Choose a Florence + the Machine Song, Get a Book Rec

<section><h2><h2><h3>Choose a Florence + the Machine Song, Get a Book Rec</h3></h2></h2><p><p>In this episode of &ldquo;Savannah does what she wants and we all just have to put up with it,&rdquo; I am making an extensive list of recommendations based upon Florence + the Machine songs with book recommendations. Why? Because she released a new song and I have no chill. So choose the Florence + the Machine song that speaks to you, and I will give you the book you should read next!</p></p></section><section><h2><h2><strong><a href="https://www.thenovl.com/cruelprince" target="_blank">The Cruel Prince</a> by <a href="https://www.thenovl.com/hollyblack" target="_blank">Holly Black&nbsp;</a></strong></h2></h2><p><p><em><strong>"I am no mother, I am no bride, I am King"</strong></em></p><p>Jude was seven years old when her parents were murdered and she and her two sisters were stolen away to live in the treacherous High Court of Faerie. Ten years later, Jude wants nothing more than to belong there, despite her mortality. But many of the fey despise humans. Especially Prince Cardan, the youngest and wickedest son of the High King.</p><p>To win a place at the Court, she must defy him&mdash;and face the consequences.</p><p>In doing so, she becomes embroiled in palace intrigues and deceptions, discovering her own capacity for bloodshed. But as civil war threatens to drown the Courts of Faerie in violence, Jude will need to risk her life in a dangerous alliance to save her sisters, and Faerie itself.</p></p></section><section><h3><h2><strong><a href="https://www.thenovl.com/kingdomofthewicked" target="_blank">Kingdom of the Wicked </a>by <a href="https://www.thenovl.com/kerrimaniscalco" target="_blank">Kerri Maniscalco</a></strong></h2></h3><p><p><em><strong>&ldquo;Seven devils all around me</strong></em></p><p><em><strong>Seven devils in my house&rdquo;</strong></em></p><p>Two sisters. One brutal murder. A quest for vengeance that will unleash Hell itself&hellip; And an intoxicating romance.</p><p>Emilia and her twin sister Vittoria are&nbsp;<em>streghe</em>&nbsp;&ndash; witches who live secretly among humans, avoiding notice and persecution. One night, Vittoria misses dinner service at the family&rsquo;s renowned Sicilian restaurant. Emilia soon finds the body of her beloved twin&hellip;desecrated beyond belief. Devastated, Emilia sets out to find her sister&rsquo;s killer and to seek vengeance at any cost-even if it means using dark magic that&rsquo;s been long forbidden.</p><p>Then Emilia meets Wrath, one of the Wicked-princes of Hell she has been warned against in tales since she was a child. Wrath claims to be on Emilia&rsquo;s side, tasked by his master with solving the series of women&rsquo;s murders on the island. But when it comes to the Wicked, nothing is as it seems&hellip;</p></p></section><section><h3><h2><strong><a href="https://www.thenovl.com/theinheritancegames" target="_blank">The Inheritance Games</a>&nbsp;</strong>by <a href="https://www.thenovl.com/jenniferlynnbarnes" target="_blank">Jennifer Lynn Barnes</a></h2></h3><p><p><strong>&ldquo;<em>The dog days are over</em></strong></p><p><em><strong>The dog days are done&rdquo;</strong></em></p><p>Avery Grambs has a plan for a better future: survive high school, win a scholarship, and get out. But her fortunes change in an instant when billionaire Tobias Hawthorne dies and leaves Avery virtually his entire fortune. The catch? Avery has no idea why&ndash;or even who Tobias Hawthorne is. To receive her inheritance, Avery must move into sprawling, secret passage-filled Hawthorne House, where every room bears the old man&rsquo;s touch&ndash;and his love of puzzles, riddles, and codes. </p><p>Unfortunately for Avery, Hawthorne House is also occupied by the family that Tobias Hawthorne just dispossessed. This includes the four Hawthorne grandsons: dangerous, magnetic, brilliant boys who grew up with every expectation that one day, they would inherit billions. Heir apparent Grayson Hawthorne is convinced that Avery must be a con-woman, and he&rsquo;s determined to take her down. His brother, Jameson, views her as their grandfather&rsquo;s last hurrah: a twisted riddle, a puzzle to be solved. Caught in a world of wealth and privilege, with danger around every turn, Avery will have to play the game herself just to survive.</p></p></section><section><h3><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></h3><p><p><em><strong>&ldquo;And a falling star fell from your heart</strong></em></p><p><em><strong>And landed in my eyes&rdquo;</strong></em></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.