In my travels, I find something so absorbing about visiting a new place. You get
to experience the vibe of a different area and find what makes a place unique.
Perhaps this is why I’m so weak for stories with a strong setting. Give me a
well-crafted environment, and I will likely swoon. The setting could be based on
a real area or completely fantastical, so long as it plays an important role in
the story.
There is a richness that comes from a book where you can imagine the setting
through each of your senses. It adds another layer to the story, and at least
for me, it also serves as a reminder that everyone in the world experiences
their own settings. Just like characters in these books, the world around us
helps shape who we are.
While some of the general hardships that come from just being human are
experienced in these books, the settings play a crucial role in the setup of
their specific conflicts and triumphs.
American Gods meets The Secret History in this
suspenseful start to a brand-new fantasy trilogy about a
girl named Kaira Winters, the murders that keep happening
at her artsy boarding school, and the lengths she must go
to in order to protect the people she loves.
When Kaira Winters decided to
go to Islington—a boarding
school deep in the woods of Michigan—she thought she
could finally get away from everything she has tried so
hard to forget, including some things from her past that
she refuses to believe ever actually happened.
Everything seemed great
until the bodies of murdered
students started appearing all over campus. The victims
seem to have been killed in some sort of ritual
sacrifice. And even worse, Kaira’s dreams are giving her
clues to the killer’s identity.
Though she tries to resist, Kaira quickly
realizes that
she is the only one who can stop the violence, but to do
so she must come to terms with her past. She’s going to
have to listen to the voice that is buried deep within
her…the one that claims to have unimaginable power…the
one that claims to be an actual goddess.
But even if Kaira can harness the
power within her, will
it be enough to stop the darkness that has fallen over
her school? And if it is strong enough, then what’s to
stop the goddess from wreaking her own havoc once she’s
released?
Filled with murder, mystery, and a little bit of magic,
this fresh genre-bending novel is a thrilling page-turner
you won’t be able to put down until the very last page.
A haunting, chilling, and atmospheric southern swamp tale
—perfect for fans of Maggie Stiefvater’s Shiver.
In this companion to
Beware the Wild, the book New York
Times bestselling author Kiersten White called “American
myth at its very best,” Natalie C. Parker takes readers
on a journey back to an eerie Louisiana swamp town.
Candace “Candy”
Pickens has been obsessed with the swamp
lore of her tiny Louisiana town for . . . forever. Name
any ghostly swamp figure and Candy will recite the entire
tale in a way that will curl your toes and send chills up
your spine.
That doesn’t mean Candy’s a believer, however. But with
swamp haunts appearing in town every day, a suspicious
new family in town, and her own mind starting to betray
her, Candy must come to terms with the one piece of swamp
lore she’s never heard before. It’s a tale that’s more
truth than myth, and may hold all the answers . . . and
its roots are in Candy’s own family tree.
Mortals rule the desert nation of Miraji, but mythical
beasts still roam the wild and remote areas, and rumor has
it that somewhere, djinn still perform their magic. For
humans, it’s an unforgiving place, especially if you’re
poor, orphaned, or female.
Amani Al’Hiza is all three. She’s a gifted
gunslinger with
perfect aim, but she can’t shoot her way out of Dustwalk,
the back-country town where she’s destined to wind up wed or
dead.
Then she meets Jin, a rakish foreigner, in a shooting
contest, and sees him as the perfect escape route. But
though she’s spent years dreaming of leaving Dustwalk, she
never imagined she’d gallop away on mythical horse—or that
it would take a foreign fugitive to show her the heart of
the desert she thought she knew.
REBEL OF THE SANDS reveals what happens
when a dream
deferred explodes—in the fires of rebellion, of romantic
passion, and the all-consuming inferno of a girl finally, at
long last, embracing her power.
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