“People pray only in times of trouble, they say, which to me seems like a suspect use of religion—but the point is, this line of work is inherently so demanding and dangerous that all anybody can do is trust their luck and leave their fate in the hands of the gods.” It’s been a year…
Category: Sequel
All The Feels by Olivia Dade
“The best thing the world offered an ugly little girl was indifference. Pity stung exactly as much as insults, if not more, so she tried to avoid either. She tried to avoid notice. Even as a child, she’d understood it was important to stay quiet. Unobtrusive. And above all, undemanding.” Alexander Woodroe has it all….
Fevered Star by Rebecca Roanhorse
“We are but fevered stars,” he intoned, like an orator on a stage. “Here a little while, bright with promise, before we burn away.” Tova is shattered. The Crow God is holding the sun in eclipse, as a comet that marks the death of a ruler and the rise of a new order streaks across…
Akata Woman by Nnedi Okorafor
“Seeing is not the same as caring, ” the magician replied. “You’re American; you should understand that more than anyone.” After Sunny Nwazue discovered she had magic flowing in her blood she has sought to understand and control her powers. Trying to navigate between the “normal” world and the one infused with the juju of…
Tiger Honor by Yoon Ha Lee
“You will go out among the stars, meet comrades great and small, and learn the ways of a warrior. But above all things, the compass that guides you must be the way of the clan.” Sebin, a young tiger from the Juhwang clan, wants nothing more than to join the Thousand Worlds Space Forces and,…
Illusionary by Zoraida Córdova
“Ren, you’re my friend. And I might go so far as to say I am your best and only friend in the world at the moment. It is my duty, nay, my mission to tell you the truth. The way you two look at each other could incinerate entire forests.” Doubt quirks his eyebrow. “If…
A Conjuring of Light by V.E. Schwab
“Love and loss,” he said, “are like a ship and the sea. They rise together. The more we love, the more we have to lose. But the only way to avoid loss is to avoid love. And what a sad world that would be.” The balance of power has finally tipped between the four Londons….
Girls of Fate and Fury by Natasha Ngan
“Because I learned long ago that Paper has its own power — the ability to ignite, re-form, evolve. And the young human girl they’ve brought back to the palace is not the same girl she was the first time around.” Lei never wants to return to the Hidden Palace. The suffering and trauma that she…
Our Violent Ends by Chloe Gong
“To have and to hold, where even death cannot part us,’ Juliette whispered.‘In this life and the next,’ Roma returned, ‘for however long our souls remain, mine will always find yours.” The year is 1927 and Shanghai teeters on the edge of a revolution. The Nationalists are marching in and there are whispers of a…
A Gathering of Shadows by V.E. Schwab
“Impossibility is a thing that begs to be disproven,” said Ned brightly. “Perhaps it hasn’t been possible for years, perhaps it’s not even possible right now, but that doesn’t mean it can’t be. It doesn’t mean it won’t be.” It has been four months since the mysterious obsidian stone fell into Kell’s possession and wreaked…
The Great Book Wyrm 