<br /><br />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.<br /><br />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><a href="https://www.thenovl.com/twilight" target="_blank">Twilight</a> by <a href="https://www.thenovl.com/stepheniemeyer" target="_blank">Stephenie Meyer</a></h2></h3><p><p><em><strong>&ldquo;Want me to love you in moderation</strong></em></p><p><em><strong>Well don&rsquo;t you know, I wish I could&rdquo;</strong></em></p><p>About three things I was absolutely positive.</p><p>First, Edward was a vampire.<br /><br />Second, there was a part of him&mdash;and I didn't know how dominant that part might be&mdash;that thirsted for my blood.<br /><br />And third, I was unconditionally and irrevocably in love with him.</p><p>In the first book of the Twilight Saga, internationally bestselling author Stephenie Meyer introduces Bella Swan and Edward Cullen, a pair of star-crossed lovers whose forbidden relationship ripens against the backdrop of small-town suspicion and a mysterious coven of vampires. This is a love story with bite.</p></p></section><section><h3><h2><a href="https://www.thenovl.com/daughterofsparta" target="_blank">Daughter of Sparta</a> by <a href="https://www.thenovl.com/clairemandrews" target="_blank">Claire M. Andrews</a></h2></h3><p><p><em><strong>&ldquo;There&rsquo;s a drumming noise inside my head</strong></em></p><p><em><strong>That starts when you&rsquo;re around&rdquo;</strong></em></p><p>Sparta forged her into a deadly weapon. Now the Gods need her to save the world.<br /><br />Seventeen-year-old Daphne has spent her entire life honing her body and mind into that of a warrior, hoping to be accepted by the unyielding people of ancient Sparta. But an unexpected encounter with the goddess Artemis&mdash;who holds Daphne&rsquo;s brother&rsquo;s fate in her hands&mdash;upends the life she&rsquo;s worked so hard to build. Nine mysterious items have been stolen from Mount Olympus and if Daphne cannot find them, the gods&rsquo; waning powers will fade away, the mortal world will descend into chaos, and her brother&rsquo;s life will be forfeit.<br /><br />Guided by Artemis&rsquo;s twin-the handsome and entirely-too-self-assured god Apollo-Daphne&rsquo;s journey will take her from the labyrinth of the Minotaur to the riddle-spinning Sphinx of Thebes, team her up with mythological legends such as Theseus and Hippolyta of the Amazons, and pit her against the gods themselves.</p></p></section><section><h3><h2><strong><a href="https://www.thenovl.com/thesevenrealms" target="_blank">The Demon King</a> by <a href="https://www.thenovl.com/cindawilliamschima" target="_blank">Cinda Williams Chima</a></strong></h2></h3><p><p><em><strong>&ldquo;You are the moon that breaks the night for which I have to howl&rdquo;</strong></em></p><p>One day Han Alister catches three young wizard setting fire to the sacred mountain of Hanalea. Han takes an amulet away from Micah Bayar, son of the High Wizard, to ensure the boy won&rsquo;t use it against him. The amulet once belonged to the Demon King, who nearly destroyed the world a millennium ago. With a magical piece so powerful at stake, Han knows that the Bayars will stop at nothing to get it back.<br /><br />Meanwhile, Princess Raisa ana&rsquo;Marianna has her own battle to fight. She&rsquo;s just returned to court after three years of riding and hunting with her father&rsquo;s family. Raia aspires to be like Hanalea, the legendary warrior queen who killed the Demon King and saved the world. But it seems that her mother has other plans for her-plans that include a suitor who goes against everything the Queendom stands for.</p></p></section><section><h3><h2><p><a href="https://www.thenovl.com/ameliawestlake" target="_blank">Amelia Westlake Was Never Here</a> by <a href="https://www.thenovl.com/eringough" target="_blank">Erin Gough</a></p></h2></h3><p><p><em><strong>&ldquo;You hit me once</strong></em></p><p><strong><em>I hit you back</em></strong></p><p><strong><em>You gave a kick</em></strong></p><p><em><strong>I gave a slap&rdquo;</strong></em></p><p>Harriet Price is the perfect Rosemead student: wealthy, smart, over-achieving. Will Everhart, on the other hand, is a social-justice warrior with a chip on her shoulder. And the two girls can't stand one another. When a worrying incident with their swimming coach is swept under the rug, the unlikely duo reluctantly joins together to expose him, pulling provocative pranks and eventually creating an entirely made-up person to help right the many wrongs of their elite institution. But as tensions burn throughout their school&mdash;who <em>is </em>Amelia Westlake?