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  • Thunderhead by Neal Shusterman

    Thunderhead by Neal Shusterman

    Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 59 ratings
    Rowan and Citra take opposite stances on the morality of the Scythedom, putting them at odds, in the chilling sequel to the Printz Honor Book Scythe from New York Times bestseller Neal Shusterman, author of the Unwind dystology.The Thunderhead cannot interfere in the affairs of the Scythedom. All it can do is observe—it does not like what it sees. A year has passed since Rowan had gone off grid...
  • The Stone Sky by N.K. Jemisin

    The Stone Sky by N.K. Jemisin

    Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars
    · 43 ratings
    THIS IS THE WAY THE WORLD ENDS... FOR THE LAST TIME.The Moon will soon return. Whether this heralds the destruction of humankind or something worse will depend on two women.Essun has inherited the power of Alabaster Tenring. With it, she hopes to find her daughter Nassun and forge a world in which every orogene child can grow up safe...
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  • The Obelisk Gate by N.K. Jemisin

    The Obelisk Gate by N.K. Jemisin

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 43 ratings
    The second novel in a new fantasy trilogy by Hugo, Nebula & World Fantasy Award nominated author N.K. Jemisin.THIS IS THE WAY THE WORLD ENDS... FOR THE LAST TIME. The season of endings grows darker as civilization fades into the long cold night...
  • Marked / Betrayed / Chosen / Untamed by P.C. Cast, Kristin Cast

    Marked / Betrayed / Chosen / Untamed by P.C. Cast, Kristin Cast

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    The House of Night is a thrilling, New York Times bestselling book series that follows 16-year-old Zoey Redbird as she is “Marked” by a vampyre tracker and begins to undergo the “Change” into an actual vampyre. She has to leave her family in Broken Arrow, OK, and move into the House of Night, a boarding school for other fledgling vampyres like her...
  • Between Cases by W.R. Gingell

    Between Cases by W.R. Gingell

    Rated: 4.51 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    G’day. I’m still here. Still Pet.Well, I’m only two thirds of a Pet these days, but you might as well call me Pet anyway. Everyone does: everyone but the vampire, that is.Life is more unbalanced these days—cases are cutting closer to home than usual. I thought I was the only one, but there are others like me: kids whose parents were murdered just like mine...
  • The Golden Enclaves by Naomi Novik

    The Golden Enclaves by Naomi Novik

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 2 of 5
    Behind closed doors [?] · 64 ratings
    Saving the world is a test no school of magic can prepare you for in the triumphant conclusion to the New York Times bestselling trilogy that began with A Deadly Education and The Last Graduate.The one thing you never talk about while you’re in the Scholomance is what you’ll do when you get out. Not even the richest enclaver would tempt fate that way...
  • Only Ashes Remain by Rebecca Schaeffer

    Only Ashes Remain by Rebecca Schaeffer

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 22 ratings
    After escaping her kidnappers and destroying the black market where she was held captive, all Nita wants is to find a way to live her life without looking over her shoulder. But with a video of her ability to self-heal all over the dark web, Nita knows she’s still a prime target on the black market.There’s only one way to keep herself safe...
  • Between Frames by W.R. Gingell

    Between Frames by W.R. Gingell

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Two fae is company, but a company of fae is trouble.Which is exactly what we’ve got. Trouble, I mean. Well, and fae. Lots of fae.Something or someone is stalking and killing high-level fae around Hobart—tearing out hearts and leaving a trail of bloody bodies behind. Fae don’t like it when they’re the ones getting killed, so of course they came to hire my owners.Owners, you ask?Hi. I’m Pet...
  • Dark Dancer by B.R. Kingsolver

    Dark Dancer by B.R. Kingsolver

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    One Master survived the inferno that destroyed the Order of the Illuminati. He may know that I survived, but does he suspect that I betrayed the Order? Rudolf Heine has sent Hunters flooding into Westport, wreaking carnage on vampires, shifters, and mages. Normal humans are taking notice, and the shadow world teeters on the verge of being revealed. The Hunters also may be hunting me...
  • Frostbite by Richelle Mead

