Girls Of Paper and Fire, Book 1
by Natasha Ngan
appears in Lesbian, LGBTQ, and Teen.
In this richly developed Fantasy,, Lei is a member of the Paper caste, the lowest and most persecuted class of people in Ikhara. She lives in a remote village with her father, where the decadeold trauma of watching her mother snatched by royal guards for an unknown fate still haunts her. Now, the guards are back and this time it's Lei they're after...
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appears in Lesbian, LGBTQ, and Teen.
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Consider An Ember in the Ashes by Sabaa Tahir.
“Starts as an adrenaline-driven YA fantasy that flips between two young protagonists caught under an oppressive military regime. Its useful part is momentum: vivid set pieces, urgent stakes, and a relationship arc that propels the plot. Limitation: the book leans heavily on emotional intensity and occasionally recycles the same inner-conflict beats, so scenes of violence and blunt moral dilemmas can feel relentless. Best treated as a bingeable, feel-every-scene read rather than a subtle, slow-burn character study.”
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