Reviews by Category: Fantasy

When Victor Vale and his roommate Eli Cardale propose the idea of “E.O’s” - ExtraOrdinaries,

people who possess powers seemingly from birth. However, the two boys are determined to

prove that EO’s are made from near death experiences, by having near death experiences

themselves. Consequently, a research project soon results in one man in jail for unjust causes and

the other free, with a thirst for killing EO’s as they were seen as unnatural in his eyes. Ten years

Holly Black’s The Cruel Prince features Jude Duarte, a girl who was stolen from the mortal world

alongside her twin and older sister, Taryn and Vivi, by a Redcap Fae named Madoc. Years later,

Jude and Taryn now attend school among the higher ranked fae, including Prince Cardan

Greenbriar, the cruel prince of Elfhame (get it?). He and his friends, Nicasia, Valerian, and

Locke, do whatever they can to make Jude and Taryn miserable for their human heritage. The

A 12 year old, Percy is diagnosed with ADHD and dyslexia. While on a field trip, Percy’s

teacher, Ms. Dodds, pulls him over to punish him, but instead she turns into a monster and tries

to attack him. Percy gets saved by his Latin teacher, Chiron, and is taken to Camp Half-Blood.

At Camp Half-Blood, Chiron introduces Percy to Mr. D, the god of wine. He is then taken to the

Hermes cabin because they didn’t know what godly parent he belonged to. Later, they find out

As Dumbledore stops by the Dursleys’ to pick up Harry, they stop on the way to recruit

Horace Slughorn to teach at Hogwarts. While shopping for books, Harry overhears Draco

Malfoy threatening that Burgin fixes an unknown object. At school, Dumbledore announces that

Snape will be the new D.A.D.A teacher. Since Harry forgot to buy a potions book, Professor

Slughorn lets him use an old book from someone named, “The Half-Blood Prince”. Inside of the

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

Chain of Gold, by Cassandra Clare, follows a group of shadowhunters,

descendants of angels whose main goal is to kill demons, in 1903 London. Cordelia

Carstairs is a young shadowhunter moving to England with her family. While there she

reunites with her childhood love, James Herondale, his sister and Cordelia’s best friend,

Lucie, and a host of new characters. While Cordelia gets acclimated to her new home, a

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

The Ballad of Never After picks up right where the first book, Once Upon a Broken Heart, left off.

Apollo is still under a curse and Evangeline is determined to cure him on her own. However,

after he unexpectedly wakes up, she realizes he is now under two other curses: a curse where

he will continuously hunt her against his will, as well as a curse where he and Evangeline are

Stephanie Garber’s Once Upon a Broken Heart stars Evangeline Fox, a young, optimistic,

hopeless romantic girl with rose gold hair. After learning of her step sister’s engagement to her

first and only love, Evangeline seeks out the assistance of the notorious Prince of Hearts, Jacks,

known for killing people with a single kiss. In exchange for stopping the wedding, she will owe

him three kisses of which he will choose the time, place, and person. After her plans go south,

Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater tells the story of Grace and Sam, two teenagers living in the

fictional town of Mercy Falls, Minnesota. Grace is a daughter to two neglectful parents who

spends most of her time watching the local wolf population. Her fascination with the wolves has

persisted ever since one saved her when she was a small girl. However, when she meets a boy

with the same yellow eyes as the wolf who has always looked out for her, her life’s trajectory