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Warrior of the Wild by Tricia Levenseller

WARRIOR OF THE WILD is about eighteen-year-old warrior Rasmira who fails her coming-of-age trial after being betrayed. Banished from her village by her father, the chieftain, she accepts an impossible task in order to redeem her honor: kill a god and survive the monster-riddled wilderness it lives in. Tricia Levenseller packs this Viking-inspired YA standalone fantasy with dangerous quests, foul creatures, friendship, and romance.

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Nemesis by Anna Banks

Set in a vivid and lush fantasy world, NEMESIS by Anna Banks is the first book in a duology introducing Princess Sepora of Serubel, the last Forger in the Five Kingdoms, who finds herself captured by the neighboring enemy kingdom where she finds herself in service to Tarik, the newly crowned Falcon King of Theoria.

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Young Adult Book Review: Lailah by Nikki Kelly

With Lailah, Nikki Kelly took the typical themes of vampires vs. angels, bad vs. good, and gave us some surprising shades of gray. I love it when characters break out of the stereotypical role and are multifaceted. Showings sides of both, making it hard to choose who is the real villain, who is really good, and who's a little of both. Lailah, Gabriel, and Jonah are all multifaceted, and to a degree, I never felt completely sure just how much they each carried in traits normally assumed to be 'vampire' and 'angel' or something altogether different.

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