Check out our most anticipated Young Adult books hitting shelves in February 2016!
Listed in alphabetical order.
The totally whimsical adventure is revamping a classic tale into a magical romance! The thought alone has turned us into a giant puddle of mush. Who needs Jasmine, anyway? We can’t wait to see where this twist on a legend takes us!
She is the most powerful Jinni of all. He is a boy from the streets. Their love will shake the world…
When Aladdin discovers Zahra’s jinni lamp, Zahra is thrust back into a world she hasn’t seen in hundreds of years — a world where magic is forbidden and Zahra’s very existence is illegal. She must disguise herself to stay alive, using ancient shape-shifting magic, until her new master has selected his three wishes.
But when the King of the Jinn offers Zahra a chance to be free of her lamp forever, she seizes the opportunity—only to discover she is falling in love with Aladdin. When saving herself means betraying him, Zahra must decide once and for all: is winning her freedom worth losing her heart?
Out February 23rd.
We got an ARC copy of Glass Sword at YALLfest and while we won’t spoil it, we will tell you that we liked it even better than Red Queen. You’ll cheer and cry with Mare as she goes on a thrilling adventure to save the newbloods of Norta with Maven haunting her every step of the way!
Mare Barrow’s blood is red—the color of common folk—but her Silver ability, the power to control lightning, has turned her into a weapon that the royal court tries to control.
The crown calls her an impossibility, a fake, but as she makes her escape from Maven, the prince—the friend—who betrayed her, Mare uncovers something startling: she is not the only one of her kind.
Pursued by Maven, now a vindictive king, Mare sets out to find and recruit other Red-and-Silver fighters to join in the struggle against her oppressors.
But Mare finds herself on a deadly path, at risk of becoming exactly the kind of monster she is trying to defeat.
Will she shatter under the weight of the lives that are the cost of rebellion? Or have treachery and betrayal hardened her forever?
Out February 9th.
If you couldn’t tell by our latest Fandom Feels book club, we’re huge fans of the Red Rising series so far. Golden Son left us with the mother of all cliffhangers. How will things end for Darrow? We’re desperate to find out! We don’t want this book, WE NEED IT.
Born a lowly Red in the mines of Mars, Darrow lost his beloved wife to the treacherous Gold overlords. Vowing to fight for the future that his wife believed in, Darrow joins a secret revolutionary group and is remade into a Gold so that he can infiltrate the ruling class and bring them down from the inside. Now, after years of hiding amongst the Golds, Darrow is finally ready to declare open revolution and throw off the chains of oppression. Nothing in Darrow’s world has been easily won, and this final fight will be the most harrowing of all.
Out February 9th.
We loved the Under The Never Sky trilogy by Veronica Rossi, but her new title is calling to a whole different side of us. Dark, haunting, and intense, Riders definitely seems like trouble. The best kind of trouble– the kind that keeps your heart pumping and your eyes glued to the page. We’re in!
For eighteen-year-old Gideon Blake, nothing but death can keep him from achieving his goal of becoming a U.S. Army Ranger. As it turns out, it does.
Recovering from the accident that most definitely killed him, Gideon finds himself with strange new powers and a bizarre cuff he can’t remove. His death has brought to life his real destiny. He has become War, one of the legendary four horsemen of the apocalypse.
Over the coming weeks, he and the other horsemen–Conquest, Famine, and Death–are brought together by a beautiful but frustratingly secretive girl to help save humanity from an ancient evil on the emergence.
They fail.
Now–bound, bloodied, and drugged–Gideon is interrogated by the authorities about his role in a battle that has become an international incident. If he stands any chance of saving his friends and the girl he’s fallen for–not to mention all of humankind–he needs to convince the skeptical government officials the world is in imminent danger.
But will anyone believe him?
Out February 16th.
Yup, another novella collection! We can’t help ourselves! When you love a series as much as we love The Lunar Chronicles, you want every last detail! Stars Above offers up nine novellas from the world, five of which have never been published before. Plus, that cover! We’ll take them all, plzkthx!
The enchantment continues….
The universe of the Lunar Chronicles holds stories—and secrets—that are wondrous, vicious, and romantic. How did Cinder first arrive in New Beijing? How did the brooding soldier Wolf transform from young man to killer? When did Princess Winter and the palace guard Jacin realize their destinies?
With nine stories—five of which have never before been published—and an exclusive never-before-seen excerpt from Marissa Meyer’s upcoming novel, Heartless, about the Queen of Hearts from Alice in Wonderland, Stars Above is essential for fans of the bestselling and beloved Lunar Chronicles.
Out February 2nd.