young adult fantasy novels
What I like most about reading
is how I can lose myself in pages where I don’t have to worry about real life.
Sometimes you just need a break from the real world to fix things.
Here I am sharing some novels (all
of them are series) that will make you forget reality and take you to a
new, unheard-of, and fascinating world where you would be the protagonist.
This list of novels is also a
list of my favorite novels, as I love to read fantasy. I hope you will also
enjoy them. I would really appreciate some comments about the blog and the name
of your favorite novel.
List of book series
Shatter Me (Shatter Me Series)
The Cruel Prince (The Folk of
the Air Series)
The Inheritance Games (The
Inheritance Games Series)
Throne of Glass (Throne of
Glass Series)
Daughter of the Pirate King
(Daughter of the Pirate King Series)
Six of Crows (Six of Crows
Series)
The Final Empire (The Mistborn Trilogy Series)
Caraval (Caraval Series)
Legendborn (The Legendborn
Cycle Series)
Cinder (The Lunar Chronicles
Series)
Shatter Me (Shatter Me Series)
Writer: TAHEREH MAFI
(A 17-year-old girl who has
been locked up for most of her life because her touch can kill a person, and
now she has to decide if she wants to become a weapon or a warrior.)
Honestly, I started reading
this series because of Arson Warner, judge me all you want.
Shatter Me tells the story of a
teenage girl who has never been able to experience human touch. Labeled a
freak. She finds herself locked up in an asylum where she is left in complete
isolation until The Reestablishment decide that they want to use her as a
weapon
This dystopian fiction is set
in a world that is experiencing the consequences of climate change and is ruled
by an organization called The Reestablishment.
The amazing writing by the
author makes you feel everything that character is going through.
The Cruel Prince (The Folk of
the Air Series)
Writer: Holly Black
(Jude is a human who lives in
Faerie, a land where fae and other mythical creatures dwell. Although fae are
unable to lie, they are beautiful and immortal, and she wants to be one.)
I mean, let’s be honest, it
already sounds interesting.
Jude is a human teenager living
in the magical realm of Faerie. She is impatient, independent, and passionate,
and these traits are only emphasized through a first-person perspective that
yields special access to the heroine's emotions.
I absolutely love Jude,
although the description of the world was a bit too much. However, it gets
better after the first book.
Writer: Jennifer Lynn Barnes
(Avery’s whole life turned
upside down when she found out that the richest man in Texas has left her all
his fortune; she is trying to find out why.)
Inheritance Games is about a
teenage girl, Avery Grambs, who grew up with very little money to her name.
Soon she learns that she has inherited most of the multi-billionaire, Tobias
Hawthorne's wealth and land, and has no connection to the family entirely.
Tobias Hawthorne loved puzzles,
riddles, and codes, so Avery believes there must be an answer to why she
inherited all his fortune. With the help of his four grandsons, Avery tries to
unravel this wild and ludicrous puzzle.
Writer: Sarah J. Maas
(Before
being confined in prison, Celaena Sardothien was a teenage assassin in a
corrupt kingdom with a tyrannical ruler. Now she has to win this competition
held by the king to win back her freedom.)
Celaena Sardothien is the
primary protagonist of Throne of Glass, and the majority of the novel is told
from her perspective in close third-person narration. Celaena is defined by
contradictions: an assassin yet a loyal friend; short-tempered yet
compassionate; arrogant yet deeply wounded by her traumatic past.
In a land without magic, if she
defeats twenty-three killers, thieves, and warriors in a competition, she is
released from prison to serve as the king's champion.
But there is more to the story;
something evil dwells in the castle of glass—and it's there to kill. When her
competitors start dying one by one, Celaena's fight for freedom becomes a fight
for survival and a desperate quest to root out the evil before it destroys her
world.
Writer: Tricia Levenseller
(Alosa, daughter of the Pirate
King, is sent on a mission to retrieve an ancient hidden map. In order to
accomplish that, she lets herself be deliberately caught by her enemies, giving
her the perfect opportunity to search their ship.)
This novel is fun and
fast-paced. It isn’t like a normal pirate novel where you have pirate ships
fighting each other; rather, it is meticulously planned infiltration into
enemies’ ships to steal the map with cleverly written dialogues.
It is a young adult adventure
series set on the high seas with plenty of romance.
The Final Empire (The Mistborn
Trilogy Series)
Writer: Brandon Sanderson
(Kelsier recruited the
underworld's elite, the smartest and most trustworthy allowances, each of whom
had powers, for the ultimate heist. Then Kelsier reveals his ultimate dream—not
just the greatest heist in history but the downfall of the divine despot.)
Another main character in the
series is Vin, a 16-year-old thief on the streets of Luthandel, the capital
city of the Final Empire.
