18 books like Tender Morsels

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The serpent king Jeff Zentner · 2016 · ★ 4.1 · 384p · ≈ 12h · Moderate The son of a Pentecostal preacher faces his personal demons as he and his two outcast friends try to make it through their senior year of high school in rural Forrestville, Tennessee without letting the small-town culture destroy their creative spirits and sense of self. Shares: Young Adult, Children's fiction

Abhorsen Garth Nix · 2003 · ★ 4.3 · 392p · ≈ 13h · Moderate Book three in Garth Nix's internationally acclaimed Old Kingdom fantasy trilogy that began with Sabriel and Lirael.Beneath the earth, a malignant force lies waiting, greedy for freedom from its ancient prison. As the Old Kingdom falls once more into a realm of darkness and terror, the people look desperately to the Abhorsen, the scourge of the Dead, to save them. Yet Abhorsen Sabriel is lost,… Shares: Good and evil, Young Adult, Magic, Fantasy fiction

Night's Child Gabrielle Charbonnet · 2003 · ★ 3.7 · 320p · ≈ 10h · Moderate Twenty years ago, Morgan Rowlands was the most powerful young blood witch to come around in generations, making magical discoveries, facing and conquering unimaginable evil, and surviving a devastating betrayal. Her daughter, fifteen-year-old Moira, knows there's more to her mother's past than she's been told. And the secrets that lie in Morgan's heart could destroy Moira's entire world. When… Shares: Mother-daughter relationship, Good and evil, Magic, Fantasy fiction

Gifts Ursula K. Le Guin · 2004 · ★ 3.7 · 274p · ≈ 9h · Moderate Young adult story about finding one's place in the world. Shares: Mothers and daughters, Young Adult, Fantasy fiction, Fantasy

City of Bones Cassandra Clare · 2007 · ★ 4.2 · 505p · ≈ 16h · Moderate Clary Fray is seeing things : Vampires in Brooklyn and werewolves in Manhattan. Irresistibly drawn by a group of sexy demon hunters, Clary encounters the dark side of new york city - and the dangers of forbidden love. Shares: Dark Fantasy, Young Adult, Magic, Fantasy

Midnight over Sanctaphrax Paul Stewart · 2001 · ★ 4.4 · 368p · ≈ 12h · Moderate Twig has the caterbird tethered to his ship, the edgedancer, and is being led into a storm never seen before, on his way to find his father. Twig soon learns that this storm is the mother storm, and that the mythical place, called riverisse is real. And is torn between a simple yet complicated choice. Cut the anchor chain of sanctaphrax, and all of the edges knowledge, to save riverisse, or have… Shares: Young Adult, Fantasy fiction, Fantasy, Children's fiction

The Song of the Quarkbeast Jasper Fforde · 2011 · ★ 4.1 · 304p · ≈ 10h · Moderate King Snodd IV of the Kingdom of Hereford has realized that the power of magic has untold financial possibilities, and the man who controls magic controls almost anything. To this end, he has appointed as Official Court Sorcerer the odious Blix at Industrial Magic, one of only two Houses of Enchantment left in the world. With Blix's willing assistance, only one person stands between King Snodd and… Shares: Young Adult, Magic, Fantasy fiction, Fantasy

The Bone Trail Paul Stewart · 2013 · ★ 3.9 · 384p · ≈ 12h · Moderate From the creators of the Edge Chronicles comes the thrilling conclusion to the epic saga of Wyrmeweald! The bone trail litters the barren lands of the wyrmeweald with the remains of dragon-like wyrmes, fortune-hunting kith bandits, and wyrme-protecting kin assassins alike—all viciously slaughtered in the gruesome quest for gold and power. Micah and his friends have battled tirelessly against the… Shares: Good and evil, Young Adult, Fantasy fiction, Fantasy

The Shapeshifters Amelia Atwater-Rhodes · 2010 · ★ 4.5 · 972p · ≈ 32h · Moderate Five shapeshifter novels--one fascinating read!HawksongDanica Shardae, an avian shapeshifter, will do anything in her power to stop the war that has raged between her people and the serpiente--even pretend to be in love with Zane Cobriana, the terrifying leader of her kind's greatest enemy, and accept him as her pair bond. But will Zane strike as swiftly and lethally as the cobra that is his… Shares: Young Adult, Fantasy fiction, Fantasy, Children's fiction

