive.
Every year, Blue Sargent stands next to her clairvoyant mother as the soon-to-be dead walk past. Blue herself never sees them—not until this year, when a boy emerges from the dark and speaks directly to her.His name is Gansey, and Blue soon discovers that he is a rich student at Aglionby, the local private school. Blue has a policy of staying away from Aglionby boys. Known as Raven Boys, they can only mean trouble.But Blue is drawn to Gansey, in a way she can’t entirely explain. He has it all—family money, good looks, devoted friends—but he’s looking for much more than that. He is on a quest that has encompassed three other Raven Boys: Adam, the scholarship student who resents all the privilege around him; Ronan, the fierce soul who ranges from anger to despair; and Noah, the taciturn watcher of the four, who notices many things but says very little.For as long as she can remember, Blue has been warned that she will cause her true love to die. She never thought this would be a problem. But now, as her life becomes caught up in the strange and sinister world of the Raven Boys, she’s not so sure anymore.
Tally is about to turn sixteen, and she can't
wait. Not for her license - for turning pretty. In Tally's world, your sixteenth
birthday brings an operation that turns you from a repellent ugly into a
stunningly attractive pretty and catapults you into a high-tech paradise where
your only job is to have a really great time. In just a few weeks Tally will be
there.
But Tally's new friend Shay isn't sure she wants to be pretty. She'd rather risk life on the outside. When Shay runs away, Tally learns about a whole new side of the pretty world and it isn't very pretty. The authorities offer Tally the worst choice she can imagine: find her friend and turn her in, or never turn pretty at all.
The choice Tally makes changes her world forever...
Sixteen-year-old Kaye is a modern nomad. Fierce
and independent, she travels from city to city with her mother's rock band
until an ominous attack forces Kaye back to her childhood home. There, amid the
industrial, blue-collar New Jersey backdrop, Kaye soon finds herself an
unwilling pawn in an ancient power struggle between two rival faerie kingdoms -
a struggle that could very well mean her death.
Once a century, one person is chosen for
greatness.
Elisa is the chosen one. But she is also the younger of two princesses, the one who has never done anything remarkable. She can't see how she ever will.
Now, on her sixteenth birthday, she has become the secret wife of a handsome and worldly king—a king whose country is in turmoil. A king who needs the chosen one, not a failure of a princess.
And he's not the only one who seeks her. Savage enemies seething with dark magic are hunting her. A daring, determined revolutionary thinks she could be his people's savior. And he looks at her in a way that no man has ever looked at her before. Soon it is not just her life, but her very heart that is at stake.
Elisa could be everything to those who need her most. If the prophecy is fulfilled. If she finds the power deep within herself. If she doesn’t die young.
Most of the chosen do.
then.
When Sam met Grace, he was a wolf and she was a
girl. Eventually he found a way to become a boy, and their loved moved from
curious distance to the intense closeness of shared lives.now.That should have been the end of their story. But Grace was not meant to stay human. Now she is the wolf. And the wolves of Mercy Falls are about to be killed in one final, spectacular hunt.
forever.Sam would do anything for Grace. But can one boy and one love really change a hostile, predatory world? The past, the present, and the future are about to collide in one pure moment - a moment of death or life, farewell or forever.
In a discontent kingdom, civil war is brewing.
To unify the divided people, Conner, a nobleman of the court, devises a cunning
plan to find an impersonator of the king's long-lost son and install him as a
puppet prince. Four orphans are recruited to compete for the role, including a
defiant boy named Sage. Sage knows that Conner's motives are more than
questionable, yet his life balances on a sword's point -- he must be chosen to
play the prince or he will certainly be killed. But Sage's rivals have their
own agendas as well.
As Sage moves from a rundown orphanage to
Conner's sumptuous palace, layer upon layer of treachery and deceit unfold,
until finally, a truth is revealed that, in the end, may very well prove more
dangerous than all of the lies taken together.As Evie jumps headlong into a dance with a murderer, other stories unfold in the city that never sleeps. A young man named Memphis is caught between two worlds. A chorus girl named Theta is running from her past. A student named Jericho hides a shocking secret. And unknown to all, something dark and evil has awakened.
Evie worries he’ll discover her darkest secret: a supernatural power that has only brought her trouble so far. But when the police find a murdered girl branded with a cryptic symbol and Will is called to the scene, Evie realizes her gift could help catch a serial killer.
Kami Glass loves someone she’s never met . . .
a boy she’s talked to in her head ever since she was born. She wasn’t silent
about her imaginary friend during her childhood, and is thus a bit of an
outsider in her sleepy English town of Sorry-in-the-Vale. Still, Kami hasn’t
suffered too much from not fitting in. She has a best friend, runs the school
newspaper, and is only occasionally caught talking to herself. Her life is in
order, just the way she likes it, despite the voice in her head.
But all that changes when the Lynburns return.The Lynburn family has owned the spectacular and sinister manor that overlooks Sorry-in-the-Vale for centuries. The mysterious twin sisters who abandoned their ancestral home a generation ago are back, along with their teenage sons, Jared and Ash, one of whom is eerily familiar to Kami. Kami is not one to shy away from the unknown—in fact, she’s determined to find answers for all the questions Sorry-in-the-Vale is suddenly posing. Who is responsible for the bloody deeds in the depths of the woods? What is her own mother hiding? And now that her imaginary friend has become a real boy, does she still love him? Does she hate him? Can she trust him?
On Roanoke Island, the legend of the 114 people
who mysteriously vanished from the Lost Colony hundreds of years ago is just an
outdoor drama for the tourists, a story people tell. But when the island faces
the sudden disappearance of 114 people now, an unlikely pair of 17-year-olds
may be the only hope of bringing them back. Miranda, a misfit girl from the
island’s most infamous family, and Phillips, an exiled teen criminal who hears
the voices of the dead, must dodge everyone from federal agents to long-dead
alchemists as they work to uncover the secrets of the new Lost Colony. The one
thing they can’t dodge is each other.
What have you guys been putting off reading?
What have you guys been putting off reading?
Cinder is a great sci-fi retelling story, you should read it asap!!! *-*
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