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One fierce fall: 6 books to curl up with this season
Fierce Reads are some of the edgiest, most gripping YA novels we’ve read—and we can’t wait to check out this season’s new batch of bold books.
Take a break from the stress of school (and your cell phone!), curl up with a cozy blanket and immerse yourself in these fictitious worlds featuring supernatural powers, dystopian societies, alternate universes and more.
Scroll through the slideshow below to check out six new titles—and check out the Fierce Reads website for exclusive book details, contests and more.
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Mortal Danger
By Ann Aguirre
Be careful—the first book in the Immortal Games series will leave you hooked!
For what feels like forever, Edie Kramer has been tormented by her classmates at Blackbriar Academy. Just when she thinks she’s unable to face the ridicule that goes along with senior year, she enters a Faustian contract with a man, Kian, and is suddenly able to seek revenge on her classmates.
Edie is completely satisfied that her bullies are getting exactly what they deserve (after all, they’ve been tormenting her forever), but soon, the payback turns deadly. Secrets and deceptions are spreading, and soon, Edie doesn’t know who she can trust.
Can she trust her classmates? Can she trust Kian? Can she even trust herself? CLICK HERE to download the first 5 chapters for free! -
Trial by Fire
By Josephine Angelini
Lilly Proctor has seen better days. She just wants to be an average, Salem high school student, but her life-threatening allergies prevent her from doing the typical activities most teens enjoy. So when Lilly finally has the opportunity to go to her first high school party, she jumps at the chance for normality. But when Lilly suffers a monumentally embarrassing moment in front of all her classmates, she just wants to disappear.
Unexpectedly, Lilly is transported into another world. She’s still living in Salem, but this Salem is filled with horrifying creatures and is controlled by villainous women called Crucibles.
The most frightening woman? Lillian—the Lilly living in this alternate reality. Take the journey with Lilly as she learns that what makes her weak in old Salem is what makes her powerful in this alternate reality.
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The Vault of Dreamers
By Caragh M. O’Brien
When Rosie Sinclair is accepted into The Forge School, a prestigious art school that films students’ lives for television, her world is turned upside down. To enhance creativity, students are required to take a sleeping pill every day, resulting in twelve hours of uninterrupted sleep.
One day, Rosie rebelliously skips her sleeping pill—and discovers the school is full of secrets that are out of the camera’s view. What in the students’ lives is true, and what is manipulated by the school? Are her dreams even real, or are they just hallucinations? Tag along with Rosie and find out!
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Lailah
By Nikki Kelly
Lailah knows nothing about who she is. She has no family, doesn’t age, dreams of a past life and has vivid visions of someone named Gabriel. She doesn’t even know that her name is Lailah until she encounters an injured stranger, Jonah, while coming home from work.
Jonah reveals he’s a Vampire, who, with the help of a rogue angel, Gabriel —the man of Lailah’s dreams—fights to sever dark forces. Now, Lailah is stuck between good and evil; will she ever discover who she really is?
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Firebug
By Lish McBride
Ava was blessed with the unconventional ability to start fires with her mind—a talent that, although it seems pretty amazing, is a curse for her. Because of this supernatural power, Ava is a hitman for a magical mafia…and her boss, Venus, killed her mother.
Just when she thinks things couldn’t get any more difficult, Venus asks Ava to kill a family friend. To escape the life tied in contract to the mafia, Ava runs away in hopes of saving herself and her loved ones. Can her risky mission save the lives of those she loves?
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Unraveled
By Gennifer Albin
In the final installment of the Crewel World trilogy, Adelice returns to Arras to find complete chaos. The Guild has been manipulating its citizens and in order to help Cormac Patton restore order to Arras, Adelice must face the consequence of either entering into an unthinkable alliance or risking a war that could cost her those she loves the most.
CLICK HERE to get caught up on the Crewel World trilogy.