Cassandra Clare is the #1 New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling author of Chain of Gold as well as the internationally bestselling Dark Artifices trilogy, Mortal Instruments series, and Infernal Devices trilogy. She is the co-author of the Eldest Curses series with Wesley Chu, including the latest book, The Lost Book of the White. Her books have more than 50 million copies in print worldwide and have been translated into more than thirty-five languages and made into a feature film and a TV show. Cassandra lives in western Massachusetts.
Last week, Cassandra kindly answered our Ten Terrifying Questions, but today she’s on the blog to share five of her favourite young adult books that deliver gut-wrenching twists (but don’t worry, all will be spoiler-free). Read on …
The Thief
by Megan Whalen Turner
The Thief is the first of a series set in a fantasy world reminiscent of Classical Greece. Here we are introduced to Eugenides, or Gen. Gen likes to claim he can steal anything in the world. These claims land him in prison, which turns out to be an opportunity for a magician to free him—on the condition that he steals a legendary item. Gen agrees, but only because he has his own plans, and wait till you learn what they are!
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We Were Liars
by E. Lockhart
Cady Eastman has always spent summers hanging out with her cousins on an island off Martha’s Vineyard that’s owned by her wealthy grandfather. When she was fifteen she suffered a mysterious head injury there, and since then her mother has been reluctant to let her go back. Disturbed by missing memories and migraines related to her injury, Cady, now seventeen, returns to the island determined to discover the truth of what happened that summer.
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Truly Devious
by Maureen Johnson
When Stevie Bell, teen true crime enthusiast, starts at Ellingham Academy, she has no idea she’ll be plunged into a dangerous mystery of her own. Full of twists and turns and hair-raising suspense, you’ll never guess who’s behind the decades-old mystery of the deaths at Ellingham.
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The Hazel Wood
by Melissa Albert
Alice and her mother have spent their life on the run, followed by an endless streak of bad luck. Then the news arrives that Alice’s estranged grandmother, the author of a cult-favourite book of dark fairy tales, has died. Alice’s mother vanishes, and Alice resolves to find her by doing exactly what her mother always refused to do—returning to their ancestral home in the Hazel Wood.
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White Cat
by Holly Black
Cassel Sharpe lives in an alternate America where curse magic is controlled by wealthy crime families called “workers”—there are different kinds of work, like luck work, dream work, and the rarest, transformation work. When Cassel sets out to track down his childhood love, Lila, now missing, he uncovers a dark and twisty mystery whose answers will leave you gasping in surprise.
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—The Lost Book of the White by Cassandra Clare & Wesley Chu (Simon & Schuster Australia) is out now. This book is in our Kids Month Top 50 collection!
The Lost Book of the White
The Eldest Curses: Book 2
Magnus Bane and Alec Lightwood are settling into domestic life with their son Max when the warlocks Ragnor Fell and Shinyun Jung break into their loft and steal a powerful spell book. Realizing that Ragnor and Shinyun are being controlled by a more sinister force, Magnus and Alec set out to stop them and recover the book before they can cause any more harm.
With the help of Clary Fairchild, Jace Herondale, Isabelle Lightwood, and Simon Lovelace (who is fresh from the Shadowhunter Academy), they track the warlocks to Shanghai. But nothing is as it seems…
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