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Rating coming soonThe four warrior Clans have shared the land around the lake as equals for many seasons. A prophecy says that three ThunderClan cats will hold the power of the stars in their paws, and two of them already know who they are, but the identity of the third is still hidden. Two young sisters are preparing to take their apprentice names.
Rating coming soonMinli lives in the Village of Fruitless Mountain, where the ground is too hard to farm and the families have very little. She loves the stories her father tells at the table, which her mother cannot stand, and she is always ready to go looking for something better. The mountain is not only a mountain: it is the broken heart of an immortal dragon.
Rating coming soonFirestar's three grandchildren now know about the prophecy that describes their future, and each of them wants something different from it. Lionpaw wants to be unbeatable in battle, Hollypaw wants to lead, and Jaypaw believes that only he can see what has happened and what is coming. Their strengths are tested when ThunderClan is attacked without warning.
Rating coming soonThe prison that holds the Dark One is weakening, and his immortal servants have been tightening their hold on the nations of men for a long time. Rand al'Thor, the Dragon Reborn, must strike first, but his own forces are divided by treachery and ambition, the Aes Sedai are fighting among themselves and he carries the madness that comes to men who use the One Power.
Rating coming soonThe Malazan Empire has been weakened and stands on the edge of anarchy. In the Holy Desert of Raraku a seer named Sha'ik is gathering an army for the uprising that has been prophesied for years, and it is going to be larger and more savage than anything the empire has faced. Elsewhere Felisin, sold into slavery, dreams of the sister who put her there.
Rating coming soonMenolly is the daughter of a fishing family on Pern, and she has a talent for music that her hold has no use for. When her father forbids her the training she wants, she leaves home, and the timing could not be worse: the deadly rain that falls from the sky, called Thread, has begun again.
Rating coming soonAfter a great battle the future of the Seven Kingdoms is unsettled again. Daenerys Targaryen rules a city in the east with her three dragons and has three times three thousand enemies, several of whom have gone looking for her. Tyrion Lannister is travelling towards her with a price on his head, and in the north Jon Snow has become the 998th Lord Commander of the Wall.
Rating coming soonCatherine is one of the most admired young women in Wonderland and the favourite of the unmarried King of Hearts, and neither of those is what she wants. She bakes, and her plan is to open a shop with her closest friend, though her mother has other ideas. Then she meets Jest, the court joker.
Rating coming soonSophie Foster is grieving and trying to hold her position together while the Neverseen keep winning. The only route left runs through a place called Nightfall, and Sophie and her friends make a bargain they know is dangerous in order to reach it, only to find that the trouble they are dealing with goes back much further than any of them thought.
Rating coming soonGarion grows up on a quiet farm with his Aunt Pol and does not believe in magic or in the prophecies the storytellers bring with them. He has been watched for years by a man without a shadow, and when the story begins he is taken from the farm by people he has known all his life and told almost nothing about where he is going.
Rating coming soonIn an alternate London where the British Empire runs on magic and magicians govern everybody else, a boy named Nathaniel is apprenticed to a mid-ranking magician. At ten he is humiliated in front of a gathering of his elders, and in response he summons a djinni called Bartimaeus and sends him to steal a powerful object from one of the most dangerous magicians in the city.
Rating coming soonThis collection holds twenty-two pieces: eighteen short stories, two novellas and two poems. Among them is The Mist, in which a supermarket becomes the last place available to the people trapped inside it when something from outside the world comes through, and the volume is framed by the author's own introduction and closing notes.
Rating coming soonAelin Galathynius has a claim to a throne she does not yet hold, and the people loyal to her have been bought and lost as often as they have been won. Those with magic are now at odds with those without it, and the only route left to Aelin runs through a journey she may not survive. She is not the only person in the story making decisions about what to give up.
Rating coming soonFive dragonets were raised together beneath a mountain because a prophecy says they are the ones who will end the war between three queens. When they meet Queen Scarlet the encounter goes badly, and most of them are taken to the Sky Kingdom, which is the first time any of them has seen the world they were born to save.
Rating coming soonAn eight-year-old girl lives on a farm in the English countryside next door to the Gregg family, who spend their time hunting. She is angry about it, and when her anger gets the better of her she points her magic finger at them, and something happens to the Greggs that none of them expected.
Rating coming soonSeveral months after the events of the previous book, Feyre, Rhysand and their companions are still rebuilding the Night Court and the world around it. Winter Solstice is approaching, and Feyre is preparing for her first one as High Lady, which turns out to mean a great deal more than a celebration.
