• the poppy war
• the poppy war #1
• fantasy, historical fiction, adult
• ”Children ceased to be children when you put a sword in their hands. When you taught them to fight a war, then you armed them and put them on the front lines, they were not children anymore. They were soldiers.”
• rating: ☆☆☆☆.5

An epic historical military fantasy, inspired by the bloody history of China's twentieth century and filled with treachery and magic. When Rin aced the Keju-the Empire-wide test to find the most talented youth to learn at the Academies—it was a shock to everyone: to the test officials, who couldn't believe a war orphan from Rooster Province could pass without cheating; to Rin's guardians, who believed they'd finally be able to marry her off and ...

• clockwork prince
• the infernal devices #2
• fantasy, young adult, romance
• ”Ah," said a voice from the doorway, "having your annual 'everyone thinks Will is a lunatic' meeting, are you? "It's biannual," said Jem. "And no, this is not that meeting.”
• rating: ☆☆☆☆

In the magical underworld of Victorian London, Tessa Gray has at last found safety with the Shadowhunters. But that safety proves fleeting when rogue forces in the Clave plot to see her protector, Charlotte, replaced as head of the Institute. If Charlotte loses her position, Tessa will be out on the street-and easy prey for the mysterious Magister, who wants to use Tessa's powers for his own dark ends. With the help of the handsome, self-destructive Will and the fiercely devoted Jem, Tes...

• the little book of love magic
• non fiction, witchcraft

Unlock the mysteries of the heart...

Love is at the heart of everything we do. It is the intensity and ferocity with which we give ourselves to another. It is the unlimited, uncomplicated affection we have for our friends. It is the respect and small kindnesses we show ourselves each day. It is the magical essence that nourishes and animates all things.

Featuring stunning illustrations by the author, this little guide will teach you to honour love's divine magic through spells, rituals and enchantments that will nurture your innate intuition, cultivate self-love and promote sensual well-being. The magic of an open heart will encourage your relationships to flourish by strengthening true bonds and healing old wounds.

• the summer i turned pretty
• summer #1
• romance, young adult, contemporary
• “For me, it was almost like winter didn’t count. Summer was what mattered. My whole life was measured in summers.”
• rating: ☆☆.5

Some summers are just destined to be pretty.

Belly measures her life in summers. Everything good, everything magical happens between the months of June and August. Winters are simply a time to count the weeks until the next summer, a place away from the beach house, away from Susannah, and most importantly, away from Jeremiah and Conrad. They are the boys that Belly has known since her very first summer -- they have been her brother figures, her crushes, and everything in between. But one summer, one wonderful and terrible summer, ...

• breaking dawn
• the twilight saga #4
• fantasy, young adult, romance
• “I want you, and I want you forever. One lifetime is simply not enough for me.”
• rating: ☆☆☆

"Don't be afraid," I murmured. "We belong together." I was abruptly overwhelmed by the truth of my own words. This moment was so perfect, so right, there was no way to doubt it. His arms wrapped around me, holding me against him.... It felt like every nerve ending in my body was a live wire. "Forever," he agreed.

WHEN YOU LOVED THE ONE WHO WAS KILLING YOU, IT LEFT YOU NO OPTIONS. How could you run, how could you fight, when doing so would hurt that beloved one? If your life was all you had to give, how could you not give it? If it was someone you truly lo...

• new moon
• the twilight saga #2
• fantasy, young adult, romance
• “Forbidden to remember, terrified to forget; it was a hard line to walk.”
• rating: ☆☆☆

I knew we were both in mortal danger. Still, in that instant, I felt well. Whole. I could feel my heart racing in my chest, the blood pulsing hot and fast through my veins again. My lungs filled deep with the sweet scent that came off his skin. It was like there had never been any hole in my chest. I was perfect - not healed, but as if there had never been a wound in the first place.

I FELT LIKE I WAS TRAPPED IN ONE OF THOSE TERRIFYING NIGHTMARES, the one where you have to run, run till your lungs burst, but you can't make your body move fast enough.... But this was no dream, and, unli...

• please love me at my worst
• poetry, self help, LGBT
• "i tried to teach you how to love me but the love i needed would have come naturally"
• rating: ☆☆☆

Notable TikTok creator Michaela Angemeer explores connecting with your inner child, loving the worst parts of yourself, coming out as bisexual, and focusing on self-growth in her much-anticipated poetry collection. Please Love Me At My Worst is a collection of four sections of poetry inspired by loneliness, unrequited love, and not being able to let go of past relationships. Written during the 2020 COVID-19 quarantine, the book is a reflection of what it means to yearn for people who are unavailable and how important it is to focus on self-love and healing.

• sidetracked
• mindfuck #2
• romance, dark, thriller
• “Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.”
• rating: ☆☆

They always want to break me, but I'm too strong now. Untouchable. Or at least I was...until her.

LOGAN

I've had tunnel vision for one main goal for so long, that I forgot there was a whole other world just outside. Until Lana.

She's everything I never expected, and I love the fact I can never guess her every move or reaction. It's part of the reason I keep falling. But I also know she shuts me out, hides things from me she feels she can't share.

One day, I hope she trusts me enough to s...

• gender queer
• graphic novel, LGBT, memoir, non-fiction
• “A note to my parents: Though I have struggled with being your daughter, I am so, so glad that I am your child.”
• rating: ☆☆☆☆☆

In 2014, Maia Kobabe, who uses e/em/eir pronouns, thought that a comic of reading statistics would be the last autobiographical comic e would ever write. At the time, it was the only thing e felt comfortable with strangers knowing about em. Now, Gender Queer is here. Maia's intensely cathartic autobiography charts eir journey of self-identity, which includes the mortification and confusion of adolescent crushes, grappling with how to come out to family and society, bonding with friends over erotic gay fanfiction, and facing the trauma and fundamental violation of pap smears. Started as a way to explain to ei...

• coming home to her
• poetry, LGBT, romance

Coming Home to Her is a celebration of being human. It is a coming out journey, an exploration of sexuality, femininity, loving, and being loved.

• the bride test
• the kiss quotient #2
• romance, contemporary, adult
• “My heart works in a different way, but it’s yours. You’re my one.”
• rating: ☆☆☆

Khai Diep has no feelings. Well, he feels irritation when people move his things or contentment when ledgers balance down to the penny, but not big, important emotions—like grief. And love. He thinks he’s defective. His family knows better—that his autism means he just processes emotions differently. When he steadfastly avoids relationships, his mother takes matters into her own hands and returns to Vietnam to find him the perfect bride.

As a mixed-race girl living in the slums of Ho Chi Minh City, Esme Tran has always felt out of place. When the opportunity arises to come to America and meet a pote...

• aquicorn cove
• graphic novel, fantasy, LGBT
• “I needed help, but I didn't know how to ask. I didn't know how to explain I needed help with the small things. The things I never noticed before, until suddenly they took effort. Sometimes I feel like I just want to go to sleep for a while, and wake up when I'm stronger or things are different somehow”
• rating: ☆☆☆☆.5

When Lana and her father return to their seaside hometown to help clear the debris of a big storm, Lana remembers how much she's missed the ocean -- and the strong, reassuring presence of her aunt. As Lana explores the familiar beach, she discovers something incredible: a colony of Aquicorns, small magical seahorse-like creatures that live in the coral reef. Lana rescues an injured Aquicorn and cares for it...

• lore olympus: volume five
• lore olympus volumes #5
• graphic novel, romance, fantasy, mythology
• rating: ☆☆☆☆☆

Scandalous gossip, wild parties, and forbidden love--the Greek tale of Hades and Persephone gets a romantic modern update in the gorgeously illustrated, Eisner Award-winning Lore Olympus, including behind-the-scenes content!

An ingenious take on the Greek Pantheon, Lore Olympus is a modern update on the story of Hades and Persephone. Follow the propulsive love story of two Greek gods, told with lavish artwork and contemporary sensibilities.

This full-color edition of Smythe's original Eisner Award-winning webcomic Lore Olympus features exclusive behind-the-scenes content and brings Greek mythology into...

• she is the poem
• poetry, LGBT
• "thank you for making me finally understand love poems"

• a purrfect gift
• romance, LGBT, christmas, novella
• rating: ☆☆☆

Lena has just moved to Freiburg with her cat, Scully, so when she finds little gifts on her doorstep every day, she thinks they are a welcome-to-the-building Advent calendar from her new neighbors.

Caroline, who lives next door, can’t figure out how her stuff keeps disappearing until she catches a cat in the act of stealing from her. She follows the feline felon home—and meets its cute owner.

Despite Lena’s best efforts, Scully doesn’t seem inclined to give up her life of crime, so she keeps having to go over to Caroline’s to return the loot.

Soon, neither woman minds the cat burglary anymore. Is it possible that her thieving cat gave Lena the purrfect gift for Christmas?

• last night at the telegraph club
• historical fiction, LGBT, romance
• “Are you like the girls in the book too? Because I think I am.”
• rating: ☆☆☆☆☆

“That book. It was about two women, and they fell in love with each other.” And then Lily asked the question that had taken root in her, that was even now unfurling its leaves and demanding to be shown the sun: “Have you ever heard of such a thing?”

Seventeen-year-old Lily Hu can’t remember exactly when the question took root, but the answer was in full bloom the moment she and Kathleen Miller walked under the flashing neon sign of a lesbian bar called the Telegraph Club.

America in 1954 is not a safe place for two girls to fall in love, especially not in Chinatown. Red-Scare paranoia threaten...

• whale star vol 4
• whale star: the gyeongseong mermaid #4
• graphic novel, historical fiction, retelling
• "You saved me, so half of my life is made up of you. Wherever you are in the future, I will be able to find you. No matter how many times I have to do it, I promise I will find you again."
• rating: ☆☆☆☆☆

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• a business proposal vol 1
• a business proposal webtoon #1
• graphic novel, romance, contemporary
• rating: ☆☆☆☆

Ha-ri made a deal—go on one blind date for her BFF and pretend to be a super-vixen to end all of her unwanted marriage set-ups! Unfortunately, instead of easy money, Ha-ri’s got a headache. Her date is Taemu, her company’s hot new CEO, and he’s got his own plans to get his family to back off by marrying whoever shows up on the date. Should Ha-ri accept his proposal to keep playing pretend? Nothing could go wrong with lying about your real identity while dating the boss . . . right??

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• whale star vol 1
• whale star: the gyeongseong mermaid #1
• graphic novel, historical fiction, retelling
• "I cannot become a patch of dry grass... trampled upon before I even have the chance to breathe."
• rating: ☆☆☆☆☆

The year is 1926 in this retelling of Hans Christian Andersen’s “The Little Mermaid”, and Joseon (present-day Korea), is under colonial Japanese rule. Su-a Heo is a handmaiden who spends her days working and swimming in the sea. Her work is her whole life, until one day, when she discovers a wounded independence fighter named Uihyeon Kang washed up on the shore. She nurses him back to health, only to lose her ability to speak in a botched murder attempt by Uihyeon’s comrade, Haesu Song. As she travels to the capital, Gy...

• it stems from love
• graphic novel, romance, LGBT
• "if only she would look at me... The way she looks at those flowers."
• rating: ☆☆☆

If heartbreak doesn't kill you, then coughing up flowers will. When you're trying to deal with one-sided love, the last thing you want are flowers growing in your lungs. It doesn't help that they seem to multiply the more you see her smile at someone else.

• to all the boys i've loved before
• to all the boys i've loved before #1
• romance, young adult, contemporary
• “When someone's been gone a long time, at first you save up all the things you want to tell them. You try to keep track of everything in your head. But it's like trying to hold on to a fistful of sand: all the little bits slip out of your hands, and then you're just clutching air and grit.”
• rating: ☆☆☆☆.5

To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before is the story of Lara Jean, who has never openly admitted her crushes, but instead wrote each boy a letter about how she felt, sealed it, and hid it in a box under her bed.

But one day Lara Jean discovers that somehow her secret box of letters has been mailed, causing all her crushes from her pa...

• beach read
• romance, contemporary, adult
• “When I watch you sleep," he said shakily, "I feel overwhelmed that you exist.”
• rating: ☆☆☆☆

January is a hopeless romantic who likes narrating her life as if she's the heroine in a blockbuster movie. Augustus is a serious literary type who thinks true love is a fairy-tale. January and Augustus are not going to get on.

But they actually have more in common than you'd think:

They're both broke. They've got crippling writer's block. They need to write bestsellers before the end of the summer.

The result? A bet to see who can get their book published first. The catch? They have to swap genres. The risk? In telling each other's stories, their worlds might ...

• playboy princes
• royals of arbon academy #2
• romance, new adult, fantasy
• rating: ☆☆☆

She's my last chance.

Those four words echo in Violet Spencer’s mind, tugging at her curiosity even as rage builds within her.

Arbon Academy was supposed to be a bright new start. An opportunity for greatness, and something an orphan girl could only dream of. For a while there, it seemed to be exactly that.

But Violet's bright future is suddenly looking dim. Arbon Academy and Prince Alex are nothing but a facade. A trap.

