NEW BOOKS FANTASY ROMANCE | May of ‘young adults’: this month’s new fantasy and romantic novels

Are you a fan of the fantastic sagas of ‘Blood and Ashes’ and ‘A Shadow in the Embers’? Jennifer L. Armout? On May 7, the definitive guide that will bring together expanded information about the storiesreaders’ favorite facts, reference materials, stories and scenes of the most acclaimed characters in the Armentrout universe, among many surprises that will complement and elevate the reading of both sagas.

The volume can be read as a diary and a set of personal notes from Miss Willa’s point of view, so the reader will relive the story of the saga from a totally different point of view.

The successful booktoker Tamara Molina publishes her debut work, ‘Where you can’t find me‘, this May 8, with which he will captivate readers with a romance that will blossom between the cracks of a broken heart after being trapped for years in a vicious cycle of dependency and toxicity with her ex-boyfriend. With her story, Molina will convey the process of freeing herself from the past, the importance of self-love and being happy without depending on anyone else.

To avoid falling back into the virulent and harmful dynamic, Gala decides to leave everything behind and cut her ex-partner in the bud by distancing herself from her 100%, fleeing where he cannot find her. In her new life he will have to face her insecurities and wounds, created or accentuated by her traumatic experience; But he will also have to decide well who to trust with her heart, even if he doesn’t want to do it right away. But her untimely attraction to Gael, a boy who is part of her new routine, throws her plans to focus on herself a little off track.

The French romance that has taken bookstores and TikTok by storm, ‘heart of ash‘, arrives in Spanish this May. Nine Gorman and Mathieu Guibé tell the story between Sky, who plans in her first year of college to rid herself of her good-girl image, and Ash, the typical bad boy who is attractive but at the same time unbearable. They both begin a tug of war with a game of seduction that she will end up losing, but in the process she will be able to see one of Ash’s inner layers, the one he hides from everyone, that of the young man who has suffered and expects nothing from life.

In a romance that has been a international success on ‘booktok‘, comes the Spanish translation of ‘The Sun Queen Games‘, where Nisha J. Tuli tells how the survival instinct will act in each of the decisions made by Lor, who after years of torment under the rule of King Aurora, his only desire is revenge. Practically out of obligation, he ends up entering a competition for the heart of the Sun King, in which he will have to face nine other tributes in the deadly contest where only one will end up staying alive. And that’s when Lor sees the half-open door of his freedom to take revenge.

Alix E. Harrowauthor of ‘The Witches of Yesterday and Tomorrow’, publishes the Spanish translation of her gothic fantasy novel, ‘Starling Mansion’, located on The New York Times best-seller list in its first week of sale and in the best sellers according to Indie, USA Today and the Washington Post.

At Starling Mansion Shadows keep secrets and nightmares are more than they seem. No one wants to go near the dark house, much less its lonely heir, Arthur, but Opal despite all the warnings decides not to ignore the job offer they offer her. The mansion ends up becoming a home for her, but the sinister forces are still there, within the walls. Could the legend of E. Starling, the hermit author famous for writing and illustrating ‘La Subterra’ and disappearing without warning, be true? Both she and Arthur will have to decide whether to dig up the past or face it.

The best-selling Marissa Meyer, author of ‘Sin Corazón’ and ‘Cinder’, presents the Spanish edition of ‘with a little luck‘, a romantic comedy in which the protagonist, Jude, has an incredible streak of good luck where everything he does becomes a success: from publishing his comics to winning a pair of tickets to a concert. But everything that begins at some point has to end. And his streak will end when he goes from having a clear crush on a girl he’s known for years to being confused because he can’t stop thinking about his best friend, Ari. Has he been dreaming of the wrong girl his entire life?

In the second part of the epic romantic fantasy saga ‘The kingdom of Belladonna‘, New York Times bestselling author Hannah Whitten shows us how after Bastian’s coronation, the new king and his ally, the necromancer Lore, face challenges to reform Dellaire: discontent among the nobles, threats from the Kyrthean Empire, and betrayals from former allies. Meanwhile, a dark power emerges from the catacombs, threatening his reign and the stability of the kingdom.

The long-awaited second part of ‘The Small Letter’ will arrive in Spanish this May 15 from Ediciones Martínez Roca, where Lauren Asher tells how after the death of her grandfather, Declan is destined to become the new director of the audiovisual empire. But there is an asterisk with a condition to meet to access the inheritance: start a family. At first, Iris will think it is a good idea to volunteer for the arranged marriage with her boss, with her clear rules so that they are a couple only in what is technically written. But little by little it will be less difficult for them to pretend to be truly in love.

After the success of the fantasy novel ‘new adult’ ‘A crown of lies‘, Abigail Owen returns in Spanish with the long-awaited second part, ‘The Usurped Throne’. In it, Meren, twin sister who remained in the shadow of the true queen of Aryd, will find herself trapped in a marriage with Eidolon and pretending to be someone she is not, lying about her personality and pretending that she does not remember her past. her with Reven. But that is not the case, and she knows that he is the only one who can save her, although it is a matter of time before her shadows consume him completely.

After the success ‘Binding 13’ and ‘Keeping 13’, a high school romance between a promising young rugby player and a girl with a complicated family, comes ‘Saving 6’, a story of improvement and love between Joey (Shannon’s brother, protagonist in the first two books) and Aoife.

They will have to forge a foundation of trust between them to overcome the traumatic situations that he has had to experience, such as the fact that he has had to face his adolescent life with the obligation to fulfill the role that his father did not play. On his hard road he will encounter potholes like that of drug addiction, in which he will have to get out clinging to a single light at the bottom of the tunnel, Aoife, the daughter of his boss and who is just going to his class.

After the successes of ‘A Fate of Wrath and Fire’ and ‘A Curse of Blood and Stone’, comes a new installment of the ‘Fate and Fire’ saga by KA Tucker, ‘A Queen of Thieves and Chaos’, the third part expected by all readers of romantasy in which kingdoms, manipulations, betrayals, revenge and love predominate. But a war is about to break out, but destiny is immovable, much less the prophecy, which is already underway.

In ‘I see you at the lake‘, a coincidence makes two strangers get tangled up in a one-day adventure and make a promise that only one keeps. Fren and Will spend 24 hours together where they talk about their dreams and their secrets, they agree to meet again a year later, but Fern goes to the appointment and Will does not. Nine years later, she lives in her childhood home, which is a mess and needs help to get it back, but her wish will be granted when Will walks through the door with an offer to help her.

The best-selling author, Andrea Longarelaafter the first two installments of his new fantastic trilogy ‘Cathalian Stories’, arrives at the end of May with another romantic novel: ‘Juliette and the lost songs‘. In it, the protagonist lives in a hole and feels that life is passing by without her being aware of it, without ambitions to satisfy or concerns or dreams in which to harbor her hopes and desire to continue. She stopped believing in love a long time ago, until a day comes where everything changes. She moves to a small town of colorful houses where she will meet people who will end up occupying a place in her heart. All of them, along with a handful of forgotten letters, will make him see that love does exist.