Rating coming soonFox and Knox begin with a box and a pair of socks, and the rhymes get harder from there. Chicks, bricks, blocks and clocks are added to the list, Knox complains about the difficulty of the tongue-twisters, and by the end the Fox is inside a bottle with a set of battling beetles.
Rating coming soonTaran works as Assistant Pig-Keeper at Caer Dallben and would rather be doing something heroic. His charge is Hen Wen, the only oracular pig in Prydain, and when she runs off he follows her, which takes him further from home than he has ever been and into the middle of a war. The series was inspired by Welsh mythology and by the castles and language of a country the author had seen during the war.
Rating coming soonSophie has settled into her new life among the lost cities and into living at Havenfield, where she spends time with rare creatures, including the first female Alicorn, which trusts her and nobody else. Her job is to help train it so that it can be shown to the people as a sign of hope.
Rating coming soonGlory is a RainWing and knows her tribe is not what the other dragons say it is, because she is not lazy herself. When the dragonets take shelter in the rain forest they find a tribe of RainWings who sleep all day and do not know that members of their own tribe have been going missing.
Rating coming soonSophie Foster has changed the way the fight is being conducted and now has to decide when to move, who to believe and what to let go of. Her friends are scattered, the Black Swan wants her to work on their projects, and her instincts are pointing somewhere else entirely.
Rating coming soonSophie Foster has decided to fight back. Her abilities are growing stronger, the group that was supposed to help her is not answering, and she wants to find the people who took her before they try again, but a single miscalculation leaves her world on the edge of a war. The book is the third of the series and the longest of the first three.
Rating coming soonWinter has spent his life being a disappointment to his royal IceWing family. When his sister Icicle runs away from Jade Mountain Academy after committing serious crimes, he decides that they both deserve another chance, and sets out to find her before she can do anything worse. The book follows the group on a journey that has more than one end in view.
Rating coming soonAlex and Conner Bailey have not been back to the Land of Stories since their first visit, and then the Enchantress takes their mother. To get her back, the twins have to find a way into the fairy-tale world themselves, against their grandmother's instructions. The world they remember as joyful is not the one they find on the other side.
Rating coming soonBlue Sargent comes from a family of clairvoyants, and the only ability she has is that other people's talents become stronger when she is near. She has been told all her life that she will cause her true love to die, and she has a rule about staying away from the boys of the local private school.
Rating coming soonDaine is thirteen and has lost her family to raiders, and after taking her revenge she leaves home looking for somewhere to live. Her way with horses gets her a position with the Queen's Riders of Tortall, where it becomes clear that her talent for animals is more than a knack. The animals listen to her words, which she has kept to herself because she is not sure how it would be received.
Rating coming soonFireheart is certain that something is being kept from him about the death of the old ThunderClan deputy Redtail, and the more he asks about it the more he finds that some cats would rather the question were never answered. In the middle of it, his best friend falls in love with a cat he is not allowed to love.
Rating coming soonIchabod Crane is a schoolmaster in a small Hudson Valley village, and he is superstitious to a degree his neighbours find entertaining. He is also in love with the daughter of a wealthy farmer, and one night on the road home he meets a horseman with no head. The village has its legends, and he believes all of them.
Rating coming soonLondon is in the middle of an outbreak of ghosts that appear at night and attack anybody who touches them, and the only people who can see them are children. Lucy Carlyle joins a small agency run by a teenager, and the firm's next case involves a house with a staircase that screams.
Rating coming soonPeril was raised to serve Queen Scarlet, who used her lethal firescales to kill dragons in the SkyWing arena. She has since changed sides and is loyal to Clay, the only friend she has, and when Scarlet threatens the academy the dragonets attend, Peril sets out to find her old queen and stop her.
Rating coming soonSophie Foster has left the lost cities and joined the Black Swan with her closest friends, none of whom entirely trusts the organisation they are now working for. Their enemies have released a plague that threatens an entire species, and every choice they make from here costs something. Sophie has to work out whether the group she has joined is worth what she has given up for it.
Rating coming soonTigerclaw has been driven out of ThunderClan, but Fireheart cannot shake the sense that he is still out there in the forest waiting for a chance to strike. As the new deputy he has to hold the Clan together through a hot summer, with the leader still shattered and an apprentice carrying a secret.
Rating coming soonTigerstar's ambition has brought the forest to the edge of disaster, and ThunderClan is facing the worst moment in its history. Firestar, now the leader, has to work out what a prophecy from StarClan means before the Clans are destroyed by the fight that is coming. The four Clans of wild cats share the forest, and this volume brings their long argument to its crisis.
