The Diabolic by S. J. Kincaid

Rating: 4/5 stars
★★★★☆

The Diabolic is about a girl named Nemesis who isn't really human, but Diabolic, which means she was created with superhuman strength and bonded to a human to protect her for the rest of her life. Nemesis is bonded to Sidonia, who one day is forced to be in the company of the unliked Emperor. To save Sidonia, Nemesis decides to disguise herself and go in her place.

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

I received a free e-book copy from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. Thank you for this opportunity!

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.

The Infinite Sea by Rick Yancey

Rating: 4.5/5 stars
★★★★★

The fifth wave is still happening, and getting more brutal. You still can't trust anyone, but the ragtag group of teens that managed to survive are trying to trust each other and keep each other alive through the madness.

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.

Illuminae by Amie Kaufman & Jay Kristoff

Rating: 4/5 stars
☆★★★★

It's the end of the world and two ex lovers have to communicate to survive. Told through emails, chat logs, audio logs, and so on. Very cool.

The Young Elites by Marie Lu

Rating: 3/5 stars
☆☆★★★

Adelina Amouteru is broken and scarred (literally) from a plague she survived. Every other child who survived the plague ended up having super powers and formed together to create the Young Elites. Adelina has an abusive childhood while her father tries to coax her power out. She thinks it's hopeless, until one day it comes out. Then her whole world changes.

The Assassin's Blade by Sarah J. Maas

Rating: 5/5 stars
★★★★★

These are 4 Throne of Glass novellas! Highly recommended that you read these definitely before Queen of Shadows or Empire of Storms, but before the whole series too if you want a bit of insight into the main character. I didn't read this til after Empire of Storms, and I really wish I read it before. I didn't get all the little references til afterward.

The 5th Wave by Rick Yancey

Rating: 4/5 stars
☆★★★★

There have been 4 waves of the apocalypse. Now is the fifth wave -- the wave of aliens taking over the human race. You can't trust anyone because they've placed themselves inside the human population. You don't know who's who anymore. Cassie Sullivan has to use her intuition and trust friends to save her brother and herself from the fifth wave.

Shatter Me by Tahereh Mafi

Rating: 4.75/5 stars
☆★★★★

Juliette's untouchable. Some power she has makes everyone who touches her die painfully and almost instantly. She's gone crazy from being locked up for the world's protection. Her world gets interesting when she meets Adam, the first person who can actually touch her.

The Bone Witch by Rin Chupeco

I received a free e-book copy from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. Thank you for this opportunity!

Rating: 1/5 stars
☆☆☆☆★

Tea accidentally raises her brother from the dead, revealing to everyone that she is a bone witch. In this book, she has to train to become an asha (a type of performer/magician???) and deal with the hardships and negative reactions to bone witches and dark magic.

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 Elite by Kiera Cass

Rating: 4/5 stars
☆★★★★

The second book of the Selection series by Kiera Cass, The Elite is about America Singer, a girl who was chosen to be in the Selection (a chance and rivalry against other selected women to become the next princess). The number of women is getting smaller and smaller, the politics are getting more intense, and the riots are getting more violent. Can America make it through the Selection?