&mdash;and between the two girls, how long can they keep their secret? And how far will they go to really make a difference?</p><p>Award-winning Australian author Erin Gough's <em>Amelia Westlake Was Never Here</em>&nbsp;is the timely story of two girls fighting back against power and privilege&mdash;and possibly falling in love while they're at it.</p></p></section><section><h3><h2><span style="text-decoration:underline;"><a href="https://www.thenovl.com/aseasonofsinisterdreams" target="_blank"></a></span><a href="https://www.thenovl.com/aseasonofsinisterdreams" target="_blank">A Season of Sinister Dreams</a> by <a href="https://www.thenovl.com/tracybanghart" target="_blank">Tracy Banghart</a></h2></h3><p><p><em><strong>&ldquo;Blood is running deep</strong></em></p><p><em><strong>Some things never sleep&rdquo;</strong></em></p><p>Annalise may be cousin to the prince, but her past isn't what she claims, and she possesses a magic so powerful it takes all her strength to control it. Evra is a country girl, and has watched as each friend and family member came into their own magic, while hers remains dormant. But everything changes after Annalise loses control of herself and Evra begins experiencing the debilitating visions of a once-in-a-generation clairvoyant meant to serve the crown.</p><p>Thrown together at court, Evra and Annalise find that they have the same goal: to protect their kingdom from the powerful men who are slowly destroying it. But neither is quick to trust the other -- Evra's visions suggest a threat to royal rule, and Annalise worries that her darkest secrets will be revealed. Their magic at odds, the young women circle each other, until the truth must come out.</p></p></section><section><h3><h2><a href="https://www.thenovl.com/everylastword" target="_blank">Every Last Word</a> by <a href="https://www.thenovl.com/tamarairelandstone" target="_blank">Tamara Ireland Stone</a></h2></h3><p><p><em><strong>&ldquo;St Jude, the patron saint of the lost causes</strong></em></p><p><em><strong>St Jude, we were lost before she started&rdquo;</strong></em></p><p>Samantha McAllister looks just like the rest of the popular girls in her junior class. But hidden beneath the straightened hair and expertly applied makeup is a secret that her friends would never understand: Sam has Purely-Obsessional OCD and is consumed by a stream of dark thoughts and worries that she can&rsquo;t turn off.&nbsp;<br /><br />Second-guessing every move, thought, and word makes daily life a struggle, and it doesn&rsquo;t help that her lifelong friends will turn toxic at the first sign of a wrong outfit, wrong lunch, or wrong crush. Yet Sam knows she&rsquo;d be truly crazy to leave the protection of the most popular girls in school. So when Sam meets Caroline, she has to keep her new friend with a refreshing sense of humor and no style a secret, right up there with Sam&rsquo;s weekly visits to her psychiatrist.<br /><br />Caroline introduces Sam to Poet&rsquo;s Corner, a hidden room and a tight-knit group of misfits who have been ignored by the school at large. Sam is drawn to them immediately, especially a guitar-playing guy with a talent for verse, and starts to discover a whole new side of herself. Slowly, she begins to feel more &ldquo;normal&rdquo; than she ever has as part of the popular crowd . . . until she finds a new reason to question her sanity and all she holds dear.</p></p></section><section><h3><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></h3><p><p><em><strong>&ldquo;I took a knife and cut out her eye</strong></em></p><p><em><strong>I took it home and watched it wither and die&rdquo;</strong></em></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><a href="https://www.thenovl.com/thedrowningsummer" target="_blank">The Drowning Summer </a>by <a href="https://www.thenovl.com/christinelynnherman" target="_blank">Christine Lynn Herman</a></h2></h3><p><p><em><strong>&ldquo;Let the only sound</strong></em></p><p><em><strong>Be the overflow&rdquo;</strong></em></p><p>Six years ago, three Long Island teenagers were murdered&mdash;their drowned bodies discovered with sand dollars placed over their eyes. The mystery of the drowning summer was never solved, but as far as the town&rsquo;s concerned, Evelyn Mackenzie&rsquo;s father did it. His charges were dropped only because Evelyn summoned a ghost to clear his name. She swore never to call a spirit again. She lied.