Hi guys, it's Nena from the channel Nenology and I'm going to be recommending
'The School For Good and Evil' by Soman Chainani. This book follows our two main
characters, Sophie and Agatha, as they are kidnapped and taken away to the school for good and for evil.
If you took one look at Sophie you would believe her to be good,
with her blonde hair and love of pretty pink dresses and from one look at
Agatha, with her black hair and black clothes, you will believe she would
belong in the school of evil but as they're kidnapped their roles are reversed.
Sophie ends up in the school for evil
and Agatha ends up in the school for good.
I love how this book explores how
there's not necessarily a perfect definition of a good person
or a perfect definition of a bad person.
The characters are really great.
I love the difference in personality between Agatha and Sophie.
Their personalities are so different and
it just makes the story really fun to read and if you're like me, I really like to
read books where the protagonists go to a magic school.
If I didn't quite sell you with the synopsis of this book and how much I loved it,
it's also a really beautiful book.
The cover is really pretty. It has uneven pages and and it has this gorgeous map inside.
My name is Tom I am from the channel TJ Reads The Stars and
my fantasy sci-fi recommendation for you today is 'Strange the Dreamer' by Laini Taylor.
This is the first book in a young adult fantasy duology and it follows our
main character who is this librarian called Lazlo Strange, who all his life
has been obsessed with the forgotten city of Weep but then one day
opportunity quite literally comes marching through the gates of the city
of Zozma and Laszlo can go on an expedition to this forgotten city and
that is really all you need to know before going into this book.
It's one of those books where you just have to go into it knowing as little as possible
and just let yourself be swept away in it. Yes, there is Lazlo and the expedition
he goes on but there is so much more than that.
There is Gods, there is monsters, there is mythology, there is magic, there is science,
there is alchemy, there is beautiful and lyrical writing. There is fantastically imaginative characters.
This is the perfect time to be reading this book
because as I am filming this the sequel 'Muse of Nightmares' is just weeks away
from release and I cannot wait to get into it. This book is talked about a lot
here on BookTube but do not be scared of the hype.
It is so fantastic and if you are looking for a new fantasy world to be completely
swept up in this is the book for you.
My name is Britt from BasicallyBritt and
as for a sci-fi or fantasy book recommendation I'd like to recommend
'Long Way To A Small Angry Planet' by Becky Chambers. This book is about Rosemary who
goes on a spaceship with a lot of different people and creatures and
species and robots. It is a very character-driven story.
You really get to know all the characters so well and all that personalities are so
different which I just absolutely love and the plot itself is also really
exciting but it is definitely more of a character driven sci-fi book.
If you like exciting sci-fi books and amazing characters, definitely check out
'The Long Way To A Small Angry Planet. This one is without a doubt one of my all-time
favourite sci-fi books and I can't wait to reread it.
I'm Samantha from the channel 'SamanthaReading' and the book that I am going to recommend to you today is
'The Wicked Deep' by Shea Ernshaw. 'The Wicked Deep' is a YA fantasy that follows the
events that unfold one summer in Sparrow Oregon. 200 years ago in Sparrow,
three sisters were drowned in the harbor because the townspeople believed that
they were witches, which they were. So every summer the Swan sisters come back
to inhabit the bodies of local girls in order to lure boys to the harbor to
drown them for revenge. This happens every summer during a time
that becomes known as Swan season and the town of Sparrow has become a tourist
destination because of all the folklore. Some people believe that it is in fact
the Swan sisters coming back every year, some people think it's just a coincidence
but when Bo, a tourist who's traveling alone, comes to town our main
character, Penny, vows to try to keep him safe. This book is perfect for the
upcoming fall season because it is so spooky and atmospheric and the
characters are really well developed and really fun to follow. So if you haven't
read 'The Wicked Deep' yet, I recommend you do it. Shea Ernshaw is a debut author and
after you read this you'll definitely want more from her.
I'm Becca from the channel 'Becca Iris Ruiz' it's just my name and I'm gonna be recommending two books.
I don't read that much fantasy. These two books are actually two of my
favourites of the whole year, so I decided to share them with you guys and that
it's gonna be 'The Goddess Test by Amy Carter and this is a Hades and Persephone
retelling and I'm pretty sure. Explaining fantasy is a whole other world for me
and the other one is 'The Wrath & the Dawn' by Renee Ahdieh.
I really like retellings, so if you also like retellings
I would pick up 'The Wrath & the Dawn' or The Goddess Test or both, just saying, okay.
Hello everyone, my name is Sophie from the channel SophisticatedBooks.
I wish I could recommend a solid sci-fi novel that no one has heard about yet
but I haven't actually read that many, so I think that this video will be really
useful for me too. So instead I'm gonna recommend an underrated fantasy novel
which is 'Ruined' by Amy Tintera. This whole story and its premise sounds like
everything that we've seen before a million times and before reading it I
thought it had all the chances to turn out to be a flop but I was actually
really surprised at how much I enjoyed it.