In a sinister world of ballgowns and backstabbing, of perfumes and politics, of indulgent parties and illegal sword fights, Violet now faces the biggest challenge of all. Recovering her shattered heart fro...

• saga, volume 9
• saga #9
• graphic novel, fantasy, science fiction
• “Honey girl, I don't care what you do, as long as you're kind to everyone you meet." "That's it?" "That is the hardest part of being alive.”
• rating: ☆☆☆☆.5

A spacefaring adventure about fake news and genuine terror.

• the mismatch
• romance, contemporary, adult
• ‘It was in that moment that she knew she needed to tell her story. Even if just one person read it and could relate, that would be enough. It felt selfish of her not at least to try to make one person feel less alone.”
• rating: ☆☆☆☆

Soraya knows she could never fall for someone like Magnus. He's her complete opposite in every way.

Popular and confident, Magnus seems to have his life figured out, while Soraya has got to twenty-one and has somehow never been kissed.

Soraya's mother Neda also knows what it's like to feel mismatched. She left Iran with her husband in the wake of revolution, and the aftershocks of that decision are still being felt decades later.

• saga, volume 6
• saga #6
• graphic novel, fantasy, science fiction
• “You'll never understand the way the worlds really work until you surround yourself with people from all sorts of weird backgrounds.”
• rating: ☆☆☆☆

Hazel begins the most exciting adventure of her life: kindergarten. Meanwhile, her starcrossed family learns hard lessons of their own.

• the starless sea
• fantasy, adult, romance, LGBT
• “But the world is strange and endings are not truly endings no matter how the stars might wish it so.”
• rating: ☆☆☆

Are you lost or are you exploring?

When Zachary Rawlins stumbles across a strange book hidden in his university library it leads him on a quest unlike any other. Its pages entrance him with their tales of lovelorn prisoners, lost cities and nameless acolytes, but they also contain something impossible: a recollection from his own childhood.

Determined to solve the puzzle of the book, Zachary follows the clues he finds on the cover – a bee, a key and a sword. They guide him to a masquerade ball, to a dangerous secret club, and finally through a magical doorway created by the fierce...

• how it all blew up
• young adult, LGBT, contemporary
• “A friend of mine with older children likes to say that at the beginning of your children's lives, you are teaching them. But there comes a point in life when they begin to teach you.”
• rating: ☆☆☆.5

Eighteen-year-old Amir Azadi always knew coming out to his Muslim family would be messy--he just didn't think it would end in an airport interrogation room. But when faced with a failed relationship, bullies, and blackmail, running away to Rome is his only option. Right?

Soon, late nights with new friends and dates in the Sistine Chapel start to feel like second nature... until his old life comes knocking on his door. Now, Amir has to tell the whole truth and nothing but the truth to a US Customs officer, or risk...

• pride and prejudice
• classics, romance, historical
• “I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.”
• rating: ☆☆☆

Since its immediate success in 1813, Pride and Prejudice has remained one of the most popular novels in the English language. Jane Austen called this brilliant work "her own darling child" and its vivacious heroine, Elizabeth Bennet, "as delightful a creature as ever appeared in print." The romantic clash between the opinionated Elizabeth and her proud beau, Mr. Darcy, is a splendid performance of civilized sparring. And Jane Austen's radiant wit sparkles as her characters dance a delica...

• count your lucky stars
• written in the stars #3
• romance, LGBT, contemporary
• “The right person shouldn't complete you, they should love you the way you are. And it's cool if they make you want to be better, but they should never make you feel like you are too much or not enough exactly as you are.”
• rating: ☆☆☆☆

Margot Cooper doesn’t do relationships. She tried and it blew up in her face, so she’ll stick with casual hookups, thank you very much. But now her entire crew has found "the one" and she’s beginning to feel like a fifth wheel. And then fate (the heartless bitch) intervenes. While touring a wedding venue with her engaged friends, Margot comes face-to-face with Olivia Grant—her childhood friend, her first love, her first… well, everything...

• daisy jones & the six
• historical fiction, contemporary, adult
• “I used to think soul mates were two of the same. I used to think I was supposed to look for somebody that was like me. I don't believe in soul mates anymore and I'm not looking for anything. But if I did believe in them, I'd believe your soul mate was somebody who had all the things you didn't, that needed all the things you had. Not somebody who's suffering from the same stuff you are.”
• rating: ☆☆☆☆☆

A gripping novel about the whirlwind rise of an iconic 1970s rock group and their beautiful lead singer, revealing the mystery behind their infamous break up.

Everyone knows Daisy Jones & The Six, but nobody knows the real reason why they split at the absolute height of their popularity…until now.

• lore olympus: volume one
• lore olympus volumes #1
• graphic novel, fantasy, romance, mythology
• "I love the way you treat me and I want to feel that way all the time"
• rating: ☆☆☆☆☆

Experience the propulsive love story of two Greek gods—Hades and Persephone—brought to life with lavish artwork and an irresistible contemporary voice.

Scandalous gossip, wild parties, and forbidden love—witness what the gods do after dark in this stylish and contemporary reimagining of one of mythology’s most well-known stories from creator Rachel Smythe. Featuring a brand-new, exclusive short story, Smythe’s original Eisner-nominated web-comic Lore Olympus brings the Greek Pantheon into the modern age with this sharply perceptive and romantic graph...

• evidence of the affair
• contemporary, short story, romance
• “It seems as if you see me exactly as I wish to be seen. There is no greater gift than that.”
• rating: ☆☆☆☆☆

Dear stranger…

A desperate young woman in Southern California sits down to write a letter to a man she’s never met—a choice that will forever change both their lives.

My heart goes out to you, David. Even though I do not know you…

The correspondence between Carrie Allsop and David Mayer reveals, piece by piece, the painful details of a devastating affair between their spouses. With each commiserating scratch of the pen, they confess their fears and bare their souls. They share the bewilderment over how things went so wrong and come to wonder where to go...

• the lightning thief
• percy jackson and the olympians #1
• fantasy, young adult, mythology
• "If my life is going to mean anything, I have to live it myself”
• rating: ☆☆☆☆.5

Percy Jackson is a good kid, but he can't seem to focus on his schoolwork or control his temper. And lately, being away at boarding school is only getting worse - Percy could have sworn his pre-algebra teacher turned into a monster and tried to kill him. When Percy's mom finds out, she knows it's time that he knew the truth about where he came from, and that he go to the one place he'll be safe. She sends Percy to Camp Half Blood, a summer camp for demigods (on Long Island), where he learns that the father he never knew is Poseidon, God of the Sea. Soon a mystery unfolds and together with his friends—one a...

• fated throne
• supernatural beasts and bullies #6
• fantasy, romance, fairies
• "If there was one thing this whole shit storm had taught me, it was that tears saved nobody and dwelling on regrets was as useful as cutting my own hands off."
• rating: ☆☆☆☆

Fate has torn us apart and sometimes I believe the stars have given up on us altogether. Without my sister, the world seems darker than ever before and the shadows loom thicker, rising up to answer the call of the Shadow Princess and changing the face of Solaria for good. Now Lionel Acrux has the strength to make a move for the throne, I’m not sure how much time we have left to stop him. Our only hope is to find the Imperial Star before he does. We made the sacrifice the stars called for and we’re paying the price for that ...

• the tea dragon festival
• tea dragon #2
• graphic novel, fantasy, LGBT
• “Just because something comes easily to you, does not mean it has no value. You find it effortless because you love it, and that is why it is your gift.”
• ☆☆☆☆.5

Rinn has grown up with the Tea Dragons that inhabit their village, but stumbling across a real dragon turns out to be a different matter entirely! Aedhan is a young dragon who was appointed to protect the village but fell asleep in the forest eighty years ago. With the aid of Rinn’s adventuring uncle Erik and his partner Hesekiel, they investigate the mystery of his enchanted sleep, but Rinn’s real challenge is to help Aedhan come to terms with feeling that he cannot get back the time he has lost.

• afterlove
• LGBT, romance, fantasy
• "maybe we'll burn bright for a few weeks then collapse in on ourselves, but that's how galaxies are made anyway."
• rating: ☆☆☆☆

Ash Persaud is about to become a reaper in the afterlife, but she is determined to see her first love Poppy Morgan again, the only thing that separates them is death.

Car headlights.

The last thing Ash hears is the snap of breaking glass as the windscreen hits her and breaks into a million pieces like stars.

But she made it, she's still here. Or is she?

This New Year's Eve, Ash is gets an RSVP from the afterlife she can't decline: to join a clan of fierce girl reapers who ta...

• the love hypothesis
• romance, contemporary, adult
• "carry yourself with the confidence of a mediocre white man"
• rating: ☆☆☆☆

As a third-year Ph.D. candidate, Olive Smith doesn't believe in lasting romantic relationships--but her best friend does, and that's what got her into this situation. Convincing Anh that Olive is dating and well on her way to a happily ever after was always going to take more than hand-wavy Jedi mind tricks: Scientists require proof. So, like any self-respecting biologist, Olive panics and kisses the first man she sees.

That man is none other than Adam Carlsen, a young hotshot professor--and well-known ass. Which is why Olive is positively floored when Stanford's reigning lab tyrant agrees to keep her charade a secret and...

• the binding
• fantasy, historical, LGBT
• "Memories,’ she said, at last. ‘Not people, Emmett. We take memories and bind them. Whatever people can’t bear to remember. Whatever they can’t live with. We take those memories and put them where they can’t do any harm. That’s all books are"
• rating: ☆☆☆☆☆

Books are dangerous things in Collins's alternate universe, a place vaguely reminiscent of 19th-century England. It's a world in which people visit book binders to rid themselves of painful or treacherous memories. Once their stories have been told and are bound between the pages of a book, the slate is wiped clean and their memories lose the power to hurt or haunt them. After having suffered some sort of mental collapse and no longer able to keep...

• the flatshare
• romance, contemporary, chick lit
• "Being nice is a good thing. You can be strong and nice. You don’t have to be one or the other."
• rating: ☆☆☆☆

Tiffy Moore and Leon Twomey each have a problem and need a quick fix.

Tiffy’s been dumped by her cheating boyfriend and urgently needs a new flat. But earning minimum wage at a quirky publishing house means that her choices are limited in London.

Leon, a palliative care nurse, is more concerned with other people’s welfare than his own. Along with working night shifts looking after the terminally ill, his sole focus is on raising money to fight his brother’s unfair imprisonment.

Leon has a flat that he only uses 9 to 5. Tiffy works 9 to 5 and needs a place to ...

• illuminae
• the illuminae files #1
• science fiction, young adult, romance
• "You have me. Until the last star in the galaxy dies, you have me."
• rating: ☆☆☆☆☆

This morning, Kady thought breaking up with Ezra was the hardest thing she’d have to do. This afternoon, her planet was invaded.

The year is 2575, and two rival mega-corporations are at war over a planet that’s little more than a speck at the edge of the universe. Now with enemy fire raining down on them, Kady and Ezra — who are barely even talking to each other—are forced to evacuate with a hostile warship in hot pursuit.

But their problems are just getting started. A plague has broken out and is mutating with terrifying results; the fleet’s...

• you should see me in a crown
• young adult, contemporary, LGBT
• "Just because it could be worse doesn't mean you don't get to acknowledge how much it sucks, you know."
• rating: ☆☆☆.5

Liz Lighty has always believed she's too black, too poor, too awkward to shine in her small, rich, prom-obsessed midwestern town. But it's okay -- Liz has a plan that will get her out of Campbell, Indiana, forever: attend the uber-elite Pennington College, play in their world-famous orchestra, and become a doctor.

But when the financial aid she was counting on unexpectedly falls through, Liz's plans come crashing down . . . until she's reminded of her school's scholarship for prom king and queen. There's nothing Liz wants to do less than endure a gauntlet of social media trolls, catty competitors...

• the queen of nothing
• the folk of the air #3
• fantasy, young adult, romance
• "Come home and shout at me. Come home and fight with me. Come home and break my heart, if you must."
• rating: ☆☆☆☆

Power is much easier to acquire than it is to hold onto. Jude learned this lesson when she released her control over the wicked king, Cardan, in exchange for immeasurable power.

Now as the exiled mortal Queen of Faerie, Jude is powerless and left reeling from Cardan’s betrayal. She bides her time determined to reclaim everything he took from her. Opportunity arrives in the form of her deceptive twin sister, Taryn, whose mortal life is in peril.

Jude must risk venturing back into the treacherous Faerie Court, and confront her ...

• heartstopper: volume two
• heartstopper #2
• graphic novels, romance, LGBT
• "...why are straight people like this"
• rating: ☆☆☆☆☆

Nick and Charlie are best friends. Nick knows Charlie's gay, and Charlie is sure that Nick isn't.

But love works in surprising ways, and Nick is discovering all kinds of things about his friends, his family ... and himself.

• the wicked king
• the folk of the air #2
• fantasy, young adult, romance
• "Kiss me again,” he says, drunk and foolish. “Kiss me until I am sick of it."
• rating: ☆☆☆☆

You must be strong enough to strike and strike and strike again without tiring.

