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  • Yield the Night by Annette Marie

    Yield the Night by Annette Marie

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · 45 ratings
    NB: New/alternate cover for ASIN# B00RH8BZOI. Original cover edition here.After surviving a round-trip to hell, Piper figures she can survive anything. After all, she just lived through the devastating loss of her Consul apprenticeship and a torturous stint at boarding school...
  • Frostbite by Richelle Mead

    Frostbite by Richelle Mead

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 2 of 5
    Behind closed doors [?] · 291 ratings
    Rose loves Dimitri, Dimitri might love Tasha, and Mason would die to be with Rose... It’s winter break at St. Vladimir’s, but Rose is feeling anything but festive. A massive Strigoi attack has put the school on high alert, and now the Academy’s crawling with Guardians—including Rose’s hard-hitting mother, Janine Hathaway...
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  • Eona by Alison Goodman

    Eona by Alison Goodman

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 64 ratings
    Read Alison Goodman's blogs and other content on the Penguin Community. Eon has been revealed as Eona, the first female Dragoneye in hundreds of years. Along with fellow rebels Ryko and Lady Dela, she is on the run from High Lord Sethon's army...
  • Crystal Crowned by Elise Kova

    Crystal Crowned by Elise Kova

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 2 of 5
    Behind closed doors [?] · 64 ratings
    The epic conclusion of the Air Awakens Series is an instant USA Today Bestseller! Long live Solaris. One bloodthirsty ruler has been overthrown by another, casting the shadow of death over the Solaris Empire. Vhalla Yarl stands upon the stage of fate, prepared to do battle one final time. Fragile alliances will be tested and new bonds will be formed as the world is reshaped...
  • City of Lost Souls by Cassandra Clare

    City of Lost Souls by Cassandra Clare

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 2 of 5
    Behind closed doors [?] · 255 ratings
    The New York Times bestselling Mortal Instruments continues—and so do the thrills and danger for Jace, Clary, and Simon. What price is too high to pay, even for love? When Jace and Clary meet again, Clary is horrified to discover that the demon Lilith’s magic has bound her beloved Jace together with her evil brother Sebastian, and that Jace has become a servant of evil...
  • Finale by Becca Fitzpatrick

    Finale by Becca Fitzpatrick

    Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 127 ratings
    Will love conquer all? Nora and Patch thought their troubles were behind them. Hank is gone and they should be able to put his ugly vendetta to rest. But in Hank's absence, Nora has become the unwitting head of the Nephilim and must finish what Hank began. Which ultimately means destroying the fallen angels - destroying Patch...
  • The Subtle Knife by Philip Pullman

    The Subtle Knife by Philip Pullman

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · 99 ratings
    HIS DARK MATERIALS IS NOW AN HBO ORIGINAL SERIES STARRING DAFNE KEEN, RUTH WILSON, ANDREW SCOTT, AND LIN-MANUEL MIRANDA!The spellbinding sequel to The Golden Compass, the modern fantasy classic that Entertainment Weekly named an "All-Time Greatest Novel" and Newsweek hailed as a "Top 100 Book of All Time," continues the epic adventure, catapulting readers between worlds, and toward a devastating...
  • Salvation by Erica Stevens

    Salvation by Erica Stevens

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 2 of 5
    Behind closed doors [?] · 41 ratings
    Imprisoned by Caleb and at the mercy of the king, Aria is determined not to let them break her. However, the more atrocities she witnesses, the more she realizes there are some horrors no one can withstand, and sometimes survival isn’t always the best option...
  • The Storm We Face by Katie May

    The Storm We Face by Katie May

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    Well... So far, my apocalpytic upbringing has not been peaches and daisies (if that is how the saying goes). Or is it peaches and pansies? Fighting off feral beasts, surviving natural disasters, and coming face to face with the worst that humankind has to offer is quite tiresome. Psycho ex-girlfriends? Check. Creepy monsters/zombies? Check. Orgasms? Not check. Yet...
  • The Raven King by Maggie Stiefvater

    The Raven King by Maggie Stiefvater

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 128 ratings
    The fourth and final installment in the spellbinding series from the irrepressible, #1 New York Times bestselling author Maggie Stiefvater. All her life, Blue has been warned that she will cause her true love's death...
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    suspense  witches  demons  mystery  magic  humor  forbidden love  angst
  • Poison Study by Maria V. Snyder