    Frostbite by Richelle Mead

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 2 of 5
    Behind closed doors [?] · 132 ratings
    Rose loves Dimitri, Dimitri might love Tasha, and Mason would die to be with Rose... It’s winter break at St. Vladimir’s, but Rose is feeling anything but festive. A massive Strigoi attack has put the school on high alert, and now the Academy’s crawling with Guardians—including Rose’s hard-hitting mother, Janine Hathaway...
  • Capturing the Devil by Kerri Maniscalco

    Capturing the Devil by Kerri Maniscalco

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 34 ratings
    In the shocking finale to the bestselling series that began with Stalking Jack the Ripper, Audrey Rose and Thomas are on the hunt for the depraved, elusive killer known as the White City Devil. A deadly game of cat-and-mouse has them fighting to stay one step ahead of the brilliant serial killer---or see their fateful romance cut short by unspeakable tragedy...
  • Hell Followed with Us by Andrew Joseph White

    Hell Followed with Us by Andrew Joseph White

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA furious, queer debut novel about embracing the monster within and unleashing its power against your oppressors."A long, sustained scream to the various strains of anti-transgender legislation multiplying around the world like, well, a virus...
  • Salvation by Erica Stevens

    Salvation by Erica Stevens

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Imprisoned by Caleb and at the mercy of the king, Aria is determined not to let them break her. However, the more atrocities she witnesses, the more she realizes there are some horrors no one can withstand, and sometimes survival isn’t always the best option...
  • Dreams of Gods & Monsters by Laini Taylor

    Dreams of Gods & Monsters by Laini Taylor

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 2 of 5
    Behind closed doors [?] · 57 ratings
    By way of a staggering deception, Karou has taken control of the chimaera rebellion and is intent on steering its course away from dead-end vengeance. The future rests on her, if there can even be a future for the chimaera in war-ravaged Eretz. Common enemy, common cause...
  • A Cruel and Fated Light by Ashley Shuttleworth

    A Cruel and Fated Light by Ashley Shuttleworth

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 13 ratings
    Half-fae Arlo becomes entangled in the courtly intrigue at the Seelie Summer palace as danger for ironborns mounts in this “beautifully written and deliciously complex” (Nicki Pau Preto, author of the Crown of Feathers trilogy) sequel to A Dark and Hollow Star that’s The Cruel Prince meets City of Bones...
  • Finale by Becca Fitzpatrick

    Finale by Becca Fitzpatrick

    Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars
    · 59 ratings
    Will love conquer all? Nora and Patch thought their troubles were behind them. Hank is gone and they should be able to put his ugly vendetta to rest. But in Hank's absence, Nora has become the unwitting head of the Nephilim and must finish what Hank began. Which ultimately means destroying the fallen angels - destroying Patch...
  • Rapture by Lauren Kate

    Rapture by Lauren Kate

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 45 ratings
    The sky is dark with wings . . . And time is running out for Luce and Daniel. In order to stop Lucifer from erasing the past, they must find the place where the Fall began. Only Luce can break the curse, and it is her choice alone that will decide all of their fates. But as Dark Forces gather, great sacrifices will have to be made in this final, epic struggle . .
  • Days of Blood & Starlight by Laini Taylor

    Days of Blood & Starlight by Laini Taylor

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 67 ratings
    Once upon a time, an angel and a devil fell in love and dared to imagine a world free of bloodshed and war.This is not that world. Art student and monster's apprentice Karou finally has the answers she has always sought. She knows who she is—and what she is...
  • The Dust Feast by Gregory Ashe

    The Dust Feast by Gregory Ashe

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Only days have passed since Vie Eliot’s murderous half-brother—a dangerous, out-of-control psychic—was stopped from killing the people Vie loves most, but Vie is ready for his life to return to normal. He has plans. Big plans. Make the cross country team, pick up his grades, and spend a lot of time with his boyfriend...
  • The Curiosities: A Collection of Stories by Maggie Stiefvater, Brenna Yovanoff

