Hark, a new year of YA fantasy is upon us! This year’s forthcoming crop (January through June) of fantasy novels is rich with fierce new landscapes, forbidden enchantments, and inspirations ranging from pre-Revolutionary France to Chinese, Korean, and Middle Eastern mythologies to classic fairy tales to Gothic lit. (And don’t miss even more fantasy titles […]
If it felt like this week’s YA releases would never come, that’s because there’s so much to be excited about! Not only do we get Angie Thomas’s sophomore effort, but an extraordinary variety of fantasy, historical, and contemporary reads set during the French Revolution, the French-Breton war, 1960s Kuala Lumpur, and behind the scenes of […]
Anticipating new fantasy novels is one of my favorite activities, right behind reading them. The first half of 2018 offers up a dragon’s hoard’s worth of tantalizing new fantasy landscapes, set in epic otherworlds, reimagined Earths, and a few familiar places we can’t wait to revisit. Holly Black returns to Faerie; Tomi Ayedemi delves into […]