Youth fantasy novel: 5 recommended books to give as gifts on Epiphany 2024

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fancy It is a refuge of literary genre Dive into magical new worlds and experience other stories in the appearance of characters with mythological and/or unreal powers. We suggest a list 5+1 youth fantasy novel living with characters with powers, gods, dragons, vampires and witches; It mixes these with love intrigues, lovers’ enemies, suspense and many plot twists.

From ‘I am missingWe go to cold Alaska to live with vampires and dragons, every day we discover a new secret they want to hide; ‘up toCourt of Roses and Thorns‘, where we will see what the ‘fae’ kingdom of fairies with countless powers is like and experience how a simple human can be the key to the salvation of the fantasy world.

‘Blood Wings’

Rebecca Yarros. Planet

We start the list in style with ‘Alas de Sangre’, which was a success in bookstores and went viral on social networks; A fantasy novel combining ‘enemies with lovers’ with a dragon story.

The novel tells the following The life of Violet SorrengailBelieving that he would join the Scribes’ Quadrant (to which his late father also belonged) to live a quiet life, but eventually having to fight to become part of Navarre’s elite in the Dragonriders’ Quadrant due to his mother’s obligation. , with the problem There are more riders than dragons.

Violet becomes an easy target: Many people believe that he is weak and cannot pass the tests. In addition, many people would kill her to increase their chances of obtaining a dragon, but also others, such as Xaden Riorson, would kill her because she was the commanding general’s daughter.

Blood wings. EPC

Rebeca Yarros has already published the first two books, which she hopes will be part of a five-book saga. Second part in Spanish, ‘Iron Wings’ will be released on February 21, 2024, and can now be reserved in pre-sale at many stores.

‘The Court of Thorns and Roses’

Sarah J. Maas. Planet/Cross Books

We continue the list with another important work of youth fantasy literature. Sarah J. Maas delights us with the ACOTAR saga (for English abbreviation) Feyre, a young woman from the human world, will make a mistake when she encounters a huge monster in the forbidden forest and will be dragged to the ‘fae’ world as punishment.

Even so, the hero will eventually discover it. Maybe I was predestined for this Away from his family, he will go through a difficult process to save everything he loves and the two worlds he knows.

A palace of roses and thorns. EPC

saga has 5 books, ‘A Palace of Roses and Thorns’, ‘A Palace of Mist and Fury’, ‘A Palace of Wings and Ruins’, ‘A Palace of Ice and Stars’ and ‘A Palace of Silver Flames’; and it’s perfect to start reading the author because his other two epics (‘Crescent City’ and ‘Throne of Glass’) have characters and connections between them.

‘caraval’

Stephanie Garber. Planet

Caraval one A game full of mystery, magic and adventure. Scarlett Dragna has never left the small island where she lives with her sister Tella, under the watchful eye of her strict and cruel father. Scarlett dreams of attending the week-long annual Caraval celebration, where she can win the Grand Prize. to get it This also means gaining his freedom and being able to escape from his father..

While Scarlett receives an invitation to the games two weeks before the celebration, she will also seize the opportunity to escape the mandatory wedding with a man she has never seen in her life.

Caraval. EPC

But nothing will go as expected. Caraval Master Legend kidnaps his sister Tella and is forced to enter a game where nothing is as it seems. Between dangerous love games, dreams, half-truths and magic, he will have only five nights to unravel all the clues that will lead him to his sister.

‘Weak’

Lauren Roberts. alfaguara

‘Powerless’ is one of the ‘young adult’ fantasy novel discoveries of 2023 and has been nominated for a Goodreads Choice award for best Fantasy and Science Fiction for teens.

The novel takes us to a separated world Between two types of societies: the society born ordinary and the elite society with extraordinary powers and abilities.

The king made this decision all commoners were exiled to protect their elite society. However, the lack of talent or power became a crime, directly condemning the hero Paedyn Gray, who would have to survive in the city by mingling with the elite by pretending to be a medium.

But Paeydn He will unknowingly save one of Elijah’s princesand this will lead him to embark on the Purge Trials, a brutal competition to demonstrate the Elites’ powers, a trait Paedyn sorely lacks.

Weak. EPC

But if the Trials and the rivals don’t kill him… Yes the prince you fight for will do this if he discovers it for what it is: completely ordinary.

‘I miss’

Tracy Wolff. Planet

Grace He just lost his parents and is forced to move to Alaska to live at the Katmere boarding school run by his uncle. There, he will get along very well with his cousin Macy, who is overprotective of him, so he will not realize that he is actually in an institute full of supernatural creatures such as vampires, witches and dragons.

However This will be a complex task for him.Because she will eventually become attracted to Jaxon Vega, a powerful vampire who will be revealed to be the son of the kings of the Vampire Court. But this one seems to have no interest in getting together with a simple person?

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‘Anhelo’ is part of the CRAVE saga, which consists of five more books: ‘Furia’, ‘Ansia’, ‘Fulgor’, ‘Hechizo’ and ‘Extasis’ (published May 2023)

‘Divine rivals’

Rebecca Ross. disk

We wrap up the list of teen fantasy recommendations with: Another of the discoveries of 2023Published in April 2023, ‘Divine Rivals’ is the ‘enemies of lovers’ winner of this year’s Goodreads Choice award for best ‘young adult’ and science fiction fantasy novel. ‘Divine Rivals’ tells the story of two young rival journalists who find a magical connection in the middle of a war between gods.

Iris Winnow wants to stay close to her family, but His mother is an addict and his brother fights on the side of the gods.. His best option is to be promoted to columnist at Yemin Newspaper, go to the front and be reunited with his brother.

Divine rivals. EPC

To cope with her anxieties, Iris writes letters to her brother, but these fall into the hands of Roman Kitt, her direct rival at the newspaper, who responds anonymously and they end up making an unlikely connection.

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