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Victoria Aveyard · 2015 · US · fantasy · young adult
Book 1 of 4 in Red Queen
★ 3.97 Goodreads · 1,228,617 ratings

In a kingdom where silver-blooded nobles with powers rule red-blooded commoners, Mare Barrow, a Red thief, shows in front of the whole court that she has a power of her own, and the king hides her in plain sight as a lost Silver noblewoman.

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Lightlark

Alex Aster · 2022 · US 98% match ★ 3.84 Goodreads · 382,388 ratings
Book 1 of 4 in Lightlark
shares: love triangle, twisty, betrayal, romance · easy read, earnest

Every hundred years the island of Lightlark appears for the Centennial, a deadly game in which the rulers of six cursed realms compete to break their curses, and Isla Crown, young ruler of the Wildlings, arrives with secrets of her own.

An Ember in the Ashes

Sabaa Tahir · 2015 · US 97% match ★ 4.23 Goodreads · 365,391 ratings
Book 1 of 4 in An Ember in the Ashes
shares: love triangle, rebellion, secondary world · easy read, earnest

Laia, a Scholar girl whose brother is arrested for treason, spies for the rebels as a slave at the Martial Empire's brutal military academy, where Elias, its finest soldier, secretly wants out.

Shadow and Bone

Leigh Bardugo · 2012 · US 97% match ★ 3.91 Goodreads · 1,159,019 ratings
Book 1 of 3 in The Grisha
shares: love triangle, betrayal, secondary world, romance · easy read, earnest

Alina Starkov, an orphaned mapmaker in Ravka's army, reveals a power no one knew she had when her regiment is attacked crossing the Shadow Fold, and is taken to the capital to train among the Grisha under the enigmatic Darkling.

The Cruel Prince

Holly Black · 2018 · US 96% match ★ 4.00 Goodreads · 1,889,283 ratings
Book 1 of 3 in The Folk of the Air
shares: betrayal, secondary world, young adult, court · easy read, earnest

Jude, a mortal girl brought to the High Court of Faerie as a child after her parents were murdered, wants a place among the fair folk who despise her, and to get it she must defy Prince Cardan, the cruellest of them.

The Hunger Games

Suzanne Collins · 2008 · US 96% match ★ 4.36 Goodreads · 10,329,666 ratings
Book 1 of 5 in The Hunger Games
shares: rebellion, dystopian, young adult · easy read, fast-paced

A teenage girl volunteers to fight to the death in a televised arena to save her sister, and the games become a catalyst for revolution.

We Set the Dark on Fire

Tehlor Kay Mejia · 2019 · US 96% match ★ 3.75 Goodreads · 21,279 ratings
Book 1 of 2 in We Set the Dark on Fire
shares: rebellion, young adult, class, dystopian · easy read, earnest

On the island of Medio, divided by a wall, Daniela Vargas graduates top of a school that trains girls to be a powerful man's first wife, hiding that her papers are forged, until a resistance movement offers her a choice.

Powerless

Lauren Roberts · 2023 · US 96% match ★ 4.12 Goodreads · 1,114,598 ratings
Book 1 of 3 in Powerless
shares: dystopian, secondary world, young adult, romance · easy read, plain prose

In a kingdom where the gifted Elites rule and the powerless Ordinaries are hunted, a thief named Paedyn Gray hides that she has no power at all, until she saves a prince and is thrown into the deadly Purging Trials.

Girls of Paper and Fire

Natasha Ngan · 2018 · UK 95% match ★ 3.80 Goodreads · 59,966 ratings
Book 1 of 3 in Girls of Paper and Fire
shares: rebellion, young adult, class, court · earnest, easy read

Lei, a girl of the lowest, fully human Paper caste, is taken from her village to the palace of the Demon King to serve as one of his Paper Girls, and finds herself falling for another of the chosen girls, Wren.

The Serpent and the Wings of Night

Carissa Broadbent · 2022 · US 95% match ★ 4.25 Goodreads · 828,575 ratings
Book 1 of 5 in Crowns of Nyaxia
shares: secondary world, romance · easy read, earnest

Oraya, the human adopted daughter of the Nightborn vampire king, enters the Kejari, a deadly tournament held for the goddess of death, and is forced into an alliance with Raihn, a rival vampire she has every reason to fear.

Spark of the Everflame

Penn Cole · 2023 · US 95% match ★ 4.17 Goodreads · 339,805 ratings
Book 1 of 3 in Kindred's Curse
shares: rebellion, secondary world, political, court · easy read, earnest

Diem Bellator, a healer in Emarion, where cruel demigods called the Descended rule over mortals, goes looking for her missing mother and uncovers a secret that ties her family to the Descended, while the heir of the dying king takes an unwelcome interest in her.

Children of Blood and Bone

Tomi Adeyemi · 2018 · US 94% match ★ 4.10 Goodreads · 261,102 ratings
Book 1 of 3 in Legacy of Orïsha
shares: rebellion, secondary world, young adult · easy read, earnest

Magic vanished from Orïsha the night the king's soldiers killed the maji, Zélie Adebola's mother among them, and now Zélie, her brother and a runaway princess have one chance to bring it back before the crown prince hunts them down.

Three Dark Crowns

Kendare Blake · 2016 · US 94% match ★ 3.78 Goodreads · 120,059 ratings
Book 1 of 4 in Three Dark Crowns
shares: betrayal, young adult, political, court · easy read, earnest

On the island of Fennbirn, every generation of queens is born as triplets, each with a different gift, and when they turn sixteen they must fight to the death for the crown: Mirabella the elemental, Katharine the poisoner and Arsinoe the naturalist.