A Court of Mist and Fury by Sarah J. Maas Genre : Fantasy, Romance Series : A Court of Thorns and Roses, book 2 About the Book  : Feyre survived Amarantha’s clutches to return to the Spring Court—but at a steep cost. Though she now has 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...

A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas Genre : Fantasy, Romance Series : A Court of Thorns and Roses, book 1 About the Book  : Feyre’s survival rests upon her ability to hunt and kill – the forest where she lives is a cold, bleak place in the long winter months. So when she spots a deer in the forest being pursued by a wolf, she cannot resist fighting it for the flesh. But to do so, she must kill the predator and...

Ember Queen by Lauren SebastianGenre : YA, FantasySeries : Ash Princess, book 3 About the Book  : Princess Theodosia was a prisoner in her own country for a decade. Renamed the Ash Princess, she endured relentless abuse and ridicule from the Kaiser and his court. But though she wore a crown of ashes, there is fire in Theo’s blood. As the rightful heir to the Astrean crown, it runs in her veins. And if she learned nothing else from her...

Lady Smoke by Lauren SebastianGenre : YA, FantasySeries : Ash Princess, book 2 About the Book  : Theo no longer wears a crown of ashes. She has taken back her rightful title, and a hostage–Prinz Soren. But her people remain enslaved under the Kaiser’s rule, and now she is thousands of miles away from them and her throne. To get them back, she will need an army. Only, securing an army means she must trust the dreaded pirate...

Join Top Ten Tuesday at That Artsy Reader Girl. Each week  a new Top Ten list theme is posted and all bloggers are welcome to participate! I find that YA fantasy can be really hit or miss for me (more so than adult fantasy, where it seems I’m better at predicting whether I’ll enjoy a book – not sure why?), but nonetheless I still enjoy it immensely. It’s a genre I find great confort in, and I think we could all...

Sorcery of Thorns by Margaret RogersonGenre : YA, FantasyStand Alone About the Book  : All sorcerers are evil. Elisabeth has known that as long as she has known anything. Raised as a foundling in one of Austermeer’s Great Libraries, Elisabeth has grown up among the tools of sorcery—magical grimoires that whisper on shelves and rattle beneath iron chains. If provoked, they transform into grotesque monsters of ink and leather. She hopes to...

The Last Namsara by Kristen CiccarelliGenre : YA, FantasySeries : Iskari, book 1 About the Book  : In the beginning, there was the Namsara: the child of sky and spirit, who carried love and laughter wherever he went. But where there is light, there must be darkness—and so there was also the Iskari. The child of blood and moonlight. The destroyer. The death-bringer.   These are the legends that Asha, daughter of the king of Firgaard, has...

House of Salt & Sorrows by Erin A. CraigGenre : YA, FantasyStand Alone About the Book  : In a manor by the sea, twelve sisters are cursed.   Annaleigh lives a sheltered life at Highmoor, a manor by the sea, with her sisters, their father, and stepmother. Once they were twelve, but loneliness fills the grand halls now that four of the girls’ lives have been cut short. Each death was more tragic than the last—the plague, a...