The first lesson is to make yourself strong.

After the jaw-dropping revelation that Oak is the heir to Faerie, Jude must keep her brother safe. To do so, she has bound the wicked king, Cardan, to her, and made herself the power behind the throne. Navigating the constantly shifting political alliances of Faerie would be difficult enough if Cardan were easy to control. But he does everything in his power to humiliate and undermine her even as his fascination with her remains undiminished.

• ruthless fae
• supernatural beasts and bullies #2
• fantasy, romance, fairies
• "Whereas you prefer your coffee with a bucket of sugar added because you’re just so damn sweet?” he asked sarcastically as he watched me. “No. I like my sugar with a dash of coffee added because I’m bitter."
• rating: ☆☆☆☆

They tried to break us. They almost did. But we're not going anywhere.

The Celestial Heirs think the stars are on their side. But they don't know what's coming. Fighting them one on one isn't an option so we have to be stealthy. Remaining under the radar won't be easy, but if we pull it off, they'll never suspect our involvement when their lives start falling apart.

Besides, they've already taken us to the ...

• what if it's us
• what if it's us #1
• young adult, romance, LGBT
• "I believe in love at first sight. Fate, the universe, all of it. But not how you’re thinking. I don’t mean it in the our souls were split and you’re my other half forever and ever sort of way. I just think you’re meant to meet some people. I think the universe nudges them into your path."
• rating: ☆☆☆☆

Arthur is only in New York for the summer, but if Broadway has taught him anything, it’s that the universe can deliver a showstopping romance when you least expect it.

Ben thinks the universe needs to mind its business. If the universe had his back, he wouldn’t be on his way to the post office carrying a box of his ex-boyfriend’...

• hang the moon
• written in the stars #2
• romance, contemporary, LGBT
• "He looks at you like you hung the moon."
• rating: ☆☆☆☆

Brendon Lowell loves love. It’s why he created a dating app to help people find their one true pairing and why he’s convinced “the one” is out there, even if he hasn’t met her yet. Or... has he? When his sister's best friend turns up in Seattle unexpectedly, Brendon jumps at the chance to hang out with her. He’s crushed on Annie since they were kids, and the stars have finally aligned, putting them in the same city at the same time.

Annie booked a spur-of-the-moment trip to Seattle to spend time with friends before moving across the globe. She’s not looking for love, especially with her best ...

• a court of silver flames
• a court of thorns and roses #4
• fantasy, romance, new adult
• "She would not be mastered by anything again. She was the master of herself."
• rating: ☆☆☆☆

Nesta Archeron has always been prickly-proud, swift to anger, and slow to forgive. And ever since being forced into the Cauldron and becoming High Fae against her will, she's struggled to find a place for herself within the strange, deadly world she inhabits. Worse, she can't seem to move past the horrors of the war with Hybern and all she lost in it.

The one person who ignites her temper more than any other is Cassian, the battle-scarred warrior whose position in Rhysand and Feyre's Night Court keeps him constantly in Nesta's orbit. But her temper isn't the only thing Cassian ignites. The fir...

• a court of mist and fury
• a court of thorns and roses #2
• fairies, fantasy, romance
• "To the people who look at the stars and wish, Rhys." Rhys clinked his glass against mine. “To the stars who listen— and the dreams that are answered."
• rating: ☆☆☆☆☆

Feyre survived Amarantha's clutches to return to the Spring Court – but at a steep cost. Though she now possesses the powers of the High Fae, her heart remains human, and it can't forget the terrible deeds she performed to save Tamlin's people.

Nor has Feyre forgotten her bargain with Rhysand, the mesmerising High Lord of the feared Night Court. As Feyre navigates his dark web of political games and tantalising promises, a greater evil looms – and she might be key to stopping it. But ...

• the seven husbands of evelyn hugo
• historical, romance, LGBT
• "Please never forget that the sun rises and sets with your smile. At least to me it does. You’re the only thing on this planet worth worshipping."
• rating: ☆☆☆☆☆

Evelyn Hugo is finally ready to tell the truth about her glamorous and scandalous life. But when she chooses unknown magazine reporter Monique Grant for the job, no one in the journalism community is more astounded than Monique herself. Why her? Why now?

Monique is not exactly on top of the world. Her husband, David, has left her, and her career has stagnated. Regardless of why Evelyn has chosen her to write her biography, Monique is determined to use this opportunity to jumpstart her career.

Summoned to Evelyn’s Upper East Side ap...

• extraordinary means
• young adult, contemporary, romance
• "There's difference between being dead and dying. We're all dying. Some of us die for ninety years, and some of us die for nineteen. But each morning everyone on this planet wakes up one day closer to their death. Everyone. So living and dying are actually different words for the same thing, if you think about it."
• rating: ☆☆☆☆☆

When he's sent to Latham House, a boarding school for sick teens, Lane thinks his life may as well be over. But when he meets Sadie and her friends - a group of eccentric troublemakers - he realises that maybe getting sick is just the beginning. That illness doesn't have to define you, and that falling in love is its own cure.

• chasing red
• romance, new adult, contemporary
• "It’s one of my favorite parts in Alice in Wonderland. Alice asks the White Rabbit, ‘How long is forever?’ The White Rabbit answers, ‘Sometimes just one second.’ This”—he kissed my lips—“this feels like forever right here.” He stared into my eyes. “How can I not wish for that?"

Caleb Lockhart has everything—wealth, adoration, a brilliant future. Until a chance encounter with a siren in a red dress changes everything. Until he meets the woman he dubs Red.

Veronica Strafford's past makes it hard for her to trust anyone. Now, kicked out of her apartment, she reluctantly accepts Caleb's offer for a place to stay.

Caleb feels intensely drawn to Veronica. And, for the first time in his life, he r...

• storm and silence
• storm and silence #1
• romance, historical, young adult
• "Life is not about living the safer option. Life is about living a life worth living."

Freedom—that is what Lilly Linton wants most in life. Not marriage, not a brood of squalling brats, and certainly not love, thank you very much! But freedom is a rare commodity in 19th-century London, where girls are expected to spend their lives sitting at home, fully occupied with looking pretty. Lilly is at her wits’ end—until a chance encounter with a dark, dangerous and powerful stranger changes her life forever...

Enter the world of Mr Rikkard Ambrose, where the only rule is: Knowledge is power is time is money!

• insurgent
• divergent #2
• young adult, science fiction, fantasy
• "It reminds me why I chose Dauntless in the first place: not because they are perfect, but because they are alive. Because they are free."

One choice can transform you - or it can destroy you. Tris Prior's initiation day should have been marked by victorious celebrations with her chosen faction; instead it ended with unspeakable horrors. Now unrest surges in the factions around her as conflict between their ideologies grows. War seems inevitable; and in times of war sides must be chosen, secrets will emerge and choices will become ever more irrevocable. Tris has already paid a terrible price for survival and is wracked by haunting grief and guilt. But radical new discoveries and shifting relationships me...

• looking for alaska
• young adult, contemporary, romance
• "So I walked back to my room and collapsed on the bottom bunk, thinking that if people were rain, I was drizzle and she was a hurricane."

First drink, first prank, first friend, first girl, last words… A poignant and moving crossover novel about making friends and growing up from American author, John Green.

Miles Halter is fascinated by famous last words – and tired of his safe, boring and rather lonely life at home. He leaves for boarding school filled with cautious optimism, to seek what the dying poet Francois Rabelais called the "Great Perhaps." Much awaits Miles at Culver Creek, including Alaska Young. Clever, funny, screwed-up, and dead sexy, Alaska will pull Miles into her labyrinth and catapult him i...

• mockingjay
• the hunger games #3
• young adult, science fiction, fantasy
• "Fire is catching! And if we burn, you burn with us!"
• rating: ☆☆☆☆☆

MAY THE ODDS BE EVER IN YOUR FAVOUR

"If we burn you burn with us"

Katniss Everdeen has survived the Hunger Games twice. But she's still not safe. A revolution is unfolding, and everyone, it seems, has had a hand in the carefully laid plans -- everyone except Katniss.

And yet she must play the most vital part in the final battle. Katniss must become their Mockingjay -- the symbol of rebellion -- no matter what the personal cost.

• blindsighted
• mystery, thriller, crime
• "Women were as mysterious to them as the origins of the planet."
• rating: ☆☆☆

The sleepy town of Heartsdale, Georgia, is jolted into panic when Sara Linton, paediatrician and medical examiner, finds Sibyl Adams dead in the local diner. As well as being viciously raped, Sibyl has been cut: two deep knife wounds form a lethal cross over her stomach.

When a second victim is found, crucified, only a few days later, it becomes clear that Sibyl's brutal murder wasn't a one-off attack. What Sara and police chief Jeffrey Tolliver are dealing with is a seasonal sexual predator. A violent serial killer...

• city of heavenly fire
• the mortal instruments #6
• fantasy, young adult, romance
• "We are all the pieces of what we remember. We hold in ourselves the hopes and fears of those who love us. As long as there is love and memory, there is no true loss."
• rating: ☆☆☆

Lives will be lost, love sacrificed, and the whole world changed in the sixth and last instalment of the internationally bestselling The Mortal Instruments series.

Erchomai, Sebastian had said. I am coming.

Darkness returns to the Shadowhunter world. As their society falls apart around them, Clary, Jace, Simon and their friends must band together to fight the greatest evil the Nephilim have ever faced: Clary's own brother. Nothing in this world can ...

• city of bones
• the mortal instruments #1
• young adult, fantasy, romance
• "The boy never cried again, and he never forgot what he'd learned: that to love is to destroy, and that to be loved is to be the one destroyed."

When fifteen-year-old Clary Fray heads out to the Pandemonium Club in New York City, she hardly expects to witness a murder― much less a murder committed by three teenagers covered with strange tattoos and brandishing bizarre weapons. Then the body disappears into thin air. It's hard to call the police when the murderers are invisible to everyone else and when there is nothing―not even a smear of blood―to show that a boy has died. Or was he a boy?

This is Clary's first meeting with the Shadowhunters, warriors dedicated to riddin...

• six times we almost kissed
• romance, young adult, LGBT
• ”There's almost no space between us. I can feel it. I can feel her. It's such a relief. Like I finally fit.”
• rating: ☆☆☆☆

Six moments lead us to two girls, one kiss, and three little words that were maybe always true in this gorgeous novel perfect for fans of Nina LaCour and Jenny Han. Penny and Tate have always clashed. Unfortunately, their mothers are lifelong best friends, so the girls' bickering has carried them through playdates, tragedy, and more than one rom-com marathon with the Moms. When Penny's mother decides to become a living donor to Tate's mom, ending her wait for a liver transplant, things go from clashing to cataclysmic. Because in order to help their families recover physically, emotionally, and financially, t...

• clockwork princess
• the infernal devices #3
• fantasy, young adult, romance
• “If there is a life after this one,” he said, “let me meet you in it, James Carstairs.”
• rating: ☆☆☆☆

THE INFERNAL DEVICES WILL NEVER STOP COMING A net of shadows begins to tighten around the Shadowhunters of the London Institute. Mortmain plans to use his Infernal Devices, an army of pitiless automatons, to destroy the Shadowhunters. He needs only one last item to complete his plan: he needs Tessa Gray. Charlotte Branwell, head of the London Institute, is desperate to find Mortmain before he strikes. But when Mortmain abducts Tessa, the boys who lay equal claim to her heart, Jem and Will, will do anything to save her. For though Tessa and Jem are now engaged, Will is...

• grief is love
• non fiction, psychology, self help
• “It’s understanding that the pain you feel because of their absence is because you’ve experienced a great love. That love doesn’t end when they die, and you don’t have to get over it.”

Author Marisa Renee Lee reveals that healing does not mean moving on after losing a loved one healing means learning to acknowledge and create space for your grief. It is about learning to love the one you lost with the same depth, passion, joy, and commitment you did when they were alive, perhaps even more. She guides you through the pain of grief-whether you've lost the person recently or long ago-and shows you what it looks like to honor your loss on your unique terms, and debunks the idea of a grief stages or timelines. is about making space for the transformation...

• infamous
• romance, historical, LGBT
• “It is not yet illegal to have an interesting thought, sir, although even if it were, you would certainly be in no imminent danger.”
• rating: ☆☆☆☆

22-year-old aspiring writer Edith 'Eddie' Miller and her best friend Rose have always done everything together-climbing trees, throwing grapes at boys, sneaking bottles of wine, practicing kissing . . .

But following their debutante ball Rose is suddenly talking about marriage, and Eddie is horrified.

When Eddie meets charming, renowned poet Nash Nicholson, he invites her to his crumbling Gothic estate in the countryside. The entourage of eccentric artists indulging in pure hedonism is exactly what Eddie needs in order to forget Rose and finis...

• pear
• poetry, LGBT, non-fiction

A collection of poetry and prose. Queer love told through a queer lens.

