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series4 books2014

Fantasy, dark and tense in tone, about witches, set in contemporary.

“Sally Green's Half Bad is set in a modern Britain where witches live alongside ordinary humans, split between a persecuted Black witch minority and a dominant White witch majority.”
from the catalogue

Start with Half Bad →

The ScholomanceSeries

series3 books2020

Dark fantasy, about magic schools and survival.

Start with A Deadly Education →

GrishaverseUniverse

universe19 books2012

Fantasy, set in secondary world.

“Saints are canonized here the way soldiers are buried elsewhere — quietly, and too often.”
from the catalogue

Start with Six of Crows →

includes The Nikolai Duology, Six of Crows, The Grisha

KarouSeries

series4 books2011

Emotional in tone.

“From copyright page: Seventeen year old Karou, a lovely, enigmatic art student in a Prague boarding school, carries a sketchbook of hideous, frightening monsters - the chimerae who form the only family she has ever known.”
from the catalogue

Start with Daughter of Smoke & Bone →

An Ember in the AshesSeries

series4 books2015

Epic fantasy, about rebellion and revolution.

“Sabaa Tahir's quartet, continuing through A Torch Against the Night, A Reaper at the Gates, and A Sky Beyond the Storm, follows the two toward a reckoning with the empire that trained one of them to enforce it.”
from the catalogue

Start with An Ember in the Ashes →

Sea WitchSeries

series2 books2018

Fairy tale retelling.

“Ever since her best friend, Anna, drowned, Evie has been an outcast in her small fishing town.”
from the catalogue

Start with Sea Witch →

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