So it's this revenge story about infiltrating the royal family and although it has so
many cliches, they were written in an addictive and fantastic way.
I thought it would be good to recommend a different type of fantasy book, a more relaxed one.
While I admit that it's not the most original plot line, I thought the magic system
was actually really interesting and intricate but 'Ruined' has so many good
dialogues, sarcasm and the ending is everything. This was my OG book with the
revenge plot line and I seriously loved it. So go into it ready to have a good time.
Hello everyone my name is Jen from the channel BookSyrup and the fantasy
book that I would like to recommend is 'Red Sister' by Mark Lawrence.
This is an adult epic fantasy novel about a young girl named Nona, who is
taken from poverty into a nunnery but this nunnery just isn't any nunnery.
It is a nunnery for assassins that protect this crumbling world that is
being surrounded by ice. It's a really beautiful and just badass novel and I
highly recommend it especially if you love epic fantasy/
I'm Sophie from SophieElaineReads and I just wanted to recommend one of my favourite sci-f novels
and that is 'The Loneliest Girl in the Universe' by Lauren James.
This follows our main character who is the only surviving member of a spaceship
that is heading towards a new planet so that they can go live there and create a new life.
Years later another spaceship is launched from Earth with just one
boy onboard and these two characters just start emailing each other and gradually
they fall in love but like all YA novels nothing goes to plan and that's all I'm going to say.
This had me hooked. There's lots of twists and turns and I just really, really recommend it.
I'm Sandy from the channel Sandy Reads A Lot and I would like to recommend 'Warcross' by Marie Lu.
This book takes place in a world that has virtual reality and it follows our
main character Emika who's actually a bounty hunter and a hacker.
One day she hacks herself into the opening games of the International Warcross Championships
and she ends up accidentally glitching herself into the game.
So she gets caught she thinks she's going to be arrested but instead the
creator of the game offers her a job opportunity and the story goes from there.
I loved learning about the world. The story was just really action-packed and thrilling.
I was engaged the entire time. There's also a slow-burning romance
in this book that I also really enjoyed. Overall this book was great.
It had everything that I loved reading about in books and if you haven't picked it up I
would highly recommend that you check it out.
It's Hannah from PS I Love That Book and
today I want to recommend to you one of my favourite sci-fi books that actually
made me really think but I do enjoy sci-fi really very much and that is
'Hull Metal Girls' Emily Skrutskie and it's a story about spaceships
traveling to find a new habitable place like Earth and about group of people
Aisha and Kai being the main ones who become these cyborgs and how they are
trained and how they have this big network. It's so action-packed, it has a lot of character development
and it's all set in space and it has all the crazy space thing. So I cannot recommend it enough.
My name is Jay and I'm from the BookTube channel The Awkward Bookworm.
My fantasy recommendation is 'The Last Namsara' by Kristen Ciccarelli.
The book is so fast paced, it's so easy to read, it features amazing characters.
It has a slow burn forbidden romance, which I am a sucker for and it also features dragons.
So I mean where can you go wrong?
If you haven't read this book highly recommend it it is such a great read.
I'm Mel from Mel The Raven Girl and today I'm going to be recommending to you
'The Girl of Fire and Thorns' by Rae Carson. This is the first book of a YA fantasy trilogy
following a princess who is married off to a king and she doesn't know why.
She also has a god stone in her belly button, which means that she is God's chosen one
and it was destined to perform a great deed for the kingdom.
I recommend this book for so many reasons. First of all, it's a very easy fantasy to get into.
So if you're new to genre I'd highly recommend starting here. Second of all, it's a very diverse fantasy.
The world is based on Latinx culture and our main character is plus size.
So you do get a really interesting perspective and a really interesting world.
And lastly it also has amazing character development with a
great romance, that doesn't actually take over at the plot. So if you're not one of
those people who loves really heavy romantic fantasies, I would definitely
recommend this but also if you do love a good romance in a fantasy, I would also
recommend this because it a very good romance. Overall this is just a
really great trilogy with amazing character growth and an amazing plot and
amazing writing and I would highly recommend.
Hi, it's Rocky from the channel Blonde With the Book and my young adult science fiction
recommendation would be 'Nemesis' by Brendon Reichs. This is about the two
characters Noah and Min and they live in the same town but they don't really know
each other very well but since they were both eight years old, every other year on
their birthday they are murdered by a mysterious man and then they wake up
miles away with no recollection as to how they got there and so both of them
on their 16th birthday decide enough is enough and they end up getting thrown
together by a series of events and realise this is happening to both them
and they work together to try to uncover what is going on with them and they end
up kind of unearthing this whole government conspiracy in their town.
