What are the best faerie/fae YA books out there? Please help me out, I need to add to my collection!
What are the best faerie/fae YA books out there? Please help me out, I need to add to my collection!
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The Falconer by Elizabeth May is awesome! The female MC is a fae Hunter in 1800’s Scotland!
I’ve seen this mentioned more than once today for a variety of reasons. I guess I’ll be hunting a copy down to add to my TBR. Thanks! 🙂
This books sounds good. Have put it on hold at the library.
Just finished Book 2 and I’m dead. Can’t wait to start The Fallen Kingdom today!
I think I’m gonna just buy the series off Amazon on my next paycheck
The iron fey series by julie kagowa
I read the first in the series, and had a hard time getting into it, but that was several years back now at this point. Perhaps I’ll give it another try
A Court of Thorns and Roses or Throne of Glass by Sarah J Maas
Read all of them and anxiously awaiting the next installments
I know it isn’t exactly YA but the Sookie Stackhouse books are really good. Just trying to give other suggestions for Fae characters.
Good to know! I’ll look into them.
A court of mist an fury is amazing! Cant wait for the new one!
Wicked Lovely series by Mellissa Marr
The comments didn’t load so I totally didn’t see this when I commented under it lol
oh well it must be the best if it gets mentioned more than once
I read the first in this series, and then never picked it back up for some unknown reason, but I loved that first book. 😀 How many are there total in the series?
5 books total
Thank you!!
I loved the first book, but I couldn’t get past #2. :/
Wicked Lovely by Melissa mar
Wicked Lovely series by Melissa Marr
Need series by Carrie Jones
Read book 1 of both series a d regret not finishing them. Maybe I’ll change that
They were both so great. I swear I reread them at least once a year. It’s really hard to find great books about fae.
Love the Need series.
Agreed! I love fae stuff and am always excited about good ones that come out. Gah I think I may just break down and buy both series in full and start them as soon as I’m done with my current read.
Oh Need sounds good, another book to add to my pile.,
ANYTHING BY SARAH J MAAS
Seriously. Anxiously awaiting the next installments of EVERYTHING. 😀
@Felicia the pain is REAL
SERIOUSLY. I’m sure you’ve seen this already but I literally squeaked at work when I saw it. And all of them are saved as reminders in my phone. *Sigh*
Felicia Roe girl it’s circled and highlighted in my planner ? me too me too
Hahahha. Ahh so glad this group exists. Most of my friends don’t get it.
What is the World of Throne of glass? Is that another colouring book?
What kind of Fae do you like? Wicked, good, morally-grey, or plain bad?
All of the above? I like the haughty indifferent types, the scary faeries, the good, the bad, all of ’em.
I enjoyed Wildwood Dancing, but they were a little on the ‘good’ side, which steers to far away from folklore for me. The Cruel Prince is touch-and-go, I think.
I’ve read a few fae-books, and I can honestly say that none have impressed me. 🙁 Let me know your list after you built it.
I definitely will! I’ve read Wildwood Dancing, and the benevolence is okay, but lost tension I think in the storyline. The Cruel Prince I actually really enjoyed. But honestly I am a bit of a nerd when it come to fae folklore stuff.
Aha, I grew up in Scotland and as kids we were told all about faeries and then I started to notice that they were in Disney movies–I was terrified of them because of the lore, and couldn’t understand how others weren’t.
Those are the faeries I want to read about–let me know if you find a book close to the lore. X
Ha! Yeah a lot of people over here in the States (where I am) think they are just completely benevolent creatures. However, my curiosity of all things fae have led me down the rabbit hole of all the lore, and such and my, my they are far from. Have you heard A Treachery of Beautiful Things by Ruth Long? Lots of scary, bad lore-like fae in that. Also just an easy, and quick read that I really enjoyed. But as I find more I’ll definitely keep you posted. 🙂
Haha Disney didn’t help with that sweet image. Oh, the rabbit hole of fae is a fun place to go. I haven’t read that, I’ll check it out. I’m working on one myself (a novella), but I won’t go too dark because I don’t think I have the stomach for it as a writer, but as a reader I’d eat it up aha
Ah that’s super cool! Once it’s done I’d love to give it a read! And if you do like lore stuff Cassandra Eason has written a lot about it. But it’s actual lore mixed in with magical uses and such. But the stories and such she recount while she researched it is fascinating and worth skipping through the other stuff just to read.
Wonderous Strange, Iron Fey, The Treachery of Beautiful Things, Fever Series, Dangerous Fae series, The Darkest Part Of The Forest (Holly Black), The Chaos series, The Replacement (Brenna Yovanoff), Need (Carrie Jones) Shadowhunters, Fae Chronicles, Bargainer series, Black Witch (Laurie Frost), Blue Girl (Charles De Lint), Lament and Ballad (Maggie Stiefvater), Wings (Aprilynne Pike), Faeriewalker (Jenna Black), The Chronicles Of Faerie (O R Melling), I was a teenage fairy (Francesca Lia Block).x
Thank you so much! I actually own or have read a fair amount of these but there’s a bunch listed I am not familiar with so this is great! What’s your favorite(s)?
Hey that’s okay! I just super appreciate the thorough list you’ve provided me with!
the cruel prince
Already read, and I loved it!
Well I am reading sea queen the dark queen series by Jovee Winters And quite enjoying it on Kindle go check them out
The Mortal Instruments series and The Dark Artifices trilogy by Cassandra Clare have fae as major characters, although not the major characters. Similarly, The Dragons of Wyvern Hall and its sequel, A Wedding in Venice [due out on Amazon this December or January] by Nancy Wolff feature fae as major and supporting characters, although again not the major characters [except for one]. Also Terry Pratchett’s Lords And Ladies is a great book about the Fair Folk and how dangerous they are– as with anything by TP it is wonderful.