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CHALICE by Robin McKinley

As the newly appointed Chalice, Mirasol is the most important member of the Master’s Circle. It is her duty to bind the Circle, the land and its people together with their new Master. But the new Master of Willowlands is a Priest of Fire, only drawn back into the human world by the sudden death of his brother. No one knows if it is even possible for him to live amongst his people. Mirasol wants the Master to have his chance, but her only training is as a beekeeper. How can she help settle their demesne during these troubled times and bind it to a Priest of Fire, the touch of whose hand can burn human flesh to the bone?

A captivating tale that reveals the healing power of duty and honour, love and honey.

Check out this book on Goodreads: Chalice https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2828595-chalice

I guess this is one of Robin McKinley’s lesser known books. A dreamlike story that features a romance between a young woman who’s really good with bees and a man who’s not quite human anymore.

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BEAUTY by Robin McKinley

Beauty has never liked her nickname. She is thin and awkward; it is her two sisters who are the beautiful ones. But what she lacks in looks, she can perhaps make up for in courage.

When her father comes home with the tale of an enchanted castle in the forest and the terrible promise he had to make to the Beast who lives there, Beauty knows she must go to the castle, a prisoner of her own free will. Her father protests that he will not let her go, but she answers, “Cannot a Beast be tamed?”

Robin McKinley’s beloved telling illuminates the unusual love story of a most unlikely couple, Beauty and the Beast.
Check out this book on Goodreads: Beauty: A Retelling of the Story of Beauty and the Beast https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41424.Beauty
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One of the best retellings of BatB. Slow, cosy, the perfect winter read.

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STOLEN SONGBIRD (Malediction Trilogy, #1) by Danielle L. Jensen

For five centuries, a witch’s curse has bound the trolls to their city beneath the mountain. When Cécile de Troyes is kidnapped and taken beneath the mountain, she realises that the trolls are relying on her to break the curse.

Cécile has only one thing on her mind: escape. But the trolls are clever, fast, and inhumanly strong. She will have to bide her time…

But the more time she spends with the trolls, the more she understands their plight. There is a rebellion brewing. And she just might be the one the trolls were looking for…

Check out this book on Goodreads: Stolen Songbird (The Malediction Trilogy, #1) https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17926775-stolen-songbird
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Very romance driven YA fantasy book that features an Usurper as the male main protagonist and a heroine that comes close to the Holy Mother/Queen archetype as described by @ohtze in her fantastic Kill the King and take the Crown meta ( https://fuck-yeah-monsters-and-villains.tumblr.com/post/169112732992/kill-the-king-and-take-the-crown-kylo-ren-rey ) about the Reylo dynamic in TLJ.

The book itself is not my favourite as it’s a little bit too teen oriented (mostly character descriptions) for someone as ancient as myself. The premise is fantastic though and being a sucker for the good old girl going underground trope I still enjoyed it.

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COTTONWOOD by R. Lee Smith

They never meant to come to Earth. They were never allowed to leave…

Welcome to Cottonwood.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17563213-cottonwood

It’s basically District 9 fanfic. 👽💘👱 Wonderful romance between a human social worker and her alien “case”. And don’t worry about the sex! It’s hot, alien and detailed, no “fade to black”. 😘

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Get ready to DEFY THE STARS on April 4th! Check out an excerpt of Claudia’s new interstellar adventure series over on Entertainment Weekly.  

DEFY THE STARS by Claudia Gray

Noemi Vidal is seventeen years old and sworn to protect her planet, Genesis. She’s willing to risk anything—including her own life. To their enemies on Earth, she’s a rebel.

He’s a machine.

Abandoned in space for years, utterly alone, Abel has advanced programming that’s begun to evolve. He wants only to protect his creator, and to be free. To the people of Genesis, he’s an abomination.

Noemi and Abel are enemies in an interstellar war, forced by chance to work together as they embark on a daring journey through the stars. Their efforts would end the fighting for good, but they’re not without sacrifice. The stakes are even higher than either of them first realized, and the more time they spend together, the more they’re forced to question everything they’d been taught was true.

Check out this book on Goodreads: Defy the Stars (Constellation, #1) https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31423196-defy-the-stars

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There are some pretty strong reylo vibes:

Naomi is capable and strong willed but has almost no sense of self worth. Orphaned at an early age she never had the feeling of truly belonging somewhere. After losing the only person she truly connected with she’s ready to sacrifice herself to change the outcome of a battle to buy her people more time in an ongoing war.

Abel is an android, constructed and groomed to fulfil one specific purpose for his creator. Abandoned for decades on a space ship he knows the meaning of loneliness. Yet when Naomi frees him and his programming demands that he accepts her as his new master his main objective stays the same. Find his true master and seek his approval.

Both Naomi and Abel travel together on a risky mission to turn the outcome of the war. Slowly they find out that they are more than the sum of their parts, more than their upbringing or programming.

