War of the Sentinels is the third book in the Dark Lands series, a young adult supernatural fantasy set in the netherworld between life and death. The series is meant for a younger YA crowd with a fourteen-year-old protagonist and some similarities to the early Harry Potter books: a Snape-like character, an ever-changing castle, the…
Tower of Dawn is the sixth installment in the Throne of Glass series, an epic fantasy that began as young adult but has matured through its duration. An obvious homage to Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings, the series has grown more complex and grand in scope, covering a vast world of different species and nations…
The Magician’s Workshop, Volume Two announces the fate of our anxious young adults from the first book who were just about to find out who is ‘common’ and who has ‘color’. In this high fantasy for young adults (and old adults), people are faced with a determined destiny at a young age and provided labels that…
The Magician’s Workshop, Volume One is the first in a series of young adult fantasy from two authors: Christopher Hansen and J.R. Fehr. Mark Twain once said that there’s no such thing as a new idea and he was talking about the same stories being told over and over using a twist of the kaleidoscope…
A Conjuring of Light by V.E. Schwab is the third and final book in the Shades of Magic series, a trilogy of magical fantasy set in London – and Red London, and White London, and so on. The first set the stage for our two main characters from different Londons while the second focused on…
Crooked Kingdom is the second book in Leigh Bardugo’s popular Six of Crows duology, another story line in her world of Grisha which began with the The Grisha Trilogy. In this YA political and paranormal high fantasy, our six crows had just completed an impossible heist only to find betrayal as a reward and one…
Six of Crows is the first book in Leigh Bardugo’s new duology set in her high fantasy world of Grisha magic. Her first series, Shadow and Bone, takes place in the same world. Although this trilogy was released first, it doesn’t need to be read prior to delving into Six of Crows. The stories are…
I tore through Aveyard’s third (but not final) book in the Red Queen series. These books have some addictive qualities: they’re easy to read, and they’re really, really hard to put down. Just one more chapter and I swear I’ll call it a night – two hours later at 3 am, you say the same thing….
Glass Sword is the second book in Victoria Aveyard’s wildly popular Red Queen series. In this young adult high fantasy, the world is divided by blood type: red versus silver. The Silvers maintain control with their varying paranormal abilities while the Reds, normal humans, serve and die underneath them. But a rebellion is growing with…
Another hyped-up series! How can I resist? I’ve been looking to get to this series for a while and now that the third book is out, I went ahead and got all three for a back-to-back reading. Red Queen has been blowing up GoodReads since its release in 2015 and judging from the sheer volume…