Брендон Сандерсон4.6 Ценой немалых усилий Далинар Холин создает коалицию монархов, способную противостоять в войне за Рошар жестокости и коварству Приносящих пустоту. Но победа остается лишь зыбкой мечтой, ведь врагам помогает могущественное божество, а среди друзей скрываются предатели. Адолин и Шаллан отправляются в мир спренов, чтобы заручиться помощью союзников, рискуя в случае неуспеха обречь все человечество на гибель. Они еще не знают, что главное сражение вскоре развернется в городе-башне Уритиру и его исход будет зависеть не от военной мощи противоборствующих сторон, а от их стойкости, решимости и проницательности.
Виктория Шваб4.1 Франция, 1714 год. Чтобы избежать брака без любви, юная Аделин заключает сделку с тёмным богом. Тот дарует ей свободу и бессмертие, но подарок его с подвохом: отныне девушка проклята быть всеми забытой. Собственные родители не узнают её. Любой, с кем она познакомится, не вспомнит о ней, стоит Адди пропасть из вида на пару минут.
Триста лет спустя, в наши дни, Адди всё ещё жива. Она видела, как сменяются эпохи. Её образ вдохновлял музыкантов и художников, пускай позже те и не могли ответить, что за таинственная незнакомка послужила им музой. Аделин смирилась: таков единственный способ оставить в мире хоть какую-то память о ней. Но однажды в книжном магазине она встречает юношу, который произносит три заветных слова: «Я тебя помню»...
Сюзанна Кларк4.2 Для человека, которого мы знаем как Пиранези, Дом с большой буквы — это целый Мир. «С начала Мира в нем точно существовали пятнадцать человек», и Пиранези — пятнадцатый. Он исследует бесконечные Залы, украшенные величественными Статуями, и составляет расписание Приливов, захлестывающих нижние этажи. На верхние этажи заплывают Облака и залетают птицы, а по вторникам и четвергам Пиранези встречает Другого. «Красота Дома несказанна, — пишет Пиранези в своем дневнике. — Доброта его беспредельна». Но однажды он обнаруживает следы человека номер шестнадцать…
T. Kingfisher4.0 Fourteen-year-old Mona isn’t like the wizards charged with defending the city. She can’t control lightning or speak to water. Her familiar is a sourdough starter and her magic only works on bread. She has a comfortable life in her aunt’s bakery making gingerbread men dance.
But Mona’s life is turned upside down when she finds a dead body on the bakery floor. An assassin is stalking the streets of Mona’s city, preying on magic folk, and it appears that Mona is his next target. And in an embattled city suddenly bereft of wizards, the assassin may be the least of Mona’s worries…
Lou Diamond Phillips0.0 Two worlds at war will bring them together... or tear them apart...
Everson didn't want to be a soldier. His parents forced him to serve, as all good Indiran men should. The only problem? His first battle against their mortal enemies goes horribly wrong and he winds up stranded on the enemy planet.
Now, Everson has to survive in this strange new land where everyone is out to get him. Not to mention, the planet Mano is covered in unforgiving desert. And he's the target of traitors who want to use him in a dastardly plot to overthrow their mad king, Xander the Firm, by having him retrieve a piece of mysterious and powerful ancient technology known as the Tinderbox.
But everything changes during a chance encounter with the king's daughter, Allegra. Despite her station, she's in as grave of danger from her own people as Everson is. And though their peoples have been at odds for centuries, an unlikely spark forms between them.
As their worlds come crashing down around them, their forbidden love might be the only chance to end this war forever. Or, it might just be the doom of everyone...
Дарси Литтл Бэджер3.7 Imagine an America very similar to our own. It’s got homework, best friends, and pistachio ice cream.
There are some differences. This America been shaped dramatically by the magic, monsters, knowledge, and legends of its peoples, those Indigenous and those not. Some of these forces are charmingly everyday, like the ability to make an orb of light appear or travel across the world through rings of fungi. But other forces are less charming and should never see the light of day.
