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Auralia’s unusual colour-making gift brings her into contact with rulers, a wizard and a prince with dangerous secrets. Her discovery links a personal mystery to wider upheaval across the Expanse.

This science-fiction adventure centres on time travel, conflict with Eyewall and a choice between protecting loved ones and trying to avert a grim future.

This is a school-set murder mystery about the fallout from a violent clash between two students. Its six boy narrators offer different perspectives as friends and enemies face loss, suspicion and racial tensions.

A fast-moving space adventure follows a captured outlaw forced into service by the power that destroyed her home. Ia’s escape plans become tangled with new friendships and questions of loyalty.

Expect a strong shift in mood: early comedy and school antics give way to sustained conflict and tragic drama. The light opening does not represent the tone throughout.

A fantasy about balancing an extraordinary responsibility with friendship and uncertainty about life after school; humour and Bailey’s grounded teenage voice help connect the supernatural elements to everyday concerns.

Expect a high-action fantasy about survival, loyalty and choosing what sort of person to become, rather than a romance-led story. Aina’s assassin role and the consequences of her choices are prominent.

This is a high-stakes story about sisters, secrecy and political power, centred on Frey’s struggle to protect Rafi while confronting a life shaped by someone else’s identity.

This is a high-stakes fantasy finale focused on loyalty, identity and difficult choices, with a continuing cast and world. It is not presented as a standalone story.

Expect a fantasy adventure that mixes family upheaval, secret-society mysteries, powerful relics and threats described as difficult to destroy.

A dark fantasy about a young outcast learning to use her powers, with belonging and loyalty competing against rage, fear and the pull towards harming others.

This is a sweeping fantasy about Zélie’s attempt to restore magic, pursued by the crown and complicated by her feelings for an enemy. Its imagined kingdom also carries themes of racial oppression and resistance.

A fantasy caper built around a criminal boy’s plan to ransom a fairy, with high-tech opponents and a possible clash between species.

This is a fantasy adventure built around a search, a resistance and a mystery about stolen powers. Its appeal may lie in the blend of strange technology and magic.

A friendship-led adventure combines a mythical figure with a sequence of daily challenges and changing superpower choices.

A storm sets off a search for Danny’s missing parents, while a new ability to hear plants and animals draws him into a supernatural struggle.

The story combines a teenager’s discovery about her identity with fairy lore and a perilous journey. Aoife’s friendship with Shay becomes important as she tries to make sense of what is happening.

This is a supernatural school-and-sisterhood story focused on Sarah’s loneliness, loyalty and desire to understand her powers. Its central tension is whether she can face the danger without losing the support of those close to her.

This is a high-stakes group adventure about trying to prevent war. The focus shifts from protecting the friends’ own people to a wider effort, while their plan is complicated by divided loyalties.

This historical story puts Myrto’s limited choices at its centre: she is given in marriage by her brother and must consider whether to accept the life assigned to her or seek another path.

This is a supernatural romance built around Joy’s dangerous ability and a choice involving Ink and the Twixt. Personal freedom, love and the consequences for people close to her are central.

This fantasy sequel centres on Tania’s return to a devastated Faerie court, where she and Edric must seek help against a powerful enemy.

Expect a fantasy quest shaped by prophecy, magic and a long-standing struggle involving gods, rulers and people. Garion’s changing understanding of his origins is also central.

This is an invasion-and-resistance story with a young central character caught between human rebels and the alien ruling society she belongs to.

This is a fantasy adventure built around magical threats, uncertain loyalties and a plan that puts the twins at its centre.

A fantastical adventure pits three friends against a cereal company’s world-taking scheme, with goblin impersonators, faeries and a journey through a space-time rift. The friends aim to rescue the Queen and halt an invasion.

This is a fantasy about managing powerful magic alongside travel, friendship and uncertain relationships. Undine’s inner conflict and Trout’s feelings give the story a personal focus as well as a magical one.

A supernatural horror story about friendship, sculpting and the consequences of helping create something that can live. Davie’s own role in the creation makes his choices central to the premise.

A dystopian adventure follows two friends as they uncover a hidden secret. Standish's difficulty with reading and writing is part of his characterisation, alongside his distinct way of seeing the world.

This combines a young woman’s magical calling with court intrigue and a family connection to the Tudor monarchy. Mary’s distrust of love is tested by her attraction to an opponent.

Secret spellcasting gives Eliza and her housemates a taste of freedom and power, but a spell’s deadly consequence changes the stakes. The book pairs boarding-school life and sisterhood with supernatural danger.

This is a superpower story about pursuing a demanding ambition despite being born without the ability that seems essential to it. An unexpected opportunity shifts the central character’s prospects.

The story follows Isis after she loses her love, home and powers, as she ventures among humans and into the underworld to try to put Egypt right.

A lively-sounding fantasy premise combines Greek-mythology influences, magic, an immortal princess and an unlikely quest. Ana’s own wish to choose her future sits alongside the threat posed by her tutor’s search for power.

This is an adventure shaped by clashing inventions and an uneasy partnership. The central contrast is between engineered living creatures and steam-powered machines, with Alek and Deryn caught on opposing sides.

A modern fairytale combines a fantastical journey with Masha’s wish to reunite with her mother. The central choice is presented as a question, not an answer.

This is a high-stakes fantasy adventure built around a group of morally complicated outsiders, a dangerous magical object and uneasy cooperation.

This is a fantasy about a young woman learning magic while facing threats, displacement and uncertainty about where she belongs. Her abilities may help protect her, but they also make her vulnerable.

This is fast-moving science fiction built around immersive technology, friendship and a fight against a powerful corporation, with danger spanning virtual and real worlds.

This is a faith-centred historical adventure, combining political upheaval with the struggles of an adviser and a prophet. Its focus is on loyalty, family protection and the consequences of standing by a religious conviction.

A dark historical reimagining centres on a countess whose desire to preserve her beauty leads to murder and bathing in human blood. Love and beauty’s relationship to power also feature.

This is a fantasy adventure about a newly adopted child who discovers a hidden connection to his family’s past and chooses to help someone trapped in another world.

The story combines a search for a cure with resistance to a society that exploits humans. Mel and Carter pursue separate leads as Lily’s condition and Mel’s transformation raise the stakes.

This is a fantasy adventure about siblings facing a threat involving an enchanted amulet. University and laboratory settings sit alongside witchcraft, sorcery and a plot to develop a youth serum.

This is a large-scale fantasy adventure about dragons’ bid for freedom and the effort to stop them from taking over the world.