The Garden Friend Visits the Gardener by Mary Frances Baker follows a fanciful acorn-topped character who discovers an unexpected friendship while exploring a garden, where small details become sources of fascination and connection. The garden becomes a space of discovery, where everyday encounters with plants,...

Tears of the Flames is a dark fantasy novel by Sisi Zhao. Mira Murphy's life turns upside down after a brutal assault in the woods awakens something dark and powerful within her, summoning a mysterious green vortex over her hometown. A couple of years pass,...

Sword of the Golden City is a young adult fantasy adventure by Jane Alvey Harris and Ruston Jones. After his beloved uncle's unexpected death, thirteen-year-old Nick Gordon receives a cryptic note inside a book that cautions him about an ancient evil rising in the city...

Shift is an action-packed fantasy novel by J.P. Lee. In the world of Eastward Americana, three branches of magi dwell: the Sages, the Thanes, and the Sylvaar. However, another group of supernatural Shapeshifters has found their home deep within the Appalachian Mountains. Cursed and shunned...

Amy McNulty delivers beautiful fantasy fiction in Nobody’s Goddess. Noll is on the verge of turning seventeen, and all her friends are moving on, finding their goddesses. Her best friend Jurij found his goddess in Noll’s sister. Women wield power over the men in the...

A Flash of Fire by A.L. Wyss follows Vivian Carmine, an ordinary teen whose life is turned upside down when she discovers she has superpowers. Her powers are destructive because the first time she uses them, she almost burns down the school gym during a...

Circle of Nine: Mercy in the Mist by Valerie Biel follows Brigit, a teenage girl from an Irish mythological bloodline called the Tuatha de Danann. She and her parents, who have just gotten back together, and Bree, her newborn sister, live in a small town....

Holly M. Jenkins’ The Swan’s Arrow is a fairytale-themed story that enthralled me with its magic and thematic development. Princess Odette loses her mother to a terrifying curse. Now she is bound by duty to marry the one person she detests, Prince Derek, whose seemingly...

The Shadowless by R.J. Garcia follows Mae Dawson as she tries to make sense of the mysterious and eerie things happening around her. After her sisters’ disappearance, Mae returns to her family’s secluded cabin and slips from the safety of her bed into a nightmare...

Amy McNulty weaves a beautiful and tragic fantasy in Ballad of the Beanstalk. Sixteen-year-old Clarion is still reeling after the death of her father. The harp he left her is the one thing that still brings her any happiness, and when she plays, it is...