Hello my bookish friends, so today is a major publication day for quite a few UKYA books and I thought I would do a round up. They are all authors I’ve read and I can’t wait to read them all after getting out of my slump from Fourth Wing. 😅 If you’ve read it you know what I mean…
I’ve been very lucky to receive a proof of each of these and I can’t wait to read in the next couple of weeks. If you haven’t picked up a book from any of these author then I would highly recommend them. These are some of my favourite authors. So without further ado here are…
5 New UKYA Books you need to pick up…
Black Heat by Bex Hogan
Exile. Rebel. Healer. Three underestimated women, destined to be brought together by revenge in this dark and thrilling new YA fantasy.
Marzal – an exiled daughter with a plan for her return.
Rayn – a rebel blacksmith with a blade of blood.
Elena – a gentle midwife with a fiercely protected secret.
Each young woman wants peace for their country, but in times of war, not everyone fights by the same rules. As their countries burn around them, and the stakes of victory rise, each woman will have to decide how far she is willing to go for peace.
But the desire for revenge also burns deep…
Murder on a School Night by Kate Weston
There’s never a good time to find a dead body. But finding a dead body while you’re trying to kiss your crush? Dead awkward. All Kerry wants to do is stay at home with her rom-coms and strict retainer schedule. Instead, her BFF Annie has roped her into going to their first sixth-form party to investigate who’s cyberbullying Heather, the most popular girl in school. On the cusp of kissing her dreamy crush, Scott, Kerry discovers the body of Heather’s second in command – suffocated with a menstrual cup. Within days, another student turns up dead, this time with a sanitary pad across the eyes. Now Annie and Kerry are officially on the case to stop the menstrual murderer . . . period.
Sing If You Can’t Dance by Alexia Casale
An entirely original and much-needed own-voices perspective from a teenager coming to terms with her disability as she’s coming of age. Ven had her life all planned out. her dance group were going places and so was she. Then she passes out right in the middle of a life-changing performance. And she’s forced to admit that she hasn’t been feeling right for a while now. Ven is about to discover she has an illness that threatens to ruin everything. No more dancing. even walking is proving a challenge, and standing. But don’t you DARE feel sorry for her! Ven is no victim, and she is in charge here. Sure, her future is going to be different. but that doesn’t mean it’s over. Because if you can’t dance, you can always sing!
Getting Away With Murder by Kathryn Foxfield
Cabin in the Woods meets Squid Game – a girl playing a game with a supercomputer unwittingly traps her sister in a deadly escape room. When Saffron is forced to do work experience at a tech company, she gets into an argument with her supervisor over which high school stereotype would survive the longest in a horror film: the sports star? The queen bee? The swot? The drama girl? The class clown? The rebel? Unbeknown to them, the AI robot she is working on at the time decides to determine the answer by testing it out for real. It designs an algorithm to search social media and school records to find the best examples of each stereotype from the neighbouring towns, and the invitations go out – six people, including Saffron’s perfectionist sister Georgia, will be trapped in a series of deadly escape rooms and only one will survive the night…
The Girl Who Grew Wings by Anna Waterworth
In the citadel of Appollis, the Gods bestow single gifts on a chosen few. Icari has always known she’s a Healer, while her twin sister, Sephie, is cast as an Embalmer, despite showing early promise as an Alchemist – a secret the sisters keep to themselves for possessing two skills is punishable by death.
While Sephie learns how to wrap the dead, Icari eases the suffering of others, including a charismatic enemy prisoner called Caszeil. And it’s to Caszeil that Icari turns when demons rise up from the Underworld and kidnap her sister. With his help, perhaps she can rescue Sephie. Even if this means growing wings – and flying in the face of the devil himself . . .
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It’s a shame we in Australia don’t hear as much about UKYA. We’re always getting US instead. Thanks for putting these on my radar!
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