    Poison Study by Maria V. Snyder

    Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 2 of 5
    Behind closed doors [?] · 301 ratings
    Choose: A quick death…Or slow poison... About to be executed for murder, Yelena is offered an extraordinary reprieve. She'll eat the best meals, have rooms in the palace—and risk assassination by anyone trying to kill the Commander of Ixia. And so Yelena chooses to become a food taster...
  • Days of Blood & Starlight by Laini Taylor

    Days of Blood & Starlight by Laini Taylor

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 133 ratings
    Once upon a time, an angel and a devil fell in love and dared to imagine a world free of bloodshed and war.This is not that world. Art student and monster's apprentice Karou finally has the answers she has always sought. She knows who she is—and what she is...
  • The Scorpio Races by Maggie Stiefvater

    The Scorpio Races by Maggie Stiefvater

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 103 ratings
    It happens at the start of every November: the Scorpio Races. Riders attempt to keep hold of their water horses long enough to make it to the finish line. Some riders live. Others die. At age nineteen, Sean Kendrick is the returning champion. He is a young man of few words, and if he has any fears, he keeps them buried deep, where no one else can see them. Puck Connolly is different...
  • Soul Thief by Jana Oliver

    Soul Thief by Jana Oliver

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    Riley Blackthorne is beginning to learn that there are worse things than death by demon. And love is just one of them…Seventeen-year-old Riley has about had it up to here. After the devastating battle at the Tabernacle, trappers are dead and injured, her boyfriend Simon is gravely injured, and now her beloved late father's been illegally poached from his grave by a very powerful necromancer...
  • Poison Princess by Kresley Cole

    Poison Princess by Kresley Cole

    Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 2 of 5
    Behind closed doors [?] · 89 ratings
    She could save the world—or destroy it. Sixteen-year-old Evangeline "Evie" Greene leads a charmed life, until she begins experiencing horrifying hallucinations. When an apocalyptic event decimates her Louisiana hometown, Evie realizes her hallucinations were actually visions of the future—and they're still happening...
  • Angel Fire by L.A. Weatherly

    Angel Fire by L.A. Weatherly

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 41 ratings
    In the wake of the Second Wave, the angel menace has exploded, and Alex and Willow are on the lam. Willow's prophetic dream points them to Mexico City, where they connect with a fledgling group of angel killers led by the exotically beautiful Kara, an Angel Killer from Alex's past...
  • The Curiosities: A Collection of Stories by Maggie Stiefvater, Brenna Yovanoff

    The Curiosities: A Collection of Stories by Maggie Stiefvater, Brenna Yovanoff

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    From acclaimed YA authors Maggie Stiefvater, Tessa Gratton, and Brenna Yovanoff comes The Curiosities: A Collection of Stories. - A vampire locked in a cage in the basement, for good luck. - Bad guys, clever girls, and the various reasons why the guys have to stop breathing. - A world where fires never go out (with references to vanilla ice cream)...
  • The Summoning by Kelley Armstrong

    The Summoning by Kelley Armstrong

    Rated: 4.02 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 145 ratings
    My name is Chloe Saunders and my life will never be the same again. All I wanted was to make friends, meet boys, and keep on being ordinary. I don't even know what that means anymore. It all started on the day that I saw my first ghost - and the ghost saw me. Now there are ghosts everywhere and they won't leave me alone...
  • Hollow City by Ransom Riggs

    Hollow City by Ransom Riggs

    Rated: 4.02 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 111 ratings
    Miss Peregrine's Home For Peculiar Children was the surprise best seller of 2011—an unprecedented mix of YA fantasy and vintage photography that enthralled readers and critics alike. This second novel begins in 1940, immediately after the first book ended...
  • The Archived by Victoria Schwab

    The Archived by Victoria Schwab

    Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 52 ratings
    The dead rest on shelves like books. Each body has a story to tell, a life in pictures only Librarians can read. The dead, called 'Histories', rest in the Archive. Da first brought Mackenzie Bishop here four years ago, when she was twelve years old, frightened but determined to prove herself...
  • Dreams of Gods & Monsters by Laini Taylor

