Choose a Fantasy Sub-Genre, and We'll Tell You What to Read Next

<section><h2><h2><p><strong>Choose a Fantasy Sub-Genre, and We'll Tell You What to Read Next</strong></p></h2></h2></section><section><h2><h2><h2><a href="https://www.thenovl.com/anarrowtothemoon" target="_blank">An Arrow to the Moon</a> by <a href="https://www.thenovl.com/emilyxrpan" target="_blank">Emily X.R. Pan</a></h2></h2></h2><p><p>Chinese mythology meets Romeo and Juliet with hints of magic and fate?? Yes, please. Sign me up.</p><p>Hunter Yee has perfect aim with a bow and arrow, but all else in his life veers from the intended path. The only things keeping him from running away are his little brother, his connection with the wind, and now this strange girl at his new school. He&rsquo;s determined to escape the noose tightening around his wretched family in punishment for their past mistakes&hellip;but time is running out.</p><p>Luna Chang feels unmoored and overwhelmed by her parents&rsquo; expectations. It&rsquo;s the last year of high school and graduation looms ahead, bringing with it the dreaded question of her future. The path forward is paved and waiting. When she begins to break the rules, she finds her life upended by a boy she can&rsquo;t stop thinking about, and the curious arrival of fireflies who are much more than they appear.</p><p>As Hunter and Luna navigate their families&rsquo; enmity and secrets, and as everything around them begins to fall apart, they must figure out who they are meant to become and what they are fated to do.</p></p></section><section><h3><h2></h2><h2><a href="https://www.thenovl.com/kingdomofthewicked" target="_blank">Kingdom of the Cursed</a> by <a href="https://www.thenovl.com/kerrimaniscalco" target="_blank">Kerri Maniscalco</a></h2></h3><p><p>I look for high fantasy when I want a total escape from the real world, and nothing says escape from the real world like a quest for revenge into the depths of Hell with a prince by your side.<br /></p><p>One sister.</p><p>Two sinful princes.</p><p>Infinite deception with a side of revenge&hellip;Welcome to Hell.<br /></p><p>After selling her soul to become Queen of the Wicked, Emilia travels to the Seven Circles with the enigmatic Prince of Wrath, where she&rsquo;s introduced to a seductive world of vice.</p><p>She vows to do whatever it takes to avenge her beloved sister, Vittoria&hellip;even if that means accepting the hand of the Prince of Pride, the king of demons.</p><p>The first rule in the court of the Wicked? Trust no one. With back-stabbing princes, luxurious palaces, mysterious party invitations, and conflicting clues about who really killed her twin, Emilia finds herself more alone than ever before. Can she even trust Wrath, her one-time ally in the mortal world&hellip;or is he keeping dangerous secrets about his true nature?</p><p>Emilia will be tested in every way as she seeks a series of magical objects that will unlock the clues of her past and the answers she craves&hellip;<br /></p></p></section><section><h3><h2><h2><a href="https://www.thenovl.com/stalkingjacktheripper" target="_blank">Stalking Jack the Ripper</a> by <a href="https://www.thenovl.com/kerrimaniscalco" target="_blank">Kerri Maniscalco</a></h2></h2></h3><p><p>This book has it all&mdash;the Victorian trappings, the strange contraptions, and the disturbing secrets to be revealed. If you&rsquo;re a steampunk fan who hasn&rsquo;t picked this one up, what are you waiting for??</p><p>Seventeen-year-old Audrey Rose Wadsworth was born a lord&rsquo;s daughter, with a life of wealth and privilege stretched out before her. But between the social teas and silk dress fittings, she leads a forbidden secret life. Against her stern father&rsquo;s wishes and society&rsquo;s expectations, Audrey often slips away to her uncle&rsquo;s laboratory to study the gruesome practice of forensic medicine.</p><p>When her work on a string of savagely killed corpses drags Audrey into the investigation of a serial murderer, her search for answers brings her close to her own sheltered world.</p></p></section><section><h3><h2><a href="https://www.thenovl.com/girlsofpaperandfire" target="_blank">Girls of Paper and Fire</a> by <a href="https://www.thenovl.com/natashangan" target="_blank">Natasha Ngan</a></h2></h3><p><p>This series is brimming with both swords AND sorcery. It&rsquo;s a must-read for epic fantasy lovers.