While everyone on planet is scared about this asteroid that is hurtling towards
Earth and threatening humanity. So there's definitely a lot going on in this book.
It's one that definitely keeps you engaged because so much is happening
but I would recommend a lot of people pick it up and give it a try because
it's one that's it's very unique and it's very different and I have not read
the sequel yet but I'm very excited to get to it and see what happens because
spoiler alert, this ends on a very serious cliffhanger ending.
The book I have chosen is 'Every Heart a Doorway' by Seanan McGuire. This is a really short novel, long novella
and it is a fantasy but it follows the people coming back from
fantasy worlds instead of being in them. It is a series but this can also be read as a standalone.
The writing here is some of the best writing I have ever read.
It reads so beautifully. The main character is also asexual
one of the other characters is also trans. The representation here is wonderful.
It is a diverse, beautiful fantasy and if you have not yet read it I definitely recommend you pick it up.
It's Cara from Wild Book Garden and today I am recommending
'A Crown of Wishes' by Roshani Chokshi. This is the companion sequel to
'The Star Touched Queen' which I liked but didn't love. This book I loved.
There's a magical tournament there are fantastic characters Gauri our female main character
character is so strong and also really feminine and I really loved that combination.
If you like the magic and the world-building in this book are
really beautiful in the relationships and the character dynamics like between
especially our two main characters of Gauri and Vikram were just so well done.
I just think this is a fantastic fantasy book especially because it draws on
Indian mythology, which is not something we get nearly enough of in publishing.
My name is Amanda and my channel name is Amanda Joy. Over there I talk about about
a wide variety of books but one of my favourite genres is sci-fi. So I'm here to
recommend one of my favourite sci-fi series which is 'The Lunar Chronicles' by Marissa Meyer.
This is a series full of different fairy tale retellings that all
are intricately woven and have very distinct characters and work really well together.
It's exciting and it's fun to read. It comes together so nicely.
I love everything about this series because it is amazing and I highly, highly recommend.
I'm Dustin from BookBabble and my sci-fi recommendation is 'Planet X' by Michael Jan Freedman
It's a 'Star Trek: Next Generation' 'X-Men' crossover. Need I say more?
I'm Olivia from ThatFictionLife and my favourite contemporary fantasy is 'Gilded Cage' by Vic James.
With a Britain that is being led by these
very powerful aristocrats who have magical abilities because that they have
that power they exploit it against the commoners and you have to work for free for ten years for them.
We follow a very morally ambiguous cast of characters.
You never know what their ulterior motive is. The setting of this book is beautiful.
A lot of the estates of based on National Trust properties so aesthetic.
This is a very dark read that explores social injustice, entrenched in
a Britain then have some fantastical elements.
It's Paola from the channel Paola Mancera and today I would like to recommend
'Cheerleaders From Planet X' by Lisa Chiauari.
It's a phenomenal book about family secrets and plot twists
and there is an F/F romance in it and I just can't believe I read it so long ago
and I don't talk about it enough on my channel. So make sure to check it out if
you're into some cool and not overbearing sci-fi books.
Hello, I'm Lily from from Lykaios Reads and my recommended read
is 'Black Tides of Heaven' by Jy Yang. This book is set in a world where people decide their gender
when they are ready to, if they want to at all, they don't have to and that is completely respected.
This one is about two twins. One of the twins
Mokoya begins to have prophetic dreams and no matter how much the twins try,
they cannot stop these dreams from coming true and this causes big problems.
Meanwhile, the other twin is exploring who they are and there's lots
of themes of identity and growing up. Anybody who reads YA would really enjoy this series.
They're very small. They're very interesting.
They're quite dark and they're very, very queer. It's great. I love it and beautiful covers.
Everybody loves a beautiful cover.
Hey guys, my name is Jaedyn. The fantasy book I'm going to be recommending
is 'The Bear and the Nightingale' by Katherine Arden.
This is the first book in a adult historical fiction fantasy series, following a young
girl named Vasilia she grows up in the Russian countryside. After the death of
her mother and remarriage of her father, to her now step-mum, all the old Russian
folklore and fairy tales have been forbidden to be practiced within
the household and eventually all the ancient practices are forgotten within the town.
However Vasilia can see all the demons in the stories and knows them not
to be fake and so tries to keep up the tradition because of the uprising of an
ancient God who has started to awake after thousands of years.
It's really, really atmospheric. It's a kind of book with the description that makes you feel the cold.
Like you feel cold, you feel the Russian weather when you're reading this
and you become so incredibly immersed in the book I highly, highly recommend it
to anyone who's looking for something similar to 'The Night Circus'.
My name is Ethan from the channel Bookish Drama and my recommendation is 'Elantris' by Brandon Sanderson.
This was my first book I read by this author and I think it is the
perfect place to start reading his books and also if you want to get into adult fantasy.
