Readers are taken on a spectacular voyage by the first book in an intriguing new series, which is full of eccentric characters, cunning charms, potions, and spells. Ages 9+. Septimus Heap, the 7th son of the 7th son, is kidnapped the night he is born by a midwife who declares him dead. The newborn’s father, Silas Heap, discovers a bundle in the snow that night that contains a baby girl with violet eyes. The Heaps adopt this defenseless infant into their family, give her the name Jenna, and raise her as one of their own. But who is this enigmatic infant and what actually transpired to their cherished kid, Septimus?
The first installment of this captivating new series takes readers on a spectacular adventure packed with eccentric people, cunning charms, potions, and spells, as well as a desire to solve the mystery surrounding Septimus Heap, who is at the center of this tale. In the spirit of great British storytellers, Angie Sage writes. Magyk will make readers smile and want more because of her creative fantasy heart and comedy.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“Things have a habit of working out, you know. Eventually.”
“Life was simple when you were a Shield Bug.”
“Oh it’s a pebble… But it’s a really nice pebble Dad thanks.”
“Well, I suggest you sleep on it,” said Aunt Zelda sensibly. “Things always look better in the morning.”
“The dragon reared her head, breathing in the storm and loving every minute of it. It was the start of a voyage, and a storm at the beginning of a voyage was always a good omen.”
THE WEAKEST HUNTER EVER TO MAKE!
Jinwoo Sung, an E-rank hunter, lacks resources, talent, prospects, and, it would seem, good fortune as well. He is abandoned by his team and forced to perish at the hands of some of the most horrifying monsters he has ever encountered as he enters a secret double dungeon one fateful day.
However, right before the final, fatal strike…
Best Quotes from this Book:
“If you don’t know how to control yourself, your courage becomes recklessness.”
― Chu-Gong, Solo leveling – light Novel
The sole princess of Kiata, Shiori, is hiding something. Her blood is infused with forbidden magic. Shiori usually manages to keep it under wraps, but on the morning of her wedding, she loses control. Her error initially appears to be a lucky break, preventing the wedding she had always wanted, but Raikama, her stepmother, notices it as well.
Using wicked magic of her own, Raikama banishes the young princess, changes her brothers into cranes, and warns Shiori not to talk about it to anybody since one of her brothers will die for every word that leaves her mouth. Shiori, who is silent, voiceless, and alone, sets out to find her siblings but instead discovers a plot to usurp the throne that is more sophisticated, clever, and twisted than even Raikama’s betrayal. Only Shiori has the power to restore order to the kingdom, but in order to do so, she must put her faith in the boy she battled so hard not to marry. And no matter the cost, she must accept the magic she has been taught to contain throughout her existence.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“Pain doesn’t get easier. You just have to get stronger.”
― Elizabeth Lim, Six Crimson Cranes
“Find the light that makes your lantern shine,” she used to say. “Hold on to it, even when the darkness surrounds you. Not even the strongest wind will blow out the flame.”
― Elizabeth Lim, Six Crimson Cranes
“Fear is just a game, Shiori, I reminded myself. You win by playing.”
― Elizabeth Lim, Six Crimson Cranes
“I would tell you stories from dawn to dusk if it meant filling your eyes with happiness.”
― Elizabeth Lim, Six Crimson Cranes
“Food feeds the belly, thoughts feed the mind, but love is what feeds the heart.”
― Elizabeth Lim, Six Crimson Cranes
It’s the most-watched game show in the cosmos! Every human-built structure on Earth, including Buckingham Palace, the smallest shed, and all the automobiles and trucks, collapses in a heap and sinks into the ground in an instant. The dungeon, an 18-level maze full of traps, monsters, and treasure, has been created out of the buildings and all the people inside of them. A dungeon is so big it goes around the world.
Few people are brave enough to enter. However, once inside, there is no way to leave. Even worse, there is a time limit on each level. It’s game over if you can’t find a way down to the next level in the next few days. It doesn’t matter if you’re strong or agile in this game. It has to do with your opinions and your audience. Building an audience and effectively dispatching the goblins are the goals.
You cannot only exist here. You need to endure greatly. You need to battle with vigor and excitement. You need to get them to stand and applaud. And if you really possess that “it” factor, you might even develop a fan base. With the aid of the loot boxes dropped upon you by the kind benefactors watching from across the galaxy, it is the only way to actually live in this game. It is referred to as Dungeon Crawler World. Carl, though, doesn’t view it as a game at all.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“Cats are assholes. I get it. But do you know why people like cats, despite their asshole-ness? It’s because they don’t fucking talk. If they did, and they were all like you, they’d all be extinct because we’d have killed you all by now.”
― Matt Dinniman, Dungeon Crawler Carl
“Question: What’s the only thing standing between an innocent child and a happy, fulfilling life? Answer: You. The answer is you.”
― Matt Dinniman, Dungeon Crawler Carl
“The corpse had looked like a party-sized sausage and green pepper pizza that had been run over a few times”
― Matt Dinniman, Dungeon Crawler Carl
“Standard healing potion increases your health by at least 50% doesn’t cure poison or other health seeping conditions such as succubus inflected gonorrhea”
― Matt Dinniman, Dungeon Crawler Carl
“…Also it’s a toe ring and is probably uncomfortable and makes you look like one of those hippy assholes that sit around in a field juggling and Hulu hooping all day”
― Matt Dinniman, Dungeon Crawler Carl
Princess Magnolia and Duchess Wigtower are enjoying hot cocoa and scones when… Brring! Brring! The alarm of the beast! The goats are under siege from a huge blue monster! Princess Magnolia is not the right person to be stopping monsters. Princess Magnolia has a secret, though, and that is that she is also the Princess in Black. As such, stopping monsters is the ideal job for her. Can the princess elude capture, assume the form of her alter ego and vanquish the monster before the curious duchess learns of her scheme? Here is the first in a comical and action-packed chapter book series for new readers who enjoy their princesses not only neat and perfect but also clothed in black, from the award-winning writing duo of Shannon and Dean Hale and illustrator LeUyen Pham.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“But Princess Magnolia wore glass slippers on weekdays. Princess Magnolia was afraid of snails. Sunlight made Princess Magnolia sneeze. And at the moment, the Princess in Black was hog-tying a monster.”
― Shannon Hale, The Princess in Black
Terre d’Ange is a land of grace and beauty beyond compare. According to legend, angels discovered the area and judged it to be good. The race that emerged from the union of angels and mortals adheres to a single, uncomplicated moral code: Love what thou wilt.
Young Phèdre nó Delaunay was born with a red birthmark in her left eye. Her bond is acquired by Anafiel Delaunay, a nobleman with a very particular mission… and the first one to identify who and what she is: one pierced by Kushiel’s Dart, chosen to experience pain and pleasure for all time as one. She was sold into bonded servitude as a youngster.
Phèdre is skilled in both courtly arts and bedchamber talents, although her observational, recollective, and analytical skills come first. Phèdre, who is almost as skilled a spy as she is a courtesan, discovers a conspiracy that jeopardizes the very foundations of her country. Treason sets her on her course; love and honor encourage her to continue. And in the process, it will lead her to the edge of desperation… and beyond. In this world, a person can be a beloved assassin, a hateful friend, or a loving enemy. Phèdre will only have one opportunity to save everything she values.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“All knowledge is worth having.”
― Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel’s Dart
“That which yields is not always weak.”
― Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel’s Dart
“There is no fulfillment that is not made sweeter for the prolonging of desire”
― Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel’s Dart
“When Love cast me out, it was Cruelty who took pity upon me”
― Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel’s Dart
“It’s funny, how one can look back on a sorrow one thought one might well die of at the time, and know that one had not yet reckoned the tenth part of true grief.”
― Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel’s Dart
“Oh love and hate are two sides of the same blade”
― Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel’s Dart
Bhaal has to be halted! A teenage mercenary is being led toward an unbelievable secret as someone is damaging the iron mines of the Sword Coast and driving strong realms toward a terrible conflict. In the action-packed novelization of the Baldur’s Gate video game from BioWare and Interplay, evil gods, enormous spiders, ruthless doppelgängers, flesh-eating ghouls, and malevolent Zhentarim come to life.
Constable on Trial Peter Grant aspires to join the Metropolitan Police of London as a detective. It’s unfortunate that his superior intends to place him in the Case Progression Unit, where the only danger he’ll encounter is a paper cut. However, Peter’s chances change following a mysterious murder when he learns insider info from a witness who also seems to be a ghost. Detective Chief Inspector Thomas Nightingale, who looks into criminal offenses magic, and other manifestations of the supernatural, notice Peter because of his capacity to communicate with the living dead. Peter is now thrust into a world where gods and goddesses mix with mortals and a long-dead evil is making a resurgence on a rising tide of magic. This is happening while a wave of cruel and weird murders sweeps the city.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“You put a spell on the dog,” I said as we left the house.
“Just a small one,” said Nightingale.
“So magic is real,” I said. “Which makes you a…what?”
“A wizard.”
“Like Harry Potter?”
Nightingale sighed. “No,” he said. “Not like Harry Potter.”
“In what way?”
“I’m not a fictional character,” said Nightingale.”
― Ben Aaronovitch, Rivers of London
Sophie Foster, a 12-year-old, is hiding a secret. She is a telepath, which means she can hear everyone’s thoughts. She has never been able to explain her skill. The day she meets Fitz, a mysterious teenager who emerges out of nowhere and has the ability to read minds, everything changes. She learns she does belong somewhere, and sticking with her family will put her in great danger. Sophie is abruptly forced to leave everything behind and begin a new life in a location that is quite dissimilar to everything she has ever known.
Although Sophie has returned “home,” not everyone is happy about it. She has new rules to master and new abilities to master. There are things that other people truly want to know about Sophie that are stored away in her memory, things like who she really is and why she was concealed among people. perhaps even kill for In this captivating debut novel by Shannon Messenger, a young woman must discover why she holds the key to her brand-new universe before the wrong person does.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“I would rather be punished for making the right decision than living with the guilt of making the wrong one for the rest of my life.”
― Shannon Messenger, Keeper of the Lost Cities
“Fitz pulled her forward, and the warm tingling in her hand shot through her body–like a million feathers swelling underneath her skin, tickling her from the inside out.”
― Shannon Messenger, Keeper of the Lost Cities
“Across the river, a row of crystal castles glittered in the sunlight in a way that would make Walt Disney want to throw rocks at his “Magic Kingdom.”
― Shannon Messenger, Keeper of the Lost Cities
“I have a feeling you can do whatever you put your mind to. Now go prove me right. You know, so I can brag about it.”
― Shannon Messenger, Keeper of the Lost Cities
“He grabbed her arms to steady her. “It’s ok, Sophie. I’m here to help you. We’ve been looking for you for twelve years.”
― Shannon Messenger, Keeper of the Lost Cities
In this epic debut, which combines magic, adventures, mystery, and romance, a young princess must retake her deceased mother’s kingdom, learn to be a queen, and confront the Red Queen, a potent and malicious sorcerer out to ruin her. Princess Kelsea Raleigh Glynn, who was raised in exile, embarks on a treacherous trip to the castle of her birth on her eighteenth birthday in order to claim the throne that is rightfully hers. Unlike her arrogant and frivolous mother, Queen Elyssa, Kelsea is a plain and serious young woman who enjoys reading and learning.
Kelsea may be untrained and sheltered, but she is not helpless: The Tearling sapphire, a gem with tremendous magical power, hangs around her neck, and she is accompanied by the Queen’s Guard, a group of gallant knights under the command of the mysterious and devoted Lazarus. To survive a group of adversaries who will employ all available means—from assassins donning red capes to the most powerful blood magic—Kelsea will need them all.
Kelsea, who is descended from royalty, feels more like an insecure young girl than a princess because she is being asked to rule a people and a nation about which she understands very little. But what she finds in the nation’s capital will completely alter everything and expose her to horrors she could never have imagined.
A unique act of bravery will cause chaos in Kelsea’s kingdom and unleash the Red Queen, a sorceress who wields the most powerful magic, and who rules over Mortmesne next door with an iron fist. Kelsea will now start to figure out which of the aristocracy, servants, and her own guards she can rely on. The road to fulfilling her destiny and preserving her land, however, has only just begun. If she can survive this magnificent voyage of self-discovery, she will become a legend. It will come in a gorgeous package with illustrated endpapers, a Tearling map, and a ribbon marker.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“Even a book can be dangerous in the wrong hands, and when that happens, you blame the hands, but you also read the book.”
“Carlin often said that history was everything, for it was in man’s nature to make the same mistakes over and over.”
“I am Death. I come quickly, I come slowly, but I am not cheated.”
“You win your people or you lose your throne.”
“Everyone dies eventually. I think it’s better to die clean.”
The Battle of Desperation begins! What’s remained of humanity has been hiding out in a massive, three-walled metropolis for the past century out of dread of the strange, enormous humanoids known as the Titans. Little is understood about where they originated from or why they are out to devour humanity, but everything is about to change when a massive Titan suddenly appears.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“What’s so good about giving up? Is it better to escape from reality, to the point where you’re throwing away your hope?”
“To raise above monsters, we have to abandon our humanity. When we fight, we become fire with fire.”
“Tell me… What’s so good about giving up?/
Is it better to escape reality, to the point where you’re throwing away your hope?”
Mercedes Thompson, also known as Mercy, is a skilled Volkswagen mechanic who resides in Washington’s Tri-Cities region. She also seems to be a walker, a supernatural person with the ability to instantly transform into a coyote. The person living next door to Mercy is a werewolf. Her previous employer is a gremlin. She is also repairing a bus for a vampire. This is Mercy Thompson’s world, which resembles our own in many ways but is home to supernatural beings. And Mercy is about to fall into some severe trouble because of her relationship to those things.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“I don’t like it when I outweigh my men.”
“Love thy enemies, it says in the scriptures. My foster mother always added, “At the very least, you will be polite to them.”
“Dance when the moon sings, and don’t cry about troubles that haven’t yet come.”
“A werewolf tossed me against a giant packing crate while I was trying to rescue a frightened young girl who’d been kidnapped by an evil witch and a drug lord.”
“Hard truths can be dealt with, triumphed over, but lies will destroy your soul.”
For fans of Graceling and Sarah J. Maas, a dark and compelling fantasy novel. An orphan soldier’s life is intertwined with the enigmatic heir to the throne, whose sheer presence awakens the hidden magic she has been hiding inside her, a magic that violates every rule she is obligated to maintain.
The space is constrained and dim. The shelves are lined with row after row of jars, each with a blood-red wax seal. A tangled circle of briar with dazzling, gold-tipped thorns serves as the seal’s mark. Additionally, a terrible but beautiful dance of forbidden magic can be seen in each jar.
