YA Fantasy
The Cloud Hunters by Alex Shearer
Date published: 1st November 2012 Publisher: Hot Key Books Format: Paperback, 283 pages ISBN 13: 9781471400193 ISBN 10: 1471400190 Categories: YA – Fantasy Goodreads / The Book Depository / Booktopia / Bookworld Source: provided for review by the publisher Hunting the skies is not for the faint-hearted. In a world where water is scarce and deadly jellyfish swim through the sky, mollycoddled teenager Christien […]
The Darkest Minds by Alexandra Bracken
Date published: 11th December 2012 Publisher: HarperCollins Australia Format: Paperback, 488 pages Series: The Darkest Minds, Book 1 ISBN 13: 9780732294588 Categories: YA Fantasy, Dystopia Goodreads / Booktopia / Bookworld Source: provided for review by the publisher When Ruby woke up on her tenth birthday, something about her had changed. Something frightening enough to make her parents lock her in the garage and […]
Sweetly by Jackson Pearce
Date published: 23rd August 2011 Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers Format: Hardcover, 310 pages Series: Fairytale Retellings, Book 2 ISBN 13: 9780316068659 ISBN 10: 0316068659 Categories: YA Fantasy Goodreads / The Book Depository / Booktopia / Bookworld Source: borrowed from the library As a child, Gretchen’s twin sister was taken by a witch in the woods. Ever since, Gretchen and her brother, Ansel, have […]
Between the Lives by Jessica Shirvington
Date published: 1st May 2013 Publisher: HarperCollins Australia Format: Paperback, 327 pages ISBN 13: 9780732296261 ISBN 10: 0732296269 Categories: YA Fantasy Goodreads / Booktopia / Bookworld Source: provided for review by the publisher Challenge: Australian Women Writers Challenge 2013 Above all else, though I try not to think about it, I know which life I prefer. And every night when I Cinderella myself from one […]
Forsaken by Thomas E. Sniegoski
Date published: 1st December 2012 Publisher: Simon Pulse (Simon & Schuster AU) Format: Paperback, 398 pages Series: The Fallen, Book 4 ISBN 13: 9781442446991 ISBN 10: 1442446994 Categories: YA Fantasy Goodreads / Booktopia / Bookworld Source: provided for review by the publisher Half angel and half human, Aaron holds the weight of the world in his hands in the fourth book of […]
The Goddess Inheritance by Aimée Carter
Date published: March 2013 Publisher: HarlequinTeen AU Format: Paperback, 283 pages Series: The Goddess Test, Book 3 ISBN 13: 9781743562512 Categories: YA Fantasy Goodreads / Booktopia / Bookworld (ebook) Source: provided for review by the publisher During nine months of captivity, Kate Winters has survived a jealous goddess, a vengeful Titan and a pregnancy she never asked for. Now the […]
The Scorpio Races by Maggie Stiefvater
Date published: 18th October 2011 Publisher: Scholastic Format: Hardcover, 409 pages ISBN 13: 9780545224901 ISBN 10: 054522490X Categories: YA Fantasy Goodreads / The Book Depository / Booktopia Source: purchased It happens at the start of every November: the Scorpio Races. Riders attempt to keep hold of their water horses long enough to make it to the finish line. Some riders live. Others die. […]
Pantomime by Laura Lam
Date published: 5th February 2013 Publisher: Strange Chemistry (Angry Robot) Format: Paperback, 392 pages Series: Pantomime, Book 1 ISBN 13: 9781908844378 ISBN10: 190884437X Categories: YA Fantasy Goodreads / The Book Depository / Booktopia / Bookworld Source: provided for review by the publisher Challenge: 2013 Début Author Challenge R. H. Ragona’s Circus of Magic is the greatest circus of Ellada. Nestled among the glowing blue […]
Shadowhunters and Downworlders: A Mortal Instruments Reader by Cassandra Clare
Date published: 29th January 2013 Publisher: SmartPop Books Format: Paperback, 256 pages ISBN 13: 9781937856229 ISBN 10: 1937856224 Categories: YA Fantasy Goodreads / The Book Depository / Booktopia / Bookworld Source: provided for review by the publisher Cassandra Clare’s Mortal Instruments series, epic urban fantasy set in a richly imagined world of shadowhunters, vampires, werewolves, fairies, and more, has captured the imaginations […]
Level 2 by Lenore Appelhans
Date published: January 2013 Publisher: Allen & Unwin AU Format: Paperback, 281 pages Series: The Memory Chronicles, Book 1 ISBN 13: 9781743312155 Categories: YA – Dystopia, Fantasy Goodreads / Booktopia / Bookworld Source: provided for review by the publisher Challenge: 2013 Début Author Challenge Three levels. Two loves. One choice. ‘I pause to look around the hive – all the podlike […]