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BRYONY AND ROSES by T. Kingfisher

Bryony and her sisters have come down in the world. Their merchant father died trying to reclaim his fortune and left them to eke out a living in a village far from their home in the city.

But when Bryony is caught in a snowstorm and takes refuge in an abandoned manor, she stumbles into a house full of dark enchantments. Is the Beast that lives there her captor, or a fellow prisoner? Is the house her enemy or her ally? And why are roses blooming out of season in the courtyard?

Armed only with gardening shears and her wits, Bryony must untangle the secrets of the house before she—or the Beast—are swallowed by them.

Check out this book on Goodreads: Bryony and Roses https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25566132-bryony-and-roses

A wonderful take on Beauty and the Beast. In this version a dark entity resides within the beast’ s castle. Funny, creepy and romantic.

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CRUEL BEAUTY by Rosamund Hodge

Graceling meets Beauty and the Beast in this sweeping fantasy about one girl’s journey to fulfill her destiny and the monster who gets in her way-by stealing her heart.

Based on the classic fairy tale Beauty and the Beast, Cruel Beauty is a dazzling love story about our deepest desires and their power to change our destiny.

Since birth, Nyx has been betrothed to the evil ruler of her kingdom-all because of a foolish bargain struck by her father. And since birth, she has been in training to kill him.

With no choice but to fulfill her duty, Nyx resents her family for never trying to save her and hates herself for wanting to escape her fate. Still, on her seventeenth birthday, Nyx abandons everything she’s ever known to marry the all-powerful, immortal Ignifex. Her plan? Seduce him, destroy his enchanted castle, and break the nine-hundred-year-old curse he put on her people.

But Ignifex is not at all what Nyx expected. The strangely charming lord beguiles her, and his castle—a shifting maze of magical rooms—enthralls her.

As Nyx searches for a way to free her homeland by uncovering Ignifex’s secrets, she finds herself unwillingly drawn to him. Even if she could bring herself to love her sworn enemy, how can she refuse her duty to kill him? With time running out, Nyx must decide what is more important: the future of her kingdom, or the man she was never supposed to love.

Check out this book on Goodreads: Cruel Beauty (Cruel Beauty Universe, #1) https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15839984-cruel-beauty

I don’t want to give away too much but the dark and dangerous LI/antagonist is having a rather severe identity crisis. Definitely reylo vibes.😏

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THE BEAR AND THE NIGHTINGALE by Katherine Arden

At the edge of the Russian wilderness, winter lasts most of the year and the snowdrifts grow taller than houses. But Vasilisa doesn’t mind—she spends the winter nights huddled around the embers of a fire with her beloved siblings, listening to her nurse’s fairy tales. Above all, she loves the chilling story of Frost, the blue-eyed winter demon, who appears in the frigid night to claim unwary souls. Wise Russians fear him, her nurse says, and honor the spirits of house and yard and forest that protect their homes from evil.

After Vasilisa’s mother dies, her father goes to Moscow and brings home a new wife. Fiercely devout, city-bred, Vasilisa’s new stepmother forbids her family from honoring the household spirits. The family acquiesces, but Vasilisa is frightened, sensing that more hinges upon their rituals than anyone knows.

And indeed, crops begin to fail, evil creatures of the forest creep nearer, and misfortune stalks the village. All the while, Vasilisa’s stepmother grows ever harsher in her determination to groom her rebellious stepdaughter for either marriage or confinement in a convent.

As danger circles, Vasilisa must defy even the people she loves and call on dangerous gifts she has long concealed—this, in order to protect her family from a threat that seems to have stepped from her nurse’s most frightening tales.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25493853-the-bear-and-the-nightingale

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SUNSHINE by Robin McKinley

There are places in the world where darkness rules, where it’s unwise to walk. But there hadn’t been any trouble out at the lake for years, and Sunshine just needed a spot where she could be alone with her thoughts. Vampires never entered her mind.

Until they found her…

Check out this book on Goodreads: Sunshine https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8088.Sunshine

This book is very hard to describe. At the beginning everything seems mundane, even boring. We meet Sunshine who is mostly occupied with cinnamon rolls and follow her everyday life for a while. That is until Robin McKinley pulls the rug from under one’s feet and the world the book is set in is revealed to be alien, dangerous and magical. She does this by casually mentioning things that happened prior to the plot. It’s as if the bubble the reader was in bursts and all of a sudden a larger, more intruiging but also more frightening reality can be perceived. This is done so well that I experienced a moment of disorientation and had to check if I was still reading the same book or if I had overlooked some hints. McKinley does this a couple of times in this wonderful and strange story.
The plot starts moving more straightforward once the reader gets acquainted with the characters and the world they inhabit. The mysterious bond formed between the heroine and the truly inhuman vampire is fascinating til the end.

Here is a review by Sherwood Smith:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/35623171

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