- Fantasy
- Well-developed characters
Poison Study By Maria V. Snyder
SCIFI SNYDER
Yelena, about to be executed, is offered the job of food taster to the Commander of Ixia, but politics and magic keep threatening her life.
Angelology By Danielle Trussoni
F TRUSSONI
Having entered a convent at a young age, Sister Evangeline discovers a letter from famous philanthropist Abigail Rockefeller that reveals an ancient conflict between an angel society Evangeline is destined to join and the human descendants of the Nephilim.
Unseen Academicals BY TERRY PRATCHETT
SCIFI PRATCHETT
The wizards of Unseen University in the ancient city of Ankh-Morpork must win a football match, without using magic, so they're in the mood for trying everything else. As the match approaches, four lives are entangled and changed forever.
The Red Wolf Conspiracy By Robert V. S. Redick
SCIFI REDICK
Scant years after a terrible war that shook empires, a 600-year-old ship sails for enemy lands on a dangerous mission: to deliver a young woman whose marriage will seal the peace. But the dangerous mission becomes even more perilous as the crew and captain face down deadly assassins, treacherous mermaids, and monstrous slavers.
Dragonspell By Donita K. Paul
SCIFI PAUL
Kale, a slave girl, finds a dragon's egg and is sent off by the village elders to present the egg to the great wizards of the walled city, but her journey is fraught with danger as she finds more dragon eggs, some of them hatch, and she becomes the target of an evil wizard who wants to harness her talent for finding eggs for himself.
The Hourglass Door By Lisa Mangum
YA F MANGUM
Mangum’s debut novel features Dante, a prisoner sent from fifteenth-century Italy into the present time as punishment, meets and falls in love with Abby, a high school senior who may be the only one who can save him.
His Majesty’s Dragon By Naomi Novik
SCIFI NOVIK
When the HMS Reliant captures a French ship and its priceless cargo, an unhatched dragon egg, Captain Will Laurence is swept into an unexpected kinship with an extraordinary creature and joins the elite Aerial Corps as a master of the dragon Temaraire, in which role he must match wits with the powerful dragon-borne forces of Napoleon Bonaparte.
Ice By Sarah Beth Durst
YA F DURST
In a modern-day retelling of "East o' the Sun, West o' the Moon," eighteen-year-old Cassie learns that her grandmother's fairy tale is true when a Polar Bear King comes to claim her for his bride and she must decide whether to go with him and save her long-lost mother, or continue helping her father with his research.
Eon: Dragoneye Reborn By Alison Goodman
YA F GOODMAN
Sixteen-year-old Eon hopes to become an apprentice to one of the twelve energy dragons of good fortune and learn to be its main interpreter, but to do so will require much, including keeping secret that she is a girl.
Neverwhere By Neil Gaiman
SCIFI GAIMAN
Richard Mayhew's life is forever changed after he rescues a young girl named Door and finds himself living in a city of monsters, saints, murderers, and angels, and he must help Door on her mission to save this strange underworld kingdom from destruction.
The Summer Tree By Guy Gavriel Kay
SCIFI KAY
Five university students--Kimberly, Dave, Jennifer, Kevin, and Paul--meet a wizard who takes them to the heart of all worlds, Fionavar, where they discover who they were truly meant to be.
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