    The Curiosities: A Collection of Stories by Maggie Stiefvater, Brenna Yovanoff

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    From acclaimed YA authors Maggie Stiefvater, Tessa Gratton, and Brenna Yovanoff comes The Curiosities: A Collection of Stories. - A vampire locked in a cage in the basement, for good luck. - Bad guys, clever girls, and the various reasons why the guys have to stop breathing. - A world where fires never go out (with references to vanilla ice cream)...
  • Soulstice by Simon Holt

    Soulstice by Simon Holt

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    The Vours: Evil, demonic beings that inhabit human bodies on Sorry Night, the darkest hours of the winter solstice. Six month... Since Reggie first discovered the existence of the Vours in a tattered journal. Since she learned to overcome her fear and destroyed a Vour to save Henry...
  • Fairytales for Wilde Girls by Allyse Near

    Fairytales for Wilde Girls by Allyse Near

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    A deliciously dark bubblegum-gothic fairytale from a stunning new Australian talent. ‘He's gone the same way as those little birds that bothered me with their awful songs! And you will too, you and your horrible heart-music, because you won't stay out of my woods!' There's a dead girl in a birdcage in the woods. That's not unusual. Isola Wilde sees a lot of things other people don't...
  • Oblivion by Kelly Creagh

    Oblivion by Kelly Creagh

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    This electrifying conclusion to the Nevermore trilogy takes one last trip to the dream world of Edgar Allan Poe to reveal the intertwined fates of Isobel and Varen.The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins? —Edgar Allan PoeThe fine line between life and death blurred long ago for Isobel Lanley...
  • The Gifts That Bind Us by Caroline O'Donoghue

    The Gifts That Bind Us by Caroline O'Donoghue

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    A spellbinding supernatural teen drama - and sequel to All Our Hidden Gifts.Maeve and her friends have revealed their powers and banded together as a coven: Roe can pick locks, Lily sends sparks flying, Maeve can read minds and Fiona can heal any injury. And even better than their newfound talents? Roe and Maeve are officially an item...
  • The Mirror Season by Anna-Marie McLemore

    The Mirror Season by Anna-Marie McLemore

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    An unforgettable story of trauma and healing, told in achingly beautiful prose with great tenderness and care. --#1 New York Times-bestselling author Karen M...
  • Angel Fire by L.A. Weatherly

    Angel Fire by L.A. Weatherly

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    In the wake of the Second Wave, the angel menace has exploded, and Alex and Willow are on the lam. Willow's prophetic dream points them to Mexico City, where they connect with a fledgling group of angel killers led by the exotically beautiful Kara, an Angel Killer from Alex's past...
  • Dream On by Kerstin Gier

    Dream On by Kerstin Gier

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    Things seem to be going well for Liv Silver: she's adjusting to her new home (and her new family) in London; she has a burgeoning romance with Henry Harper, one of the cutest boys in school; and the girl who's been turning her dreams into nightmares, Anabel, is now locked up. But serenity doesn't last for long.It seems that Liv's troubles are far from over--in fact, suddenly they're piling up...
  • Half Lost by Sally Green

    Half Lost by Sally Green

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 26 ratings
    This is the final battle.The Alliance is losing the war, and their most critical weapon, seventeen-year-old witch Nathan Byrn, is losing his mind. Nathan’s tally of kills is rising, and yet he’s no closer to ending the tyrannical rule of the Council of White Witches in England...
  • The Once and Future Witches by Alix E. Harrow

    The Once and Future Witches by Alix E. Harrow

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 37 ratings
    In 1893, there's no such thing as witches. There used to be, in the wild, dark days before the burnings began, but now witching is nothing but tidy charms and nursery rhymes. If the modern woman wants any measure of power, she must find it at the ballot box...
  • The Hunting Moon by Susan Dennard

    The Hunting Moon by Susan Dennard

    Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    The highly anticipated sequel to The Luminaries by New York Times bestselling author Susan Dennard.Winnie Wednesday has gotten everything she thought she wanted. She passed the deadly hunter trials, her family has been welcomed back into the Luminaries, and overnight, she has become a local celebrity.The Girl Who Jumped. The Girl Who Got Bitten.Unfortunately, it all feels wrong...
  • Night World, No. 2 by L.J. Smith