    Dreams of Gods & Monsters by Laini Taylor

    Rated: 4.02 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 2 of 5
    Behind closed doors [?] · 98 ratings
    By way of a staggering deception, Karou has taken control of the chimaera rebellion and is intent on steering its course away from dead-end vengeance. The future rests on her, if there can even be a future for the chimaera in war-ravaged Eretz. Common enemy, common cause...
  • Silence by Becca Fitzpatrick

    Silence by Becca Fitzpatrick

    Rated: 3.97 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 151 ratings
    WHEN SILENCE IS ALL THAT'S LEFT, CAN THE TRUTH FINALLY BE HEARD? Nora Grey can't remember the past five months of her life. After the initial shock of waking up in a cemetery and being told that she has been missing for weeks - with no one knowing where she was or who she was with - she tried to get her life back on track...
  • The Dark and Hollow Places by Carrie Ryan

    The Dark and Hollow Places by Carrie Ryan

    Rated: 4.03 of 5 stars
    · 45 ratings
    There are many things that Annah would like to forget: the look on her sister's face before Annah left her behind in the Forest of Hands and Teeth, her first glimpse of the Horde as they swarmed the Dark City, the sear of the barbed wire that would scar her for life. But most of all, Annah would like to forget the morning Elias left her for the Recruiters...
  • Vampire Academy by Richelle Mead

    Vampire Academy by Richelle Mead

    Rated: 3.97 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 2 of 5
    Behind closed doors [?] · 393 ratings
    St. Vladimir’s Academy isn’t just any boarding school—it’s a hidden place where vampires are educated in the ways of magic and half-human teens train to protect them. Rose Hathaway is a Dhampir, a bodyguard for her best friend Lissa, a Moroi Vampire Princess. They’ve been on the run, but now they’re being dragged back to St. Vladimir’s—the very place where they’re most in danger. . .
  • Red Glove by Holly Black

    Red Glove by Holly Black

    Rated: 3.97 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 50 ratings
    The cons get craftier and the stakes rise ever higher in the riveting sequel to White Cat . After rescuing his brothers from Zacharov’s retribution, Cassel is trying to reestablish some kind of normalcy in his life. That was never going to be easy for someone from a worker family that’s tied to one of the big crime families—and whose mother’s cons get more reckless by the day...
  • Who Fears Death by Nnedi Okorafor

    Who Fears Death by Nnedi Okorafor

    Rated: 3.98 of 5 stars
    · 40 ratings
    An award-winning literary author enters the world of magical realism with her World Fantasy Award-winning novel of a remarkable woman in post-apocalyptic Africa. In a post-apocalyptic Africa, the world has changed in many ways; yet in one region genocide between tribes still bloodies the land...
  • Savage Lands by Stacey Marie Brown

    Savage Lands by Stacey Marie Brown

    Rated: 3.97 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 99 ratings
    Almost twenty years after the barrier between Earth and the Otherworld fell in the Fae Wars, Budapest is balancing on the precipice. A battle for dominance is brewing between the elite fae and the privileged humans in Eastern Europe. The prejudice between the sides is bubbling with hate and violence. Nineteen-year-old human, Brexley, has grown up in privilege, but not without heartbreak...
  • Sweet Evil by Wendy Higgins

    Sweet Evil by Wendy Higgins

    Rated: 3.97 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 2 of 5
    Behind closed doors [?] · 106 ratings
    Embrace the Forbidden What if there were teens whose lives literally depended on being bad influences? This is the reality for sons and daughters of fallen angels. Tenderhearted Southern girl Anna Whitt was born with the sixth sense to see and feel emotions of other people...
  • Faerie Winter: Book 2 of the Bones of Faerie Trilogy by Janni Lee Simner

    Faerie Winter: Book 2 of the Bones of Faerie Trilogy by Janni Lee Simner

    Rated: 3.97 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    The long-awaited sequel to Janni Lee Simner's breathtaking YA fantasy debut, Bones of Faerie. Liza is a summoner. She can draw life to herself, even from beyond the grave. And because magic works both ways, she can drive life away. Months ago, she used her powers to banish her dangerous father and to rescue her mother, lost in dreams, from the ruined land of Faerie...
  • Bring Me Their Hearts by Sara Wolf

    Bring Me Their Hearts by Sara Wolf

    Rated: 3.97 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 47 ratings
    Zera is a Heartless – the immortal, unageing soldier of a witch. Bound to the witch Nightsinger ever since she saved her from the bandits who murdered her family, Zera longs for freedom from the woods they hide in. With her heart in a jar under Nightsinger’s control, she serves the witch unquestioningly...
  • The Dead-Tossed Waves by Carrie Ryan