Grace Marchant, who was sold to the Crown following the Last Great War, has never met her parents. She is currently preparing to serve as an elite soldier hunting down mageborn—those endowed with long-outlawed magic—and slaying them if they refuse to hand over their authority to the Crown. The mageborn who comply are collared and then given to Bastien Larelwynn, Lord of Thorns, the elusive heir, and cousin of the King, who is sequestered in his dark workshop deep inside the castle. The Lord of Thorns guards his secrets closely, so it’s difficult to predict what will happen to them.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“She thought of Craine’s watchful eye, of the laughter ringing out through the mess hall, of blankets shared and boots handed down, borrowed clothes, the water of the baths, snatches of song and dirty jokes, and a hug when it was needed most.”
“The palace was built on and into the hill overlooking Rathlynn. While the towers and spires went up into the sky, the kings had also tunnelled down into the heart of the earth.”
“The things that mouth had done last night.”
“making her groan into his mouth,”
Oren, a strong and important player, ends as a 1st-level Goblin after being deceived and damned by an exceptionally rare spell! He swears to persevere and get retribution on those who deceived him despite having only a small fraction of his former strength. The only things working in his favor are his in-depth familiarity with the game’s environment and his exceptional capacity for immersion. But first, he has to figure out how to continue playing what is essentially a low-level fodder monster for a long enough period of time!
Best Quotes from this Book:
“You may perceive this place only as virtual reality, but for us, reality is virtual.”
“HOLY SHITTING CRAP!”
A fantastic island, an unsafe task, and a fierce secret. The life of Linus Baker is peaceful and alone. He’s forty years old and resides in a little home with a cunning cat and his old recordings. He oversees the welfare of kids in officially recognized orphanages as a Case Worker at the Department in Charge Of Magical Youth.
When Linus is unceremoniously summoned by Extremely Upper Management, he is given a strange and highly classified task: visit the Marsyas Island Orphanage, where six dangerous children live: a were-Pomeranian, the Antichrist, a gnome, a sprite, a wyvern, an unidentifiable green blob, and five other children. Linus needs to put his worries to the side and assess their likelihood of bringing about the end of the world.
However, the island has other secrets besides those involving the kids. Their guardian is the endearing and mysterious Arthur Parnassus, who would stop at nothing to protect his charges. Long-kept secrets are revealed as Arthur and Linus get closer, forcing Linus to choose between destroying a house and watching the world burn.
The House in the Cerulean Sea is an intriguing tale that is expertly presented. It is about the profound feeling of finding an improbable family in an unusual place understanding that family is actually yours.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“We should always make time for the things we like. If we don’t, we might forget how to be happy.”
“Hate is loud, but I think you’ll learn it’s because it’s only a few people shouting, desperate to be heard. You might not ever be able to change their minds, but so long as your remember you’re not alone, you will overcome.”
“Change often starts with the smallest of whispers. Like-minded people building it up to a roar.”
“You’re too precious to put into words. I think … it’s like one of Theodore’s buttons. If you asked him why he cared about them so, he would tell you it’s because they exist at all.”
“Just because you don’t experience prejudice in your everyday doesn’t stop it from existing for the rest of us.”
This captivating book by New York Times bestselling author Alice Hoffman follows the Owens sisters as they deal with the difficulties of life and love. The Owens ladies have been held accountable for everything wrong in their Massachusetts community for more than 200 years. The sisters Gillian and Sally shared the same destiny as children, always being teased, disparaged, and pointed at. With their musty home, strange concoctions, and a horde of black cats, their elderly aunts almost seemed to encourage the rumors of witchcraft. However, Gillian and Sally only wanted to get away.
One will achieve this by getting married, and the other by leaving. But the connections they have will bind them together again, almost magically. However, after Pino is hurt, he is hired at the young age of eighteen to work as General Hans Leyers’s personal driver in Italy. General Leyers was one of the Third Reich’s most enigmatic and powerful commanders.
Now that he has the chance to spy for the Allies inside the German High Command, Pino fights covertly while enduring the atrocities of the war and the Nazi occupation, his fortitude inspired by his love for Anna and the future he hopes they will one day have. This captivating tale of history, suspense, and love will appeal to fans of All the Light We Cannot See, The Nightingale, and Unbroken.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“Sometimes the right thing feels all wrong until it is over and done with.”
“There are some things, after all, that Sally Owens knows for certain: Always throw spilled salt over your left shoulder. Keep rosemary by your garden gate. Add pepper to your mashed potatoes. Plant roses and lavender, for luck. Fall in love whenever you can.”
“My darling girl, when are you going to realize that being normal is not necessarily a virtue? It rather denotes a lack of courage.” – Aunt Frances”
“It doesn’t matter what people tell you. It doesn’t matter what they might say. Sometimes you have to leave home. Sometimes, running away means you’re headed in the exact right direction.”
“The moon is always jealous of the heat of the day, just as the sun always longs for something dark and deep.”
Princess Celie’s preferred days in Castle Glower are Tuesdays. That’s because the castle frequently adds a new room, turret, or even a whole wing on Tuesdays. No one, save Celie, ever takes the time to lay out the new expansions, and no one ever understands what the castle will do next. But when the King and Queen of Glower are ambushed and their destiny is unknown, Celie must defend their house and save the kingdom with her secret understanding of the castle’s never-ending turns and turns. The first book in a brand-new series that is guaranteed to become a modern classic is this charming one from a beloved among readers and booksellers.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“Are you flirting with another of my sisters?” Rolf sounded aggrieved. “Is no woman safe from you?”
“The Castle would never let anything bad happen to you. You could jump out one of these windows and the Castle would probably conjure up a hundred feather beds to break your fall.” “Don’t test that!”
“Pogue seemed to be magically able to put half a sandwich into his mouth at once, without looking greedy or having anything fall out, and managed to wink at Celie at the same time.”
“it’s all right,” Celie said quietly. “Prince Khelsh’s rooms are very small, and dark, and poorly furnished.”
“The queen always smelled like strawberries, and everyone said that she was as beautiful at forty as she had been when the king had married her. Tall and slender and stately, with her long dark hair pinned up with gold combs, she wore a travel dress of soft green that set off her eyes.”
Jason awakens in a shadowy realm filled with creatures and magic. The transition from the middle manager of an office supply store to a brave interdimensional explorer is not simple. Jason at least makes an effort to be brave, but it’s challenging to be good when all of your abilities are bad.
On the first day alone, he will battle against cannibals, cultists, wizards, and monsters. He will require strength, cunning, and his own unique set of magical abilities. He’s going to require pants first, though. He Who Fights with Monsters is now accessible on Kindle after becoming one of the highest-rated serial novels on Royal Road with an astounding 13 million views.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“When you’re just a face in the crowd, then you can hold an ideal without being required to live up to it.”
“Are you saying your world’s better than mine?” Jason asked. “We have magic,” Gary said. “We have internet porn,” Jason said.”
“The trowel looked rather sinister, made out of some kind of black metal with a red sheen. It carried the wear marks of having been used as a planting tool, but also had a razor edge that seemed wholly unnecessary for gardening purposes. “Blood cult?” Jason read unhappily from the item description. “Who gardens with an evil trowel?”
“An interesting fact about the goddess of knowledge is that she knows everything that anyone in this world knows, including me. Which means she knows a bunch of Mario Kart shortcuts, which is kind of awesome.”
“It was tricky to put a wrist lock on something that didn’t have a wrist.”
