We Rule the Night caught me completely off guard with its immersive fantasy historical fiction world and narrative of fierce women. People who like the concepts of living aircraft, military, wartime, and magic will enjoy this. There is also the idea of traitors thrown into the mix.
Rielle Dardenne wants nothing more than to have Audric as her husband. However, he is already betrothed to Luvine, her best friend. When Audric is almost assassinated, Rielle has to reveal her powers to the world. The king of Celdaria forces her to complete 7 trials, one of each element to prove that she is the sun queen, the savior of the world. If she fails, and is deemed the blood queen, the destroyer of the world, she will be executed. Eliana Ferracora is an assassin that works for the undying empire.
Stellarlune by Shannon Messenger is the ninth book in the Keeper of the Lost Cities fantasy series. Sophie and her friends are in incredible danger. Lies are being discovered, the truth is being found, and suddenly everything seems to be already decided. Sophie and her friends can’t seem to agree on things like who to trust, who to tell what, when to act, and when to let the enemy struggle for themselves. Sophie thinks Elysian is the answer to Stellarlune, and that if
Summary: Cece Rios lives with her family in a town that is mostly protected from criaturas.
However, when her sister gets taken by a powerful criatura, she takes it upon herself to get her
back. She becomes a bruja in hopes that she will be able to get her sister back. While becoming
a bruja, she makes some friends on the way.
Children of Blood and Bone, by Tomi Adeyemi, is a fantasy book with a gripping plot. Zélie is a
young girl living in Orïsha, a fictional country where magic exists. Zélie is a maji, a group of
outlawed people born with magic. All magic was destroyed when Zélie was just a child. For her
entire life, she has faced discrimination due to her magic. However, when runaway princess
Amari finds a magical scroll, Zélie unlocks her powers for the first time in years. Together, the
Summary: This book takes place in a world where magic exists. Common magic is available to
anyone who can buy spellrings however, you can only use high magic if your family wins a
tournament that fights to the death. Every 20 years, each of the 7 families names one champion
that will fight for them in that tournament. When someone mysterious writes a book exposing
the tournament, the fight is now public to everyone after being a secret for centuries. Now the
question is who will get the high magic after this year's tournament, and will it be the same as
Six Crimson Cranes features Shiori’anma, who is about to enter an arranged marriage.
But she harbors a secret, that she possesses forbidden magic. When trying to hide a creation she
has made, Shiori eventually falls into a lake, and meets a dragon who helps her survive. Upon
waking, Shiori is punished to create a tapestry for her soon-to-be husband as an apology, and is
accompanied by her cold and distant stepmother. Shior soon meets Seryu, the dragon she had
Throne of Glass by Sarah J. Maas is the first book in the Throne of Glass series. In a land
without magic, Celaena Sardothien is an assassin who is deadly and can kill with a flick of her
finger. She is summoned to the castle and in order to win her freedom, she has to defeat
twenty-three opponents (killers, thieves, and warriors) in a competition. One by one, Celaena’s
Bloodwitch, the third novel of Susan Dennard’s Witchlands series, features Bloodwitch Aeduan,
whose companions include Threadwitch Iseult and the rescued Nomasti girl whom they have nicknamed
Owl. He struggles between past commitments to his father and those people and causes he has come to
care about. Safi’s story is continued as well with her carrying out her promise to Vaness, Ironwitch and
In Susan Dennard’s sequel to Truthwitch, the stories of Safi, Iseult, Merik and Aeduan continue.
Safi and Iseult strive toward their goal to reunify while dealing with conflict in their unique and
dangerous locations. An unlikely pact emerges between Iseult and Aeduen, the return of his money for his
aid in finding Safi. Safi finds herself as well in an unanticipated alliance with the feared Hell-Bards and