    The Dead-Tossed Waves by Carrie Ryan

    Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars
    · 51 ratings
    Gabry lives a quiet life. As safe a life as is possible in a town trapped between a forest and the ocean, in a world teeming with the dead, who constantly hunger for those still living. She’s content on her side of the Barrier, happy to let her friends dream of the Dark City up the coast while she watches from the top of her lighthouse. But there are threats the Barrier cannot hold back...
  • The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer by Michelle Hodkin

    The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer by Michelle Hodkin

    Rated: 3.95 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 143 ratings
    Mara Dyer doesn’t know if she is crazy or haunted—all she knows is that everyone around her is dying in this suspenseful and “strong, inventive tale” (Kirkus Reviews).Mara Dyer doesn’t think life can get any stranger than waking up in a hospital with no memory of how she got there. It can...
  • The Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater

    The Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater

    Rated: 3.91 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 238 ratings
    “There are only two reasons a non-seer would see a spirit on St. Mark’s Eve,” Neeve said. “Either you’re his true love . . . or you killed him.” It is freezing in the churchyard, even before the dead arrive. Every year, Blue Sargent stands next to her clairvoyant mother as the soon-to-be dead walk past...
  • Wicked Gods by Michelle Hercules

    Wicked Gods by Michelle Hercules

    Rated: 3.89 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 38 ratings
    Nowhere is safe when the gods are wicked. Since the beginning of times, there has always been two sides: Norms and Idols. But never have the scales been so unbalanced as they are today. I’m a Norm, which means, I grew up in fear of the Idols and their godly powers. And now, I’m going to be surrounded by them, day and night...
  • Nightshade by Andrea Cremer

    Nightshade by Andrea Cremer

    Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars
    · 82 ratings
    Read Andrea Cremer's blogs and other content on the Penguin Community. Calla Tor has always known her destiny: After graduating from the Mountain School, she'll be the mate of sexy alpha wolf Ren Laroche and fight with him, side by side, ruling their pack and guarding sacred sites for the Keepers...
  • This is Not a Test by Courtney Summers

    This is Not a Test by Courtney Summers

    Rated: 3.91 of 5 stars
    · 41 ratings
    It’s the end of the world. Six students have taken cover in Cortege High but shelter is little comfort when the dead outside won’t stop pounding on the doors. One bite is all it takes to kill a person and bring them back as a monstrous version of their former self. To Sloane Price, that doesn’t sound so bad...
  • The Looking Glass Wars by Frank Beddor

    The Looking Glass Wars by Frank Beddor

    Rated: 3.91 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 58 ratings
    Alyss of Wonderland? When Alyss Heart, heir to the Wonderland throne, must flee through the Pool of Tears to escape the murderous aunt Redd, she finds herself lost and alone in Victorian London. Befriended by an aspiring author named Lewis Carrol, Alyss tells the violent, heartbreaking story of her young life...
  • The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern

    The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern

    Rated: 3.89 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 2 of 5
    Behind closed doors [?] · 323 ratings
    The circus arrives without warning. No announcements precede it. It is simply there, when yesterday it was not. Within the black-and-white striped canvas tents is an utterly unique experience full of breathtaking amazements. It is called "Le Cirque des Reves," and it is only open at night...
  • City of Fallen Angels by Cassandra Clare

    City of Fallen Angels by Cassandra Clare

    Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 295 ratings
    The Mortal War is over, and sixteen-year-old Clary Fray is back home in New York, excited about all the possibilities before her. She’s training to become a Shadowhunter and to use her unique power. Her mother is getting married to the love of her life. Downworlders and Shadowhunters are at peace at last. And—most importantly of all—she can finally call Jace her boyfriend...
  • Lightning Blade by D.N. Erikson

    Lightning Blade by D.N. Erikson

    Rated: 3.78 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    Alternate cover edition of ASIN B01MYAKKIUAfter twenty years inside a supernatural internment camp, bounty hunter Ruby Callaway is granted a temporary release by FBI Agent Colton Roark to help capture a necromancer publicly killing high ranking government officials. Each year, on the same day, the necromancer kills. And today marks the eighth anniversary...
  • Dark Reign by Rachel Jonas

