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[Rezi] Katharine McGee – Majesty [American Royals]
Klappentext Power is intoxicating. Like first love, it can leave you breathless. Princess Beatrice was born with it. Princess Samantha was born with less. Some, like Nina Gonzalez, are pulled into it. And a few will claw their way in. Ahem, we’re looking at you Daphne Deighton. As America adjusts to the idea of a queen on the throne, Beatrice grapples with everything she lost when she gained the ultimate crown. Samantha is busy living up to her „party princess“ persona…and maybe adding a party prince by her side. Nina is trying to avoid the palace–and Prince Jefferson–at all costs. And a dangerous secret threatens to undo all of Daphne’s…
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[Rezi] Heather Cocks & Jessica Morgan – The Royal We [The Royal We]
Klappentext American Bex Porter was never one for fairy tales. Her twin sister Lacey was always the romantic, the one who daydreamed of being a princess. But it’s adventure-seeking Bex who goes to Oxford and meets dreamy Nick across the hall – and Bex who finds herself accidentally in love with the heir to the British throne. Nick is wonderful, but he comes with unimaginable baggage: a complicated family, hysterical tabloids tracking his every move, and a public that expected its future king to marry a Brit. On the eve of the most talked-about wedding of the century, Bex looks back on how much she’s had to give up for…
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[Rezi] Kate Gordon – Girl Running, Boy Falling
Klappentext Therese liebt die kleine Stadt auf der Insel am Ende der Welt. Sie liebt Tante Kath, von der sie Tiger genannt wird, ihre Freunde, die sie Resey rufen, und vor allem ihren besten Freund Wally, für den sie nur Champ ist, und der sie endlich, endlich geküsst hat. Doch dann geschieht das Undenkbare. Der strahlende Wally, die nächste große Football-Hoffnung der Schule, nimmt sich das Leben und Thereses Welt fällt in sich zusammen. Sie versucht alles, um nicht selbst zu fallen. Zum Glück gibt es Tante Kath und ihre Freunde, die Therese auffangen und ihr helfen weiterzuleben.
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[Rezi] Laura Sebastian – Half Sick of Shadows
Klappentext Everyone knows the legend. Of Arthur, destined to be a king. Of the beautiful Guinevere, who will betray him with his most loyal knight, Lancelot. Of the bitter sorceress, Morgana, who will turn against them all. But Elaine alone carries the burden of knowing what is to come–for Elaine of Shalott is cursed to see the future. On the mystical isle of Avalon, Elaine runs free and learns of the ancient prophecies surrounding her and her friends–countless possibilities, almost all of them tragic. When their future comes to claim them, Elaine, Guinevere, Lancelot, and Morgana accompany Arthur to take his throne in stifling Camelot, where magic is outlawed, the…
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[Rezi] Lauren DeStefano – Wither [The Chemical Garden]
Klappentext Sixteen-year-old Rhine Ellery has only four years left to live when she is kidnapped by the Gatherers and forced into a polygamous marriage. Now she has one purpose: to escape, find her twin brother, and go home – before her time runs out forever. What if you knew you exactly when you would die? In our brave new future, DNA engineering has resulted in a terrible genetic flaw. Women die at the age of 20, men at 25. Young girls are being abducted and forced to breed in a desperate attempt to keep humanity ahead of the disease that threatens to eradicate it. 16-year-old Rhine Ellery is kidnapped and…
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[Rezi] Karolyn Ciseau – Ein Herz aus Eis und Schnee
Klappentext Auf Prinz Eirik lastet ein Fluch. An seinem siebzehnten Geburtstag wird er zu ewigem Eis erstarren und mit ihm das gesamte Königreich Nascimur. Nur ein Kuss der wahren Liebe kann das Land aus den unbarmherzigen, kalten Klauen von Eis und Schnee befreien. Dreißig Mädchen werden auserwählt, um das Herz des Thronfolgers zu erobern. Auch Farina aus der Wüstenprovinz Terra Sitienti reist in den Norden und taucht ein in die prunkvolle, faszinierende Welt des Palastes. Doch sie will sich auf keinen Fall verlieben. Denn was für den Palast ein Fluch ist, ist für Terra Sitienti ein Segen: Die Menschen müssen dank der Eiszeit endlich nicht mehr Hunger und Durst leiden.…
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[Rezi] Rebecca McLaughlin – Nameless Queen
Klappentext Everyone expected the king’s daughter would inherit the throne. No one expected me. It shouldn’t be possible. I’m Nameless, a class of citizens so disrespected, we don’t even get names. Dozens of us have been going missing for months and no one seems to care. But there’s no denying the tattoo emblazoned on my arm. I am to be queen. In a palace where the corridors are more dangerous than the streets, though, how could I possibly rule? And what will become of the Nameless if I don’t? Kaufen?*
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[Rezi] Sara Wolf – Bring Me Their Hearts [Bring me Their Hearts / Heartless]
Klappentext Zera is a Heartless, the immortal, unaging soldier of a witch. Bound to the witch Nightsinger, Zera longs for freedom from the woods they hide in. With her heart in a jar under Nightsinger’s control, she serves the witch unquestioningly. Until Nightsinger asks Zera for a prince’s heart in exchange for her own, with one addendum: if she’s discovered infiltrating the court, Nightsinger will destroy Zera’s heart rather than see her tortured by the witch-hating nobles. Crown Prince Lucien d’Malvane hates the royal court as much as it loves himevery tutor too afraid to correct him and every girl jockeying for a place at his darkly handsome side. No…
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[Rezi] Casey McQuiston – Red, White & Royal Blue
Klappentext When his mother became President, Alex Claremont-Diaz was promptly cast as the American equivalent of a young royal. Handsome, charismatic, geniushis image is pure millennial-marketing gold for the White House. There’s only one problem: Alex has a beef with the actual prince, Henry, across the pond. And when the tabloids get hold of a photo involving an Alex-Henry altercation, U.S./British relations take a turn for the worse. Heads of family, state, and other handlers devise a plan for damage control: staging a truce between the two rivals. What at first begins as a fake, Instragramable friendship grows deeper, and more dangerous, than either Alex or Henry could have imagined.…
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[Rezi] Anna Basener – Schund und Sühne
Klappentext Ein schwuler Prinz, der für Nachkommen sorgen muss, eine depressive Fürstin, die nicht an Depressionen glaubt, ein Rosenkavalier, der die Welt retten will, eine Prinzessin mit gebrochenem Herzen und Jagdgewehr. Und mittendrin eine junge Groschenromanautorin, die eigentlich aufhören will mit Schund und Kitsch, aber ausgerechnet dafür das Literaturstipendium auf Schloss Rosenbrunn bekommt. Für vier von ihnen brechen herrliche Zeiten an. Der Fünfte wird diesen Herbst nicht überleben. Kaufen?*
