PAL VO 2020

En ce début de nouvelle année, ma première résolution est de lire plus de VO. Pour cela, j'ai plusieurs challenges en tête, dont je vous parlerais dans de futurs posts, mais j'ai surtout décidé de choisir UN livre par mois que je me "forcerai" à lire (alors non, je ne vais pas me forcer, mais je vais essayer de respecter cette règle au maximum). 

Cela impactera forcément mon rythme de lecture puisque je mets bien plus longtemps à lire en VO qu'en VF, mais cela me permettra de lire plus diversifié. Donc je considère que le jeu en vaut la chandelle ! 

Petite note cependant : il est fort probable que je lise certains de ces livres AVANT le mois en question, tout simplement parce que certains me font vraiment envie, et vous me connaissez, je suis rarement une PAL bien définie ! 

Je n'en dis pas plus, et je vous laisse découvrir ma PAL ! 

Rêverie de Ryan La Sala

Résumé : 

Inception meets The Magicians in the most imaginative YA debut of the year!

All Kane Montgomery knows for certain is that the police found him half-dead in the river. He can’t remember how he got there, what happened after, and why his life seems so different now. And it’s not just Kane who’s different, the world feels off, reality itself seems different.

As Kane pieces together clues, three almost-strangers claim to be his friends and the only people who can truly tell him what’s going on. But as he and the others are dragged into unimaginable worlds that materialize out of nowhere—the gym warps into a subterranean temple, a historical home nearby blooms into a Victorian romance rife with scandal and sorcery—Kane realizes that nothing in his life is an accident. And when a sinister force threatens to alter reality for good, they will have to do everything they can to stop it before it unravels everything they know.

This wildly imaginative debut explores what happens when the secret worlds that people hide within themselves come to light.

J'ai reçu ce livre via NetGalley, il est donc tant que je le lise ! C'est un livre apparemment hyper queer, donc j'avoue que j'ai hâte de me plonger dedans !

Wicked as you Wish de Rin Chupeco

Résumé : 

Tala Warnock has little use for magic – as a descendant of Maria Makiling, the legendary Filipina heroine, she negates spells, often by accident. But her family’s old ties to the country of Avalon (frozen, bespelled, and unreachable for almost 12 years) soon finds them guarding its last prince from those who would use his kingdom’s magic for insidious ends.

And with the rise of dangerous spelltech in the Royal States of America; the appearance of the firebird, Avalon’s deadliest weapon, at her doorstep; and the re-emergence of the Snow Queen, powerful but long thought dead, who wants nothing more than to take the firebird's magic for her own – Tala’s life is about to get even more complicated…

Encore un livre NetGalley que j'ai hâte de lire également, d'autant plus que j'ai reçu l'ARC avec une des box FairyLoot. Donc je suis doublement hypée ! Je n'ai aucune idée du plot, je l'ai simplement copié-collé, mais j'aime beaucoup Rin Chupeco, donc je pense que je vais être agréablement surprise !

Havefall de Sara Holland

Résumé : 

A safe haven between four realms. The girl sworn to protect it--at any cost. New York Times bestselling author Sara Holland crafts a breathtaking new contemporary fantasy perfect for fans of Melissa Albert and Holly Black.

Hidden deep in the mountains of Colorado lies the Inn at Havenfall, a sanctuary that connects ancient worlds--each with their own magic--together. For generations, the inn has protected all who seek refuge within its walls, and any who disrupt the peace can never return.

For Maddie Morrow, summers at the inn are more than a chance to experience this magic first-hand. Havenfall is an escape from reality, where her mother sits on death row accused of murdering Maddie's brother. It's where Maddie fell in love with handsome Fiorden soldier Brekken. And it's where one day she hopes to inherit the role of Innkeeper from her beloved uncle.

But this summer, the impossible happens--a dead body is found, shattering everything the inn stands for. With Brekken missing, her uncle gravely injured, and a dangerous creature on the loose, Maddie suddenly finds herself responsible for the safety of everyone in Havenfall. She'll do anything to uncover the truth, even if it means working together with an alluring new staffer Taya, who seems to know more than she's letting on. As dark secrets are revealed about the inn itself, one thing becomes clear to Maddie--no one can be trusted, and no one is safe...

Le dernier NetGalley de cette liste, j'ai nommé Havenfall de Sara Holland ! Alors déjà, j'adore la couverture ! J'avais beaucoup aimé Everless malgré quelques petits défauts, à voir si je les retrouve dans cette lecture également !

Sorcery of Thorns de Margaret Rogerson

Résumé :

All sorcerers are evil. Elisabeth has known that as long as she has known anything. Raised as a foundling in one of Austermeer’s Great Libraries, Elisabeth has grown up among the tools of sorcery—magical grimoires that whisper on shelves and rattle beneath iron chains. If provoked, they transform into grotesque monsters of ink and leather. She hopes to become a warden, charged with protecting the kingdom from their power.

