For Fans of Hogwarts Legacy
Since we can’t apparate to Hogwarts, we’ll travel via reading!
You don’t need to wander into the Restricted Section
ACCIO BOOKS! 📚💨
If you enjoy Hogwarts, try The Jumbies by Tracey Baptiste
Perfect for readers of all ages who enjoy folklore-based fantasy
Corinne La Mer claims she isn’t afraid of anything. Not scorpions, not the boys who tease her, and certainly not jumbies. They’re just tricksters made up by parents to frighten their children. Then one night Corinne chases an agouti all the way into the forbidden forest, and shining yellow eyes follow her to the edge of the trees. They couldn’t belong to a jumbie. Or could they?
When Corinne spots a beautiful stranger at the market the very next day, she knows something extraordinary is about to happen. When this same beauty, called Severine, turns up at Corinne’s house, there’s danger is in the air. Severine plans to claim the entire island for the jumbies.
Corinne must call on her courage and her friends and learn to use ancient magic she didn’t know she possessed to stop Severine and save her island home.
“This is a well-written tale full of action with enough scary elements to satisfy fans of Adam Gidwitz’s A Tale Dark and Grimm or Laura Amy Schlitz’s Splendors and Glooms.”
Gretchen Crowley, School Library Journal
If you enjoy Hogwarts, try Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi
Perfect for readers that love a fast-paced fantasy read following the chosen one
They killed my mother. Took our magic. Tried to bury us.
Now we rise.
Zélie Adebola remembers when the soil of Orïsha hummed with magic. Burners ignited flames, Tiders beckoned waves, and Zélie’s Reaper mother summoned forth souls.
But everything changed the night magic disappeared. Under the orders of a ruthless king, maji were killed, leaving Zélie without a mother and her people without hope.
Now Zélie has one chance to bring back magic and strike against the monarchy. With the help of a rogue princess, Zélie must outwit and outrun the crown prince, who is hell-bent on eradicating magic for good.
“Well-drawn characters, an intense plot, and deft writing make this a strong story. That it is also a timely study on race, colorism, power, and injustice makes it great. Powerful, captivating, and raw—Adeyemi is a talent to watch. Exceptional.”
Kirkus Reviews
If you enjoy Hogwarts, try A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness
Perfect for fans of a steamy dark academia
In this tale of passion and obsession, Diana Bishop, a young scholar and a descendant of witches, discovers a long-lost and enchanted alchemical manuscript, Ashmole 782, deep in Oxford’s Bodleian Library. Its reappearance summons a fantastical underworld, which she navigates with her leading man, vampire geneticist Matthew Clairmont.
Harkness has created a universe to rival those of Anne Rice, Diana Gabaldon, and Elizabeth Kostova, and she adds a scholar’s depth to this riveting tale of magic and suspense.
The story continues in book two, Shadow of Night, book three, The Book of Life, and the fourth in the series, Time’s Convert.
“Destined to be popular with fantasy and paranormal aficionados, this enchanting novel is an essential purchase. Harkness is an author to watch..”
Crystal Renfro, Library Journal
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