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The Winner's Crime

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Lady Smoke

Laura Sebastian · 496 pages

Love TrianglePolitical IntrigueRebels and ResistanceForbidden Love
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Red Queen

Victoria Aveyard · 388 pages

Mare Barrow's world is divided by blood--those with red and those with silver. Mare and her family are lowly Reds, destined to serve the Silver elite whose supernatural abilities make them nearly gods. Mare steals what she can to help her family survive, but when her best friend is conscripted into the army she gambles everything to win his freedom. A twist of fate leads her to the royal palace it

Love TriangleRebels and ResistancePolitical IntrigueFirst Person Narrator
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Reckless

Lauren Roberts · 400 pages

Forbidden LoveRebels and ResistanceLove TrianglePolitical Intrigue
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The Iron Daughter

Julie Kagawa · 359 pages

Summer faery princess, half human, Meghan is deserted by the Winter prince she thought loved her, becomes a prisoner of the Winter faery queen, and loses her own fey powers. As war looms between Summer and Winter, Meghan knows that the real danger comes from the Iron fey--ironbound faeries that only she and her absent prince have seen. But no one believes her--and trusting a seeming traitor could

Love TriangleForbidden LovePolitical IntrigueFantasy
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Poisoned Blade

Kate Elliott · 468 pages

Now a Challenger, Jessamy is moving up the ranks of the Fives--the complex athletic contest favored by the lowliest Commoners and the loftiest Patrons alike. Pitted against far more formidable adversaries, success is Jes's only option, as her prize money is essential to keeping her hidden family alive.

Rebels and ResistancePolitical IntrigueForbidden LoveFirst Person Narrator
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Siege and Storm

Leigh Bardugo · 416 pages

Hunted across the True Sea and haunted by the lives she took on the Fold, Alina must try to make a life with Mal in an unfamiliar land, all while keeping her identity as the Sun Summoner a secret.

Love TriangleRebels and ResistancePolitical IntrigueFirst Person Narrator
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Poison Study

Maria V. Snyder · 409 pages

About to be executed for murder, Yelena is offered an extraordinary reprieve. She'll eat the best meals, have rooms in the palace-and risk assassination by anyone trying to kill the Commander of Ixia.And so Yelena chooses to become a food taster. But the chief of security, leaving nothing to chance, deliberately feeds her Butterfly's Dust and only by appearing for her daily antidote will she delay

Rebels and ResistancePolitical IntrigueFirst Person NarratorBargains and Deals
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Snow Like Ashes

Sara Raasch · 422 pages

Meira, a warrior in training and one of eight free citizens of the Kingdom of Winter following the kingdom's defeat sixteen years ago, sets out on a dangerous journey to uncover a magic talisman that can restore the kingdom's power.

Love TriangleRebels and ResistanceForbidden LoveFirst Person Narrator
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Torn

Amanda Hocking

Wendy, a changeling troll princess, returns to her rightful home, a frightening, beautiful world where she discovers her new powers, fights enemies who want to use her abilities for evil, and struggles with romantic decisions.

Love TriangleForbidden LoveFirst Person NarratorRebels and Resistance
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Eona: The Last Dragoneye

Alison Goodman · 637 pages

Eon has been revealed as Eona, the first female Dragoneye in hundreds of years. Along with fellow rebels Ryko and Lady Dela, she is on the run from High Lord Sethon's army. The renegades are on a quest for the black folio, stolen by the drug-riddled Dillon; they must also find Kygo, the young Pearl Emperor, who needs Eona's power and the black folio if he is to wrest back his throne from the selfs

Rebels and ResistanceLove TrianglePolitical IntrigueFirst Person Narrator
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The Pledge

Kimberly Derting

In a dystopian kingdom where the classes are separated by the languages they speak, Charlaina "Charlie" Hart has a secret gift that is revealed when she meets a mysterious young man named Max.

Rebels and ResistanceForbidden LovePolitical IntrigueFantasy
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Grave Mercy

Robin LaFevers · 549 pages

*Why be the sheep, when you can be the wolf?* Seventeen-year-old Ismae escapes from the brutality of an arranged marriage into the sanctuary of the convent of St. Mortain, where the sisters still serve the gods of old. Here she learns that the god of Death Himself has blessed her with dangerous gifts—and a violent destiny. If she chooses to stay at the convent, she will be trained as an assassi

Forbidden LoveRebels and ResistancePolitical IntrigueFirst Person Narrator
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The One

Kiera Cass · 325 pages

THE SELECTION changed the lives of thirty-five girls forever. Now, only one will claim Prince Maxon’s heart… It’s swoon meets the Hunger Games in the final instalment of THE SELECTION trilogy! For the four girls who remain at the palace, the friendships they’ve formed, rivalries they’ve struggled with and dangers they’ve faced have bound them to each other for the rest of their lives. Now

Love TriangleRebels and ResistancePolitical IntrigueFirst Person Narrator
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Dreams of Gods & Monsters

Laini Taylor · 624 pages

From the streets of Rome to the caves of the Kirin and beyond, humans, chimaera, and seraphim will fight, strive, love, and die in an epic theater that transcends good and evil, right and wrong, friend and enemy.

