Crooked Kingdom by Leigh Bardugo

Rating: 5/5 stars
★★★★★

Crooked Kingdom is the second book in the Six of Crows duology. Six of Crows is about a big heist, and Crooked Kingdom is the aftermath.

Mask of Shadows by Linsey Miller

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Rating: 4.5/5 stars
★★★★★

Mask of Shadows is about a gender-fluid thief named Sal who finds a flyer for an audition to be Opal, one of the queen's right-hand-men. When Sal applies, they realize that the audition is actually a fight to the death.

Caraval by Stephanie Garber

Rating: 2/5 stars
☆☆☆★★

Scarlett and Donatella Dragna have lived with an incredibly abusive father ever since their mother had died. Scarlett, enchanted by all the stories her grandmother told her about the mysterious Caraval (a five-day spectacle of magic and games), wrote every year to the owner of Caraval for tickets. Finally, the one year she doesn't want them, she gets them. She loses her sister in the process, and has to do her best to win the game and find her.

Passenger by Alexandra Bracken

Rating: 4/5 stars

☆★★★★

Passenger is about a girl named Etta, a soon-to-be professional violinist, who learns that she can travel time. Her mother hid an item throughout time, and another time-travelling family has captured and is using Etta’s mother as a reason to find the item for them. She only has cryptic clues and messages from her mother. She’s thrust into this new time-travelling world she didn’t know even existed, and has to survive and find the item before her mother dies.

Three Dark Crowns by Kendare Blake

Rating: 2/5 stars
☆☆☆★★

"In every generation on the island of Fennbirn, a set of triplets is born—three queens, all equal heirs to the crown and each possessor of a coveted magic." Eventually, they have to fight to the death, and whoever wins becomes the real queen.

The Queen of the Tearling by Erika Johansen

Rating: 3.35/5 stars
☆☆★★★

An untested young princess must claim her throne, learn to become a queen, and combat a malevolent sorceress in an epic battle between light and darkness. This was the goodreads info. I couldn't find a better way to say it.

Dragons of Wild by Ava Richardson

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Rating: 3/5 stars
☆☆★★★

This book is about a human girl named Saffron who grew up with dragons and leaves to find out about her family and past. She meets an outcast named Bower, and together, they journey to Torvald. It turns out, though, that Saffron's family is not what she expected...

Gilded Cage by Vic James

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Rating: 4.5/5 stars

★★★★★

Gilded Cage by Vic James is a dystopian fantasy book in Britain about Equals (upper class people with powers) and commoners without powers. These commoners aren’t even considered citizens until they go through a decade of “slavedays” where they are literally just slaves. They can choose to start their slavedays whenever they want in life, though.

An Ember in the Ashes by Sabaa Tahir

Rating: 5/5 stars
★★★★★

An Ember in the Ashes by Sabaa Tahir takes place in a brutal, dystopian-ish future where a girl named Laia witnesses her brother taken by the Empire, arrested for treason. Her goal is to find the Resistance, a group of Scholars that work against the Empire, and try to get them to help her save her brother. The other main character is Elias, one of the hand-picked masks for the Empire, trying to fight for what he believes in, even though that could very well get him killed.

Lots of spoilers in this review, because I'm full of emotions and have to talk about it. This is the only warning.

The Well of Ascension by Brandon Sanderson

Rating: 3.75/5 stars
☆☆★★★

The Well of Ascension by Brandon Sanderson is the second book in the Mistborn trilogy. In this book, Kelsier's crew defeats the Lord Ruler and has to clean up the mess it made.