<br /><br />For generations, the family of Mina Zanetti, a former friend of Evelyn, has worked as mediums, using the ocean&rsquo;s power to guide the dead to their final resting place. But as sea levels rise, the ghosts grow more dangerous and Mina has been shut out of the family business. When Evelyn performs another summoning that goes horribly wrong, the two girls must navigate their growing attraction to each other while solving the mystery of who was really behind the drowning summer&hellip;before the line between life and death dissolves for good.<br /><br />Beautifully written and just the right amount witchy, <em>The Drowning Summer</em> is a deliciously eerie story perfect for reading under a full moon.</p></p></section><section><h3><h2><a href="https://www.thenovl.com/thecoldestgirlincoldtown" target="_blank">The Coldest Girl in Coldtown </a>by <a href="https://www.thenovl.com/hollyblack" target="_blank">Holly Black</a></h2></h3><p><p><em><strong>&ldquo;And at least I understood then, the hunger I felt</strong></em></p><p><em><strong>And I didn&rsquo;t have to call it loneliness&rdquo;</strong></em></p><p>Tana lives in a world where walled cities called Coldtowns exist. In them, quarantined monsters and humans mingle in a decadently bloody mix of predator and prey. The only problem is, once you pass through Coldtown&rsquo;s gates, you can never leave.</p><p>One morning, after a perfectly ordinary party, Tana wakes up surrounded by corpses. The only other survivors of this massacre are her exasperatingly endearing ex-boyfriend, infected and on the edge, and a mysterious boy burdened with a terrible secret. Shaken and determined, Tana enters a race against the clock to save the three of them the only way she knows how: by going straight to the wicked, opulent heart of Coldtown itself.</p><p><em>The Coldest Girl in Coldtown </em>is a wholly original story of rage and revenge, of guilt and horror, and of love and loathing from bestselling and acclaimed author Holly Black.</p></p></section><section><h3><h2><a href="https://www.thenovl.com/thedivinersseries" target="_blank">The Diviners</a> by <a href="https://www.thenovl.com/libbabray" target="_blank">Libba Bray</a></h2></h3><p><p><em><strong>&ldquo;On a chemical it burns, there is nothing but this</strong></em></p><p><em><strong>It&rsquo;s the purest element, but it&rsquo;s so volatile&rdquo;</strong></em></p><p>Evangeline O&rsquo;Neill has been exiled from her boring old hometown and shipped off to the bustling streets of New York City&mdash;and she is ecstatic. It&rsquo;s 1926, and New York is filled with speakeasies, Ziegfeld girls, and rakish pickpockets. The only catch is that she has to live with her uncle Will and his unhealthy obsession with the occult. Evie worries he&rsquo;ll discover her darkest secret: a supernatural power that has only brought her trouble so far.<br /><br />When the police find a murdered girl branded with a cryptic symbol and Will is called to the scene, Evie realizes her gift could help catch a serial killer. As Evie jumps headlong into a dance with a murderer, other stories unfurl in the city that never sleeps. And unknown to all, something dark and evil has awakened&hellip;</p></p></section><section><h3><h2><a href="https://www.thenovl.com/youmustnotmiss" target="_blank">You Must Not Miss</a> by <a href="https://www.thenovl.com/katrinaleno" target="_blank">Katrina Leno</a></h2></h3><p><p><em><strong>&ldquo;You need a big god</strong></em></p><p><em><strong>Big enough to fill you up&rdquo;</strong></em></p><p>Magpie Lewis started writing in her yellow notebook the day she walked in on her father having sex with her aunt on her parents' bed. That was the night her mom started down a spiral of self-destruction. That was the night Eryn, Magpie's sister, skipped town and left her to fend for herself. That was the night of Brandon Phipp's party.&nbsp;</p><p>Now, Magpie is called a slut whenever she walks down the hallways of her high school, her former best friend won't speak to her, and she spends her lunch period with a group of misfits who've all been socially exiled like she has. And so, feeling trapped and forgotten, Magpie retreats to her notebook, dreaming up a place called Near.</p><p>Near is perfect&mdash;somewhere where her father never cheated, her mother never drank, and Magpie's own life never derailed so suddenly. She writes Near so completely, so fully, that she dreams it into existence, right in her own backyard. It's a place where she can have anything she wants...even revenge.