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“Beautifully written and deliciously complex…I couldn’t get enough.” —Nicki Pau Preto, author of the Crown of Feathers series
The Cruel Prince meets City of Bones in this thrilling urban fantasy set in the magical underworld of Toronto that follows a queer cast of characters racing to stop a serial killer…
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This Final Fantasy and DnD-inspired contemporary fantasy has 5 POVs, but we’re really here for prickly leather queen Nausicaä. Nos is a sarcastic ex-Fury with a short temper, a sword, and a serious grudge against the Deities who exiled her to the mortal realm. She’s old, she’s cranky, and she’s totally soft for Arlo, an adorable half-fae girl on a mission to uncover the mystery behind unsolved magic murders in Toronto. I seriously can’t resist a grump and sunshine team-up.
From Erin's list on YA fantasy with “unlikeable” heroines.
Ashley Shuttleworth’s debut, A Dark and Hollow Star, features four POV characters, and one of them, Arlo, continues the trend of being half-human, half-something else. Arlo’s father is human, but her mother is a high-ranking member of a Faerie Court. That means Arlo is technically something like faerie royalty, even though her status in the faerie world is uncertain. Over the course of the book, Arlo must deal with her growing relationship with Nausicaä, a disgraced Fury, while also trying to prove she has enough magic to avoid being cast out of faerie society to live her life as a…
From Elisa's list on protagonists that are part of two worlds.
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