    Night World, No. 2 by L.J. Smith

    Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars
    · 45 ratings
    Includes:Book 4 - Dark AngelBook 5 - The ChosenBook 6 - Soulmate Vampires, werewolves, witches, shapeshifters -- they live among us without our knowledge. Night World is their secret society, a secret society with very strict rules. And falling in love breaks all the laws of the Night World. In Dark Angel, Gillian is saved from drowning by her guardian angel...
  • Rogue by Gina Damico

    Rogue by Gina Damico

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Lex is a teenage Grim Reaper with the power to Damn souls, and it’s getting out of control. She’s a fugitive, on the run from the maniacal new mayor of Croak and the townspeople who want to see her pay the price for her misdeeds. Uncle Mort rounds up the Junior Grims to flee Croak once again, but this time they’re joined by Grotton, the most powerful Grim of all time...
  • Graceling by Kristin Cashore

    Graceling by Kristin Cashore

    Rated: 3.98 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 2 of 5
    Behind closed doors [?] · 159 ratings
    Katsa has been able to kill a man with her bare hands since she was eight - she's a Graceling, one of the rare people in her land born with an extreme skill. As niece of the king, she should be able to live a life of privilege, but Graced as she is with killing, she is forced to work as the king's thug...
  • The Dark and Hollow Places by Carrie Ryan

    The Dark and Hollow Places by Carrie Ryan

    Rated: 4.03 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    There are many things that Annah would like to forget: the look on her sister's face before Annah left her behind in the Forest of Hands and Teeth, her first glimpse of the Horde as they swarmed the Dark City, the sear of the barbed wire that would scar her for life. But most of all, Annah would like to forget the morning Elias left her for the Recruiters...
  • Heir of the Dog by Hailey Edwards

    Heir of the Dog by Hailey Edwards

    Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Black Dog, Book 2 Faerie teeters on the brink of war, and the mortal realm swells with fae refugees desperate to escape the bloodshed. As a half-blooded fae, Marshal Thierry Thackeray has a stake in the outcome of both realms and isn’t afraid to knock a few heads together if it keeps the peace...
  • Half Wild by Sally Green

    Half Wild by Sally Green

    Rated: 4.03 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 28 ratings
    "You will have a powerful Gift, but it’s how you use it that will show you to be good or bad."In a modern-day England where two warring factions of witches live amongst humans, seventeen-year-old Nathan is an abomination, the illegitimate son of the world's most powerful and violent witch. Nathan is hunted from all sides: nowhere is safe and no one can be trusted...
  • Of Song and Tide by D.S. Murphy

    Of Song and Tide by D.S. Murphy

    Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    An ancient civilization, brooding under the ocean depths.A forgotten race of witches, with dwindling supplies of magic.And I’m the spark that will consume them both.Death followed me to Ireland. First my parents’ accident, then a string of vicious murders...
  • House of Hollow by Krystal Sutherland

    House of Hollow by Krystal Sutherland

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 42 ratings
    A dark, twisty modern fairytale where three sisters discover they are not exactly all that they seem and evil things really do go bump in the night.Iris Hollow and her two older sisters are unquestionably strange...
  • The Hunter by L.J. Smith

    The Hunter by L.J. Smith

    Rated: 4.01 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    He sold her the game, and Jenny Thornton walked out mesmerized by Julian, the gorgeous cyber-punk with electric blue eyes and frost-white hair. When she and her friends open the plain white box at her boyfriend Tom’s birthday party, she chills to the warning: “Entering the Shadow World can be deadly. Do so at your own risk.” Spellbound, they piece together the rooms with their darkest nightmares...
  • Dark Heirloom by J.D. Brown

    Dark Heirloom by J.D. Brown

    Rated: 4.03 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    "You're a vampire" is so not what Ema Marx wants to hear when she wakes from a two-day coma in a cryptic yet exquisite castle in northern Finland. Unfortunately, it explains a lot. Like why she's able to see in the dark and walk through solid objects. What she doesn't understand is why the other vampires expect her to have all the answers. It's their fault she turned into one of them..
  • This is Not a Test by Courtney Summers

