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...

Serpent & Dove by Shelby MahurinGenre : YA, FantasySeries : Serpent & Dove, book 1 About the Book  : Two years ago, Louise le Blanc fled her coven and took shelter in the city of Cesarine, forsaking all magic and living off whatever she could steal. There, witches like Lou are hunted. They are feared. And they are burned.   Sworn to the Church as a Chasseur, Reid Diggory has lived his life by one principle: thou shalt not suffer a...

Give the Dark my Love by Beth RevisNarration : Mhairi Morrison, Bruce MannGenre : YA, FantasySeries : Give the Dark my Love, book 1 About the Book  : When seventeen-year-old Nedra Brysstain leaves her home to attend the prestigious Yugen Academy, she has only one goal in mind: learn the trade of medicinal alchemy. A scholarship student matriculating with the children of the wealthiest and most powerful families, Nedra doesn’t quite fit...

Tell Me How You Really Feel by Aminah, Mae, Safi Genre : YA, Romance Stand alone About the Book  : Sana Khan is a cheerleader and a straight A student. She’s the classic (somewhat obnoxious) overachiever determined to win. * Rachel Recht is a wannabe director who’s obsesssed with movies and ready to make her own masterpiece. As she’s casting her senior film project, she knows she’s found the perfect lead –...