*Beth’s Choice*
(Assistant Blog Manager for YABC)
Hunted (Meagan Spooner)
Author: Meagan Spooner
Book: Hardcover, 352 pages
Expected publication: March 14, 2017
Publisher: Harper Teen
Beauty knows the Beast’s forest in her bones—and in her blood. Though she grew up with the city’s highest aristocrats, far from her father’s old lodge, she knows that the forest holds secrets and that her father is the only hunter who’s ever come close to discovering them.
So when her father loses his fortune and moves Yeva and her sisters back to the outskirts of town, Yeva is secretly relieved. Out in the wilderness, there’s no pressure to make idle chatter with vapid baronessas…or to submit to marrying a wealthy gentleman. But Yeva’s father’s misfortune may have cost him his mind, and when he goes missing in the woods, Yeva sets her sights on one prey: the creature he’d been obsessively tracking just before his disappearance.
Deaf to her sisters’ protests, Yeva hunts this strange Beast back into his own territory—a cursed valley, a ruined castle, and a world of creatures that Yeva’s only heard about in fairy tales. A world that can bring her ruin or salvation. Who will survive: the Beauty, or the Beast?
Frostblood (Elly Blake)
Author: Elly Blake
Book: Hardcover, 384 pages
Expected publication: January 17, 2017
Publisher: Little Brown Books For Young Readers
Seventeen-year-old Ruby is a fireblood who must hide her powers of heat and flame from the cruel frostblood ruling class that wants to destroy all that are left of her kind. So when her mother is killed for protecting her and rebel frostbloods demand her help to kill their rampaging king, she agrees. But Ruby’s powers are unpredictable, and she’s not sure she’s willing to let the rebels and an infuriating (yet irresistible) young man called Arcus use her as their weapon. All she wants is revenge, but before they can take action, Ruby is captured and forced to take part in the king’s tournaments that pit fireblood prisoners against frostblood champions. Now she has only one chance to destroy the maniacal ruler who has taken everything from her and from the icy young man she has come to love.
Fast-paced and compelling, Frostblood is the first in a page-turning new young adult three-book series about a world where flame and ice are mortal enemies—but together create a power that could change everything.
*Kelly’s Choice*
(Staff Reviewer for YABC)
Fate of The Tearling (Erika Johansen)
Author: Erika Johansen
Book: Hardcover, 496 pages
Expected publication: November 29, 2016
Publisher: Harper Teen
The thrilling conclusion to the New York Times bestselling Tearling trilogy.
In less than a year, Kelsea Glynn has transformed from a gawky teenager into a powerful monarch. As she has come into her own as the Queen of the Tearling, the headstrong, visionary leader has also transformed her realm. In her quest to end corruption and restore justice, she has made many enemies—including the evil Red Queen, her fiercest rival, who has set her armies against the Tear.
To protect her people from a devastating invasion, Kelsea did the unthinkable—she gave herself and her magical sapphires to her enemy—and named the Mace, the trusted head of her personal guards, Regent in her place. But the Mace will not rest until he and his men rescue their sovereign, imprisoned in Mortmesne.
Now, as the suspenseful endgame begins, the fate of Queen Kelsea—and the Tearling itself—will finally be revealed.
*Melissa’s Choice*
(Indie Manager for YABC)
Fantasy of Freedom: The Tainted Accords (Kelly St Clare)
Author: Kelly St. Clare
Expected publication: October 10, 2016
The Final Installment of Olina’s story; Fantasy of Freedom, Book Four of The Tainted Accords
A part of me knew when I was taken from Osolis,
That when I returned—if I lived long enough to return—I would carry death and destruction to her doorstep.
That is the irony of peace.
It only comes after war.
What book are you looking forward to in 2016?
Comment the name of the book below!