</p><p>In this richly developed fantasy, Lei is a member of the Paper caste, the lowest and most persecuted class of people in Ikhara. She lives in a remote village with her father, where the decade-old trauma of watching her mother snatched by royal guards for an unknown fate still haunts her. Now, the guards are back and this time it&rsquo;s Lei they&rsquo;re after &mdash; the girl with the golden eyes whose rumored beauty has piqued the king&rsquo;s interest.</p><p>Over weeks of training in the opulent but oppressive palace, Lei and eight other girls learns the skills and charm that befit a king&rsquo;s consort. There, she does the unthinkable: she falls in love. Her forbidden romance becomes enmeshed with an explosive plot that threatens her world&rsquo;s entire way of life. Lei, still the wide-eyed country girl at heart, must decide how far she&rsquo;s willing to go for justice and revenge.</p></p></section><section><h3><h2><h2><a href="https://www.thenovl.com/daughterofsmokeandbone" target="_blank">Daughter of Smoke and Bone</a> by <a href="https://www.thenovl.com/lainitaylor" target="_blank">Laini Taylor</a></h2></h2></h3><p><p>If you&rsquo;ve ever dreamed of finding a doorway to another world full of magic, horror, and star-crossed love, this book was written for you. Pass through the portal if you dare&hellip;</p><p>Around the world, black handprints are appearing on doorways, scorched there by winged strangers who have crept through a slit in the sky.</p><p>In a dark and dusty shop, a devil&rsquo;s supply of human teeth grown dangerously low.</p><p>And in the tangled lanes of Prague, a young art student is about to be caught up in a brutal otherwordly war.</p><p>Meet Karou. She fills her sketchbooks with monsters that may or may not be real; she&rsquo;s prone to disappearing on mysterious &ldquo;errands&rdquo;; she speaks many languages&mdash;not all of them human; and her bright blue hair actually grows out of her head that color. Who is she? That is the question that haunts her, and she&rsquo;s about to find out.</p><p>When one of the strangers&mdash;beautiful, haunted Akiva&mdash;fixes his fire-colored eyes on her in an alley in Marrakesh, the result is blood and starlight, secrets unveiled, and a star-crossed love whose roots drink deep of a violent past. But will Karou live to regret learning the truth about herself?</p></p></section><section><h3><h2><h2><a href="https://www.thenovl.com/twilight" target="_blank">Midnight Sun</a> by <a href="https://www.thenovl.com/stepheniemeyer" target="_blank">Stephenie Meyer</a></h2></h2></h3><p><p>You might be thinking that this is the obvious choice. And you would be right. But it&rsquo;s obvious for a reason&mdash;Stephanie is still the queen of paranormal romance. This is a sign to go read (or reread) the stunning new paperback edition of <em>Midnight Sun</em>.</p><p>This unforgettable tale as told through Edward&rsquo;s eyes takes on a new and decidedly dark twist. Meeting beautiful, mysterious Bella is both the most intriguing and unnerving event he has experienced in his long life as a vampire. As we learn more fascinating details about Edward&rsquo;s past and the complexity of his inner thoughts, we understand why this is the defining struggle of his life. How can he let himself fall in love with Bella when he knows that he is endangering her life?</p></p></section><section><h3><h2><h2><a href="https://www.thenovl.com/belladonna" target="_blank">Belladonna</a> by <a href="https://www.thenovl.com/adalyngrace" target="_blank">Adalyn Grace</a></h2></h2></h3><p><p>I love a good mix of fantasy and horror, and this book is everything I could ask for. A haunted manor, mysterious murders, and a dance with Death himself. Bram Stoker could never.</p><p>Nineteen-year-old Signa Farrow, orphaned as a baby, has been raised by a string of guardians, each more interested in her wealth than her well-being&mdash;and each has met an untimely end. Her last remaining relatives are the Hawthornes, an eccentric family living at the glittering and gloomy estate of Thorn Grove. Thorn Grove&rsquo;s patriarch, Elijah, mourns his late wife, Lillian, through wild parties and drink, while eldest son Percy grapples for control of the family&rsquo;s waning reputation and daughter Blythe suffers from the same mysterious illness that killed her mother. And when Lillian&rsquo;s spirit confronts Signa and claims she was poisoned, Signa realizes that Blythe could be next to die.