Young Adult Fiction Titles You'll Be Sure to Love
- Victoria
- Mar 11, 2019
- 2 min read
Updated: Mar 20, 2019
I'm going to admit it: I love young adult fiction.
This used to be a source of shame for me, because what self-respecting twenty-something still reads books aimed at high school students?
The answer, of course, is this one! Young adult fiction is more of a promise of a certain type of book than a section now. We get nuanced characters with action, romance, and none of the real-life responsibilities that come along with fiction aimed at older readers.
Here are my top 5 favourite young adult fantasy novels (in no particular order), specifically aimed at readers who are past their high school years, and some who are too good to let the younger audience deter you.
1. A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas
Loosely based on the Beauty and the Beast, A Court of Thorns and Roses is a story of a young woman who shoots a wolf, and gets taken to live out the rest of her life in the Faerie Courts. Slowly, her hatred of her host and captor, Tamlin, develops into something deeper... and then she finds out that all is not what it seems in Prythian.
2. The Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater
Blue Sargent is the only non-clairvoyant member of her household, and she's okay with that. Until the night that she sees the soul of a boy, Gansey, from the exclusive all-boys Aglionby Academy walking towards her on St. Mark's Eve. Blue is drawn in by Gansey, his friends and his quest for a magical Welsh king. There's only one problem - Blue is destined to kill her true love with a kiss.
3. An Ember in the Ashes by Sabaa Tahir
In a world inspired by ancient Rome, neither the slave-born Laia nor the privileged Elias is free to live the life they want. Elias is the top student at an exclusive military academy, but is desperate to break free of the life that he knows is wrong. When Laia's brother is accused of treason, she must become a spy in that military academy in order to survive. Laia and Elias are destined to meet, and their fates will bring down the Empire.
4. Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo
In Ketterdam, coin is king and profit is the only god. Kaz Brekker, the leader of the Dregs street gang, knows this better than anyone. When given the chance to pull off a deadly heist for the payout of a lifetime, Kaz must assemble a crew to get the job done, or die trying. No mourners, no funerals.
5. Cold Magic by Kate Elliott
Catherine Bell Barahal is a perfectly respectable girl by Adurnam standards, even if she was trained as an assassin and a spy. Her respectable and peaceful life is turned upside down when she is married to a powerful Magister from Four Moons House, and later discovers that she isn't at all who she thought she was.
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