Elatsoe lives in this slightly stranger America. She can raise the ghosts of dead animals, a skill passed down through generations of her Lipan Apache family. Her beloved cousin has just been murdered, in a town that wants no prying eyes. But she is going to do more than pry. The picture-perfect facade of Willowbee masks gruesome secrets, and she will rely on her wits, skills, and friends to tear off the mask and protect her family.
Наоми Новик3.9 Не все волшебные школы одинаковы. Эта захочет тебя убить.
Галадриэль знает закон: только сильнейшие маги смогут выбраться из стен Шоломанчи. Здесь нет ни учителей, ни каникул, ни друзей. Зато в тёмных коридорах всегда полно злыдней – опасных существ, готовых наброситься на тебя в любой момент. Пережить выпускной – вот главная цель каждого, кто однажды попал сюда. Но, кажется, на этот раз школа приготовила испытание, которое невозможно пройти. С чем это связано? Кто в этом виноват? И как спасти себя и всех остальных?
Jeffrey VanderMeer4.5 The first book in a new YA fantasy duology from a bestselling genre-expanding master, about a teenager who embarks on a quest to protect the world from an alternate universe where magic abounds and history has been rewritten.
After Jonathan Lambshead’s elusive grandfather dies, the recently orphaned teenager inherits the family mansion—and its contents. Jonathan soon discovers that the mansion’s basement holds more than just oddities: three doors serve as portals, with one leading to an alt-Earth called Aurora, where magic abounds, history has been re-written, and an occult dictator called Aleister Crowley leads an army pillaging alt-Europe. Jonathan learns of his destiny as a member of The Order, a secret society devoted to keeping our world separate from Aurora, and embarks on an epic quest to protect Earth from Crowley’s dark magic.
Over the course of the duology, Jonathan uncovers more of the worlds outside of our own, the magic that permeates them, his own destiny, and the secrets buried in his family history.
Hannah Abigail Clarke0.0 An outcast teenage lesbian witch finds her coven hidden amongst the popular girls in her school, and performs some seriously badass magic in the process.
Skulking near the bottom of West High’s social pyramid, Sideways Pike lurks under the bleachers doing magic tricks for Coke bottles. As a witch, lesbian, and lifelong outsider, she’s had a hard time making friends. But when the three most popular girls pay her $40 to cast a spell at their Halloween party, Sideways gets swept into a new clique. The unholy trinity are dangerous angels, sugar-coated rattlesnakes, and now–unbelievably–Sideways’ best friends.
Together, the four bond to form a ferocious and powerful coven. They plan parties, cast curses on dudebros, try to find Sideways a girlfriend, and elude the fundamentalist witch hunters hellbent on stealing their magic. But for Sideways, the hardest part is the whole ‘having friends’ thing. Who knew that balancing human interaction with supernatural peril could be so complicated?
Rich with the urgency of feral youth, The Scapegracers explores growing up and complex female friendship with all the rage of a teenage girl. It subverts the trope of competitive mean girls and instead portrays a mercilessly supportive clique of diverse and vivid characters. It is an atmospheric, voice-driven novel of the occult, and the first of a three-book series.
Once, Jackson Rook was a war hero. Raised from boyhood to pilot an exosuit mech, he’d fought gallantly for the rebellion against the Collectivists. But that was a long time ago, on a world very far away.
Now, Jackson Rook is a criminal, a smuggler on board the Multipurpose Supply Vehicle Tar Heel. His latest mission: steal a top-of-the-line mech called the Citadel and deliver it to the far-flung planet Swindle, a world so hostile even the air will kill you. The client: a man known only as the Warlord. Rook has been in the smuggling business long enough to know that it’s best to take the money and not ask questions. But Rook cannot stand by and watch as the Warlord runs roughshod over the citizens of Swindle, the way the Collectivists did on his homeworld. For all his mercenary ways, Rook is not a pirate. And deep within the smuggler, the heart of a warrior still beats.