In this singularly hilarious debut book from a literary author who blurs genre lines, one pet crow battles to save mankind from an apocalypse. S.T., a domesticated crow, enjoys the finer things in life, including spending time with his owner Big Jim, picking fights with the stupid wild crows in Seattle, and eating Cheetos®.
Then, when Big Jim’s eyeball begins to slide out of his head, S.T. begins to suspect something is amiss. Big Jim’s crippling illness is not cured by his tried-and-true treatments, including beak-delivered beer and Dennis, his devoted but dimwitted dog.
S.T. is forced to leave his old life behind and journey into a perilous new one with his faithful horse Dennis. There, he learns that the local nature is rife with reports of terrible new predators wandering Seattle and that the neighbors are devouring one another. The end of humanity appears to be near, and the only person dedicated to saving it is a foul-mouthed crow whose education in the world comes from watching TV. Even a frightened crow can become a hero in the Hollow Kingdom, a hilarious, generous, and endlessly gorgeous journey through the end of the world and the world that follows.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“And everyone on earth knows if you have the respect of a cat it means your soul is worth being around.”
“Big Jim’s eyeball fell out. Like, fell the fuck out of his head. It rolled onto the grass, and to be honest, Big Jim and I were both taken aback.”
“Watching the sunrise…..what an act of beauty, of unwavering faith, something to look forward to each and every day.”
“Bald eagles are majestic as fuck.”
“Where I come from we call what you’re feeling The Black Tide. It will pass. Tides, by their nature, come and go.”
In a society where martial prowess rules, King Grey possesses unmatched strength, money, and prestige. However, individuals with enormous power trail behind in a close second to isolation. The empty shell of a man, devoid of motivation and will, lies beneath the opulent appearance of a strong monarch.
The king is given a second chance to live out his life after being reincarnated into a brand-new world full of magic and monsters. However, he will face more difficulties than just making up for his previous errors. An undercurrent that threatens to undermine everything he has labored for and raises questions about his purpose for being born again lies beneath the serenity and prosperity of the new world.
The first three books in the most well-known science fiction series in the world, THE DRAGONRIDERS OF PERN, by Anne McCaffrey, one of the greatest science fiction authors of all time, are now collected in one book: THE WHITE DRAGON, DRAGONFLIGHT, and DRAGON QUEST. Lessa, F’lar, Ruth, Lord Jaxon, and all the others will be able to reminisce with others who are familiar with these incredible stories. And for others who are only now learning about this fascinating location, there are countless tales of peril, trickery, and bravery that are just waiting to be discovered.
In this action-packed adventure that masterfully mixes our contemporary reality with the enchanted realm of traditional fairy tales, Alex and Conner Bailey’s world is about to change. Alex and Conner’s story is told in The Land of Stories. They leave their own world behind and arrive in a strange place full of magic and wonder where they encounter the fairy tale characters they have been reading about since they were young. This is made possible by the mysterious abilities of a treasured book of stories.
Nevertheless, they soon discover that returning home will be more difficult than they anticipated following a string of confrontations with witches, wolves, goblins, and trolls.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“Courage is one thing that no one can ever take away from you.”
“The world will always choose convenience over reality. It’s easier to hate, blame, and fear than it is to understand. No one wants the truth; they want entertainment.”
“It doesn’t matter how greatly you’ve been hurt or how much you’re hurting, it’s what you do with the pain that counts. You could cry for years or you could choose to learn and grow from it.”
“Right now, we’re living in an ugly chapter of our lives, but books always get better!”
The engrossing fantasy epic that The Way of Kings started is continued in Book Two of the Stormlight Archive, Words of Radiance. The royal bodyguards are under Kaladin’s command, a controversial first for a low-status “dark eyes.” Kaladin must defend the king and Dalinar from everyday dangers as well as the distinctly uncommon threat posed by the Assassin, all while secretly attempting to master remarkable new abilities that are somehow connected to his honorspre, Syl.
Szeth, the assassin, is back at work assassinating kings across Roshar, using his enigmatic abilities to evade every bodyguard and escape every pursuer. Highprince Dalinar, who is regarded as the force behind the Alethi monarchy, is one of his main goals. The war’s importance would seem to be sufficient justification, but the Assassin’s master has much deeper motivations.
Shallan, who is brilliant but tormented, makes an equivalent effort. She is broken in ways she won’t admit, but she carries a dreadful burden: to stop the mythical Voidbringers’ return and the ensuing Desolation that would destroy civilization. The Shattered Plains is where she can get the secrets she needs, but getting there is harder than she anticipated. The Parshendi are making a historic choice in the center of the Shattered Plains at the same time. As their numbers continue to decline due to years of Alethi attacks, their war leader Eshonai persuades them to stake everything on a desperate bet with the very supernatural entities they once fled. The potential outcomes for humanity, Parshendi, and Roshar itself are all equally dangerous and unknowable.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“Honor is dead. But I’ll see what I can do.”
“Why hasn’t anyone killed him yet?”
“Dumb luck,” Wit said. “In that I’m lucky you’re all so dumb.”
“Do not let your assumptions about a culture block your ability to perceive the individual, or you will fail.”
“The only time you seem honest is when you’re insulting someone!”
“The only honest things I can say to you are insults.”
“As I fear not a child with a weapon he cannot lift, I will never fear the mind of a man who does not think.”
Two remarkable characters drive Kafka on the Shore, a tour de force of metaphysical reality: Kafka Tamura, a young man who runs away from home either to escape a horrifying oedipal prophecy or to look for his long-missing mother and sister; and Nakata, an elderly simpleton who never recovered from a wartime illness and is now drawn to Kafka for reasons that, like the most basic activities of daily life, he cannot understand. Their voyage, which is equally mysterious to them and us, is enhanced by colorful companions and captivating circumstances throughout.
Conversations between cats and people occur, a ghostlike pimp hires a Hegel-quoting prostitute, troops in a forest seem to have not aged since World War II, and fish rainstorms (and worse) fall from the sky. This and every other question are eventually resolved, just as the intertwined fates of Kafka and Nakata are gradually revealed, with one escaping his fate entirely and the other given a fresh start on his own. There is a brutal murder, with the identities of both the victim and the perpetrator remaining a mystery.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.”
“If you remember me, then I don’t care if everyone else forgets.”
“It’s like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.”
“Silence, I discover, is something you can actually hear.”
“Every one of us is losing something precious to us. Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back again. That’s part of what it means to be alive.”
This much-awaited climax, which brings the enchantment and suspense of the All Souls Trilogy to a wonderfully gratifying finish, immediately shot to the top of the New York Times bestseller list. In The Book of Life, Diana and Matthew’s time travel from Elizabethan London to the present in a dramatic way, where they encounter fresh challenges and resurgent foes. They rejoin with the adored cast of A Discovery of Witches characters at Matthew’s ancestral house, Sept-Tours, with one notable exception. The search for Ashmole 782 and its missing pages becomes even more urgent when it becomes clear the actual danger to their future, which has not yet been made public.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“I see you, even when you hide from the rest of the world. I hear you, even when you’re silent.”
“If you truly love someone, you will cherish what they despise most about themselves.”
“To every question I have ever had, or ever will have, you are the answer.”
“It’s one thing to wander in the darkness because you know no different, but it’s quite another to enjoy the light only to have it taken from you,”
“I see you, even when you hide from the rest of the world. I hear you, even when you’re silent.” It was a pure definition of love.”
