Stuck in Y.A. Books

Title : Wintersong Author: S. Jae-Jones Pages: 448 Genre: Fantasy/YA/Retelling Publisher: Thomas Dunne  Release Date: February 7, 2017 Summary (Goodreads) Beware the goblin men and the wares they sell. All her life, nineteen-year-old Liesl has heard tales of the beautiful, mysterious Goblin King. He is the Lord of Mischief, the Ruler Underground, and the muse around which her music is composed. Yet, as Liesl helps shoulder the burden of running her family’s inn, her dreams of composition and childish fancies about the Goblin King must be set aside in favor of more practical concerns. But when her sister Käthe is taken by the goblins, Liesl journeys to their realm to rescue her sister and return her to the world above. The Goblin King agrees to let Käthe go—for a price. The life of a maiden must be given to the land, in accordance with the old laws.  A life for a life , he says. Without sacrifice, nothing good can grow. Without death, there can be no ...

Title: Winter (The Lunar Chronicles #4) Author: Marissa Meyer Pages: 824  Genre: Fantasy/Fairy Tale retelling (Teen) Publisher: Feiwel and Friends/Raincoast Books Release Date: November 10, 2015 Summary (Goodreads) Princess Winter is admired by the Lunar people for her grace and kindness, and despite the scars that mar her face, her beauty is said to be even more breathtaking than that of her stepmother, Queen Levana. Winter despises her stepmother, and knows Levana won’t approve of her feelings for her childhood friend–the handsome palace guard, Jacin. But Winter isn’t as weak as Levana believes her to be and she’s been undermining her stepmother’s wishes for years. Together with the cyborg mechanic, Cinder, and her allies, Winter might even have the power to launch a revolution and win a war that’s been raging for far too long. Can Cinder, Scarlet, Cress, and Winter defeat Levana and find their happily ever afters?