Your Science Fiction and Fantasy Book Bargains for May 4, 2024

“A dystopian epic made for film.” – IndieReader Discovery Award Winner (best YA fiction)

Samarra is a Protector, climbing the ranks in drought-stricken Seira, when a murder sends her fleeing to the Barrow, a northern city where the only things growing faster than the city’s piles of garbage are extremist cults and violent gangs. With jobs in short supply, Samarra counts herself lucky to find work with the Vauns, one of the Barrow’s most powerful and dangerous families. As she learns to navigate the beauty, the horror, and the magic of the lawless city, she finds herself living in the shadow of a missing woman—the mysterious Raina, who worked for the Vauns before her. When the trail, long thought cold, heats up, Samarra must decide whether her newly gained chance at freedom is worth sacrificing for a ghost.

Other Retailers
Nook | Kobo

Category: Science Fiction – Dystopian

‘A tense sequel that outpaces its predecessor in an emotionally stirring story that packs a punch and is impossible to put down[…] Samarra is arguably one of the most complicated, compelling, and deeply likeable protagonists in YA lit.’- IndieReader (5 star review)

‘A superbly plotted YA novel packed full of incredible characters.’ – The Wishing Shelf Book Awards (finalist)

Lono, an acolyte whose visions prompt her to leave the safety of her order to help a boy in need. Aku, an orphan who’s been entrusted with a mysterious key. Together, they put together an unlikely band of heroes to fight back against the ultimate evil. Will their efforts be enough to save their city…or are these the Last Days of Atlantis?

Category: Fantasy – Coming of Age

Accidentally traveling through time and space, Blue Faust finds herself on a curious planet full of adventure, surprises, and danger. Earthlings are being killed by an enemy with an unknown agenda, and even her companions are not who they seem. Can Blue battle her way home, or is she fated to stay on this new world – whether she wants to or not?

Other Retailers
Apple Books | Nook | Kobo

Category: Science Fiction – Space Exploration

Alina Stone, a loner and social outcast, never signed up to be a hero. She just wanted a normal teen life but she was born a Zodiac child and sees her powers as a curse.

When the star football player at school goes missing, Katon, his best friend, calls on Alina for help after he accidentally witnesses her secret Leo powers. Seen in school as a misfit, Alina is allured by Katon’s charm and attention and reluctantly agrees to help.

Together they discover clues that not only is a powerful tech company, Tek46, connected to the football player’s disappearance, but also point to Alina’s parents’ direct involvement in the human trafficking of Zodiac teens all over the state.

Alina must choose to sacrifice herself to find the missing teens, or allow Tek46 to continue kidnapping teens using her parents’ secret research to destroy the city.

Category: Fantasy – Paranormal & Urban

Glass is a beautiful object. Glass is owned. Glass’s purpose is to be beautiful, to delight her father’s visitors with dances, smiles, or just by standing still and letting the light gleam off of her. Then her father disappears, and Glass has only one option to find him: join the Wishlord Trials. The Wishlord, the City’s overlord, will allow the one winner of the violent gauntlet to ask him a question.
As Glass fights her way through the Trials, she’ll have to conquer men and monsters, wrangle the hardest questions about herself, and ultimately make the most difficult decision of her life.
Will she continue to be her father’s pet, a sheltered wonder, or will she listen to other voices, and become a person in her own right?

A girl made of glass.
A brutal battle royal across a bright mechanical city.
An old secret, about the life of things that are not alive.

Buy to find out!

Category: Science Fiction – Dystopian

In 2042, Amber Knight and her college friends, Kira, Jack, and Dakota, fall heir to a mysterious orb from the future that can change the weather – make hurricanes vanish, end droughts, and stop tornadoes dead in their tracks. As the reluctant guardians of this powerful technology, they pledge to use it to reverse climate change, which has become worse than originally predicted. But with the future of humankind at stake, they must first fight off extremely wealthy and powerful people who seek the orb for their own selfish interests. Based on mysterious real-life events and current climate science, this thrilling adventure story is a wake-up call for the looming danger that hangs over our future.

Category: Science Fiction – Adventure

A gift from the future – or a curse? Four young people now have the power to control the most violent weather and even reverse climate change, embodied in the tiny, deadly Orb of Penumbra. But their secret is out, and they are being pursued by government forces and a renegade billionaire in a relentless chase across the heartland of America. Their only hope of survival is to leverage the full force of the orb’s 25th-century technology…but the device is beginning to malfunction! Racing against time and merciless adversaries, Amber, Kira, Jack, and Dakota are desperately seeking a safe haven where they can keep the mysterious orb from self-destructing, while learning how to use its awesome potential, and head off humanity’s extinction. As they plunge through the twists and turns of fate, they will each find their inherent strengths and abilities tested beyond the limits of imagination.