    This is Not a Test by Courtney Summers

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    It’s the end of the world. Six students have taken cover in Cortege High but shelter is little comfort when the dead outside won’t stop pounding on the doors. One bite is all it takes to kill a person and bring them back as a monstrous version of their former self. To Sloane Price, that doesn’t sound so bad...
  • Red Glove by Holly Black

    Red Glove by Holly Black

    Rated: 3.99 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 31 ratings
    The cons get craftier and the stakes rise ever higher in the riveting sequel to White Cat . After rescuing his brothers from Zacharov’s retribution, Cassel is trying to reestablish some kind of normalcy in his life. That was never going to be easy for someone from a worker family that’s tied to one of the big crime families—and whose mother’s cons get more reckless by the day...
  • Silence by Becca Fitzpatrick

    Silence by Becca Fitzpatrick

    Rated: 3.98 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 2 of 5
    Behind closed doors [?] · 72 ratings
    WHEN SILENCE IS ALL THAT'S LEFT, CAN THE TRUTH FINALLY BE HEARD? Nora Grey can't remember the past five months of her life. After the initial shock of waking up in a cemetery and being told that she has been missing for weeks - with no one knowing where she was or who she was with - she tried to get her life back on track...
  • The Buried and the Bound by Rochelle Hassan

    The Buried and the Bound by Rochelle Hassan

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    A contemporary fantasy YA debut from Rochelle Hassan about monsters, magic, and wicked fae, perfect for fans of The Darkest Part of the Forest and The Hazel Wood. As the only hedgewitch in Blackthorn, Massachusetts—an uncommonly magical place—Aziza El-Amin has bargained with wood nymphs, rescued palm-sized fairies from house cats, banished flesh-eating shadows from the local park...
  • Into the Drowning Deep by Mira Grant

    Into the Drowning Deep by Mira Grant

    Rated: 4.01 of 5 stars
    · 31 ratings
    New York Times bestselling author Mira Grant, author of the renowned Newsflesh series, returns with a novel that takes us to a new world of ancient mysteries and mythological dangers come to life. Seven years ago, the Atargatis set off on a voyage to the Mariana Trench to film a "mockumentary" bringing to life ancient sea creatures of legend. It was lost at sea with all hands...
  • Hollow City by Ransom Riggs

    Hollow City by Ransom Riggs

    Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars
    · 52 ratings
    Miss Peregrine's Home For Peculiar Children was the surprise best seller of 2011—an unprecedented mix of YA fantasy and vintage photography that enthralled readers and critics alike. This second novel begins in 1940, immediately after the first book ended...
  • The Name of the Star by Maureen Johnson

    The Name of the Star by Maureen Johnson

    Rated: 3.99 of 5 stars
    · 38 ratings
    Jack the Ripper is back, and he's coming for Rory next.... Louisiana teenager Rory Deveaux arrives in London to start a new life at boarding school just as a series of brutal murders mimicking the horrific Jack the Ripper killing spree of more than a century ago has broken out across the city. The police are left with few leads and no witnesses. Except one...
  • Children of the Night by Mercedes Lackey

    Children of the Night by Mercedes Lackey

    Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    Rock band Wanderlust is about to hit it big, guitarist Dave Kendall is sure of that. They're playing better venues, in front of bigger crowds-and the people showing up at the after parties are increasingly good-looking and cool. Some even radiate power, like "Master" Jeffries, the tall, saturnine man who seems to have some sort of weird control over Dave's fellow bandmates...
  • Demon in My View by Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

    Demon in My View by Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

    Rated: 3.96 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    Though nobody at her high school knows it, Jessica is a published author. Her vampire novel, "Tiger, Tiger, "has just come out under the pen name Ash Night. Now two new students have just arrived in Ramsa, and both want Jessica's attention. She has no patience with overly friendly Caryn, but she's instantly drawn to Alex, a self-assured, mysterious boy who seems surprisingly familiar...
  • Enshadowed by Kelly Creagh

    Enshadowed by Kelly Creagh

    Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    True love takes a twisted turn in the second book of this modern gothic romance trilogy channeling the dark brilliance of Edgar Allan Poe. Varen Nethers is trapped in a perilous dreamworld—a treacherous and desolate realm where the terrifying stories of Edgar Allan Poe come to life...
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