</p><p>Signa&rsquo;s best chance of uncovering the culprit and solving Lillian&rsquo;s murder is an alliance with Death himself&mdash;the very man she hates most. And Death, that fascinating, dangerous shadow who has never been far from her side, shows her that their connection may be more powerful than she ever dared imagine.</p></p></section><section><h3><h2><span style="font-size:1.5em;"><a href="https://www.thenovl.com/bwitch" target="_blank">B*Witch</a> by <a href="https://www.thenovl.com/paigemckenzie" target="_blank">Paige McKenzie</a> and <a href="https://www.thenovl.com/nancyohlin" target="_blank">Nancy Ohlin</a></span><br /></h2></h3><p><p>If you like your contemporary reads with an extra dose of magic and secret societies, this has to be your next read!</p><p>New girl and secret witch Iris just wants to get through her first day of school without a panic attack. The last thing she expects is to be taken in by a coven of three witches&mdash;soft-spoken Greta, thoughtful and musical Ridley, and fiery and spirited Binx. They may be the first witches Iris has met IRL, but their coven is not alone in their small northwestern town.</p><p>The Triad is the other coven at their school. When the Triad&rsquo;s not using spells to punish their exes or break up happy couples for fun, they practice dark magic. The two covens have a rivalry stretching all the way back to junior high.</p><p>When tragedy strikes and one of their own is murdered, the rival covens must band together to find out who is responsible before it&rsquo;s too late. Someone&rsquo;s anti-witch ideology has turned deadly . . . and one of them is next.<br /></p></p></section><section><h3><h2><a href="https://www.thenovl.com/elysiumgirls" target="_blank">Elysium Girls</a> by <a href="https://www.thenovl.com/katepentecost" target="_blank">Kate Pentecost</a></h2></h3><p><p>Genre blending is an art form, and Kate Pentecost creates the perfect concoction in this thrilling story featuring western and fantasy elements with just a hint of science fiction.</p><p>Elysium, Oklahoma, is a town like any other. Respectable. God-fearing. Praying for an end to the Dust Bowl.</p><p>Until the day the Dust Soldiers arrive &mdash; until the people of Elysium learn it&rsquo;s all a lie. You see, there isn&rsquo;t only one god. There are two sisters: Life and Death. And the Sisters like to gamble against each other with things like time and space and human lives.</p><p>Elysium is to become the playboard in a ruthless game between the goddesses. The Dust Soldiers will return in ten years&rsquo; time, and if the people of Elysium have not proved themselves worthy, all will be slain.</p><p>Nearly ten years later, seventeen-year-old Sal Wilkinson is called upon to lead Elysium as it prepares for the end of the game. But then an outsider named Asa arrives at Elysium&rsquo;s gates with nothing more than a sharp smile and a bag of magic tricks, the frightened townspeople flock to this side. Sal tries to prove herself the best witch to lead Elysium, only to trigger a terrible accident that gets both her and Asa exiled into the brutal Desert of Dust and Steel.</p><p>There Sal and Asa stumble upon a gang of girls headed by another exile &mdash; a young witch everyone in Elysium believes to be dead. As the apocalypse looms, seven girls and one demon will use their gifts to create a cavalry of magic-powered scrap metal horses to ride to Elysium&rsquo;s aid. But they must do more than simply tip the scales in Elysium&rsquo;s favor &mdash; only by reinventing the rules can they beat Life and Death at their own game.</p></p></section><section><h3><h2><h2><a href="https://www.thenovl.com/incendiary" target="_blank">Incendiary</a> by <a href="https://www.thenovl.com/zoraidacordova" target="_blank">Zoraida C&oacute;rdova</a></h2></h2></h3><p><p>If you&rsquo;re looking for magic and mayhem in medieval times, look no further than this captivating series. You just might forget what year it is.</p><p><em>I am Renata Convida.</em></p><p><em>I have lived a hundred stolen lives.</em></p><p><em>Now I live my own.