Then an act of sabotage releases the library’s most dangerous grimoire. Elisabeth’s desperate intervention implicates her in the crime, and she is torn from her home to face justice in the capital. With no one to turn to but her sworn enemy, the sorcerer Nathaniel Thorn, and his mysterious demonic servant, she finds herself entangled in a centuries-old conspiracy. Not only could the Great Libraries go up in flames, but the world along with them.

As her alliance with Nathaniel grows stronger, Elisabeth starts to question everything she’s been taught—about sorcerers, about the libraries she loves, even about herself. For Elisabeth has a power she has never guessed, and a future she could never have imagined. 

Je devais lire ce livre pendant une LC début décembre, mais finalement je n'ai pas eu le temps ! Du coup, je l'inclus dans ce challenge. Il me fait super envie, et apparemment il y a des personnages queer, donc we'll see !

The Tiger at Midnight de Swati Teerdhala

Résumé : 

A broken bond. A dying land. A cat-and-mouse game that can only end in bloodshed.

Esha is a legend, but no one knows. It’s only in the shadows that she moonlights as the Viper, the rebels’ highly skilled assassin. She’s devoted her life to avenging what she lost in the royal coup, and now she’s been tasked with her most important mission to date: taking down the ruthless General Hotha.

Kunal has been a soldier since childhood, training morning and night to uphold the power of King Vardaan. His uncle, the general, has ensured that Kunal never strays from the path—even as a part of Kunal longs to join the outside world, which has been growing only more volatile.

Then Esha’s and Kunal’s paths cross—and an unimaginable chain of events unfolds. Both the Viper and the soldier think they’re calling the shots, but they’re not the only players moving the pieces. As the bonds that hold their land in order break down and the sins of the past meet the promise of a new future, both rebel and soldier must make unforgivable choices.

Celui là est dans ma PAL depuis un bon moment, mais je n'ai jamais eu le temps de le lire ! Je vais donc y remédier cette année ! 

Une note cependant : il est fort probable que cette année je fasse du bénévolat tout le mois de Mai, à l'étranger, et que je n'aurais absolument aucun temps libre pour lire, si ce n'est dans l'avion. Mais comme j'ai le mal des transports, partons du principe que je ne vais juste pas lire en Mai. Ce livre risque donc de se retrouver dans un autre mois. 

Wicked Saints de Emily A. Duncan

Résumé : 

A girl who can speak to gods must save her people without destroying herself.

A prince in danger must decide who to trust.

A boy with a monstrous secret waits in the wings.

Together, they must assassinate the king and stop the war.

In a centuries-long war where beauty and brutality meet, their three paths entwine in a shadowy world of spilled blood and mysterious saints, where a forbidden romance threatens to tip the scales between dark and light.

Encore un livre que je compte lire depuis une éternité, et que je n'ai pas encore eu le temps de sortir de ma PAL ! J'espère qu'il sera aussi bon que je l'espère !

Sands of Arawiya #2 We Free the Stars de Hafsah Faizal

Résumé (tome 1) : 

People lived because she killed.

People died because he lived.

Zafira is the Hunter, disguising herself as a man when she braves the cursed forest of the Arz to feed her people. Nasir is the Prince of Death, assassinating those foolish enough to defy his autocratic father, the king. If Zafira was exposed as a girl, all of her achievements would be rejected; if Nasir displayed his compassion, his father would punish him in the most brutal of ways.

Both are legends in the kingdom of Arawiya—but neither wants to be.

War is brewing, and the Arz sweeps closer with each passing day, engulfing the land in shadow. When Zafira embarks on a quest to uncover a lost artifact that can restore magic to her suffering world and stop the Arz, Nasir is sent by the king on a similar mission: retrieve the artifact and kill the Hunter. But an ancient evil stirs as their journey unfolds—and the prize they seek may pose a threat greater than either can imagine.

Vous dire que je suis excitée par ce livre serait un euphémisme ! Il sort début juillet, et je SAIS que je vais me jeter dessus dès son arrivée ! Le premier tome était un coup de coeur, l'autrice est adorable, franchement je ne peux que vous conseiller de le lire ! 

Kingdom of Souls de Rena Barron

Résumé : 

Magic has a price—if you’re willing to pay.

Born into a family of powerful witchdoctors, Arrah yearns for magic of her own. But each year she fails to call forth her ancestral powers, while her ambitious mother watches with growing disapproval.

There’s only one thing Arrah hasn’t tried, a deadly last resort: trading years of her own life for scraps of magic. Until the Kingdom’s children begin to disappear, and Arrah is desperate to find the culprit.

She uncovers something worse. The long-imprisoned Demon King is stirring. And if he rises, his hunger for souls will bring the world to its knees… unless Arrah pays the price for the magic to stop him. 