• eclipse
• the twilight saga #3
• fantasy, young adult, romance
• “I promise to love you forever - every single day of forever.”
• rating: ☆☆☆

"BELLA?" Edward's soft voice came from behind me. I turned to see him spring lightly up the porch steps, his hair windblown from running. He pulled me into his arms at once, just like he had in the parking lot, and kissed me again. This kiss frightened me. There was too much tension, too strong an edge to the way his lips crushed mine - like he was afraid we had only so much time left to us.

As Seattle is ravaged by a string of mysterious killings and a malicious vampire continues her quest for revenge, Bella once again finds herself surrounded by danger. In the midst of it all, she is forced ...

• to be taught, if fortunate
• science fiction, novella, LGBT
• “We exist where we begin, yet to remain is death.”
• rating: ☆☆☆☆

Ariadne is one such explorer. As an astronaut on an extrasolar research vessel, she and her fellow crewmates sleep between worlds and wake up each time with different features. Her experience is one of fluid body and stable mind and of a unique perspective on the passage of time. Back on Earth, society changes dramatically from decade to decade, as it always does.

Ariadne may awaken to find that support for space exploration back home has waned, or that her country of birth no longer exists, or that a cult has arisen around their cosmic findings, only to dissolve once more by the next waking. But the moods of Earth have little bearing on their mi...

• the sprite and the gardener
• graphic novel, fantasy, young adult
• rating: ☆☆☆

Long, long ago, sprites were the caretakers of gardens. Every flower was grown by their hand. But when humans appeared and began growing their own gardens, the sprites’ magical talents soon became a thing of the past. When Wisteria, an ambitious, kind-hearted sprite, starts to ask questions about the way things used to be, she’ll begin to unearth her long-lost talent of gardening. But her newly honed skills might not be the welcome surprise she intends them to

• the risk
• mindfuck #1
• romance, dark, thriller
• “Sometimes people don’t find justice. Sometimes they have to take it.”
• rating: ☆☆.5

They took too much. Left too little. I had nothing to lose...until him. ~Lana~ I didn't expect him. I didn't want to fall in love. But I can't let him go. Logan Bennett makes the world a safer place. He's brilliant. He's a hero. He locks away the sick and depraved. But while he's saving lives, I'm taking them. Collecting the debts that are owed to me. Ten years ago, they took from me. They left me for dead. They should have made sure I stayed dead. Now I'm taking from them. One name at a time. I've trained for too long. I've been patient. I can't stop now. Revenge is best served cold... They never see me com...

• i look to the mourning sky
• poetry, non-fiction
• "I don't know what grief will look like tomorrow. But i'll face it. I'll feel it. As your memory washes over me, One day at a time. One wave at a time. For such a love, Grief is the price of admission. The cost of the human condition. So i'll pay it over and over again, Until I see you again, The love was worth it."

I Look To The Mourning Sky: A Book of Poems and Writing Prompts for the Grieving Heart is a collection of poems for anyone who has experienced the immensity of loss. Its poems are written through the first year of grief and they seek to acknowledge the pain and complexity of this journey, which can be so isolating and overwhelming. While grief is a lifelong experience, it is something that is constantly changing and evolving. Its landscape is unpr...

• always and forever, lara jean
• to all the boys i've loved before #3
• romance, young adult, contemporary
• “One day all of this will be proof, proof that we were here, proof that we loved each other. It’s the guarantee that no matter what happens to us in the future, this time was ours."
• rating: ☆☆☆☆

Lara Jean is having the best senior year.

And there’s still so much to look forward to: a class trip to New York City, prom with her boyfriend Peter, Beach Week after graduation, and her dad’s wedding to Ms. Rothschild. Then she’ll be off to college with Peter, at a school close enough for her to come home and bake chocolate chip cookies on the weekends.

Life couldn’t be more perfect!

At least, that’s what Lara Jean thinks ...

• the wicked + the divine, vol 1
• the wicked + the divine #1
• graphic novel, fantasy, mythology
• “You will be loved. You will be hated. You will be brilliant. Within two years, you will be dead.”
• rating: ☆☆☆.5

Every ninety years, twelve gods incarnate as humans. They are loved. They are hated. In two years, they are dead. The team behind critical tongue-attractors like Young Avengers and PHONOGRAM reunite to create a world where gods are the ultimate pop stars and pop stars are the ultimate gods. But remember: just because you're immortal, doesn't mean you're going to live forever.

Collects THE WICKED + THE DIVINE #1-5.

• wicca practical magic
• witchcraft, non-fiction, spirituality

The practical way to deepen your Wicca practice.

Wicca is all about deepening your connection to the natural world—and anyone can learn how to practice. Wicca Practical Magic empowers you with the information and tools you need to explore the day-to-day applications of your spirituality.

Wicca Practical Magic helps you develop your daily practice with spells and rituals using herbs, oils, and crystals. Whether you’re working for healing, love, prosperity, or to develop your own intuition, you’ll learn which ingredients you need to manifest the magic.

Wicca Practical Magic includes:

A Complete Introduction—Learn everything you need to know about the history, deities, elements, and astronomy behind Wicc...

• fleabag
• contemporary, romance, adult
• "I love you." "It'll pass."
• rating: ☆☆☆☆☆

Fleabag: Scriptures includes new writing from Phoebe Waller-Bridge alongside the filming scripts and the never-before-seen stage directions from the award-winning series.

• laid bare
• mistress #0.5
• romance, LGBT, novella
• rating: ☆☆☆☆

When journalism student Blair Chase lands an interview with the elusive Madison Sloane, CEO of Mistress Media, she can’t believe her luck. Madison’s powerful, commanding presence is a legend in the industry. She’s everything Blair wants to become. And with one look at the captivating woman, Blair realizes Madison is everything she wants.

Madison is all too used to journalists vying to crack her steely veneer. None have ever come close—until Blair walks into her office. Blair is relentless, determined to uncover everything there is to know about Madison. However, Madison has no intention of spilling her secrets, regardless of how enticing she finds the red-ha...

• p.s. i still love you
• to all the boys i've loved before #2
• romance, young adult, contemporary
• “So much of love is chance. There's something scary and wonderful about that.”
• rating: ☆☆☆☆

Lara Jean didn’t expect to really fall for Peter.

They had just been pretending. Except suddenly they weren't. Now Lara Jean is more confused than ever.

Then another boy from her past returns to her life, and Lara Jean's feelings for him return too.

Can a girl be in love with two boys at the same time?

• whale star vol 5
• whale star: the gyeongseong mermaid #5
• graphic novel, historical fiction, retelling
• rating: ☆☆☆☆☆

Episode 67 to 86

• a business proposal vol 2
• a business proposal webtoon #2
• graphic novel, romance, contemporary
• rating: ☆☆☆☆

Episode 15-28

• carrie soto is back
• historical fiction, contemporary, sports
• "You are perfect, even in your imperfection."
• rating: ☆☆☆☆

Carrie Soto is fierce, and her determination to win at any cost has not made her popular. But by the time she retires from tennis, she is the best player the world has ever seen. She has shattered every record and claimed twenty Grand Slam titles. And if you ask Carrie, she is entitled to every one. She sacrificed nearly everything to become the best, with her father, Javier, as her coach. A former champion himself, Javier has trained her since the age of two.

But six years after her retirement, Carrie finds herself sitting in the stands of the 1994 US Open, watching her record be taken from her by a brutal, stunning play...

• party favors
• so over the holidays #4
• romance, LGBT, contemporary
• rating: ☆☆☆

Three…

Amanda Ellis knows three things: she’s tired of doing what’s expected of her, she hates her job at her family’s business, and the last thing she wants to do is attend her parents’ boring New Year’s Eve ball with a date her mother picked. A few days of fun with her online best friend is exactly what she needs to ring in the New Year on her own terms.

Two…

Wren Rebello is impulsive and always ready for fun. A last-minute girls’ getaway sounds like the perfect way to spend New Year’s. But even Wren isn’t prepared for the spark of attraction she feels when she meets Amanda in person for the fir...

• lore olympus: volume three
• lore olympus volumes #3
• graphic novel, romance, fantasy, mythology
• rating: ☆☆☆☆☆

"It is natural for a King to be curious about his future Queen. . . ."

All of Olympus--and the Underworld--are talking about the God of the Dead and the sprightly daughter of Demeter. But despite the rumors of their romance, Hades and Persephone have plenty to navigate on their own.

Since coming to Olympus, Persephone has struggled to be the perfect maiden goddess. Her attraction to Hades has only complicated the intense burden of the gods' expectations. And after Apollo's assault, Persephone fears she can no longer bury the intense feelings of hurt and love that she's worked so hard to hide.

• the falling in love montage
• LGBT, romance, contemporary
• "I saw it when Hannah and I walked down the street. People would glance at our clasped hands. Briefly. Sometimes they smiled, occasionally they frowned, mostly they just moved on to noticing the next thing, but it always made me feel watched. Sometimes it's the little things. Being noticed doing something that would be invisible if I were with a boy."
• rating: ☆☆☆

Saoirse doesn’t believe in love at first sight or happy endings. If they were real, her mother would still be able to remember her name and not in a care home with early onset dementia. A condition that Saoirse may one day turn out to have inherited. So she’s not looking for a relationship. She doesn’t see the point in igniting any romantic sparks if she’s bo...

• poison throne
• royals of arbon academy #3
• romance, new adult, fantasy
• "you've permanently marked my soul."
• rating: ☆☆☆

They're waiting for you.

Those four words should have been a warning. They should have filled Violet with dread. But she was so focused on Rafe's disappearance, she forgot.

The resistance was supposed to be fighting for a better world. A group of freedom fighters formed during the Monarch War, pushing back against laws that would see everyone enslaved. For a while there, they gave hope.

But with power comes corruption. The Society has been quietly amassing the strength and backing to become a real threat, and not everyone wants to use that power for good.

• change of heart
• romance, LGBT, contemporary
• "I know how being queer, while still accepted, can make you feel not quite part of your own family."
• rating: ☆☆☆.5

When Erin Stewart hires a fake date for her parents’ anniversary party, she gets more than she bargained for. First, she gets Steph Mitchell, a professional actor with a side order of drop-dead gorgeous. Second, she walks slap-bang into a wall of family stress. Deep breaths, it’s only five days. Plus, with Steph’s help, she can totally get through this, right?

Only, Erin didn’t plan on falling for the charming Steph. She’s also powerless when the simmering tension erupts, with dizzying consequences for everyone. What happens when you fake it, make it, then break it? Erin and Steph are about to find...

• saga, volume 7
• saga #7
• graphic novel, fantasy, science fiction
• “Sooner or later, every last echo fades. Even the loudest thunder in the deepest valley.”
• rating: ☆☆☆☆

“The War for Phang” is an epic, self-contained Saga event! Finally reunited with her ever-expanding family, Hazel travels to a war-torn comet that Wreath and Landfall have been battling over for ages. New friendships are forged and others are lost forever in this action-packed volume about families, combat and the refugee experience.

• the unhoneymooners
• romance, contemporary, adult
• “I can appreciate my body in a bikini and still want to set fire to the patriarchy.”
• rating: ☆☆☆.5

Olive is always unlucky: in her career, in love, in . . . well, everything. Her identical twin sister Amy, on the other hand, is probably the luckiest person in the world. Her meet-cute with her fiance is something out of a romantic comedy (ugh) and she's managed to finance her entire wedding by winning a series of online contests (double ugh). Worst of all, she's forcing Olive to spend the day with her sworn enemy, Ethan, who just happens to be the best man. Olive just has to get through twenty-four hours of wedding hell before she can return to her comfortable, unlucky life. But when the entire wedding par...

• saga, volume 5
• saga #5
• graphic novel, fantasy, science fiction
• “It doesn't matter who started it or what it's really about...war usually ends up sucking most for women. Even when we're not fighting the battles ourselves, we somehow always end up with the lion's share of the suffering.”
• rating: ☆☆☆☆

While Gwendolyn and Lying Cat risk everything to find a cure for The Will, Marko makes an uneasy alliance with Prince Robot IV to find their missing children, who are trapped on a strange world with terrifying new enemies.

• saga, volume 2
• saga #2
• graphic novel, science fiction, adult
• "We are small, but the universe is not."
• rating: ☆☆☆☆

Thanks to her star-crossed parents Marko and Alana, newborn baby Hazel has already survived lethal assassins, rampaging armies, and alien monstrosities, but in the cold vastness of outer space, the little girl encounters her family's greatest challenge yet: the grandparents.

• the kiss quotient
• the kiss quotient #1
• romance, contemporary, adult
• “I don't want just a night or a week or a month with you. I want you all the time. I like you better than calculus, and math is the only thing that unites the universe.”
• rating: ☆☆☆☆

Stella Lane thinks math is the only thing that unites the universe. She comes up with algorithms to predict customer purchases—a job that has given her more money than she knows what to do with, and way less experience in the dating department than the average thirty-year-old.

It doesn't help that Stella has Asperger's and French kissing reminds her of a shark getting its teeth cleaned by pilot fish. Her conclusion: she needs lots of practice—with a professional. Which is why ...