Elantris once was a beautiful city inhabited by people that were
considered gods but now they have turned into some kind of zombie like
creatures and the city is in ruins. The magic is lost and our main characters
have to find a way to solve all these problems.
This novel is full of political intrigue, religion, magic
and I am completely sure that you are going to love it.
Hi guys my name is Monica from Monica Book Lover and one book that I would
recommend to you guys in the fantasy category is the 'Lux' series by Jennifer L. Armentrout.
The book follows the main character Katie, who recently moved to a new town.
Her father died from cancer and her mother is a nurse, so her mother is
hardly home and she's always working long hours. So Katie finds herself at
home all the time and this is where her interest towards from neighbours start
spreading out and she goes under training discovering that the neighbours
are not as normal as she might think. The main character Katie's reader so she's someone that
you can really relate to. The stories's a fast read you and I feel as if you guys would really enjoy the story.
Hi everyone, my name is Michelle and a
fantasy book that I would like to recommend to you is 'Strange the Dreamer' by Laini Taylor.
This is a very popular book and with good reason. 'Strange the Dreamer' is
about this boy named Lazlo Strange who goes looking for the mystical lost city of Weep.
The story is very magical and very whimsical. The writing style is absolutely amazing.
This is probably one of the most beautifully written fantasy books I've ever read.
I just love it very much and that is why I can definitely recommend it to everyone.
Hi guys it's Katie from the channel A Sea Of Tomes
and I'm here today to give you a really great fantasy rec.
'The Realm of the Elderling' series by Robin Hobb. This is an adult epic fantasy series
that follows the life of our main protagonist Fitz who is a royal bastard
who is trained to be a courtly assassin. It's just an incredibly rich, beautiful detailed world.
'Assassin's Apprentice' is the first book you're gonna want to start with
and I just can't recommend this series enough.
I'm Ceri from Ceri Louise Reads and my YA sci-fi recommendation for you today is
one of my favourite books from last year and that is 'The Loneliest Girl in the Universe' by Lauren James.
It is the story of Romi who is 14 years old and she is
the only survivor on a spaceship bound for a new planet to create a new colony from Earth.
We don't know what's happened to her parents, what's happened to the rest
of the crew and that is unraveled as the story goes on.
Another ship on its way which is gonna catch up. It seems that it's gonna
solve all her problems but actually everything that's not what it seems.
There are so many twists and turns this is gripping, exciting and I hugely recommend it.
I would recommend Neil Gaiman's 'American Gods' to anybody.
It's a wonderful fantasy all about the various gods from the Christian religion
as well as Native American folklore, Egyptian religion and a whole lot of other places as well.
It's also wonderfully inter woven together, so it's absolutely seamless
with a whole lot of plot twists and brilliant world building
and I just generally really, really love it.
I would recommend it to absolutely anybody who loves fantasy.
The book I'm going to recommend is called 'Warriors in the Mist' by Susan D. Collier.
It's a dark medieval fantasy.
This is actually my favourite book in the world.
It's about a female, she's a priestess and she's all
about give of yourself, give love, you can solve any problem with love and she hates violence.
She won't even look at a sword because that's a symbol of violence.
The other character in the book is a man. He drinks, he smokes, he curses, he's all about violence.
He says you must solve every problem with violence.
Something in the story happens where they're thrown together.
They learn off of each other. He teaches her it's damaging to be so giving of yourself.
That you must also take and she teaches him it's also damaging to just take for yourself without giving.
So they actually come into an equal balance of that lesson and it was very beautifully done.
It taught me a life lesson that I've carried through since I last read this book.
Hi I'm Julia from Shakespeare and Such and the fantasy book that I would love to recommend is
'Girls Made of Snow and Glass' by Melissa Bashardoust. This book is a YA standalone 'Snow White' retelling,
that focuses on the relationship between Lynette, the 'Snow White' character
and Mina her stepmother and how it evolves and changes as
Lynette gets older and as they both grow to learn more about themselves and their own personal history
I absolutely loved this book. I loved that it focused on
that maternal relationship between the two, as well as them each having their
own very interesting and pretty sweet romantic plot lines. It has some minor
magical elements as well as being fairytale based and has a little bit of
court politics too so kind of ticks all the fantasy boxes.
My name is Rachael from Rachael Marie and I am recommending to you
'The Name of the Wind' by Patrick Rothfuss.
This is the story of Kvothe the innkeeper, who has lived this big epic life full of beautiful magic.
He has slain kings, he has bedded fae women. His story is incredible
and he is now in hiding and doesn't really have a scratch of magic at all
and he is telling his epic story to a chronicler and we get to find out who
this man is and what the hell happened to him. I absolutely adore this book.
I know that you will too. It's totally in the realms of Brandon Sanderson,
J.R. Tolkien and JK Rowling
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