Last Dragonslayer (Last Dragonslayer, #1) Jasper Fforde · 2010 · ★ 4.2 · 289p · ≈ 9h · Moderate "Fifteen-year-old Jennifer Strange runs an agency for underemployed magicians in a world where magic is fading away, but when visions of the death of the world's last dragon begin, all signs point to Jennifer--and Big Magic"--Provided by publisher. Fifteen-year-old foundling Jennifer runs Kazam, an employment agency for magicians, but it is hard to stay in business when magic is drying up. Then… Shares: Magic, Fantasy fiction, Fantasy, Children's fiction

Wyrmeweald Bloodhoney Paul Stewart · 2012 · ★ 3.5 · 351p · ≈ 11h · Moderate Micah finds that winter is a dangerous time in the wyrmeweald. In addition to the intense cold, Micah and his friends Eli and Thrace are being hunted by an assassin intent on vengeance. Shares: Good and evil, Young Adult, Fantasy fiction, Fantasy

Shadowmancer G. P. Taylor · 2003 · ★ 2.8 · 300p · ≈ 10h · Moderate When Obadiah Demurral, the power-hungry Vicar of Thorpe, attempts to become a god by dabbling in magic, Raphah (who has come from Africa to get back the artifact stolen from his Temple and sold to Demurral) joins forces with Kate and Thomas to stop him. Shares: Good and evil, Young Adult, Magic, Fantasy fiction

Graceling Kristin Cashore · 2008 · ★ 4.0 · 406p · ≈ 13h · Moderate Katsa has been able to kill a man with her bare hands since she was eight—she’s a Graceling, one of the rare people in her land born with an extreme skill. As niece of the king, she should be able to live a life of privilege, but Graced as she is with killing, she is forced to work as the king’s thug. She never expects to fall in love with beautiful Prince Po. She never expects to learn the… Shares: Good and evil, Young Adult, Magic, Fantasy fiction

The Face in the Frost John Bellairs · 1969 · ★ 3.8 · 174p · ≈ 5h · Moderate The Face in the Frost is a fantasy classic, defying categorization with its richly imaginative story of two separate kingdoms of wizards, stymied by a power that is beyond their control. A tall, skinny misfit of a wizard named Prospero lives in the Southern Kingdom—a patchwork of feuding duchies and small manors, all loosely loyal to one figurehead king. Both he and an improbable adventurer… Shares: Young Adult, Fantasy fiction, Fantasy, Children's fiction

The Magic World Edith Nesbit · 1959 · ★ 3.8 · 172p · ≈ 5h · Moderate Twelve stories with magic occurrences. Shares: Magic, Fantasy fiction, Children's fiction

Downsiders Neal Shusterman · 1999 · ★ 3.8 · 246p · ≈ 8h · Moderate When fourteen-year-old Lindsay meets Talon, who lives in the secret Downsider community that evolved in the subterranean passages of the subway built in New York in 1867, she and her new friend try to bridge the differences between their two cultures. Shares: Social Themes, Young Adult, Fantasy fiction, Fantasy

The dark is rising Susan Cooper · 1972 · ★ 4.0 · 244p · ≈ 8h · Moderate On his eleventh birthday Will Stanton discovers that he is the last of the Old Ones, destined to seek the six magical Signs that will enable the Old Ones to triumph over the evil forces of the Dark. Shares: Good and evil, Magic, Fantasy fiction, Fantasy

Inheritance Christopher Paolini · 2010 · ★ 4.4 · 880p · ≈ 29h · Moderate Not so very long ago, Eragon -- Shadeslayer, Dragon Rider -- was nothing more than a poor farm boy, and his dragon, Saphira, only a blue stone in the forest. Now the fate of an entire civilization rests on their shoulders. Long months of training and battle have brought victories and hope, but they have also brought heartbreaking loss. And still, the real battle lies ahead: they must confront… Shares: Young Adult, Magic, Fantasy fiction, Fantasy

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