• lore olympus: volume two
• lore olympus volumes #2
• graphic novel, fantasy, romance, mythology
• "Just like me, the same as me. Just like you, the same as you."
• rating: ☆☆☆☆☆

Persephone was ready to start a new life when she left the mortal realm for Olympus. However, she quickly discovered the dark side of her glamorous new home—from the relatively minor gossip threatening her reputation to a realm-shattering violation of her safety by the conceited Apollo—and she’s struggling to find her footing in the fast-moving realm of the gods. Hades is also off-balance, fighting against his burgeoning feelings for the young goddess of spring while maintaining his lonely rule of the Underworld. As the pair are drawn ever closer, they must unta...

• the battle of the labyrinth
• percy jackson and the olympians #4
• fantasy, young adult, mythology
• “But remember, boy, that a kind act can sometimes be as powerful as a sword.”
• rating: ☆☆☆☆.5

HONESTLY, BLOWING UP ANOTHER SCHOOL WAS THE LAST THING I WANTED TO DO.

As the son of a Greek god, I've had my share of near-death disaster - and now my arch enemy Luke wants to invade our camp via an ancient Labyrinth.

If he succeeds, thousands of bloodthirsty monsters will attack. So it's goodbye sunshine, hello darkness as four of us descend into the terrifying underground and beyond...

• the sea of monsters
• percy jackson and the olympians #2
• fantasy, young adult, mythology
• “I’ve met plenty of embarrassing parents, but Kronos, the evil Titan Lord who wanted to destroy Western Civilization? Not the kind of dad you invited to school for Career Day.”
• rating: ☆☆☆.5

YOU CAN'T TELL BY LOOKING AT ME THAT MY DAD IS POSEIDON, GOD OF THE SEA.

It's not easy being a half-blood these days. Even a simple game of dodgeball becomes a death match against an ugly gang of cannibal giants - and that was only the beginning.

Now Camp Half-Blood is under attack and, unless I can get my hands of the Golden Fleece, the whole camp will be invaded by monsters. Big ones...

• origins of an academy bully
• supernatural beasts and bullies #0.5
• fantasy, fairies, novella
• "The world was not black and white. It wasn't even a patchwork of greys. It was rainbows layered upon rainbows."
• rating: ☆☆☆.5

Dark magic is forbidden at Zodiac Academy. That's why I hide it so well.

But now I'm supposed to mentor Darius Acrux: the son of the most ruthless Dragon Shifter in Solaria.

If he's caught using blood magic, he'll lose his claim to the throne.

The problem is? Our families are up to something, and we're determined to find out what. No matter what dark power we must turn to...

Welcome to Zodiac Academy, where your star sign defines your destiny.

As the Fae of the future, you will soon l...

• the tea dragon tapestry
• tea dragon #3
• graphic novel, fantasy, LGBT
• “Everything that happens is part of your wholeness. The sadness, the loss, the hurt, as well as the joy, the love, the friendship--it is all part of your tapestry.”
• rating: ☆☆☆☆

Over a year since being entrusted with Ginseng's care, Greta still can't chase away the cloud of mourning that hangs over the timid Tea Dragon. As she struggles to create something spectacular enough to impress a master blacksmith in search of an apprentice, she questions the true meaning of crafting, and the true meaning of caring for someone in grief. Meanwhile, Minette receives a surprise package from the monastery where she was once training to be a prophetess. Thrown into confusion ...

• gone girl
• mystery, thriller, crime
• "It’s humbling, to become the very thing you once mocked."
• rating: ☆☆☆.5

Who are you? What have we done to each other?

These are the questions Nick Dunne finds himself asking on the morning of his fifth wedding anniversary, when his wife Amy suddenly disappears. The police suspect Nick. Amy's friends reveal that she was afraid of him, that she kept secrets from him. He swears it isn't true. A police examination of his computer shows strange searches. He says they weren't made by him. And then there are the persistent calls on his mobile phone.

So what did happen to Nick's beautiful wife?

• cursed fates
• supernatural beasts and bullies #5
• fantasy, romance, fairies
• "And I know it doesn’t change anything. That it can’t change anything,” he growled. “But I’m going to prove it to you. I’m going to do everything I can to make it up to you, for the rest of my life if that’s what it takes. I’ll never forgive myself for bringing this curse on us. And I’m never going to stop loving you either."
• rating: ☆☆☆☆

After the devastating events at Zodiac Academy, we have to deal with this darker world we're faced with. Lionel seeks to hurt us, the Nymphs seek to hurt the entire Fae race, and between all of it, we just have to try and survive each day as it comes. I'm afraid of everything falling apart, but it looks like it already has.

• aristotle and dante dive into the waters...
• aristotle and dante #2
• young adult, LGBT, contemporary
• "You're every street i've walked. You're the tree outside my window, you're a sparrow as he flies. You're the book I am reading. You're every poem i've ever loved."
• rating: ☆☆☆☆☆

In Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe, two boys fell in love. Now they must discover what it means to stay in love and build a relationship in a world that seems to challenge their very existence.

Ari has spent all of high school hiding who he really is, staying silent and invisible. He expected his senior year to be the same. But something in him cracked open when he fell in love with Dante, and he can't go back. Suddenly he finds himself...

• shadow princess
• supernatural beasts and bullies #4
• fantasy, romance, fairies
• "Because I couldn’t keep away from her, that much was becoming abundantly clear. So I’d just have to keep being her villain."
• rating: ☆☆☆☆

After the events of the Lunar Eclipse, Tory and Darcy must learn to deal with the darkness which shadows their lives.

With a secret binding them to Darius and Orion, they must find a way to all work together for the greater good. But some things are easier said than done...

• her royal highness
• romance, LGBT, contemporary
• "It's not cool to stare, I know that, but this is literally the prettiest girl i've ever seen in my life."
• rating: ☆☆☆☆

Millie Quint is devastated when she discovers that her sort-of-best friend/sort-of-girlfriend has been kissing someone else. Heartbroken and ready for a change of pace, Millie decides to apply for scholarships to boarding schools . . . the farther from Houston the better.

Soon, Millie is accepted into one of the world's most exclusive schools, located in the rolling highlands of Scotland. Here, the country is dreamy and green; the school is covered in ivy, and the students think her American-ness is adorable.

The only problem: Mille's roommate Flora is a total princess.

• mooncakes
• graphic novel, fantasy, LGBT
• rating: ☆☆☆

A story of love and demons, family and witchcraft.

Nova Huang knows more about magic than your average teen witch. She works at her grandmothers' bookshop, where she helps them loan out spell books and investigate any supernatural occurrences in their New England town.

One fateful night, she follows reports of a white wolf into the woods, and she comes across the unexpected: her childhood crush, Tam Lang, battling a horse demon in the woods. As a werewolf, Tam has been wandering from place to place for years, unable to call any town home.

Pursued by dark forces eager to claim the magic of wolves and out of options, Tam turns to Nova for help. Their latent feel...

• how the king of elfhame learned to hate ...
• the folk of the air #3.5
• fantasy, young adult, romance
• "A heart of stone can still be broken."
• rating: ☆☆☆

Once upon a time, there was a boy with a wicked tongue.

Before he was a cruel prince or a wicked king, he was a faerie child with a heart of stone . Revealing a deeper look into the dramatic life of Elfhame’s enigmatic high king, Cardan, his tale includes delicious details of life before The Cruel Prince, an adventure beyond The Queen of Nothing, and familiar moments from The Folk of the Air trilogy, told wholly from Cardan’s perspective.

• heartstopper: volume three
• heartstopper #3
• graphic novels, romance, LGBT
• "Nick and Charlie! Are the two of you coming, or-Oh. You're being gay. Good job. Carry on."
• rating: ☆☆☆☆☆

In this volume we’ll see the Heartstopper gang go on a school trip to Paris! Not only are Nick and Charlie navigating a new city, but also telling more people about their relationship AND learning more about the challenges each other are facing in private…

Meanwhile Tao and Elle will face their feelings for each other, Tara and Darcy share more about their relationship origin story, and the teachers supervising the trip seem… rather close…?

• the lost sisters
• the folk of the air #1.5
• fantasy, young adult, short stories
• "Let’s start with a love story. Or maybe it’s another horror story. It seems like the difference is mostly in where the ending comes."
• rating: ☆☆☆☆

Sometimes the difference between a love story and a horror story is where the ending comes...

While Jude fought for power in the Court of Elfhame against the cruel Prince Cardan, her sister Taryn began to fall in love with the trickster, Locke.

Half-apology and half-explanation, it turns out that Taryn has some secrets of her own to reveal.

• the cruel prince
• the folk of the air #1
• fantasy, young adult, romance
• "Have I told you how hideous you look tonight?” Cardan asks, leaning back in the elaborately carved chair, the warmth of his words turning the question into something like a compliment. “No” I say, glad to be annoyed back into the present. “Tell me.” "I can't."
• rating: ☆☆☆☆

Of course I want to be like them. They’re beautiful as blades forged in some divine fire. They will live forever.

And Cardan is even more beautiful than the rest. I hate him more than all the others. I hate him so much that sometimes when I look at him, I can hardly breathe.

Jude was seven years old when her parents were murdered and she and her two sisters were stolen away to live in the treache...

• she drives me crazy
• LGBT, romance, contemporary
• "I hate you" I say. Then I kiss her and kiss her and kiss her."
• rating: ☆☆☆☆

After losing spectacularly to her ex-girlfriend in their first game since their break up, Scottie Zajac gets into a fender bender with the worst possible person: her nemesis, the incredibly beautiful and incredibly mean Irene Abraham. Things only get worse when their nosey, do-gooder moms get involved and the girls are forced to carpool together until Irene’s car gets out of the shop.

Their bumpy start the only gets bumpier the more time they spend together. But when an opportunity presents itself for Scottie to get back at her toxic ex (and climb her school’s social ladder at the same time), she bribes Irene into playing al...

• cinderella is dead
• fantasy, young adult, LGBT
• "I don't want to be saved by some knight in shining armour. I'd like to be the one in the armour, and I'd like to be the one doing the saving."
• rating: ☆☆☆☆

It's 200 years since Cinderella found her prince, but the fairytale is over.

Sophia knows the story though, off by heart. Because every girl has to recite it daily, from when she's tiny until the night she's sent to the royal ball for choosing. And every girl knows that she has only one chance. For the lives of those not chosen by a man at the ball . are forfeit.

But Sophia doesn't want to be chosen - she's in love with her best friend, Erin, and hates the idea of being traded like cattle. And when Sophia's night at the ball...

• written in the stars
• written in the stars #1
• romance, LGBT, contemporary
• "We are literally made of stardust." Moonlight danced off the tips of Elle's pale blond eyelashes and made her eyes twinkle. If anyone was made of star stuff, it was her."
• rating: ☆☆☆☆

After a disastrous blind date, Darcy Lowell is desperate to stop her well-meaning brother from playing matchmaker ever again. Love—and the inevitable heartbreak—is the last thing she wants. So she fibs and says her latest set up was a success. Darcy doesn’t expect her lie to bite her in the ass.

Elle Jones, one of the astrologers behind the popular Twitter account, Oh My Stars, dreams of finding her soul mate. But she knows it is most assuredly not Darcy......

• a court of wings and ruin
• a court of thorns and roses #3
• fantasy, romance, new adult
• "I would have waited five hundred more years for you. A thousand years. And if this was all the time we were allowed to have... the wait was worth it."
• rating: ☆☆☆☆

Feyre has returned to the Spring Court, determined to gather information on Tamlin's manoeuvrings and the invading king threatening to bring her land to its knees. But to do so she must play a deadly game of deceit – and one slip may spell doom not only for Feyre, but for her world as well.

As war bears down upon them all, Feyre must decide who to trust amongst the dazzling and lethal High Lords and hunt for allies in unexpected places. And her heart will face the ultimate test as she and her...

• emergency skin
• science fiction, short stories, fantasy
• "the Earth could sustain billions, if we simply shared resources and responsibilities in a sensible way. What it couldn’t sustain was a handful of hateful, self-important parasites, preying upon and paralyzing everyone else."
• rating: ☆☆☆☆☆

What will become of our self-destructed planet? The answer shatters all expectations in this subversive speculation from the Hugo Award–winning author of the Broken Earth trilogy.

An explorer returns to gather information from a climate-ravaged Earth that his ancestors, and others among the planet’s finest, fled centuries ago. The mission comes with a warning: a graveyard world awaits him. But so do those left behind—hopeless and unbeautiful wastes of humanit...

• the song of achilles
• historical, fantasy, romance
• "I could recognise him by touch alone, by smell; I would know him blind, by the way his breaths came and his feet struck the earth. I would know him in death, and the end of the world."
• rating: ☆☆☆☆

Greece in the age of Heroes. Patroclus, an awkward young prince, has been exiled to the kingdom of Phthia. Here he is nobody, just another unwanted boy living in the shadow of King Peleus and his golden son, Achilles.

