The Bands of Mourning
Mistborn #6
Brandon Sanderson
MAY CONTAIN SPOILERS FOR PREVIOUS BOOK(S)
The
Bands of Mourning are the mythical metalminds owned by the Lord Ruler,
said to grant anyone who wears them the powers that the Lord Ruler had
at his command. Hardly anyone thinks they really exist. A kandra
researcher has returned to Elendel with images that seem to depict the
Bands, as well as writings in a language that no one can read. Waxillium
Ladrian is recruited to travel south to the city of New Seran to
investigate. Along the way he discovers hints that point to the true
goals of his uncle Edwarn and the shadowy organization known as The Set.
The Love that Split the World
Emily Henry
Natalie’s
last summer in her small Kentucky hometown is off to a magical
start…until she starts seeing the “wrong things.” They’re just momentary
glimpses at first—her front door is red instead of its usual green,
there’s a pre-school where the garden store should be. But then her
whole town disappears for hours, fading away into rolling hills and
grazing buffalo, and Nat knows something isn’t right.
That’s
when she gets a visit from the kind but mysterious apparition she calls
“Grandmother,” who tells her: “You have three months to save him.” The
next night, under the stadium lights of the high school football field,
she meets a beautiful boy named Beau, and it’s as if time just stops and
nothing exists. Nothing, except Natalie and Beau.
The Dark Days Club
Lady Helen #1
Alison Goodman
London,
April 1812. On the eve of eighteen-year-old Lady Helen Wrexhall’s
presentation to the queen, one of her family’s housemaids disappears-and
Helen is drawn into the shadows of Regency London. There, she meets
Lord Carlston, one of the few who can stop the perpetrators: a cabal of
demons infiltrating every level of society. Dare she ask for his help,
when his reputation is almost as black as his lingering eyes? And will
her intelligence and headstrong curiosity wind up leading them into a
death trap?
All The Birds in the Sky
Charlie Jane Anders
Childhood
friends Patricia Delfine and Laurence Armstead didn't expect to see
each other again, after parting ways under mysterious circumstances
during high school. After all, the development of magical powers and the
invention of a two-second time machine could hardly fail to alarm one's
peers and families.
But now they're both adults, living in the
hipster mecca San Francisco, and the planet is falling apart around
them. Laurence is an engineering genius who's working with a group that
aims to avert catastrophic breakdown through technological intervention
into the changing global climate. Patricia is a graduate of Eltisley
Maze, the hidden academy for the world's magically gifted, and works
with a small band of other magicians to secretly repair the world's
ever-growing ailments. Little do they realize that something bigger than
either of them, something begun years ago in their youth, is determined
to bring them together--to either save the world, or plunge it into a
new dark ages.
Night Study
Soulfinders #2
Maria V. Snyder
MAY CONTAIN SPOILERS FOR PREVIOUS BOOK(S)
Ever
since being kidnapped from the Illiais Jungle as a child, Yelena
Zaltana's life has been fraught with peril. But the recent loss of her
Soulfinding abilities has endangered her more than ever before. As she
desperately searches for a way to reclaim her magic, her enemies are
closing in, and neither Ixia nor Sitia is safe for her anymore.
Especially since the growing discord between the two countries and the
possibility of a war threatens everything Yelena holds dear.
Valek
is determined to protect Yelena, but he's quickly running out of
options. The Commander suspects that his loyalties are divided, and he's
been keeping secrets from Valek…secrets that put him, Yelena and all
their friends in terrible danger. As they uncover the various layers of
the Commander's mysterious plans, they realize it's far more sinister
than they could have ever imagined.
The Siren
Kiera Cass
A girl with a secret.
The boy of her dreams.
An Ocean between them.
Years
ago, Kahlen was rescued from drowning by the Ocean. To repay her debt,
she has served as a Siren ever since, using her voice to lure countless
strangers to their deaths. Though a single word from Kahlen can kill,
she can’t resist spending her days on land, watching ordinary people and
longing for the day when she will be able to speak and laugh and live
freely among them again.
Kahlen is resigned to finishing her
sentence in solitude...until she meets Akinli. Handsome, caring, and
kind, Akinli is everything Kahlen ever dreamed of.
Falling in
love with a human breaks the Ocean’s rules. But for the first time in a
lifetime of following the rules, Kahlen is determined to follow her
heart.
City of Blades
The Divine Cities #2
Robert Jackson Bennett
MAY CONTAIN SPOILERS FOR PREVIOUS BOOK(S)
The
city of Voortyashtan was once the domain of the goddess of death, war,
and destruction, but now it’s little more than a ruin. General Turyin
Mulaghesh is called out of retirement and sent to this hellish place to
try to find a Saypuri secret agent who’s gone missing in the middle of a
mission, but the city of war offers countless threats: not only have
the ghosts of her own past battles followed her here, but she soon finds
herself wondering what happened to all the souls that were trapped in
the afterlife when the Divinities vanished. Do the dead sleep soundly in
the land of death? Or do they have plans of their own?
The Year We Fell Apart
Emily Martin
Few
things come as naturally to Harper as epic mistakes. In the past year
she was kicked off the swim team, earned a reputation as Carson High’s
easiest hook-up, and officially became the black sheep of her family.
But her worst mistake was destroying her relationship with her best
friend, Declan.
Now, after two semesters of silence, Declan is
home from boarding school for the summer. Everything about him is
different—he’s taller, stronger…more handsome. Harper has changed, too,
especially in the wake of her mom’s cancer diagnosis.
While
Declan wants nothing to do with Harper, he’s still Declan, her Declan,
and the only person she wants to talk to about what’s really going on.
But he’s also the one person she’s lost the right to seek comfort from.
As
their mutual friends and shared histories draw them together again,
Harper and Declan must decide which parts of their past are still
salvageable, and which parts they’ll have to let go of once and for all.