Rebels and ResistanceForbidden LoveLove TriangleYoung Adult
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Kushiel's Dart

Jacqueline Carey · 702 pages

The land of Terre d'Ange is a place of unsurpassing beauty and grace. It is said that angels found the land and saw it was good... and the ensuing race that rose from the seed of angels and men live by one simple rule: Love as thou wilt. Phèdre nó Delaunay is a young woman who was born with a scarlet mote in her left eye. Sold into indentured servitude as a child, her bond is purchased by Anafi

Forbidden LovePolitical IntrigueFirst Person NarratorLove Triangle
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Lightlark (the Lightlark Saga Book 1)

Alex Aster · 432 pages

Love TriangleForbidden LovePolitical IntrigueYoung Adult
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The Mime Order

Samantha Shannon

Paige Mahoney has escaped the clandestine prison city of Oxford. Now a fugitive in London, she nurtures a new taste for revolution. Oxford may be behind her, but the Republic of Scion is undefeated. As it turns its all-seeing eye on Paige, she is forced to return to Jaxon Hall, her charismatic and brutal employer, to keep her foothold in the underworld. But Paige will bow to one now, and not

Political IntrigueRebels and ResistanceForbidden LoveFirst Person Narrator
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Through the Ever Night

Veronica Rossi · 352 pages

Rebels and ResistanceForbidden LoveLove TriangleYoung Adult
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Lord of Shadows

Cassandra Clare · 736 pages

Would you trade your soul mate for your soul? A Shadowhunter's life is bound by duty. Constrained by honor. the word of a Shadowhunter is a solemn pledge, and no vow is more sacred than the vow that binds *parabatai*, warrior partners--sworn to fight together, die together, but to never fall in love. Emma Carstairs has learned that the love she shares with her *parabatai*, Julia Blackthorn,

Forbidden LoveLove TrianglePolitical IntrigueFantasy
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Prodigy

Marie Lu · 408 pages

June and Day make their way to Las Vegas where they join the rebel Patriot group and become involved in an assassination plot against the Elector in hopes of saving the Republic.

Political IntrigueRebels and ResistanceForbidden LoveFirst Person Narrator
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An Ember in the Ashes

Sabaa Tahir · 464 pages

"Laia is a Scholar living under the iron-fisted rule of the Martial Empire. When her brother is arrested for treason, Laia goes undercover as a slave at the empire's greatest military academy in exchange for assistance from rebel Scholars who claim that they will help to save her brother from execution"--

Rebels and ResistanceLove TriangleFirst Person NarratorYoung Adult
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Bloodlines

Richelle Mead

This is another amazing series written by Richelle Mead. If you loved The Vampire Academy you need to read this one as well. When alchemist Sydney is ordered into hiding to protect the life of Moroi princess Jill Dragomir, the last place she expects to be sent is a human private school in Palm Springs, California. Populated with new faces as well as familiar ones, Bloodlines explores all the fri

Forbidden LovePolitical IntrigueLove TriangleFirst Person Narrator
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The Queen of the Tearling

Erika Johansen · 464 pages

"On her nineteenth birthday, Princess Kelsea Raleigh Glynn, raised in exile, sets out on a perilous journey back to the castle of her birth to ascend her rightful throne. Plain and serious, a girl who loves books and learning, Kelsea bears little resemblance to her mother, the vain and frivolous Queen Elyssa. But though she may be inexperienced and sheltered, Kelsea is not defenseless: Around her

Rebels and ResistancePolitical IntrigueFantasySlavery Depicted
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The Iron Flower

Laurie Forest · 608 pages

Elloren Gardner and her friends were only seeking to right a few wrongs when they rescued a Selkie and freed a military dragon. The last thing they expected was to be thrust into a realm-wide underground resistance against Gardnerian conquest. While the Resistance fights the harsh rulings of the Mage Council, Gardnerian soldiers descend upon the University…led by none other than Lukas Grey, now

Forbidden LoveRebels and ResistancePolitical IntrigueFirst Person Narrator
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