Achilles, “best of all the Greeks,” is everything Patroclus is not—strong, beautiful, the child of a goddess—and by all rights their paths should never cross. Yet one day, Achilles takes the shamed prince under his wing and soon their tentative connection gives way to a steadfas...

• they both die at the end
• death-cast #1
• young adult, contemporary, LGBT
• "...stories can make someone immortal as long as someone else is willing to listen."
• rating: ☆☆☆☆☆

On September 5th, a little after midnight, Death-Cast calls Mateo Torrez and Rufus Emeterio to give them some bad news: they're going to die today. Mateo and Rufus are total strangers, but for different reasosn, they're both looking for a new friend on their End Day. The good news: there's an app for that. It's called the Last Friend, and through it, Rufus and Mateo are about to meet up for one last great adventure - to live a lifetime in a single day.

• in the eye of the storm
• storm and silence #2
• romance, historical, adventure
• "Knowledge is power is time is money. Meaning that if I shared knowledge, it would tantamount to sharing power or money."

In the desert, an instant turns life into death and hate into love. In the desert, everything is different. Boundaries break down, and you find yourself doing things that you would never, ever have imagined.

Lilly Linton finds this out the hard way: in the shadow of the pyramids, she and her boss, cold, calculating Mr Ambrose, must face death and danger together. Is the desert's heat enough to melt the cold heart of Britain's richest financier?

• allegiant
• divergent #3
• young adult, science fiction, fantasy
• "I wonder if fears ever really go away, or if they just lose their power over us."

The faction-based society that Tris Prior once believed in is shattered - fractured by violence and power struggles and scarred by loss and betrayal. So when offered a chance to explore the world past the limits she's known, Tris is ready. Perhaps beyond the fence, she and Tobias will find a simple new life together, free from complicated lies, tangled loyalties, and painful memories.

But Tris's new reality is even more alarming than the one she left behind. Old discoveries are quickly rendered meaningless. Explosive new truths change the hearts of those she loves. And once again, Tris ...

• the fault in our stars
• young adult, romance, contemporary
• "As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once."

Despite the tumor-shrinking medical miracle that has bought her a few years, Hazel has never been anything but terminal, her final chapter inscribed upon diagnosis. But when a gorgeous plot twist named Augustus Waters suddenly appears at Cancer Kid Support Group, Hazel’s story is about to be completely rewritten.

• the perks of being a wallflower
• young adult, contemporary, coming of age
• "We accept the love we think we deserve."

Charlie is a freshman. And while he's not the biggest geek in the school, he is by no means popular. Shy, introspective, intelligent beyond his years yet socially awkward, he is a wallflower, caught between trying to live his life and trying to run from it. Charlie is attempting to navigate his way through uncharted territory: the world of first dates and mixed tapes, family dramas and new friends; the world of sex, drugs, and The Rocky Horror Picture Show, when all one requires is that perfect song on that perfect drive to feel infinite. But Charlie can't stay on the sideline forever. Standing on the fringes of life offers a unique perspective. But there comes a time to see what it looks...

• the hunger games
• the hunger games #1
• young adult, science fiction, fantasy
• “Remember, we're madly in love, so it's all right to kiss me anytime you feel like it.”
• rating: ☆☆☆☆☆

MAY THE ODDS BE EVER IN YOUR FAVOUR

Winning will make you famous. Losing means certain death.

In a dark vision of the near future, twelve boys and twelve girls are forced to appear in a live TV show called the Hunger Games. There is only one rule: kill or be killed.

When sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen steps forward to take her sister's place in the games, she sees it as a death sentence. But Katniss has been close to death before. For her, survival is second nature.

• city of lost souls
• the mortal instruments #5
• fantasy, young adult, romance
• "I don't care," Clary said. "He'd do it for me. Tell me he wouldn't. If I were missing-" "He'd burn the whole world down till he could dig you out of the ashes. I know," Alec said."

What price is too high to pay, even for love? When Jace and Clary meet again, Clary is horrified to discover that the demon Lilith’s magic has bound her beloved Jace together with her evil brother Sebastian, and that Jace has become a servant of evil. The Clave is out to destroy Sebastian, but there is no way to harm one boy without destroying the other. As Alec, Magnus, Simon, and Isabelle wheedle and bargain with Seelies, demons, and the merciless Iron Sisters to try to save Jace, Clary plays a dangerous game of her own. Th...

• city of glass
• the mortal instruments #3
• fantasy, young adult, romance
• "There is no pretending," Jace said with absolute clarity. "I love you, and I will love you until I die, and if there is life after that, I'll love you then."

To save her mother's life, Clary must travel to the City of Glass, the ancestral home of the Shadowhunters - never mind that entering the city without permission is against the Law, and breaking the Law could mean death. To make things worse, she learns that Jace does not want her there, and Simon has been thrown in prison by the Shadowhunters, who are deeply suspicious of a vampire who can withstand sunlight.

As Clary uncovers more about her family's past, she finds an ally in mysterious Shadowhunter Sebastian. With Valentine must...

• astrid parker doesn’t fail
• bright falls #2
• romance, LGBT, contemporary
• ”For everyone who figured it out a little later in life.”
• rating: ☆☆☆

An interior designer who is never without the perfect plan learns to renovate her love life without one in this new romantic comedy by Ashley Herring Blake, author of Delilah Green Doesn't Care. For Astrid Parker, failure is unacceptable. Ever since she broke up with her fiancé a year ago, she's been focused on her career--her friends might say she's obsessed, but she knows she's just driven. When Pru Everwood asks her to be the designer for the Everwood Inn's renovation, which will be featured on a popular HGTV show, Innside America, Astrid is thrilled. Not only will the project distract her from her faile...

• clockwork angel
• the infernal devices #1
• fantasy, young adult, romance
• ”Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry.”
• rating: ☆☆☆.5

Magic is dangerous-but love is more dangerous still. When sixteen-year-old Tessa Gray crosses the ocean to find her brother, her destination is England, the time is the reign of Queen Victoria, and something terrifying is waiting for her in London's Downworld, where vampires, warlocks and other supernatural folk stalk the gaslit streets. Only the Shadowhunters, warriors dedicated to ridding the world of demons, keep order amidst the chaos. Kidnapped by the mysterious Dark Sisters, members of a secret organization called The Pandemonium Club, Tessa soon learns that she herself is a Downworlder with a rare abi...

• shatter me
• shatter me #1
• fantasy, young adult, romance
• rating: ☆☆

Juliette hasn’t touched anyone in exactly 264 days.

The last time she did, it was an accident, but The Reestablishment locked her up for murder. No one knows why Juliette’s touch is fatal. As long as she doesn’t hurt anyone else, no one really cares. The world is too busy crumbling to pieces to pay attention to a 17-year-old girl. Diseases are destroying the population, food is hard to find, birds don’t fly anymore, and the clouds are the wrong color.

The Reestablishment said their way was the only way to fix things, so they threw Juliette in a cell. Now so many people are dead that the survivors are whispering war – and The Reestablishment has change...

• the ballad of songbirds and snakes
• the hunger games #0
• young adult, fantasy, science fiction
• “Nothing you can take from me was ever worth keeping.”
• rating: ☆☆☆.5

THE BALLAD OF SONGBIRDS AND SNAKES will revisit the world of Panem sixty-four years before the events of The Hunger Games, starting on the morning of the reaping of the Tenth Hunger Games. On returning to the world of The Hunger Games, Suzanne Collins said, "With this book, I wanted to explore the state of nature, who we are, and what we perceive is required for our survival. The reconstruction period ten years after the war, commonly referred to as the Dark Days-as the country of Panem struggles back to its feet-provides fertile ground for characters to grapple with these questions and thereby define their ...

• the heartstopper yearbook
• heartstopper
• graphic novel, LGBT, young adult
• rating: ☆☆☆☆

The full-colour Heartstopper Yearbook is packed full of exclusive content from the Heartstopper universe - including never-before-seen illustrations, an exclusive mini-comic, a look back at Alice's Heartstopper artwork over the years, character profiles, trivia, and insights into her creative process - all narrated by a cartoon version of Alice herself.

By the winner of the YA Book Prize, Heartstopper is about love, friendship, loyalty and mental illness. It encompasses all the small stories of Nick and Charlie's lives that together make up something larger, which speaks to all of us.

• twilight
• the twilight saga #1
• fantasy, young adult, romance
• “Don't be self-conscious, if I could dream at all, it would be about you. And I'm not ashamed of it.”
• rating: ☆☆☆

About three things I was absolutely positive.

First, Edward was a vampire.

Second, there was a part of him—and I didn't know how dominant that part might be—that thirsted for my blood.

And third, I was unconditionally and irrevocably in love with him.

• queen charlotte
• bridgertons
• romance, historical, adult
• ”She was a star. She was a comet. She was everything that sparkled in the night sky, brought down to earth by magic the church swore did not exist.”
• rating: ☆☆☆☆☆

“We are one crown. His weight is mine, and mine is his…”

In 1761, on a sunny day in September, a King and Queen met for the very first time. They were married within hours.

Born a German Princess, Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz was beautiful, headstrong, and fiercely intelligent… not precisely the attributes the British Court had been seeking in a spouse for the young King George III. But her fire and independence were exactly what she needed, because George had secrets… secrets with the p...

• cheer up
• graphic novel, LGBT, young adult
• “Oh? You're held to a different standard because of others preconceptions?”
• rating: ☆☆☆☆

Annie is a smart, antisocial lesbian starting her senior year of high school who’s under pressure to join the cheerleader squad to make friends and round out her college applications. Her former friend BeeBee is a people-pleaser—a trans girl who must keep her parents happy with her grades and social life to keep their support of her transition. Through the rigors of squad training and amped up social pressures (not to mention micro aggressions and other queer youth problems), the two girls rekindle a friendship they thought they’d lost and discover there may be other, sweeter feelings springing up between them.

• the magic fish
• graphic novel, LGBT, young adult
• “The space between two shores is the ocean and being caught in between feels like drowning. And, really, what is the point of tears among so much salt water?”
• rating: ☆☆☆☆☆

Tiến loves his family and his friends…but Tiến has a secret he's been keeping from them, and it might change everything. An amazing YA graphic novel that deals with the complexity of family and how stories can bring us together.

Real life isn't a fairytale.

But Tiến still enjoys reading his favorite stories with his parents from the books he borrows from the local library. It's hard enough trying to communicate with your parents as a kid, but for Tiến, he doesn't even have the right words because his parents are struggling with their E...

• sincerely,
• poetry, romance, non-ficton
• “You became the occupant of my mind, The beat of my heart, And the tranquility in my soul. You became my life, My solace, The best person I ever knew.”

Searching for a profound way to propose to his love, F.S. Yousaf reread the letters she had written him. In them he found his proposal, as well as inspiration to write his own prose and poetry. From this inspiration, Sincerely was born. It carries messages of positivity, hope, and most of all, true love.

• i'm glad my mom died
• non-fiction, memoir, autobiography
• "Why do we romanticize the dead? Why can’t we be honest about them?”
• rating: ☆☆☆☆☆

A heartbreaking and hilarious memoir by iCarly and Sam & Cat star Jennette McCurdy about her struggles as a former child actor—including eating disorders, addiction, and a complicated relationship with her overbearing mother—and how she retook control of her life.

Jennette McCurdy was six years old when she had her first acting audition. Her mother’s dream was for her only daughter to become a star, and Jennette would do anything to make her mother happy. So she went along with what Mom called “calorie restriction,” eating little and weighing herself five times a day. She endured extensive at-home makeovers while Mom chi...

• girl isolated
• poetry, mental health, LGBT
• "if my grief is proof that you existed, how do I ever let myself stop feeling it?"
• rating: ☆☆☆☆

A poignant portrait of mental health struggles set against the backdrop of the Covid-19 pandemic, Trista Mateer's newest compilation of poetry and art crafted in quarantine hits almost too close to home. Mateer expertly pulls her feelings apart on the page over the course of a year and invites an audience to watch as she puts everything back together. girl, isolated as a collection is similar in its intent and theme to poetry books like When the World Didn't End by Caroline Kaufman and Where Hope Comes From by Nikita Gill.

"I am writing to you now because I am having a hell of a time / because I don't kn...

• tarot cards
• non-fiction, witchcraft, tarot

Every single Tarot Card is filled with hidden symbols, but some of the cards have more symbols than others. Some of the symbols appear within a card in one deck, but not in others. So, for your convenience I decided to present the symbol interpretations in two different styles. In Part One, you will find an alphabetical list of the most important hidden symbols to be found in the cards, as well as indicating which cards they can be found on. In Part Two, you will find each card listed separately with a list of the hidden symbols to be found in that particular card. This gives you the choice of looking up a particular symbol to gain an understanding of its meaning, or to look up a particular card and read about all of the symbols to be found on that card. I hope that th...

• the lavender haze
• poetry, LGBT
• "sometimes this love feels so big it could shatter the earth. like gods must have conspired this. like aphrodite sent us after each other. like magic exists and it's you. like we're soul mates in every lifetime and everything that's ever happened, happened just so i could live to see your face again."