There is a boy standing among the trees at the beginning. Recently, Clara Gardner discovered that she has angelic ancestry. In addition to being superior to humans in terms of intelligence, strength, and speed (a term that, she realizes, no longer applies to her), having angel blood in her means that she has a mission and was placed on this planet for a reason. It’s difficult to determine what that is, though.
She is sent to a new school in a new town by images of a huge forest fire and a seductive man. Everything seems to fit into place and to be out of place at the same time when she meets Christian, who ends up becoming the boy of her fantasies (literally).
Tucker, a different guy, appeals to Clara’s less benevolent side. Clara faces unknown dangers and must make decisions between honesty and dishonesty, love and responsibility, good and evil as she tries to navigate a world she no longer understands. Clara’s vision finally flames, but will she be prepared to accept her fate when it does? The conflict between following the laws and pursuing your heart is explored in the heartfelt story of love, fate, and Unearthly.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“So often we only do what we think is expected of us, when we are capable of so much more.”
“What do you see in a guy like Christian Prescott?” he asked me that night when he dropped me off from prom. And what he was really saying then, what would have come through loud and clear if I hadn’t been so blind was, why don’t you see me?”
“Insert the biggest, most awkward silence in the history of big awkward silences.”
“I feel like Cinderella sitting in the middle of the road with a pumpkin and a couple of mice, while Prince Charming charges off to rescue some other chick.”
“I’m looking at you. Why are you always trying to hide how pretty you are?”
Celaena has persevered through life-threatening battles and crushing heartache but at an unthinkable price. Her worst truth—a revelation about her ancestry that has the potential to completely alter her life and her future—must now be faced in a foreign country. Brutal and monstrous forces, intent on enslaving her Earth, are assembling in the meantime. Will Celaena muster the fortitude to battle not only her personal demons but also the impending evil?
Best Quotes from this Book:
“You cannot pick and choose what parts of her to love.”
“She was the heir of ash and fire, and she would bow to no one.”
“And then I am going to rattle the stars.”
“I claim you, Rowan Whitethorn. I don’t care what you say and how much you protest. I claim you as my friend.”
“Because I am lost,” she whispered onto the earth. “And I do not know the way.”
Civil war is raging in a kingdom full of dissatisfaction. Conner, a court aristocrat, comes up with a cunning plot to locate a pretending to be the king’s long-lost son and put him as a puppet prince in an effort to bring the divided people together. A stubborn young man named Sage is one of the four orphans enlisted to compete for the part. Sage is well aware of Conner’s dubious motivations, but his life hangs in the balance since either he is cast as the prince or he will undoubtedly be slain. However, Sage’s competitors also have their own goals.
Layer upon layer of treachery and deceit emerge as Sage transitions from a dilapidated orphanage to Conner’s opulent palace, until at last truth is exposed that, in the end, may very well prove to be more perilous than all of the lies put together.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“A person can be educated and still be stupid, and a wise man can have no education at all.”
“Hail His Majesty, the scourge of my life,” Conner said to Roden and Tobias as he stomped up the stairs. “I fear the devils no longer, because I have the worst of them right here in my home!”
“There’s an old saying in Avenia that goes, “Just because it’s calmer than a hailstorm doesn’t mean it’s calm.”
“In a crowd of a thousand boys claiming to be the prince, there would be only one with the same look of trouble in his eye.”
“No, my lady. If I cannot look at you as an equal, i will not look at you at all”
Sophie Foster, a 12-year-old, is hiding a secret. She is a telepath, which means she can hear everyone’s thoughts. She has never been able to explain her skill. The day she encounters Fitz, a mysterious teenager who emerges out of nowhere and has the ability to read minds, everything changes. She learns she does belong somewhere, and sticking with her family will put her in great danger. Sophie is abruptly forced to leave everything behind and begin a new life in a location that is quite dissimilar to everything she has ever experienced.
Although Sophie has returned “home,” not everyone is happy about it. She has new rules to learn and new abilities to master. There are things that other people truly want to know about Sophie that are stored away in her memory, things like who she really is and why she was concealed among people. perhaps even kill for In this captivating debut novel by Shannon Messenger, a young woman must discover why she possesses the key to her brand-new universe before the wrong person does.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“I would rather be punished for making the right decision than live with the guilt of making the wrong one for the rest of my life.”
“Fitz pulled her forward, and the warm tingling in her hand shot through her body–like a million feathers swelling underneath her skin, tickling her from the inside out.”
“Across the river, a row of crystal castles glittered in the sunlight in a way that would make Walt Disney want to throw rocks at his “Magic Kingdom.”
“I have a feeling you can do whatever you put your mind to. Now go prove me right. You know, so I can brag about it.”
“He grabbed her arms to steady her. “It’s ok, Sophie. I’m here to help you. We’ve been looking for you for twelve years.”
The Iron Trial is the first book in The Magisterium Series, authored by Holly Black and Cassandra Clare and released on September 9, 2014, by Scholastic Corporation. Call’s father has always advised him to steer clear of magic. Success in the Iron Trial and acceptance into the prestigious Magisterium school would be horrible. But he fails even in failing. Only arduous work, devoted friends, peril, and a dog are in store.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“Fire wants to burn
Water wants to flow
Air wants to rise
Earth wants to bind
Chaos wants to devour
Cal wants to live”
“They all yelled in excitement. Tamara yelled because she was happy. Aaron yelled because he liked it when other people were happy, and Call yelled because he was sure they were going to die.”
“Maybe by the time they were in their Silver Year, Master Rufus would communicate complicated theories of magic by the lifting of a single bushy eyebrow.”
“You don’t know what you are.”
“Remember what your father said about magic, boy. It’ll cost you everything.”
One thoughtless mistake forces me to spend the next four years with the monsters that killed my parents after I’ve spent my entire life avoiding them. My atonement? The famed Evermore Academy, a finishing school for the Seelie and Unseelie Fae courts, offers the opportunity to become a human shadow. The ruthless and conceited Winter Prince, the most powerful Fae in the academy and ostensibly also my Fae keeper, and I become enemies on the first day. But the academy is threatened by something dreadful and evil. People are dying, long-forgotten grudges are coming to light, and the legal system is more ruthless than ever. What can a mortal girl accomplish on a planet populated by stunning monsters? fight back with all of my might while attempting to avoid falling in love.
In order to save them from extinction, mythical creatures of every kind have been gathered for generations in a secret haven called Fablehaven. One of the last bastions of genuine magic, the sanctuary is still in existence today. Unquestionably captivating. Exciting, undoubtedly. Safe? Actually, the reverse is true.
The fact that their grandfather is currently the keeper of Fablehaven is unknown to Kendra and her brother Seth. Ancient laws maintain a semblance of order inside the gated forests among the greedy trolls, devious satyrs, conspiring witches, angry imps, and envious fairies. Seth is a little too curious and rash for his own good, so when the laws are broken, strong forces of evil are released, and Kendra and her brother are faced with the biggest battle of their lives. Kendra and Seth must have the strength to face their greatest fears if they are to preserve their family, Fablehaven, and possibly even the entire planet.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“Smart people learn from their mistakes. But the real sharp ones learn from the mistakes of others.”
“Drink the milk.”
“break the rules pay the price”
“Let’s worry about fixing the problem instead of the blame.”
“The baby dove into the room, transforming grotesquely as it landed on the floorin a deft sumersault”
Feyre has endured more hardships than a single human woman can bear inside her. She is troubled by her stay Under the Mountain and the awful acts she committed to save Tamlin and his people’s lives, even though she has been given the abilities and longevity of the High Fae.