</p><p>Acclaimed author Katrina Leno spins a twisted and suspenseful tale of friendship, revenge, and the monsters that live inside us all.</p></p></section><section><h3><h2><a href="https://www.thenovl.com/werulethenight" target="_blank">We Rule the Night</a> by <a href="https://www.thenovl.com/claireelizabartlett" target="_blank">Claire Eliza Bartlett</a></h2></h3><p><p><em><strong>&ldquo;Good God, under starless skies</strong></em></p><p><em><strong>We are lost, and into the breach, we got tossed&rdquo;</strong></em></p><p>Seventeen-year-old Revna is a factory worker, manufacturing war machines for the Union of the North. When she's caught using illegal magic, she fears being branded a traitor and imprisoned. Meanwhile, on the front lines, Linn&eacute; defied her father, a Union general, and disguised herself as a boy to join the army. They're both offered a reprieve from punishment if they use their magic in a special women's military flight unit and undertake terrifying, deadly missions under cover of darkness. Revna and Linn&eacute; can hardly stand to be in the same cockpit, but if they can't fly together, and if they can't find a way to fly <em>well</em>, the enemy's superior firepower will destroy them&mdash;if they don't destroy each other first.<br /><br /><em>We Rule the Night</em>&nbsp;is a powerful alternate-history fantasy about sacrifice, complicated friendships, and survival despite impossible odds.</p></p></section><section><h3><h2><a href="https://www.thenovl.com/thebonehouses" target="_blank">The Bone Houses</a> by <a href="https://www.thenovl.com/emilylloydjones" target="_blank">Emily Lloyd-Jones</a></h2></h3><p><p><em><strong>&ldquo;This is gift, it comes with a price</strong></em></p><p><em><strong>Who is the lamb and who is the knife?&rdquo;</strong></em></p><p>Seventeen-year-old Aderyn ("Ryn") only cares about two things: her family, and her family's graveyard. And right now, both are in dire straits. Since the death of their parents, Ryn and her siblings have been scraping together a meager existence as gravediggers in the remote village of Colbren, which sits at the foot of a harsh and deadly mountain range that was once home to fae creatures known as the Otherfolk. The problem with being a gravedigger in Colbren, though, is that the dead don't always&nbsp;<em>stay</em>&nbsp;dead.</p><p>The risen corpses are known as "bone houses," and legend says that they're the result of a recent curse. Ryn has always been quick to deal with this inconvenience whenever they wander too close to her graveyard, but when Ellis, an apprentice mapmaker, arrives in town, the bone houses attack with renewed purpose. What is it about Ellis that draws them near? And more importantly, how can they stop them for good?</p><p>Together, Ellis and Ryn embark on a journey that will bring them deep into the heart of the mountains, where they will have to face both the curse and long-hidden truths about themselves. Equal parts classic horror novel and original fairy-tale,&nbsp;<em>The Bone Houses&nbsp;</em>will have you spellbound from the very first page.</p></p></section><section><h3><h2><p><a href="https://www.thenovl.com/thatdarkinfinity" target="_blank">That Dark Infinity </a>by <a href="https://www.thenovl.com/katepentecost" target="_blank">Kate Pentecost</a></p></h2></h3><p><p><em><strong>&ldquo;Between two lungs it was released</strong></em></p><p><em><strong>The breath that passed from you to me&rdquo;</strong></em></p><p>By night, the Ankou is a legendary, permanently young mercenary&mdash;the most fearsome sword for hire in all of the Five Lands, and its most abiding mystery. But when the sun rises, a dark magic leaves him no more than bones. Cursed with this cycle of death and resurrection, the Ankou wants only to find the final rest that has been prophesied for him, no matter the cost.<br /><br />When the kingdom of Kaer-Ise is sacked, Flora, handmaiden to the royal family, is assaulted and left for dead. Wounded, heartbroken, and the sole survivor of the massacre, Flora wants desperately to be reunited with the princess she served and loved. She and the Ankou make a deal: He will help Flora find her princess, and train Flora in combat, in exchange for her aid in breaking his curse. But it isn&rsquo;t easy to kill an immortal, especially when their bond begins to deepen into something more&hellip;.