• make you mine this christmas
• romance, christmas, LGBT
• rating: ☆☆☆☆.5

It's the golden rule of pretending to be someone's girlfriend: don't fall for their sister.

After a year from hell, Haf is ready to blow off steam at a Christmas party: a kind stranger, a few too many drinks and suddenly she's kissing Christopher under the mistletoe - in front of his ex-girlfriend.

The next day the news is out that they're apparently a couple, madly in love and coming to Oxlea to spend the festive season with Christopher's family. But Haf doesn't have better holiday plans and to save her new friend from embarrassment, she agrees to pretend to be Christopher's girlfriend for Christmas.

It has the makings of a hilarious anecdot...

• whale star vol 6
• whale star: the gyeongseong mermaid #6
• graphic novel, historical fiction, retelling
• "and when we meet again, I am going to ask you... how beautiful the moon was in a complete joseon."
• rating: ☆☆☆☆☆

Episode 87 to End

• whale star vol 3
• whale star: the gyeongseong mermaid #3
• graphic novel, historical fiction, retelling
• "You said that if this were the ocean... and we were like the fish in the sea... we would be able to understand each other without speaking a word."
• rating: ☆☆☆☆☆

Episode 29 to 47

• whale star vol 2
• whale star: the gyeongseong mermaid #2
• graphic novel, historical fiction, retelling
• "If the moon is still beautiful, no matter where I look at it from, then that's enough for me."
• rating: ☆☆☆☆☆

Episode 14 to 28

• the first to die at the end
• death-cast #0
• romance, young adult, LGBT
• “I write short stories because I am one. I wish I was a novel. Breaths away from midnight, I know my final chapter is close. I look up at Valentino, wondering what life could’ve offered if I had more pages in me.”
• rating: ☆☆☆☆☆

It’s the night before Death-Cast goes live, and there’s one question on everyone’s mind: Can Death-Cast actually predict when someone will die, or is it just an elaborate hoax?

Orion Pagan has waited years for someone to tell him that he’s going to die. He has a serious heart condition, and he signed up for Death-Cast so he could know what’s coming.

Valentino Prince is restarting his life i...

• lore olympus: volume four
• lore olympus volumes #4
• graphic novel, romance, fantasy, mythology
• rating: ☆☆☆☆☆

"I don't always get to do as I please."

The rumor mill of Olympus is constantly churning, but Persephone and Hades are all anyone can talk about. With the constant gossip creating intense pressure on the pair, they decide to slow down their budding romance and focus on sorting out their own issues first.

But that's easier said than done.

Hades struggles to find support in his personal life, with Zeus trivializing his feelings and Minthe resorting to abusive patterns in their relationship. And while Hades tries to create healthier boundaries where he can--like finally putting a stop to his sporadic, revenge-fueled hookup...

• the magician
• heroes of yarrowind #1
• fantasy, short story
• rating: ☆☆☆

A young boy kills his father in an outburst of anger and magic. The whole town and his family turn his back on him.

His only option is to leave it behind and come to Persla, where he can blend with the crowd and be forgotten.

His life gets an unexpected change after he is saved from a dreadful situation by a mysterious magician. But trouble tends to find him no matter where he is.

• the essential guide to wicca for beginne...
• non-fiction, witchcraft

There is no right or wrong way to practice Wicca; there is only your way. With The Essential Guide to Wicca for Beginners, you’ll find everything you need to create meaningful magic, including fundamental knowledge, accessible spells, and magical learnings to help new witches grow.

Discover your Wiccan power with practical guidance on how to center yourself, set solid intentions, and focus your energy before conducting rituals and casting spells. Then, learn how to write your own spells; unearth common Wiccan symbols; and practice indoors, outdoors, and in sacred space. You’ll find helpful instructions on how to set up an altar, cast and close a circle, and use your magical tools. Finally, flex your magical muscles with a wealth of beginner-friendly spells.

• princess ballot
• royals of arbon academy #1
• romance, new adult, fantasy
• rating: ☆☆☆

You have been chosen.

Those four words change Violet Spencer’s whole life, when against staggering odds, she's selected in the "princess ballot."

Arbon Academy is affectionately known as the school for Royals. Only the rich, powerful, or heir to a throne gain entry ... except for the one scholarship student accepted every five years. It's a worldwide lottery, and one that Violet entered without giving it any serious thought.

But the media got it wrong and Arbon Academy is much more than a simple college for future leaders.

It’s a dark world of politics, intrigue, and dangerous guys who will stop at not...

• saga, volume 8
• saga #8
• graphic novel, fantasy, science fiction
• “Doubt can paralyze you, can make you not want to do anything. But if you learn to channel it, to turn those feelings away from yourself and out at the world you can doubt what's impossible.”
• rating: ☆☆☆☆

After the traumatic events of the War for Phang, Hazel, her parents, and their surviving companions embark on a life-changing adventure at the westernmost edge of the universe.

• delilah green doesn't care
• bright falls #1
• romance, LGBT, contemporary
• “If eyes were the window into the soul, Delilah's had long been shuttered.”
• rating: ☆☆☆☆.5

Delilah Green swore she would never go back to Bright Falls—nothing is there for her but memories of a lonely childhood where she was little more than a burden to her cold and distant stepfamily. Her life is in New York, with her photography career finally gaining steam and her bed never empty. Sure, it’s a different woman every night, but that’s just fine with her.

When Delilah’s estranged stepsister, Astrid, pressures her into photographing her wedding with a guilt trip and a five-figure check, Delilah finds herself back in the godforsaken town that she used to ca...

• daughter of the moon goddess
• the celestial kingdom duology #1
• fantasy, young adult, romance
• “Never did I imagine such luminous joy existed, and never again would I be content to remain in the shadows.”
• rating: ☆☆☆☆☆

A fantasy inspired by the legend of the Chinese moon goddess, Chang’e , in which a young woman’s quest to free her mother pits her against the most powerful immortal in the realm and sets her on a dangerous path—where choices come with deadly consequences, and she risks losing more than her heart.

Growing up on the moon, Xingyin is accustomed to solitude, unaware that she is being hidden from the powerful Celestial Emperor who exiled her mother for stealing his elixir of immortality. But when Xingyin’s magic flares and her existence is d...

• saga, volume 4
• saga #4
• graphic novel, fantasy, science fiction
• “A lot of people who came into my family's life looking like heroes ended up acting more like villains.”
• rating: ☆☆☆☆

Visit new planets, meet new adversaries and explore a very new direction, as Hazel becomes a toddler while her family struggles to stay on their feet.

• saga, volume 3
• saga #3
• graphic novel, fantasy, science fiction
• “Granny would never love anyone the way she loved my grandfather, but that doesn't mean she never loved again.”
• rating: ☆☆☆☆.5

New parents Marko and Alana travel to an alien world to visit their hero, while the family's pursuers finally close in on their targets.

• saga, volume 1
• saga #1
• graphic novel, fantasy, science fiction
• “They can't hurt us, you big babies! We're intangible! Why are you guys acting like you just died yesterday?”
• rating: ☆☆☆.5

SAGA is the sweeping tale of one young family fighting to find their place in the worlds. When two soldiers from opposite sides of a never-ending galactic war fall in love, they risk everything to bring a fragile new life into a dangerous old universe.

• this winter
• solitaire #0.5
• novella, contemporary, young adult, LGBT
• "I think sometimes," says Nick, "you're so scared of being a burden that it makes you terrified to ask for help. But you have lots of people around you that would be there for you, if you opened up about what help you need."
• rating: ☆☆☆.5

A short novella based on the beloved characters from the graphic novel Heartstopper and Alice Oseman’s debut novel Solitaire.

The festive season isn't always happy for Tori Spring and her brother Charlie. And this year's going to be harder than most.

I used to think that difficult was better than boring, but I know better now…

I’m not going to think about the past f...

• practical magic for beginners
• non-fiction, spirituality, witchcraft

Embrace your inner witch with this beginner’s guide to practical magic and spellcasting

If you have ever wondered about the mystical qualities that exist within you, this is the perfect beginner’s guide to everyday rituals and spellcasting. Practical Magic for Beginners is a simple, yet extensive reference that teaches you about conscious conjuring using a wide range of tools, techniques, disciplines, and elements.

Whether you’re interested in chakras, astrology, talismans, dreams, or anything in between, you’ll find what you’re looking for. Discover entry-level remedies, recipes, and spells, and learn about plant magic, herbal cures for common ailments, spiritual cleansing, and more.

• the last olympian
• percy jackson and the olympians #5
• fantasy, young adult, mythology
• “The world was collapsing, and the only thing that really mattered to me was that she was alive.”
• rating: ☆☆☆☆☆

MOST PEOPLE GET PRESENTS ON THEIR SIXTEENTH BIRTHDAY, I GET A PROPHECY THAT COULD SAVE OR DESTROY THE WORLD.

It happens when you're the son of Poseidon, God of the Sea. According to an ancient prophecy, I turn sixteen and the fate of the entire world is on me. But no pressure.

Now Kronos, Lord of the Titans, is beginning his attack on New York City. And the dreaded monster Typhon is also heading our way. So it's me and forty of my demigod friends versus untold evil...

• the titan's curse
• percy jackson and the olympians #3
• fantasy, young adult, mythology
• “There is always a way out for those clever enough to find it.”
• rating: ☆☆☆☆.5

IT'S NOT EVERYDAY YOU FIND YOURSELF IN COMBAT WITH A HALF-LION, HALF-HUMAN.

But when you're the son of a Greek god, it happens. And now my friend Annabeth is missing, a goddess is in chains and only five half-blood heroes can join the quest to defeat the doomsday monster.

Oh, and guess what? The Oracle has predicted that not all of us will survive...

• princess princess ever after
• graphic novel, fantasy, LGBT
• “how does a hero decide who’s worth saving?”
• rating: ☆☆☆

When the heroic princess Amira rescues the kind-hearted princess Sadie from her tower prison, neither expects to find a true friend in the bargain. Yet as they adventure across the kingdom, they discover that they bring out the very best in the other person. They’ll need to join forces and use all the know-how, kindness, and bravery they have in order to defeat their greatest foe yet: a jealous sorceress, who wants to get rid of Sadie once and for all. Join Sadie and Amira, two very different princesses with very different strengths, on their journey to figure out what “happily ever after” really means--and how they can find it with each othe...

• one last stop
• romance, LGBT, contemporary
• “Sometimes the point is to be sad, August. Sometimes you just have to feel it because it deserves to be felt.”
• rating: ☆☆☆☆.5

For cynical twenty-three-year-old August, moving to New York City is supposed to prove her right: that things like magic and cinematic love stories don’t exist, and the only smart way to go through life is alone. She can’t imagine how waiting tables at a 24-hour pancake diner and moving in with too many weird roommates could possibly change that. And there’s certainly no chance of her subway commute being anything more than a daily trudge through boredom and electrical failures.

But then, there’s this gorgeous girl on the train.

Jane. Dazzling, charming, mysterious, imp...

• the tea dragon society
• tea dragon #1
• graphic novel, fantasy, LGBT
• “Memories don't just live inside you, Minette. They live in all the people and objects you share your life with.”
• rating: ☆☆☆☆

A charming all-ages book that follows the story of Greta, a blacksmith apprentice, and the people she meets as she becomes entwined in the enchanting world of tea dragons.

After discovering a lost tea dragon in the marketplace, Greta learns about the dying art form of tea dragon care-taking from the kind tea shop owners, Hesekiel and Erik. As she befriends them and their shy ward, Minette, Greta sees how the craft enriches their lives -- and eventually her own.

• the big A.S.S. party
• supernatural beasts and bullies #5.5
• fantasy, romance, fairies
• “A lady doesn’t tumble with a stranger no matter how seductive his scales may be.”
• rating: ☆☆☆

Once upon a moon, the wild wind whispered in my ear that the true queens were returning to Solaria and I made it my mission to open up their path to the throne so that they could slip right in like an oily oyster.

Now, on this most special and wonderous of days, the very day of their birth – I will prove myself to be the most loyal and dependable of their followers. Though of course, Venus is in my chart and Lady Petunia has caught sight of the bothersome barracuda once more.

Max Rigel is my most sinful of temptation...

• you and me on vacation
• romance, contemporary, adult
• "I've always felt like once someone sees me deep down, that's it. There's something ugly in there, or unlovable, and you're the only person who's ever made me feel like I'm okay."
• rating: ☆☆☆☆

TWO FRIENDS, TEN SUMMER TRIPS, THEIR LAST CHANCE TO FALL IN LOVE

12 SUMMERS AGO: Poppy and Alex meet. They hate each other, and are pretty confident they'll never speak again.

11 SUMMERS AGO: They're forced to share a ride home from college and by the end of it a friendship is formed. And a pact: every year, one vacation together.

