hey guys it's abi from abi of pellinor and today I’m going to be telling you about five
underrated ya fantasy books that you need to read so these are five books that I absolutely
adore within the ya fantasy dystopian genre I combine them together because personally although
they are obviously different they give me the similar sort of vibes and these are just so,
so underrated and I really think you guys should pick them up so first things first I’m going to
start with the most fun of them all and that is the finishing school series by gail carragher the
first book being etiquette and espionage this is a victorian steampunk finishing school for spies
if you've ever read the galagher girl series by ally carter this is similar but more fantastical
it also includes flying dirigibles uh vampires werewolves there's a mechanical dog called bomber
snoot it is absolutely ridiculous so silly and so much fun I love this series so so much I read it
because zoe from zoe’s all booked made me and I’m very glad I have one book in the series left to
read there's only four books in this series but gail carriger kind of has like an interlinked
world where there's different series but they all are set in the same world so I’m definitely going
to be picking up more from her in the future once I finish this series it's so much fun sticking
with the kind of interlinked worlds queendom of the seven lakes by ab endacott either this edition
or the bind up edition with the second book in the duology kingdom (*king) of the seven lakes
this is one of my favourite fantasy books ever ever we follow a young girl young woman I don't
know it's my aim you know I mean and she is trained to be an assassin for the family
and they are hired out to kill people but she is hired by the queen of this queendom to protect
the prince because she's actually planning on making the prince
the king they've never had a king ever it's always been women on the throne and so l and I
is like why are you behind me to protect someone I murder people but sure like you're the monarch
course and it goes from there you can kind of guess what's going to happen
but also not really I adore it the world building in this is fantastic the relationship between
the characters is intense and beautiful and amazing I cannot recommend this highly enough
and as mentioned similar to how this has got lots of different books in the same world this queendom
of the seven lakes is the second country in four different countries on the god kiss continent
and the author a b endacott has written books that are set in the third country the first country and
the fourth country so you can definitely get a lot more background into this entire world
and the entire continent by reading all the all of the different books but this was my
first one this is the first one that she published although it wasn't the first one that she wrote
and it's my favourite going into darker reads now so we have the slated trilogy by teri terry
although I don't think it's a trilogy anymore she actually has a prequel I’ve not read the
prequel yet I’ve not had the chance to pick it up but I have read the entire original trilogy
this is a dystopian where if you are a child and you've done a crime you've committed some sort of
wrong what the society will do is they will take you they will wipe your memory completely and
then put you with like a foster family who will then raise you um in the correct manner so they
in this world you kind of you retain your like ability to eat abilities speak
you know you don't have to be really taught the very basics but you forget all of your personal
memories and you have to build them up again and we follow a girl who has been taken in
by the daughter of one of the like rich's most influential politicians and is being raised by
her and she starts to get her memories back which she shouldn't be able to do
this is amazing I adore this book so much I first read this actually on my phone
j my a levels two like big big things here already on my phone during my a levels
one where is my phone it was this phone it ain't big two uh I didn't read during my a
levels cause I was too stressed so a levels are um 18 to 16 year olds doing their higher exams
before they go into uni it is the equivalent of the first couple of years of an american
degree in college or if you're german it's an abitur that's why I read this
and I flew through it and I adored it so if that doesn't tell you that you should pick it
up have you done education it's hell and I read this pick it up then I don't actually have this
book but I do have the art of the second one and that is this mortal coil by emily suvada
which is fantastic this was the first book in years years not this one this model called but
here's this mortal coil okay very wonderful so this is the first book in years that made me stay
up until 3 a.m to finish it and then I angrily yelled at emily suvada on social media because
it was amazing I read it via ebook I need to grab myself a physical copy but this is fantastic it is
a dystopian in a world where people can manipulate their dna and play around with it and we follow a
character who has been kind of hidden away from society because everything's kind of collapsed
but she discovers that things aren't quite as they seem and her dad who's been living with her
hasn't been quite telling her the truth and she goes out into this world and learns more there's
explosions of bodies just fyi this is why I started getting darker so that's a thing that
happens um but this is an amazing series I haven't read the third one in the toiletry yet I need to
it's gunna kill me I’m scared this series is fantastic and then lastly the darkest of
them all is messenger fear by michael grant you may know this name he wrote the gone series as
well as some other really popular book series but messenger of fear follows a girl who is currently
she's passed away and she is attached to the messenger of fear and he goes around
and basically scares the living shit out of people to teach them a lesson for being
bad people and bad humans and doing shitty things um and when I say scare the shit out of
I don't mean like it's a mystical being and he creeps and he goes boom no he torches them but
it's in like a metaphysical world rather than the real world things go back to norm when he's done
and he just continues to go around and torturing these people because they've made bad choices and
our main character one of the name mara she goes around with him and we she can't remember what
happened why she died what was in her previous life and that is slowly revealed to us over
the book so we follow mara as she's kind of following the messenger of fear around
learning more about her life before she passed and learning why she's been recruited by the messenger
of fear why she has to follow him around it's a very dark book a very quick book to read through
all of these every single one of them that I have talked about today if I can grab them all
has a sequel these are all series’ both of these have sequels in their own series as well as
spin-offs other books in the world and these all have other books in their immediate respective
series and I just guys they're fantastic these are books that I do not understand why there isn't
more hype around them teri terry is a fantastic author emily suvada an amazing
author michael grant is already really known so I don't know why this book isn't more loved
gail garriger needs more love what are you all doing and ab endacott is an absolutely just
fantastic self-published author she's amazing literally one of my favourite books ever
so these are five ya fantasy dystopian books that you probably haven't heard of
that you really need to pick up please add these to your tbr because they're fantastic
let me know down below if you have actually read any of these and if you have what you thought of
them I really want to speak to more people about these amazing fantastic books I loved them so much
thank you so much for watching guys and I will see you in my next video, bye!