    Dark Reign by Rachel Jonas

    Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    Four blood-sucking princes. A beautiful anarchist. One dangerous mistake. To the vampires who dominate each quadrant of the Lydian Dynasty, I’m only known as “Blackbird”—a masked vigilante who, at nineteen, is already public enemy number one. To what’s left of humanity, I’ve been called a superhero, a title I neither welcome nor deserve...
  • Insomnia by J.R. Johansson

    Insomnia by J.R. Johansson

    Rated: 3.79 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    Her eyes saved his life. Her dreams released his darkness. After four years of sleeplessness, high school junior Parker Chipp can't take much more. Every night, instead of sleeping, he enters the dreams of the last person he's made eye contact with. If he doesn't sleep soon, Parker will die. Then he meets Mia...
  • Hunted by Meagan Spooner

    Hunted by Meagan Spooner

    Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 2 of 5
    Behind closed doors [?] · 60 ratings
    Beauty knows the Beast’s forest in her bones—and in her blood. Though she grew up with the city’s highest aristocrats, far from her father’s old lodge, she knows that the forest holds secrets and that her father is the only hunter who’s ever come close to discovering them. So when her father loses his fortune and moves Yeva and her sisters back to the outskirts of town, Yeva is secretly relieved...
  • Wayfarer by Lili St. Crow

    Wayfarer by Lili St. Crow

    Rated: 3.68 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    New York Times bestselling author Lili St. Crow thrilled legions of fans with her dark paranormal series Strange Angels. Now she has created a stirringly romantic, deliciously spooky update of Cinderella, the alluring second volume in her trilogy Tales of Beauty and Madness. Ellie Sinder is a Charmer—the most powerful of her age that St. Juno’s Academy has ever seen...
  • Dead Witch Walking by Kim Harrison

    Dead Witch Walking by Kim Harrison

    Rated: 3.82 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 2 of 5
    Behind closed doors [?] · 158 ratings
    A ll the creatures of the night gather in "the Hollows" of Cincinnati, to hide, to prowl, to party ... and to feed. Vampires rule the darkness in a predator-eat-predator world rife with dangers beyond imagining -- and it's Rachel Morgan's job to keep that world civilized. A bounty hunter and witch with serious sex appeal and an attitude, she'll bring 'em back alive, dead ... or undead...
  • Dark Seers by J.C. Andrijeski

    Dark Seers by J.C. Andrijeski

    Rated: 3.68 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    The way he stood there. His angular features. Precise, interesting, sensual. Freakishly tall, with pale, unnerving eyes. He moved unlike anyone I’d ever seen. He also wasn’t human.Like most humans, Allie only glimpses Seers at a distance, usually in sex clubs, or on the leash of the wealthy and powerful of San Francisco...
  • Half Bad by Sally Green

    Half Bad by Sally Green

    Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 52 ratings
    Wanted by no one.Hunted by everyone. Sixteen-year-old Nathan lives in a cage: beaten, shackled, trained to kill. In a modern-day England where two warring factions of witches live amongst humans, Nathan is an abomination, the illegitimate son of the world's most terrifying and violent witch, Marcus...
  • Dorothy Must Die by Danielle Paige

    Dorothy Must Die by Danielle Paige

    Rated: 3.81 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 67 ratings
    I didn't ask for any of this. I didn't ask to be some kind of hero. But when your whole life gets swept up by a tornado - taking you with it - you have no choice but to go along, you know? Sure, I've read the books. I've seen the movies. I know the song about the rainbow and the happy little bluebirds. But I never expected Oz to look like this...
  • Linger by Maggie Stiefvater

    Linger by Maggie Stiefvater

    Rated: 3.82 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 122 ratings
    the longing. Once Grace and Sam have found each other, they know they must fight to stay together. For Sam, this means a reckoning with his werewolf past. For Grace, it means facing a future that is less and less certain. the loss. Into their world comes a new wolf named Cole, whose past is full of hurt and danger...
  • Paranormalcy by Kiersten White

    Paranormalcy by Kiersten White

    Rated: 3.81 of 5 stars
    · 101 ratings
    Evie’s always thought of herself as a normal teenager, even though she works for the International Paranormal Containment Agency, her ex-boyfriend is a faerie, she’s falling for a shape-shifter, and she’s the only person who can see through paranormals’ glamours...
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