10 SUMMERS AGO: Alex discovers his fear of flying on the way to Vancouver. Poppy holds his hand the whole way.

7 SUMMERS AGO: They get far too drunk and...

• me before you
• me before you #1
• romance, contemporary, chick lit
• "You only get one life. It's actually your duty to live it as fully as possible."
• rating: ☆☆☆☆☆

Lou Clark knows lots of things. She knows how many footsteps there are between the bus stop and home. She knows she likes working in The Buttered Bun tea shop and she knows she might not love her boyfriend Patrick. What Lou doesn't know is she's about to lose her job or that knowing what's coming is what keeps her sane. Will Traynor knows his motorcycle accident took away his desire to live. He knows everything feels very small and rather joyless now and he knows exactly how he's going to put a stop to that. What Will doesn't know is that Lou is about to burst into his world in a riot of colour. And neither ...

• the reckoning
• supernatural beasts and bullies #3
• fantasy, romance, fairies
• "What are you, my fucking critic or my friend?” “Both most of the time,” he joked. “Well right now I just want a friend. Stop pointing out my flaws and just agree with me while I rant about the situation."
• rating: ☆☆☆☆

The week of The Reckoning has begun. And senior students have been tasked with making the freshmen's lives pure hell as they prepare to take their fateful assessment.

With the Lunar Eclipse on the horizon, Tory and Darcy have more to worry about than just passing their exams. A dark plot is unfolding and the shadows are drawing closer...

• the girl from the sea
• graphic novel, LGBT, fantasy
• "Sometimes you have to let your life get messy. That's how you get to the good parts."
• rating: ☆☆☆☆

Fifteen-year-old Morgan has a secret: She can't wait to escape the perfect little island where she lives. She's desperate to finish high school and escape her sad divorced mom, her volatile little brother, and worst of all, her great group of friends...who don't understand Morgan at all. Because really, Morgan's biggest secret is that she has a lot of secrets, including the one about wanting to kiss another girl.Then one night, Morgan is saved from drowning by a mysterious girl named Keltie. The two become friends and suddenly life on the island doesn't seem so stifling anymore.But Keltie has some secrets of...

• heartstopper: volume four
• heartstopper #4
• graphic novels, romance, LGBT
• "There are lots of ways to help him, you can just be there. To listen. To talk. To cheer him up if he's having a bad day. And on the bad days you can ask what to could do to make things easier. Stand by his side, even when things are hard. But also knowing that sometimes people need more support than just one person can give. That's love darling"
• rating: ☆☆☆☆☆

Charlie didn't think Nick could ever like him back, but now they're officially boyfriends. Charlie's beginning to feel ready to say those three little words: I love you.

Nick's been feeling the same, but he's got a lot on his mind - not least coming out to his dad, and the fact that Charlie m...

• heartstopper: volume one
• heartstopper #1
• graphic novels, romance, LGBT
• "You can't tell whether people are gay by what they look like. And gay or straight aren't the only two options."
• rating: ☆☆☆☆☆

Charlie, a highly-strung, openly gay over-thinker, and Nick, a cheerful, soft-hearted rugby player, meet at a British all-boys grammar school. Friendship blooms quickly, but could there be something more...?

Charlie Spring is in Year 10 at Truham Grammar School for Boys. The past year hasn't been too great, but at least he's not being bullied anymore. Nick Nelson is in Year 11 and on the school rugby team. He's heard a little about Charlie - the kid who was outed last year and bullied for a few months - but he's never had the oppo...

• malibu rising
• historical, contemporary, adult
• "Family is found...whether it be blood or circumstance or choice, what binds us does not matter. All that matters is that we are bound."
• rating: ☆☆☆☆☆

Four famous siblings throw an epic party to celebrate the end of the summer. But over the course of twenty-four hours, their lives will change forever.

Malibu: August, 1983. It’s the day of Nina Riva’s annual end-of-summer party, and anticipation is at a fever pitch. Everyone wants to be around the famous Rivas: Nina, the talented surfer and supermodel; brothers Jay and Hud, one a championship surfer, the other a renowned photographer; and their adored baby sister, Kit. Together, the siblings are a source of fascination in Malibu and the world over—e...

• the awakening
• supernatural beasts and bullies #1
• fantasy, romance, new adult
• "Tears never did anyone any favours, but sometimes they just needed to fall."
• rating: ☆☆☆

You have been selected to attend Zodiac Academy, where your star sign defines your destiny.

If you're one of the Fae, elemental magic is in your blood. And apparently it's in ours. As twins born in the month of Gemini, we're a rare breed even in this academy of supernatural a-holes.

Changelings were outlawed hundreds of years ago but I guess our birth parents didn't get the memo. Which means we're totally unprepared for the ruthless world of Fae.

Air. Fire. Water. Earth.

No one has ever harnessed all four of the...

• we were liars
• young adult, contemporary, mystery
• "The universe is seeming really huge right now. I need something to hold on to."
• rating: ☆☆☆

We are the Liars.

We are beautiful, privileged and live a life of carefree luxury.

We are cracked and broken.

A story of love and romance.

A tale of tragedy.

Which are lies?

Which is truth?

You decide.

• the midnight library
• fantasy, contemporary, magical realism
• "You don’t have to understand life. You just have to live it."
• rating: ☆☆☆

Somewhere out beyond the edge of the universe there is a library that contains an infinite number of books, each one the story of another reality. One tells the story of your life as it is, along with another book for the other life you could have lived if you had made a different choice at any point in your life. While we all wonder how our lives might have been, what if you had the chance to go to the library and see for yourself? Would any of these other lives truly be better?

• a court of frost and starlight
• a court of thorns and roses #3.1
• fantasy, romance, new adult
• "Stars flickered around us, sweet darkness sweeping in. As if we were the only souls in a galaxy."
• rating: ☆☆☆☆

In this companion tale to the bestselling A Court of Thorns and Roses series, Feyre, Rhys and their friends are working to rebuild the Night Court and the vastly changed world beyond after the events of A Court of Wings and Ruin.

But Winter Solstice is finally near, and with it a hard-earned reprieve. Yet even the festive atmosphere can't keep the shadows of the past from looming. As Feyre navigates her first Winter Solstice as High Lady, she finds that those dearest to her have more wounds than she anticipated – scars that will have a far-reaching i...

• a court of thorns and roses
• a court of thorns and roses #1
• fantasy, romance, new adult
• "Rhysand stared at me for long enough that I faced him. "Be glad of your human heart, Feyre. Pity those who don't feel anything at all."
• rating: ☆☆☆☆

Feyre is a huntress. And when she sees a deer in the forest being pursued by a wolf, she kills the predator and takes its prey to feed herself and her family. But the wolf was not what it seemed, and Feyre cannot predict the high price she will have to pay for its death ...

Dragged away from her family for the murder of a faerie, Feyre discovers that her captor, his face obscured by a jewelled mask, is hiding even more than his piercing green eyes suggest. As Feyre's feelings for Tamlin turn from hostility to passio...

• aristotle and dante discover the secrets...
• aristotle and dante #1
• young adult, LGBT, contemporary
• "I wondered what that was like, to hold someone's hand. I bet you could sometimes find all the mysteries of the universe in someone's hand."
• rating: ☆☆☆☆☆

Aristotle is an angry teen with a brother in prison. Dante is a know-it-all who has an unusual way of looking at the world. When the two meet at the swimming pool, they seem to have nothing in common. But as the loners start spending time together, they discover that they share a special friendship--the kind that changes lives and lasts a lifetime. And it is through this friendship that Ari and Dante will learn the most important truths about themselves and the kind of people they want to be.

• red, white & royal blue
• romance, LGBT, contemporary
• "Straight people, he thinks, probably don't spend this much time convincing themselves that they're straight."
• rating: ☆☆☆☆☆

When his mother became President, Alex Claremont-Diaz was promptly cast as the American equivalent of a young royal. Handsome, charismatic, genius—his image is pure millennial-marketing gold for the White House. There's only one problem: Alex has a beef with the actual prince, Henry, across the pond. And when the tabloids get hold of a photo involving an Alex-Henry altercation, U.S./British relations take a turn for the worse.

Heads of family, state, and other handlers devise a plan for damage control: staging a truce between the two rivals. What at first begins as a fake, Instragramable ...

• silence is golden
• storm and silence #3
• romance, historical, humour
• "You burn hot enough to light an ocean on fire."

Silent. Cold. Chiselled perfection. That is Rikkard Ambrose, the most powerful business mogul in Great Britain.

Free-spirited. Fiery. Definitely NOT attracted to the aforementioned business mogul. That is Lilly Linton, his personal secretary and secret weapon.

The two have been playing a cat and mouse game for months. So far, Lilly has been able to fight down and deny her attraction to Mr Ambrose. But what happens when suddenly, the dark secrets of his past begin to surface and they are forced to go on a perilous journey into the South-American jungle? A journey they can only survive if they band together?

• four
• divergent #0.1-#0.4
• young adult, science fiction, fantasy
• “I want some kind of reminder that while wounds heal, they don't disappear forever- I carry them everywhere, always, and that is the way of things, the way of scars.”

Two years before Beatrice Prior made her choice, the sixteen-year-old son of Abnegation’s faction leader did the same. Tobias’s transfer to Dauntless is a chance to begin again. Here, he will not be called the name his parents gave him. Here, he will not let fear turn him into a cowering child.

Newly christened “Four,” he discovers during initiation that he will succeed in Dauntless. Initiation is only the beginning, though; Four must claim his place in the Dauntless hierarchy. His decisions ...

• divergent
• divergent #1
• young adult, science fiction, fantasy
• "Becoming fearless isn't the point. That's impossible. It's learning how to control your fear, and how to be free from it."

Sixteen-year-old Tris is forced to make a terrible choice. In a divided society where everyone must conform, Tris does not fit.

So she ventures out alone, determined to discover where she truly belongs. Shocked by her brutal new life Tris can trust no one. And yet she is drawn to a boy who seems to both threaten and protect her.

The hardest choice lies ahead.

• is it just me
• non-fiction, biography, humour
• "Live in hope. Because things do happen. Things do change. Worry really is futile. Don't fear the future. Dreams do come true."

Well hello to you, dear browser. Now I have your attention it would be rude if I didn't tell you a little about my literary feast. So, here is the thing: is it just me or does anyone else find that adulthood offers no refuge from the unexpected horrors, peculiar lack of physical coordination and sometimes unexplained nudity, that accompanied childhood and adolescence?

Does everybody struggle with the hazards that accompany, say, sitting elegantly on a bar stool; using chopsticks; pretending to understand the bank crisis; pedicures - surely it's plain wrong for a strange...

• catching fire
• the hunger games #2
• young adult, science fiction, fantasy
• "I wish I could freeze this moment, right here, right now and live in it forever."
• rating: ☆☆☆☆☆

MAY THE ODDS BE EVER IN YOUR FAVOUR

Katniss Everdeen survived the hunger games. Now the Capitol wants revenge.

Against all odds, Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark are still alive. Katniss should be relieved, but now there are whispers of a rebellion against the Capitol -- a rebellion that Katniss and Peeta may have helped create.

As the nation watches Katniss and Peeta, the stakes are higher than ever. One false move and the consequences will be unimaginable.

• women don't owe you pretty
• non-fiction, feminism, self help
• "Stop breaking yourself down into bite-sized pieces. Stay whole and let them choke.”
• rating: ☆☆☆☆

WOMEN DON'T OWE YOU PRETTY will tell you to... love sex, hate sexism, protect your goddamn energy, life is short, dump them, And that you owe men nothing, least of all pretty.

Florence's debut book will explore all progressive corners of the feminist conversation; from insecurity projection and refusing to find comfort in other women's flaws, to deciding whether to date or dump them, all the way through to unpacking the male gaze and how it shapes our identity.

WOMEN DON'T OWE YOU PRETTY is an accessible leap into feminism, for people at all ...

• city of fallen angels
• the mortal instruments #4
• fantasy, young adult, romance
• "You could give me the past,“ he said a little sadly. “But Alec is my future."

The Mortal War is over, and sixteen-year-old Clary Fray is back home in New York, excited about all the possibilities before her. She’s training to become a Shadowhunter and to use her unique power. Her mother is getting married to the love of her life. Downworlders and Shadowhunters are at peace at last. And—most importantly of all—she can finally call Jace her boyfriend.

But nothing comes without a price.

Someone is murdering Shadowhunters, provoking tensions between Downworlders and Shadowhunters that could lead to a second, bloody war. Clary’s best friend, Simon,...

• city of ashes
• the mortal instruments #2
• fantasy, young adult, romance
• "We came to see Jace. Is he alright?" "I don't know," Magnus said. "Does he normally just lie on the floor like that without moving?"

Clary Fray just wishes that her life would go back to normal. But what's normal when you're a demon-slaying Shadowhunter, your mother is in a magically induced coma, and you can suddenly see Downworlders like werewolves, vampires, and faeries? If Clary left the world of the Shadowhunters behind, it would mean more time with her best friend, Simon, who's becoming more than a friend. But the Shadowhunting world isn't ready to let her go — especially her handsome, infuriating, newfound brother, Jace. And Clary's only chance to help her mother is to track down rogue Sha...