Graceling
Katsa, Graced with killing, breaks from her uncle's use of her and follows a kidnapped prince toward a hidden king.
2,517-word summary · 11 min read
Tag: fantasy
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Ella Enchanted
Cursed to obey, Ella fights for freedom and love in a Cinderella retelling.
2,725-word summary · 12 min read
Eldest
Eragon trains with Oromis in Ellesmera while Roran defends Carvahall and Nasuada leads the Varden toward war.
2,652-word summary · 12 min read
Clockwork Princess
Tessa chooses between Jem and Will as Mortmain's clockwork army closes on the London Institute.
3,289-word summary · 15 min read
Before the Coffee Gets Cold
In a Tokyo cafe where guests can revisit the past until their coffee cools, four visitors seek words left unsaid with lovers and kin.
2,233-word summary · 10 min read
A Kingdom of Flesh and Fire
Poppy travels to Atlantia with Hawke as Casteel while war, prophecies, and her own gifts close in.
3,048-word summary · 14 min read
Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
Elphaba is born green in Oz and called wicked for refusing the Wizard in Maguire's 1995 novel.
2,119-word summary · 9 min read
The Wise Man's Fear
Kvothe leaves the University to serve Maer Alveron in Vintas, then survives Felurian, the Adem and a trial back home.
2,788-word summary · 12 min read
The Well of Ascension
After the Lord Ruler falls, Vin and Elend must hold Luthadel against three armies while a mist spirit hunts Vin and the Well of Ascension calls.
2,395-word summary · 11 min read
The Way of Kings
A slave, a warlord, and a scholar thief collide on a storm battered world marching toward an old war.
2,359-word summary · 10 min read
The Magician's Nephew
C. S. Lewis's Narnia origin story retold: Digory and Polly, the Wood between the Worlds, the waking of Jadis in Charn, Aslan's singing creation, and the apple…
2,528-word summary · 11 min read
The Graveyard Book
A toddler escapes the murder of his family and is raised by ghosts in a graveyard, learning from the dead while the killer who hunts him waits outside.
2,786-word summary · 12 min read
The Eye of the World
Farm boys flee Trollocs with Moiraine and Lan, split at Shadar Logoth, and trek to the Eye in the Blight.
2,454-word summary · 11 min read
Ruin and Rising
Hiding in the White Cathedral, a weakened Alina hunts the firebird while the Darkling holds Ravka and the Fold widens.
2,775-word summary · 12 min read
Neverwhere
Richard Mayhew helps a bleeding girl in London and slips into London Below, a hidden city of killers, bargains and angels.
2,689-word summary · 12 min read
Marked
Zoey Redbird is Marked as a fledgling vampyre and sent to Tulsa's House of Night, where Goddess-gifted powers, new friends, and a corrupt queen bee test her…
2,101-word summary · 9 min read
House of Sky and Breath
Bryce and Hunt want normal love but rebels and Asteri pull them to war and portals.
2,204-word summary · 10 min read
Divine Rivals
Iris Winnow trades secret letters with rival Roman Kitt as gods Enva and Dacre wake to war.
2,594-word summary · 12 min read
Dead Until Dark
Sookie Stackhouse, a telepathic waitress in Bon Temps, falls for vampire Bill Compton as local murders close in.
2,751-word summary · 12 min read
Clockwork Prince
Tessa Gray stays at the London Institute in 1878 as Will hides a curse, Jem weakens, and Mortmain moves his automatons.
2,784-word summary · 12 min read
City of Lost Souls
Clary leaves the Institute to stay close to a bound Jace while Alec, Izzy, Simon and Magnus search for a cure in New York.
2,782-word summary · 12 min read
Bridge to Terabithia
Katherine Paterson's Bridge to Terabithia retold: Jess Aarons and Leslie Burke build an imagined kingdom and face sudden loss.
2,673-word summary · 12 min read
Beautiful Creatures
A mortal boy loves a Caster girl whose sixteenth birthday will claim her for Light or Dark.
2,012-word summary · 9 min read