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Title: Furyborn (Empirium #1) Author: Claire Legrand Pages: 512 Genre: YA, Fantasy Publisher: Sourcebooks Fire Release Date: May 22, 2018 Buy: Amazon | Chapters Indigo | Kobo | B&N *Received for review from Raincoast Books Summary ( Goodreads ) Follows two fiercely independent young women, centuries apart, who hold the power to save their world...or doom it. When assassins ambush her best friend, the crown prince, Rielle Dardenne risks everything to save him, exposing her ability to perform all seven kinds of elemental magic. The only people who should possess this extraordinary power are a pair of prophesied queens: a queen of light and salvation and a queen of blood and destruction. To prove she is the Sun Queen, Rielle must endure seven trials to test her magic. If she fails, she will be executed...unless the trials kill her first. A thousand years later, the legend of Queen Rielle is a mere fairy tale to bounty hunter Eliana Ferracora. When the Undying Empire ...

Title: Furyborn (The Empirium Trilogy #1) Author: Claire Legrand  Pages: 512 Genre: Young Adult, Fantasy Publisher: Sourcebooks Fire/Raincoast Books Release Date: May 22, 2018 Preorder: Amazon | Chapters Indigo |  Summary (Goodreads) The stunningly original, must-read fantasy of 2018 follows two fiercely independent young women, centuries apart, who hold the power to save their world...or doom it. When assassins ambush her best friend, the crown prince, Rielle Dardenne risks everything to save him, exposing her ability to perform all seven kinds of elemental magic. The only people who should possess this extraordinary power are a pair of prophesied queens: a queen of light and salvation and a queen of blood and destruction. To prove she is the Sun Queen, Rielle must endure seven trials to test her magic. If she fails, she will be executed...unless the trials kill her first. A thousand years later, the legend of Queen Rielle is a mere fairy tale to bo...

Title: Save the Date  Author: Morgan Matson Pages: 480 Genre: YA Contemporary Publisher: Simon Schuster Books for Young Readers Release Date: June 5, 2018  Summary (Goodreads) Charlie Grant’s older sister is getting married this weekend at their family home, and Charlie can’t wait—for the first time in years, all four of her older siblings will be under one roof. Charlie is desperate for one last perfect weekend, before the house is sold and everything changes. The house will be filled with jokes and games and laughs again. Making decisions about things like what college to attend and reuniting with longstanding crush Jesse Foster—all that can wait. She wants to focus on making the weekend perfect. The only problem? The weekend is shaping up to be an absolute disaster. There’s the unexpected dog with a penchant for howling, house alarm that won’t stop going off, and a papergirl with a grudge. There are the relatives who aren’t speaking, the (awful) girl ...

Title: Nightblood (Frostblood #3) Author: Elly Blake Pages: 400 Genre: YA, Fantasy Publisher: Little, Brown and Books/HBG Canada Release Date: June 5, 2018 Buy: Amazon | Chapters Indigo | Kobo  Summary (Goodreads) Ruby's world has changed more than she ever could have imagined. She's in love with a powerful Frost King. She's the heir to the Fire Throne. And she may be a Nightblood--the spawn of a vengeful deity hellbent on releasing his wraithlike Minax from their prison. Once freed, these beasts will roam the earth, devouring every last person until he or she is nothing but an empty husk. But Ruby is able to control the Minax to a degree, and now she, her beloved Arcus, and her friend Kai must find a way to bring Frostbloods and Firebloods--sworn enemies--together to make a stand against a foe more deadly than any they've faced. In this heart-pounding finale of Elly Blake's gorgeously written and action-packed Frostblood Saga, the fate of ...

Title: Everless Author: Sara Holland Pages: 336 Genre: Fantasy/YA Publisher: HarperTeen/HarperCollins Canada Release Date: January 2, 2018 Summary ( Goodreads )  In the land of Sempera, time is extracted from blood and used as payment. Jules Ember and her father were once servants at Everless, the wealthy Gerling family’s estate, but were cast out after of a fateful accident a decade ago. Now, Jules’s father is reaching his last hour, and she will do anything to save him. Desperate to earn time, she arrives at the palace as it prepares for a royal wedding, ready to begin her search into childhood secrets that she once believed to be no more than myths. As she uncovers lost truths, Jules spirals deeper into a past she hardly recognizes, and faces an ancient and dangerous foe who threatens her future and the future of time itself. What is your Waiting on Wednesday?

Title: The Cruel Prince Author: Holly Black Pages: 384 Genre: YA, Paranormal  Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers/Hatchette Book Group Canada Release Date: January 2, 2018  Summary ( Goodreads )  Of course I want to be like them. They’re beautiful as blades forged in some divine fire. They will live forever. And Cardan is even more beautiful than the rest. I hate him more than all the others. I hate him so much that sometimes when I look at him, I can hardly breathe. Jude was seven years old when her parents were murdered and she and her two sisters were stolen away to live in the treacherous High Court of Faerie. Ten years later, Jude wants nothing more than to belong there, despite her mortality. But many of the fey despise humans. Especially Prince Cardan, the youngest and wickedest son of the High King. To win a place at the Court, she must defy him–and face the consequences. In doing so, she becomes embroiled in palace intrigues and...