<br /><br />Together, they will solve mysteries, battle monsters, and race against time in this fantasy novel about sacrifice, love, and healing by <em>Elysium Girls </em>author Kate Pentecost. </p></p></section><section><h3><h2><a href="https://www.thenovl.com/astonishingcolorofafter" target="_blank">The Astonishing Color of After</a> by<a href="https://www.thenovl.com/emilyxrpan" target="_blank"> Emily X.R. Pan</a></h2></h3><p><p><em><strong>&ldquo;And now I&rsquo;m reaching out with every note I sing</strong></em></p><p><strong><em>And I hope it gets to you on some pacific wind</em></strong></p><p><strong><em>Wraps itself around you and whispers in your ear</em></strong></p><p><em><strong>Tells you that I miss you and I wish that you were here&rdquo;</strong></em></p><p>Leigh Chen Sanders is absolutely certain about one thing: When her mother died by suicide, she turned into a bird.</p><p>Leigh, who is half Asian and half white, travels to Taiwan to meet her maternal grandparents for the first time. There, she is determined to find her mother, the bird. In her search, she winds up chasing after ghosts, uncovering family secrets, and forging a new relationship with her grandparents. And as she grieves, she must try to reconcile the fact that on the same day she kissed her best friend and longtime secret crush, Axel, her mother was taking her own life.</p><p>Alternating between real and magic, past and present, friendship and romance, hope and despair,&nbsp;<em>The Astonishing Color of After</em>&nbsp;is a stunning and heartbreaking novel about finding oneself through family history, art, grief, and love.</p></p></section><section><h3><h2><a href="https://www.thenovl.com/whenthestarsleadtoyou" target="_blank">When the Stars Lead to You</a> by <a href="https://www.thenovl.com/ronnidavis" target="_blank">Ronni Davis</a></h2></h3><p><p><em><strong>&ldquo;A year like this passes so strangely</strong></em></p><p><em><strong>Somewhere between sorrow and bliss&rdquo;</strong></em></p><p>Eighteen-year-old Devon longs for two things.</p><p>The stars.</p><p>And the boy she fell in love with last summer.</p><p>When Ashton breaks Devon's heart at the end of the most romantic and magical summer ever, she thinks her heart will never heal again. But over the course of following year, Devon finds herself slowly putting the broken pieces back together.</p><p>Now it's senior year, and she's determined to enjoy every moment of it, as she prepares for a future studying galaxies. That is, until Ashton shows up on the first day of school.</p><p>Can she forgive and open her heart to him again? Or are they doomed to repeat history?</p></p></section><section><h3><h2><a href="https://www.thenovl.com/itendsinfire" target="_blank">It Ends in Fire</a> by <a href="https://www.thenovl.com/andrewshvarts" target="_blank">Andrew Shvarts</a></h2></h3><p><p><em><strong>&ldquo;Hold on to your heart</strong></em></p><p><em><strong>Because I&rsquo;m coming to break you&rdquo;</strong></em></p><p>ALKA CHELRAZI IS ON A MISSION:<br />1. Infiltrate Blackwater Academy<br />2. Win the Great Game<br />3. Burn Wizard society to the ground<br /><br />As a child, Alka witnessed her parents' brutal murder at the hands of Wizards before she was taken in by an underground rebel group.<br /><br />Now, Alka is deep undercover at the most prestigious school of magic in the Republic: Blackwater Academy, a place where status is everything, where decadent galas end in blood-splattered duels, where every student has their own agenda. To survive, Alka will have to lie, cheat, kill, and use every trick in her spy's toolkit. And for the first time in her life, the fiercely independent Alka will have to make friends in order to recruit the misfits and the outcasts into her motley rebellion.<br /><br />But even as she draws closer to victory &mdash; to vengeance &mdash; she sinks deeper into danger as suspicious professors and murderous rivals seek the traitor in their midst, and dark revelations unravel her resolve. Can Alka destroy the twisted game...without becoming a part of it?</p></p></section><section><h3><h2><a href="https://www.thenovl.com/themapoftinyperfectthings" target="_blank">The Map of Tiny Perfect Things </a>by <a href="https://www.thenovl.com/levgrossman" target="_blank">Lev Grossman</a></h2></h3><p><p><em><strong>&ldquo;So much time on the other side</strong></em></p><p><strong><em>Waiting for you to wake up</em></strong></p><p><strong><em>Maybe I&rsquo;ll see you in another life</em></strong></p><p><em><strong>If this one wasn&rsquo;t enough&rdquo;</strong></em></p><p>Mark is 17-years-old and trapped in a time loop, and that&rsquo;s just fine with him. It&rsquo;s summertime and he&rsquo;s spending this one infinitely repeating day reading his way through the town library. Then he discovers someone else in the loop with him: the brilliant, haunted Margaret. Together Mark and Margaret set out to find every wonderful, amazing, perfect thing that happens in that one day&mdash;a journey that will take them to the dark secret that waits at the very heart of their endless day.