Ali's SciFi and Fantasy Picks
A captivating story about a witch and a mad scientist, who also happen to be childhood friends, working to save the world from the apocolypse. Wonderful and engaging story with two main characters that you won't be able to forget.
Getting saddled with the name Galadriel is hard enough without the extra burden of a dark prophesy that fortells you destroying the world. If she can survive magic school without being eaten by vicious Maleficaria maybe she could turn the whole prophesy thing around? I literally could not put this book down, and once I did (because I finished it) I couldn't stop picking it back up again. I've read it twice and listened to the audiobook once.
Given the choice between a prison sentence and a full ride at Yale seems like an obvious choice, but monitering the secret societies (or hosues) and their illicit, occult activities may be more than Alex bargained for. When a girl is murdered and she believes one of the houses is to blame, can she discover the truth before she meets the same fate?
NEBULA AWARD WINNER • HUGO AWARD FINALIST • “If you want a fantasy with strong characters and brilliantly original variations on ancient stories, try Uprooted!”—Rick Riordan
A ragtag crew that is given the job of a lifetime tunneling new wormholes through space to a distant planet. But the job is dangerous, and some of the crew are hiding secrets of their own. This character driven Sci-fi is engaging, heartwarming and exciting.
In the early days of the Civil War, rumors of gold in the frozen Klondike brought hordes of newcomers to the Pacific Northwest. Anxious to compete, Russian prospectors commissioned inventor Leviticus Blue to create a great machine that could mine through Alaska's ice. Thus was Dr. Blue's Incredible Bone-Shaking Drill Engine born.
Sancia is a theif who can "read" the world around her by touching inanimate objects with her bare skin. When the job that was supposed to be her golden ticket ends up being a part of a plot to change the face of the world entirely (and not for the better), Sancia must work with a strange group of people she doesn't know if she can trust to ensure her own freedom, and that of the entire world.
A gothic horror story that stayed with me long after I put it down, with a building sense of dread that kept me up at night. Noemi receives a strange and disturbing letter from her cousin and travels to the dilapidated manor house where her cousin lives with her new husband and his family. The strange rules and customs of the family are nothing compared to the entity that starts to haunt Noemi's dreams. Can she save herself and her cousin, and is there even anything to save them from?
Addie LaRue has been gifted immortality by a powerful being who wants to possess her soul. The catch? As soon as someone can no longer see her, they no longer remember her. After living for centuries she meets someone who recognizes her. Is she finally going to start fighting back?