three on a YA Theme: Standalone YA Fantasy Novels

Are you a fantasy lover with sequence fatigue? I get it. Typically it’s tremendous enjoyable to flee right into a lush fantasy world for some time, nevertheless it’s a little bit of a bummer while you understand the e book has a sequel and also you don’t have it on the shelf, or the sequel isn’t even out but. Standalone fantasy novels was exhausting to come back by, however now increasingly YA fantasy releases are showing as one-and-done books, and I’m right here for it. Listed here are three that I’ve loved currently!

Sky within the Deep by Adrienne Younger

This can be a standalone novel, though Younger has one other e book set in the identical fantasy world with completely different characters! It’s about Eelyn, who has been introduced up a warrior in her Aska clan. It’s the one lifestyle they know, since they’re continually at warfare with the Riki clan. However in the future, a skirmish adjustments every little thing for Eelyn—she sees the brother she thought died 5 years in the past combating with the Riki. In her shock, she is captured and brought to the Riki territories, the place she should determine find out how to survive, and what to do about her traitorous brother. However earlier than she will be able to make sense of her brother’s betrayal, one other clan invades the Riki, making it clear that with a view to survive, the Riki and Aska should band collectively, as not possible as it might appear.

Ladies Fabricated from Snow and Glass by Melissa Bashardoust

This can be a improbable retelling of Snow White, however with an amazing twist: It’s from each the views of the Snow White character and her stepmother. Mina is younger girl who doesn’t imagine she’s able to love, so she settles for the following smartest thing: being admired and revered as queen. Lynet has grown up within the shadow of her useless mom’s legacy when actually she’d reasonably be extra like her beloved stepmother, Mina. When Lynet’s father suffers a horrible accident, she learns that reality about Mina’s previous and her struggles, however she additionally learns about her personal legacy and energy.

Sorcery of Thorns by Margaret Rogerson

This can be a standalone novel that I really want had a sequel as a result of I liked the characters a lot! Elisabeth is a Librarian’s apprentice in a magical world the place sorcery is taken into account harmful and Librarians preserve lethal grimoires underneath lock and key. When a grimoire escapes and wreaks havoc, Elisabeth is implicated within the crime and should align herself with a infamous sorcerer and his sly demon servant with a view to clear her title—and she or he discovers a nefarious plot and a brand new perspective on sorcery alongside the way in which!

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