French YA fantasy set in a nasty Versailles-like world of political intrigue
Tag: Dark vibes
Impossible Creatures by Katherine Rundell
A magical high stakes adventure & instant classic
Uprooted by Naomi Novik
Spellbinding gothic fairy tale-like fantasy
Yesteryear by Caro Claire Burke
Page turning bestseller full of hot button topics
Empire of the Dawn by Jay Kristoff
Series conclusion is good in parts
The Mushroom Tapes by Helen Garner, Chloe Hooper and Sarah Krasnostein
Personal & insightful
What Have They Done to Liza McLean? by Amy Doak
Eleanor Jones goes to dark academia boarding school
The Invocations by Krystal Sutherland
Supernatural page-turner
Katabasis by R. F. Kuang
Alice in the underworld
Empire of the Damned by Jay Kristoff
Book 2 is darker than Book 1, but just as page-turning