Rating coming soonChaol Westfall was captain of the Guard until the glass castle shattered, his men were killed and his body was broken. The only chance he has of recovering is with the healers of the Torre Cesme, and while he is there the war at home waits on whether he and Nesryn can persuade an empire to join it.
Rating coming soonSophie Foster is back in the lost cities, and they have changed while she was away: war is hanging over the place, the Neverseen are causing damage wherever they can, and the line between a friend and an enemy has become difficult to see. She is warned that the people closest to her will be the next to be hurt.
Rating coming soonOrlando begins as a young nobleman in Elizabethan England with money, position and a talent for poetry, and does not stop there: the book follows the same person across three centuries and a change of sex, through the households and literary circles of English history. It is written as though it were a biography, and it stays with one person rather than a family.
Rating coming soonFairyland is kept bright by seven sisters, the Rainbow Fairies, until Jack Frost sends them away and the colour starts to go out of the place. Rachel and Kirsty find Ruby the Red Fairy in the pot at the end of a rainbow and set out to help her find the other six.
Rating coming soonDarkstalker is half NightWing and half IceWing and hatches under three moons, which makes him the most powerful dragon his world has seen. He grows up between two tribes that do not trust each other, and the question the book asks is what can be done about him. It is set long before the war the other books describe.
Rating coming soonThe dragonets are on their way to the NightWings, and Starflight, who belongs to that tribe, knows the visit will not go well. His duty is to persuade the others to support Blister as queen, though he has started to suspect his own tribe is keeping something from him.
Rating coming soonApollo has been turned into a mortal teenager and is working his way through five dead oracles in the hope of getting back what he lost. His journey takes him to Camp Jupiter, where the Roman demigods are preparing for a last stand against three Roman emperors. The book is the fourth of the five volumes about his time on earth.
Rating coming soonThe war between the dragon tribes is finished, and the dragonets who ended it have a plan for keeping the peace: a school that will take dragonets from every tribe and teach them to live together. Moonwatcher is not sure how she feels about being sent there. The school is the new setting for the series and she is one of its first students.
Rating coming soonA young NightWing has produced what may be the first true prophecy in generations, and it is not encouraging: something is coming to shake the earth and scorch the ground, Jade Mountain will fall, and the lost city of night has to be found. Darkstalker's return is part of the question.
Rating coming soonTella has escaped her father and saved her sister from a marriage she did not want, but she is not free: she owes a criminal something nobody has ever managed to deliver, which is the true name of Caraval's master. To pay the debt she enters the competition again. The book is the second of the series and the competition is the same one her sister survived.
Rating coming soonKaye has grown up travelling with her mother's band and has never had a place to call home. She comes back to the New Jersey shore where she spent summers as a child, and finds that the faeries she used to play with are real, that one of them has a claim on her, and that she is not entirely human herself.
Rating coming soonAlina and Mal have crossed the sea to get away from Ravka and are trying to live quietly in a country where nobody knows her, because Alina is the Sun Summoner and half the world is looking for her. The Darkling has not finished with either of them. It is the second book of the trilogy, and it moves between the sea and the capital Alina left behind.
Rating coming soonStephanie's uncle Gordon wrote horror fiction, and when he dies and leaves her his estate she discovers that what he wrote was not invented. Pursued by people who want a key he left behind, she is helped by Skulduggery Pleasant, who is a detective, a magician and, technically, dead. The book is the first of the series and brings the two of them together.
Rating coming soonMare Barrow was the lightning girl, and the third book of the Red Queen series begins with her a prisoner, her ability suppressed and her mistakes weighing on her. She is held by Maven Calore, who was once the boy she loved and is now the king. The book alternates between her captivity and the war being prepared outside the palace.
Rating coming soonSunny has always taken the prophecy about the five dragonets seriously, and if the tribes of Pyrrhia need her to end the war she is willing to try. Then news from Morrowseer shakes her confidence in the whole idea that their destiny was ever fixed. It is the fifth book of the sequence and the last of the first arc.
Fantasy here is the whole shelf, not one flavour of it. Epic and high fantasy sit next to grimdark, historical fantasy, myth and fairy-tale retellings, portal stories, urban fantasy and cosy books where the stakes are a shop, a tea menu and a found family.
A book lands here when the fantastic is the point of the story rather than the wallpaper. Romance can be part of it, and the books tagged romantasy sit on this shelf as well as on romance, but a book does not need a love story to qualify.
Tags are cross-cutting markers, not genres. They have their own landing pages.
The love story is the plot: fantasy courts, dragon academies and modern cities all count.
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