</em></p><p>Renata was only a child when she was kidnapped by the King&rsquo;s Justice and brought to the luxurious palace of Andalucia. As a memory thief, the rarest and most feared of the magical Moria, Renata was used by the crown to carry out the King&rsquo;s Wrath, a siege that resulted in the deaths of thousands of her own people.</p><p>Now Renata is one of the Whispers, rebel spies working against the crown. The Whispers may have rescued Renata years ago, but she cannot escape their mistrust and hatred-or the overpowering memories of the hundreds of souls she drained during her time in the palace.</p><p>When Dez, the commander of her unit-and the boy she&rsquo;s grown to love-is taken captive by the notorious Principe Dorado, Renata must return to Andalucia and complete Dez&rsquo;s top secret mission herself. Can she keep her cover, even as she burns for vengeance against the brutal, enigmatic prince? Her life and the fate of the Moria depend on it.</p><p>But returning to the palace stirs childhood memories long locked away. As Renata grows more deeply embedded in the politics of the royal court, she uncovers a secret in her past that could change the fate of the entire kingdom-and end the war that has cost her everything.</p></p></section><section><h3><h2><h2><a href="https://www.thenovl.com/beyondtherubyveil" target="_blank">Beyond the Ruby Veil</a> by <a href="https://www.thenovl.com/marafitzgerald" target="_blank">Mara Fitzgerald</a></h2></h2></h3><p><p>It&rsquo;s hard to imagine a fantasy grimmer or darker than <em>Beyond the Ruby Veil</em>. Rejoice, you fans of the gritty, blood-soaked anti-hero!!</p><p>Emanuela Ragno always gets what she wants. With her daring mind and socialite schemes, she refuses to be the demure young lady everyone wants her to be. In her most ambitious move yet, she&rsquo;s about to marry Alessandro Morandi, her childhood best friend and the heir to the wealthiest house in Occhia. Emanuela doesn&rsquo;t care that she and her groom are both gay, because she doesn&rsquo;t want a love match. She wants power, and through Ale, she&rsquo;ll have it all. But Emanuela has a secret that could shatter her plans.</p><p>In the city of Occhia, the only source of water is the watercrea, a mysterious being who uses magic to make water from blood. When their first bruise-like omen appears on their skin, all Occhians must surrender themselves to the watercrea to be drained of life. Everyone throughout history has given themselves up for the greater good. Everyone except Emanuela. She&rsquo;s kept the tiny omen on her hip out of sight for years.</p><p>When the watercrea exposes Emanuela during her wedding ceremony and takes her to be sacrificed, Emanuela fights back&hellip;and kills her. Now Occhia has no one to make their water and no idea how to get more. In a race against time, Emanuela and Ale must travel through the mysterious, blood-red veil that surrounds their city to uncover the secrets of the watercrea&rsquo;s magic and find a way to save their people-no matter what it takes.</p></p></section><section><h3><h2><h2><a href="https://www.thenovl.com/briarheart" target="_blank">Briarheart</a> by <a href="https://www.thenovl.com/mercedeslackey" target="_blank">Mercedes Lackey</a></h2></h2></h3><p><p>If you love a twist on a classic, this variation on the Sleeping Beauty myth is your next read. Curl up and indulge in this feminist fairy-tale fantasy.</p><p>Miriam may be the daughter of Queen Alethia of Tirendell, but she's not a princess. She's the child of Alethia and her previous husband, the King's Champion, who died fighting for the king, and she has no ambitions to rule. When her new baby sister Aurora, heir to the throne, is born, she's ecstatic. She adores the baby, who seems perfect in every way. But on the day of Aurora's christening, an uninvited Dark Fae arrives, prepared to curse her, and Miriam discovers she possesses impossible power.</p><p>Soon, Miriam is charged with being trained in both magic and combat to act as chief protector to her sister. But shadowy threats are moving closer and closer to their kingdom, and Miriam's dark power may not be enough to save everyone she loves, let alone herself.</p></p></section><section><h2><h2><strong>Choose a Fantasy Sub-Genre</strong></h2></h2></section>