Feyre experiences nightmares and a sense of hollowness as her marriage to Tamlin draw near. She discovers that she has been divided into two distinct people: one who upholds her agreement with Rhysand, High Lord of the dreaded Night Court, and one who spends the rest of her life with Tamlin in the Spring Court. A bigger evil lurks as Feyre negotiates a complex web of politics, desire, and stunning power.
If she can control her terrifying gifts, mend her broken spirit, and choose how she wants to live her life going forward, she might just hold the secret to halting it. This second book in Sarah J. Maas’s brilliant, erotic, action-packed series soars to new heights thanks to her masterful storytelling.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“He thinks he’ll be remembered as the villain in the story. But I forgot to tell him that the villain is usually the person who locks up the maiden and throws away the key. He was the one who let me out.”
“To the stars who listen—and the dreams that are answered.”
“When you spend so long trapped in darkness, Lucien, you find that the darkness begins to stare back.”
“There are good days and hard days for me—even now. Don’t let the hard days win.”
“I am broken and healing, but every piece of my heart belong to you.”
The most dreaded assassin in Adarlan is Celaena Sardothien. Despite being a member of the Assassin’s Guild and having Arobynn Hamel as her master, Celaena pays no attention to anyone and only has Sam, another hired murderer, in her corner. Celaena takes on five risky missions in these action-packed novellas, which are being published together in one volume for the first time. They transport her to inhospitable deserts and distant islands, where she struggles to free captives and get revenge on the oppressive. She is defying Arobynn’s commands, nevertheless, and faces an improbable punishment for her treason. When will Celaena actually be free? Discover the truth by venturing into this badass heroine’s shadowy underworld.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“If you can learn to endure pain, you can survive anything. Some people learn to embrace it- to love it. Some endure it through drowning it in sorrow, or by making themselves forget. Others turn it into anger.”
“She would tuck Sam into her heart, a bright light for her to take out whenever things were darkest.”
“She was fire, she was darkness, she was dust and blood and shadow.”
“There was no way in hell she was going to move to the southern continent without all of her books.”
“Life isn’t easy, no matter where you are. You’ll make choices you think are right, and then suffer for them.”
Emily Croy Barker’s captivating debut novel, which has drawn compared to immensely popular fantasy books by Deborah Harkness and Lev Grossman, provides an erudite escape into a beautifully conceived world. The Thinking Woman’s Guide to Real Magic is certain to pique readers’ interest since it features an endearing female protagonist, cinematic storytelling, sardonic humor, and incredibly clever literary allusions.
Nora Fischer, desperate to forget about her catastrophic breakup and her procrastinated dissertation, slips off during a dismal weekend at a friend’s wedding. Somehow, she ends up in an entirely different world. She meets wealthy Ilissa and her gorgeous son Raclin there, who introduce Nora to an opulent new world. But as this dreamland’s opulent exterior breaks, Nora discovers herself in a fairy tale gone horribly wrong. And she must become proficient in genuine magic if she wants to survive.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“Out of habit, she stopped by the bookshelf in the living room to see if there was a paperback that she could stuff into her pocket for emergencies — you never knew when you might need a book to entertain and comfort and distract you in the day’s empty places”
“It was one thing to read about a society obsessed with female purity—quite another to find yourself living in one.”
“You know, sometimes, very innocently, you can develop a sort of fascination with a man, and then you see all these little signs that actually don’t mean anything, but it’s too late because you’re reading in them exactly what you want to read. Be careful, is all I’m saying. It’s easy to get fooled.”
“Killing someone usually turns out to be an enormously complicated solution to what was a much simpler problem.”
“real magic comes out of what is around you, it is born from the long conversation, negotiation, fellowship that human beings have with the things of the world.”
The Ballenger empire’s next ruler is Jase when the patriarch passes away. Even neighboring kingdoms submit to the might of this outlaw family, who have always maintained their own system of government. But a young queen has started a new age, and because of this, the dynasty is resentful of and angry with her.
The queen also assigns Kazi, a renowned former street thief, to look into crimes committed against the new colonies. Kazi discovers that Jase is more complex than she initially believed when she travels to the hostile land of the Ballengers. They get deeply entwined as unanticipated events spiral out of their control and bring them together, and they continue to engage in a cat and mouse game of fictitious actions and intentions in order to carry out their own personal missions.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“Choose your words carefully, even the words you think, because they become seeds, and seeds become history.”
“It began with the stars.”
“I do want tomorrows with you, Jase. I want a lifetime of tomorrows.”
“Truth that came too late was as useful as a meal to a dead man.”
“The ghosts, they never go away. They call to you in unexpected moments, their hands lacing with yours and pulling you down paths that lead nowhere.”
A girl in tears, a courageous warrior, and a potential hero. The Kingdom of Winter lost both magic and a king sixteen years ago after being invaded and its inhabitants were made into slaves. The eight survivors who were able to flee, who have been hoping for a chance to reclaim Winter’s magic and restore the kingdom ever since are now the Winterians’ only hope for freedom.
Meira has spent her entire life as a refugee after being abandoned as a newborn during Winter’s defeat. Sir, the general of the Winterians, nurtured her. She was preparing to be a warrior and was in love with her closest friend and future king, Mather, and would do anything to restore the glory of her realm. Therefore, Meira chooses to go after the ancient locket herself when scouts find its location of it. This is because it can revive Winter’s magic. Finally, she is climbing towers and battling enemy warriors, just as she had always imagined. However, things don’t go as planned, and Meira quickly finds herself thrown into a world of dark magic and perilous politics. She eventually realizes that her fate is not, and never has been, her own.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“Someday we will be more than words in the dark.”
“Even the strongest blizzards start with a single snowflake.”
“No matter what happens, no matter who turns on me, no matter what pompous swine thinks he has power over me, I am still me. I will always be me.”
“Fear is a seed that, once planted, never stops growing.”
“They make decisions; they mold your future. The trick is to find a way to still be you through it all.”
A great story about passion, ambition, jealousy, and superpowers. At first, Victor and Eli shared a dorm room in college. Both were intelligent, haughty, and lonely boys, but they also saw the same drive and desire in the other. In their final year, they discover an intriguing possibility: that under the appropriate circumstances, someone could acquire amazing talents. They both have similar study interests in adrenaline, near-death experiences, and incidents that seem supernatural. However, things go horribly wrong when their thesis shifts from the scholarly to the experimental.
Ten years later, with the help of a young girl whose quiet demeanor hides a remarkable talent, Victor escapes from prison and sets out to catch up to his old buddy (now an enemy). Aside from his companion, a mysterious woman with an unbreakable will, Eli is on a mission to eliminate every other super-powered individual he can locate. The archenemies have set out on a road for retribution with dangerous power on both sides and are motivated by memories of treachery and tragedy, but who will survive in the end? Vicious by V. E. Schwab vividly describes a grim comic-book-style world where acquiring superpowers doesn’t inevitably translate into heroism and a period when allegiances are questioned.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“Plenty of humans were monstrous, and plenty of monsters knew how to play at being human.”
“When no one understands, that’s usually a good sign that you’re wrong.”
“He wanted to care, he wanted to care so badly, but there was this gap between what he felt and what he wanted to feel, a space where something important had been carved out.”
“The absence of pain led to an absence of fear, and the absence of fear led to a disregard for consequence.”
“All Eli had to do was smile. All Victor had to do was lie. Both proved frighteningly effective.”