De la magie, une héroïne noire, count me in ! Je n'en sais pas plus, mais je suis totalement hypée ! Je l'ai reçu dans une Illumicrate, et franchement, en plus d'être sublime, il a l'air carrément badass ! 

Serpent & Dove de Shelby Mahurin

Résumé :

Bound as one to love, honor, or burn.

Two years ago, Louise le Blanc fled her coven and took shelter in the city of Cesarine, forsaking all magic and living off whatever she could steal. There, witches like Lou are hunted. They are feared. And they are burned.

Sworn to the Church as a Chasseur, Reid Diggory has lived his life by one principle: thou shalt not suffer a witch to live. His path was never meant to cross with Lou's, but a wicked stunt forces them into an impossible union—holy matrimony.

The war between witches and Church is an ancient one, and Lou's most dangerous enemies bring a fate worse than fire. Unable to ignore her growing feelings, yet powerless to change what she is, a choice must be made.

And love makes fools of us all.

Encore une fois, je ne sais rien de ce livre, mais j'ai très envie de le lire (moi bizarre ? Peut-être bien haha) !

The Starless Sea de Erin Morgenstern

Résumé : 

Far beneath the surface of the earth, upon the shores of the Starless Sea, there is a labyrinthine collection of tunnels and rooms filled with stories. The entryways that lead to this sanctuary are often hidden, sometimes on forest floors, sometimes in private homes, sometimes in plain sight. But those who seek will find. Their doors have been waiting for them.

Zachary Ezra Rawlins is searching for his door, though he does not know it. He follows a silent siren song, an inexplicable knowledge that he is meant for another place. When he discovers a mysterious book in the stacks of his campus library he begins to read, entranced by tales of lovelorn prisoners, lost cities, and nameless acolytes. Suddenly a turn of the page brings Zachary to a story from his own childhood impossibly written in this book that is older than he is.

A bee, a key, and a sword emblazoned on the book lead Zachary to two people who will change the course of his life: Mirabel, a fierce, pink-haired painter, and Dorian, a handsome, barefoot man with shifting alliances. These strangers guide Zachary through masquerade party dances and whispered back room stories to the headquarters of a secret society where doorknobs hang from ribbons, and finally through a door conjured from paint to the place he has always yearned for. Amid twisting tunnels filled with books, gilded ballrooms, and wine-dark shores Zachary falls into an intoxicating world soaked in romance and mystery. But a battle is raging over the fate of this place and though there are those who would willingly sacrifice everything to protect it, there are just as many intent on its destruction. As Zachary, Mirabel, and Dorian venture deeper into the space and its histories and myths, searching for answers and each other, a timeless love story unspools, casting a spell of pirates, painters, lovers, liars, and ships that sail upon a Starless Sea.

The Night Circus étant mon livre préféré de tous les temps, dire que je meurs d'envie de lire ce livre serait une manière édulcorée de dire que si je ne le lis pas cette année, j'aurai échouée dans ma vie de lectrice. Voilà, aucune pression ! 

The Invisible Life of Addie La Rue de V.E. Schwab

Résumé :

It’s about a love story between a French girl and the devil over 300 years. She sells her soul for the ability to live forever, and the devil curses her to be forgotten by everyone she meets.

Ce livre doit normalement sortir la première semaine d'Octobre, donc forcément, je le lirai dans la foulée ! C'est du Schwab, vous me connaissez, je n'ai pas besoin de vous rappeler mon amour pour elle et ses oeuvres !

The Near Witch de V.E. Schwab

Résumé :

The Near Witch is only an old story told to frighten children.

If the wind calls at night, you must not listen. The wind is lonely, and always looking for company.

And there are no strangers in the town of Near.

These are the truths that Lexi has heard all her life.

But when an actual stranger-a boy who seems to fade like smoke-appears outside her home on the moor at night, she knows that at least one of these sayings is no longer true.

The next night, the children of Near start disappearing from their beds, and the mysterious boy falls under suspicion. Still, he insists on helping Lexi search for them. Something tells her she can trust him.

As the hunt for the children intensifies, so does Lexi's need to know-about the witch that just might be more than a bedtime story, about the wind that seems to speak through the walls at night, and about the history of this nameless boy.

Quoi de mieux pour finir l'année qu'un Schwab au coin du feu sous un plaid ? Je vais donc tenté de lire ces quelques romans encore non lus en ma possession ! Cette année sera l'année où je serais à jour dans ses oeuvres !  

Voilà, c'était ma PAL, et je dois dire qu'elle me plait vraiment beaucoup ! Je pense pouvoir relever le défi cette année pour une fois ! 

Et vous ? Vous avez une PAL VO pour cette nouvelle année ? 

Des bisous ♡