The Final Empire, the first
book in a trilogy by Brandon Sanderson, is a tale of a subjugated people known
as the Skaa and their fight for freedom against a seemingly invincible God
known as the Lord Ruler. It is set in a world where for a thousand years, the
ash fell and no flowers bloomed. The Lord Ruler has ruled this world for a
thousand years through his Inquisitors and Obligators.
Kelsier assembles the best
criminal crew ever to stand up against the Lord Ruler. Vin is a half-Skaa orphan
and a member of the group. She will have to learn to trust if Kelsier is to
help her master powers of which she never dreamed.
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Six of Crows (Six of Crows
Series)Writer: Leigh Bardugo
(Six of Crows is the story of
Kaz Brekker and his crew, attempting to pull off an impossible heist. There is
Kaz, known as 'Dirtyhands' in the Barrel (the slums of Ketterdam), who is part
of The Dregs. The Dregs is a gang, and as the name suggests, it consists of
everyone scraped from the floor of the barrel.)
A convict with a thirst for
revenge
A sharpshooter who can’t walk
away from a wager
A runaway with a privileged
past
A spy known as the Wraith
A Heartrender using her magic
to survive the slums
A thief with a gift for
unlikely escapes
Six dangerous outcasts
One impossible heist
Kaz’s crew is the only thing
that might stand between the world and destruction—if they don’t kill each
other first.
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Writer: Stephanie Garber
(Telle, the little sister of
Scarlet, lowkey kidnaps her to the caravel full of magic and tricks, which
Scarlet has always dreamed of attending.)
Scarlett Dragna and her little
sister Tella live with their powerful and cruel father. Now Scarlett’s father
has arranged a marriage for her, and she thinks her dreams of seeing Caraval—the
faraway, once-a-year performance where the audience participates in the
show—are over.
But this year, Scarlett’s
long-dreamt-of invitation finally arrives. With the help of a mysterious
sailor, Tella whisks Scarlett away to the show. Only, as soon as they arrive,
Tella is kidnapped by Caraval’s mastermind organizer, Legend. It turns out that
this season’s Caraval revolves around Tella, and whoever finds her first is the
winner.
If I could read this book for
the first time again, I would read it slowly and not hurry to finish it to get
the answers. I think I missed a bit while being anxious about the outcome.
Welcome, welcome to Caraval . . . beware of getting swept too far away.
Legendborn (The Legendborn
Cycle Series)Writer: Tracy Deonnad
(Bree Matthews is a teenage
girl who discovers a secret and historically white magic society. Bree has to
decide how far she’ll go for the truth about her mother’s death and whether she
should use her magic to take society down—or join the fight.)
Legendborn is a stunning book
that explores deep themes of class, grief, and self-discovery within a riveting
fantasy realm. At its base, the book is about Bree, a black girl in the South
who is trying to uncover her past and her own identity.
After her mother dies in an
accident, she applies for a residential program for bright high schoolers at
UNC-Chapel Hill, but then Bree witnesses a magical attack on her very first
night on campus.
A flying demon feeding on human
energies
A secret society of so-called
"Legendborn" students that hunts the creatures down.
When a mysterious teenager who
calls himself a "Merkin" fails to wipe her memory, Bree’s own unique
magic is unlocked along with a buried memory with a hidden connection: the
night her mother died, another Merlin was at the hospital. Now that Bree knows
there’s more to her mother’s death than what’s on the police report, she’ll do
whatever it takes to find out the truth, even if that means infiltrating the
Legendborn as one of their initiates.
She recruits Nick, a
self-exiled Legendborn with his own grudge against the group, and their
reluctant partnership pulls them deeper into society’s secrets—and closer to
each other. But when the Legendborn reveals themselves as the descendants of
King Arthur’s knights and explain that a magical war is coming, Bree has to
decide how far she’ll go for the truth about her mother’s death and whether she
should use her magic to take the society down—or join the fight.
Writer: Marissa Meyer
(Sixteen-year-old Cinder, a
gifted mechanic, is a cyborg. She's a second-class citizen with a mysterious
past and is reviled by her stepmother. But when her life becomes intertwined
with the handsome Prince Kai's, she suddenly finds herself at the center of an
intergalactic struggle and a forbidden attraction.)
Like the original Cinderella
myth, the protagonist of Cinder illustrates a theme of negative self-image
in females in a patriarchal culture. There is also a theme of coming-of-age,
growing into a positive identity in spite of the odds.
Humans and androids crowd the
raucous streets of New Beijing. A deadly plague ravages the population. From
space, ruthless Lunar people watch, waiting to make their move. No one knows
that Earth’s fate hinges on one girl. . . . Cinder, a gifted mechanic, is a
cyborg.
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