This is the amazing narrative of what transpires when a little boy Magician and a young girl Warrior, who has been bred to loathe each other like poison, clash. Ideal for children who enjoy imaginative adventures… When magic existed, it used to dwell in the pitch-black woodlands. Wizard child Xar wants to find a witch and take her magic so that he can use it for himself. He should have learned his magic by now, but he hasn’t. However, if he wants to have any chance of locating one, he must enter the banned Badwoods.
Xar is going to capture a whole different type of adversary, but he is unaware of this. Wish is a Warrior girl. Two universes collide inside this book right now, changing the course of the country’s history forever. Wish and Xar must confront the demonic Queen in the dungeons of Warrior Fort. However, something that has lain dormant for centuries is now stirring.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“You do have to listen to the stories, for stories always mean something. The question that worries me is: WHAT exactly do they mean?”
“This is the problem with adventures. They bring out parts of you that you never even knew were there.”
“I wish, I wish I wish’ wished Wish”
“Surely, just because SOME Magic is bad, it doesn’t mean that ALL Magic is bad?”
“Witches’ feet make no footprint. Witches’ bodies make no shadows. But they make the trees, the land, the moss, A little colder as they pass.”
Agnieszka adores her house in the valley, her peaceful village, the forests, and the sparkling river. However, the corrupted Wood, which is on the border and is full of nefarious power, casts a shadow over her life.
To restrain its abilities, her people rely on the icy, obstinate wizard known only as the Dragon. But in exchange for his assistance, he wants a terrible price: a young lady must be given up to assist him for ten years, a fate that is almost as horrible as being taken by the Wood.
Agnieszka is anxious as the upcoming choice draws near. Everyone, including her, is aware that the Dragon will capture Kasia, her best friend in the entire world, and all that is lovely, graceful, and brave. It is also impossible to save her. Agnieszka, however, has incorrect fears. Because the Dragon won’t pick Kasia when he arrives.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“You intolerable lunatic,” he snarled at me, and then he caught my face between his hands and kissed me.”
“If you don’t want a man dead, don’t bludgeon him over the head repeatedly.”
“What an unequaled gift for disaster you have.”
“And I wasn’t old enough to be wise, so I loved her more, not less, because I knew she would be taken from me soon.”
“We’re meant to go. We’re not meant to stay forever.”
Azalea should feel like she has it all—beautiful clothes, handsome suitors, dancing at balls—but then it’s taken away. all of it. Azalea is also entrapped. The Keeper is aware. He is also imprisoned inside the palace’s walls, where he has been for generations. He, therefore, extends a welcome.
Azalea and her eleven sisters are permitted to enter his silver woodland each night via an enchanted entrance in their room, but there is a fee. The Keeper enjoys holding onto things. Azalea might not understand how caught up in his web she is until it’s too late.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“Down with tyranny!’ Bramble cried. ‘Aristocracy! Autocracy! Monocracy! Other ocracy things! You are outnumbered, sir! Surrender!”
“If your sisters come to your wedding, my lady, it will only be to murder me.”
Azalea slowly stood.
“Well at least they will be there.”
“Tell Tutor I won’t be to lessons,” she said. “Invent some sort of disease.”
“It would impress him!”
“Do you think so?” Lord Howley brightened.
“Oh,yes,he loves it when people tell him how to run the country.”
“I can be agreeable,” said Fairweller. “If the other party is.”
“Oh,well,” said Bramble. “There goes that, then.”
The monthly cost of $28 florins is a hefty price to pay for a man to protect you from the Wild. When a wyvern’s jaws slam shut on your helmet in the heat of battle and the beast begins to tear the head from your shoulders, twenty-eight florins per month is nothing near enough. Leading a group of men—or, worse, a group of mercenaries—against the cunning, lethal beasts of the Wild is even tougher than just standing and fighting.
It needs all the benefits of birth, education, and the devil’s luck to succeed. The Red Knight possesses all three, is motivated to get money, and has youngsters on his side. So it’s just another duty when he contracts his business to guard a nunnery and an abbess. The nuns are attractive, Abby is wealthy, and he is able to deal with the monster that is preying on them. But it’s more than simply a job. There will be a conflict…
Best Quotes from this Book:
“Never make a plan more complicated than your ability to communicate it.”
“All the best romances bloom in the midst of a good siege.”
“Listen up, then. Evil is a choice. It is a choice. Doing the wicked thing is the easy way out, and it is habit forming. I’ve done it.”
“Do well. Act with honour and dignity. Not because there is some promised reward, but because it is the only way to live.”
“The essence of warfare is to force the pace and hope your enemy makes a mistake.”
Evil sorcerers are the norm. Since she can remember, Elisabeth has known that. Elisabeth was nurtured as a foundling in one of Austermeer’s Great Libraries, where she spent her formative years surrounded by magical grimoires that rattled beneath iron chains and whispered on shelves. They can become hideous ink and leather monsters when provoked. She aspires to hold the position of warden, which involves defending the realm against their influence.
The library’s most lethal grimoire is then released as a result of sabotage. Elisabeth is forced from her home to appear in court in the capital after her frantic intervention makes her appear guilty of the crime. She finds herself caught up in a long-standing scheme with no one to turn to but her sworn foe, the sorcerer Nathaniel Thorn, and his mysterious evil servant. The entire globe might burn to the ground along with the Great Libraries.
Elisabeth starts to doubt everything she has been told about sorcerers, the books she adores, and even about herself as her relationship with Nathaniel gets deeper. Because Elisabeth possesses a power and a future she could not have predicted.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“It was always wise to be polite to books, whether or not they could hear you.”
“Knowledge always has the potential to be dangerous. It is a more powerful weapon than any sword or spell.”
“When terrible things have happened to you, sometimes the promise of something good can be just as frightening.”
“She now understood that the world wasn’t kind to young women, especially when they behaved in ways men didn’t like, and spoke truths that men weren’t ready to hear.”
“Books, too, had hearts, though they were not the same as people’s, and a book’s heart could be broken: she had seen it happen before. Grimoires that refused to open, their voices gone silent, or whose ink faded and bled across the pages like tears.”
Deka, age 16, is terrified and eagerly awaits the blood ritual that will determine if she will be accepted into her village. Deka, who already stands out from the others due to her unusual intuition, wants to pray for red blood in order to feel more at home. However, on the day of the ritual, her blood turns a purplish gold tint, and Deka is aware that she will suffer an outcome worse than death.
Then a mystery woman approaches her and offers her the option to either remain in the village and accept her fate or to join an army of girls who are just like her in fighting for the emperor. They are known as alaki, nearly immortal beings with uncommon talents. The biggest threat to the empire can only be stopped by them. Deka chooses to leave the only life she has ever known while being aware of the perils that lay ahead and wishing for acceptance. But she will find that the vast walled city has many surprises in store when she travels there to prepare for the biggest fight of her life. Even Deka herself cannot be trusted to be who she claims to be.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“No matter my origins, there is worth in what I am.”
“We all have a choice right now. Are we girls or are we demons? Are we going to die or are we going to survive?”
“The physical body—it heals. The scars fade. But the memories are forever. Even when you forget, they remain inside, taunting you, resurfacing when you least expect.”
“Never forget: the same gift they praise you for now, they will kill you for later.”
“My anger builds as I realize how thoroughly my mind has been poisoned that I would be shocked to see women in these positions.”