</p></p></section><section><h3><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><em><strong>&ldquo;Sweating out confessions</strong></em></p><p><strong><em>The undone and the divine</em></strong></p><p><strong><em>&lsquo;Cause this is his body, this is his love</em></strong></p><p><em><strong>Such selfish prayers and I can&rsquo;t get enough&rdquo;</strong></em></p><p>One sister. Two sinful princes. Infinite deception with a side of revenge&hellip;Welcome to Hell.</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&nbsp;<em>really</em>&nbsp;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;</p></p></section><section><h3><h2><a href="https://www.thenovl.com/witchesofashandruin" target="_blank">Witches of Ash and Ruin</a> by <a href="https://www.thenovl.com/elatimer" target="_blank">E. Latimer</a></h2></h3><p><p><em><strong>&ldquo;And it&rsquo;s my whole heart</strong></em></p><p><em><strong>Burned but not buried this time&rdquo;</strong></em></p><p>Seventeen-year-old Dayna Walsh is struggling to cope with her somatic OCD; the aftermath of being outed as bisexual in her conservative Irish town; and the return of her long-absent mother, who barely seems like a parent. But all that really matters to her is ascending and finally,&nbsp;<em>finally</em>&nbsp;becoming a full witch-plans that are complicated when another coven, rumored to have a sordid history with black magic, arrives in town with premonitions of death. Dayna immediately finds herself at odds with the bewitchingly frustrating Meiner King, the granddaughter of their coven leader.</p><p>And then a witch turns up murdered at a local sacred site, along with the blood symbol of the Butcher of Manchester-an infamous serial killer whose trail has long gone cold. The killer&rsquo;s motives are enmeshed in a complex web of witches and gods, and Dayna and Meiner soon find themselves at the center of it all. If they don&rsquo;t stop the Butcher, one of them will be next.</p></p></section><section><h3><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></h3><p><p><em><strong>&ldquo;And with one kiss</strong></em></p><p><strong><em>You inspired a fire of devotion that lasts for twenty years</em></strong></p><p><em><strong>What kind of man loves like this?&rdquo;</strong></em></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.<br /><br />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><p><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></p></h2></h3><p><p><em><strong>&ldquo;And I&rsquo;m ready to suffer and I&rsquo;m ready to hope</strong></em></p><p><em><strong>It&rsquo;s a shot in the dark and right at my throat&rdquo;</strong></em></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.<br /><br />In a dark and dusty shop, a devil&rsquo;s supply of human teeth grown dangerously low.<br /><br />And in the tangled lanes of Prague, a young art student is about to be caught up in a brutal otherwordly war.<br /><br />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.<br /><br />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><h2><h2><strong>Choose a Florence + the Machine song!</strong></h2></h2></section>
quizSavannah KennellyMarch 3, 2022folk of the air, the cruel prince, holly black, kingdom of the wicked, kerri maniscalco, jennifer lynn barnes, the inheritance games, an arrow to the moon, emily x.r. pan, twilight, stephenie meyer, daughter of sparta, claire m. andrews, the seven realms, cinda williams chima, amelia westlake, erin gough, a season of sinister dreams, tracy banghart, every last word, tamara ireland stone, beyond the ruby veil, mara fitzgerald, the drowning summer, christine lynn herman, the coldest girl in coldtown, the diviners, libba bray, you must not miss, katrina leno, we rule the night, claire eliza bartlett, the bone houses, emily lloyd-jones, that dark infinity, kate pentecost, the astonishing color of after, when the stars lead to you, ronni davis, it ends in fire, andrew shvarts, the map of tiny perfect things, lev grossman, witches of ash and ruin, e latimer, belladonna, adalyn grace, daughter of smoke & bone, laini taylorComment