Nova Huang is a teenage witch who loans books of spells from her grandmothers’ bookshop. Tam Lang is a werewolf who has been on the run from a cult trying to possess them with a demon. When Nova hears reports of a white wolf in the forest, she goes to investigate, only to find her childhood crush Tam has returned.
Happy Halloween everyone! It’s spooky season, and I decided to make a list of some of my favourite spooky reads. Hopefully everyone will be able to find a book here that suits them, I’ve included a range of generes with that intent. I hope you enjoy!
Continue reading Six Dark and Spooky FavouritesSummary
Ethan is just trying to get through the school year. With his constantly tired, down on his luck comic book illustrator father, at times frustrating younger sister and classmates throwing more at Ethan than he can handle, Ethan really needs a friend. Inkling is a blot of ink, somehow magically gifted with Ethan’s father’s creativity.
Continue reading InklingAlice’s seventeen years have been spent with her mother, Ella, jumping between homes, always running from the bad luck that seems to chase them everywhere. Then, out of the blue, Ella receives a mysterious letter informing her that her mother, the reclusive author of a book of dark fairy tales, Althea Proserpine, has died in her estate, The Hazel Wood. After that, Alice’s unnatural bad luck only gets worse.
Jane is the bookish cousin of sixteen-year-old King Edward, who unfortunately happens to be dying. Edward’s impending death has made a whole big mess, not only for himself but for Jane as well. For Jane’s marriage has now been arranged, in order to finalize the line of succession, much to Jane’s displeasure. Gifford, or G for short, is Jane’s future husband.
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Fallon, a Celtic princess and ambitious warrior, dreams of becoming a member of her father’s prestigious war band. And her dream is finally about to come true. It is the night before her seventeenth birthday, and everything is going to plan. But after the heart shattering announcement made at the evening’s feast, Fallon is kidnapped and auctioned off as a slave to a training centre for female gladiators owned by Fallon’s family’s sworn enemy, Julius Caesar. Now Fallon must fight in vicious battles in the arena for the man who’s army murdered her beloved sister, Sorcha. And things are only get more complicated when Fallon develops feelings for a handsome young legionnaire, Cai. Will Fallon be able to win her freedom back and be with the man she loves?
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The Valiant is a fantastic historical fantasy-romance. I loved the characters, the forbidden romance and the historical references. This book is amazing because it transports you to the gladiatorial arenas of ancient Rome and offers something that is completely new to YA historical fiction: gladiatrices. I would recommend this book to those who are interested in Ancient Rome and everyone who loves strong female characters.
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Penhallow is the stony protector of a Boston apartment building. Long story short he’s a grotesque, one the fearless gargoyles that defend their wards from the evil spirits who invade the city during the night. Everything is as usual until all in one night when Penhallow’s fellow grotesques are destroyed and a strange half dead spectre appears. And when an unusual girl named Viola shows up, things only get weirder.
Makepeace has a spirit inside of her. For years she’s been taught to wrestle and fight off the spirits of the dead who see her as an easily inhabitable shell, but she unknowingly took in the ghost of a mistreated bear when she found it dead in the marsh near her small village. After her mother’s death (which she feels responsible for), Makepeace is sent to live with her late father’s wealthy and influential family, the Fellemottes.
The Caliph of Khorasan weds a new girl every night, only to have her killed the next morning against the backdrop of the rising sun. Shahrzad is the first girl ever to volunteer to become the Caliph’s wife. She has promised that she will avenge her best friend and all the other girls who were the Caliph’s brides.
Neverfell has no memory of anything before the day when she arrived in cheese master Gradible’s tunnels at the age of about five or six. For seven years, Neverfell never left Grandible’s tunnels and wore a mask of black velvet whenever anyone came to visit. Neverfell’s face is incredible compared to those of the other citizens of Caverna, the sprawling underground city buried deep beneath the surface.
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