In a city at war or one overtaken by monsters, there really is no such thing as safety. A young woman and a young man must decide whether to become heroes or villains—and friends or enemies—in this dark urban fantasy by author Victoria Schwab, with the destiny of their home on the line. the first book of a series.
The city is divided, and Kate Harker and August Flynn are the successors to it. In this metropolis, violence has started to produce real monsters. Kate only aspires to be as merciless as her father, who allows the monsters to prowl free while charging the populace for his defense. All August’s desires are to be human, to have the same moral character as his father, and to do more to defend the defenseless—but he is one of the demons. one who can take someone’s soul with only a single musical note. August seizes the opportunity to watch over Kate, who has just been sent home after being expelled from her sixth boarding school when it presents itself. However, Kate learns August’s truth, and the two are forced to run for their life following a botched assassination attempt.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“I mean, most people want to escape. Get out of their heads. Out of their lives. Stories are the easiest way to do that.”
“The beautiful thing about books was that anyone could open them.”
“It was a cruel trick of the universe, thought August, that he only felt human after doing something monstrous.”
“He wasn’t made of flesh and bone, or starlight.
He was made of darkness.”
“We are the darkest acts made light.”
Tourmaline Larou leads a perfect life of study during the day and revelry at night. She wants to be a poet, and her future looks brilliant. When Vignette Stonemoss enters the room, Tourmaline’s entire world is turned upside down. Tourmaline and her fellow fairies face a rising threat from the human realm as she tries to comprehend the impact this stranger is having on them. The prospect of war puts their entire existence in jeopardy. Tourmaline will also find out if love can save her or break her.
The universe of Travis Beacham and René Echevarria’s Amazon Original series Carnival Row, Tangle in the Dark, is where the story takes place. Amazon Prime Video is the only place to see Carnival Row.
The most dangerous siren of them all is Princess Lira, who is siren royalty. She is admired all over the sea because she has the hearts of seventeen princes in her possession. Until a cruel turn of events compels her to murder one of her own. The Sea Queen turns Lira into the creature that they despise most, a human, as punishment for her daughter. Lira has been stripped of her song and has until the winter solstice to give the Sea Queen Prince Elian’s heart or she will always be a human.
Prince Elian is the heir of the most potent kingdom in the world, yet he only ever calls the ocean home. More than a sinister pastime, siren hunting is his vocation. She is more than she seems as he saves a woman who is drowning in the ocean. Can he believe her when she says she will assist him in discovering the secret to permanently wiping out the siren race? And how many agreements will Elian have to make in order to defeat the greatest foe of humanity?
Best Quotes from this Book:
“Love and madness are two stars in the same sky. You cannot build a roof to keep out last year’s rain.”
“Technically, I’m a murderer, but I like to think that’s one of my better qualities.”
“In my heart, I’m as wild as the ocean that raised me.”
“How strange that instead of taking his heart, I’m hoping he takes mine.”
“They celebrate love as though it’s power, even though it has killed far more humans than I ever have.”
Seventeen-year-old pirate captain Alosa is sent on a quest to find an ancient buried map, which is the key to a fabled treasure trove. However, she purposefully allows herself to be imprisoned by her opponents so that she can explore their ship.
Alosa is a formidable match for the vicious pirate crew, and the only thing standing in her way of the map is her captive, the unfairly handsome and shockingly cunning first mate, Riden. But don’t worry, the Daughter of the Pirate King Alosa has some cunning plans in store, and no lone pirate can stop her.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“Oh, the ridiculous things one has to do when one is a pirate.”
“I am me because I choose to be me. I am what I want. Some people say you have to find yourself. Not I. I believe we create ourselves to be what we want.”
“Everyone has something dark in their past. I suppose it’s our job to overcome it. And if we can’t overcome it, then all we can do is make the most of it.”
“Lass, you’ve the face of an angel but the tongue of a snake.”
“I live on the cusp of two worlds, trying desperately to fit into one.”
When Theodosia was six years old, her mother, the Fire Queen, was assassinated right in front of her eyes. Theodosia’s family, her land, and her name were all taken by the Kaiser on that day. Theo was named Ash Princess, which was a humiliating title for her to carry in her new life as a prisoner.
Theo has been held prisoner within her own palace for ten years. She has put up with the Kaiser and his court’s constant abuse and mockery. She is helpless and can only survive in her new environment by burying the little girl she once was inside.
The Kaiser eventually makes her do the unimaginable one night. With blood on her hands and little chance of regaining her reign, she understands that simply existing is no longer sufficient. She does, however, possess a weapon: a mind sharper than a sword. And dominance isn’t always achieved through combat. The Ash Princess has witnessed her country’s land plunder and its people’s enslavement for ten years. That’s all over now.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“I was a princess made of ashes; there is nothing left of me to burn.
Now it’s time for a queen to rise.”
“Is it better to have your life ended by someone who hates you or someone who loves you?”
“Maybe they have broken you, but you are a sharper weapon because of it. And it is time to strike.”
“We are not defined by the things we do in order to survive.”
“Because I am not all right. I am a hurricane barely contained in skin.”
A fantastic island, an unsafe task, and a fierce secret. The life of Linus Baker is peaceful and alone. He’s forty years old and resides in a little home with a cunning cat and his old recordings. He oversees the welfare of kids in officially recognised orphanages as a Case Worker at the Department in Charge Of Magical Youth.
When Linus is unceremoniously summoned by Extremely Upper Management, he is given a strange and highly classified task: visit the Marsyas Island Orphanage, where six dangerous children live: a were-Pomeranian, the Antichrist, a gnome, a sprite, a wyvern, an unidentifiable green blob, and five other children. Linus needs to put his worries to the side and assess their likelihood of bringing about the end of the world.
However, the island has other secrets besides those involving the kids. Their guardian is the endearing and mysterious Arthur Parnassus, who would stop at nothing to protect his charges. Long-kept secrets are revealed as Arthur and Linus get closer, forcing Linus to choose between destroying a house and watching the world burn.
The House in the Cerulean Sea is an intriguing tale that is expertly presented. It is about the profound feeling of finding an improbable family in an unusual place understanding that family is actually yours.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“We should always make time for the things we like. If we don’t, we might forget how to be happy.”
“Change often starts with the smallest of whispers. Like-minded people building it up to a roar.”
“Just because you don’t experience prejudice in your everyday doesn’t stop it from existing for the rest of us.”
“Sometimes our prejudices color our thoughts when we least expect them to. If we can recognize that, and learn from it, we can become better people.”
“Your voice is a weapon. Never forget that.”
Piranesi’s home is unlike any other structure; it has countless rooms, countless hallways, and walls covered in tens of thousands of sculptures, each one unique from the others. An ocean is trapped within the maze of halls; waves pound up the stairs, flooding the chambers in an instant. Piranesi, however, is unfazed because he is aware of the tides and is familiar with the layout of the labyrinth. He enjoys exploring the house.
There is only one other resident in the home, a man by the name of The Other who seeks Piranesi for assistance with research into A Great and Secret Knowledge twice a week. But as Piranesi continues to investigate, proof of a second individual appears, and a dreadful truth starts to come into focus, exposing a world beyond what Piranesi has always known.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“The Beauty of the House is immeasurable; its Kindness infinite.”
“Perhaps even people you like and admire immensely can make you see the World in ways you would rather not.”
“May your Paths be safe, your Floors unbroken and may the House fill your eyes with Beauty.”
“The House is valuable because it is the House. It is enough in and of Itself. It is not the means to an end.”
“My last thought before I fell asleep was: He is dead. My only friend. My only enemy.”