Lovers of fantasy, have we got a treat for you! Melina Marchetta --- the award-winning author of powerful, emotionally driven coming-of-age fiction like SAVING FRANCESCA, LOOKING FOR ALIBRANDI, and ON THE JELLICO ROAD --- recently tried her hand at this new genre, and the end result is a spellbinding, epic novel that's already a big hit in her native Australia. Teeming with plenty of magic, intrigue and romance, her latest, FINNIKIN OF THE ROCK, promises to be a hauntingly beautiful, dark and complex tale about a cursed kingdom and the young hero destined to save it.

While the book won't hit store and library shelves until February 9th, its captivating book trailer is making its rounds now. Check it out below, and share your thoughts in the comments!

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What is “Incarceron”? It is a prison like no other in the sense that the prisoners don’t believe in the idea of an “Outside.” But after 17-year-old Finn discovers a link to the world outside of Incarceron’s walls, the race is on to escape the prison --- a prison that has as many secrets as it does prisoners.

Check back later this month for our review of INCARCERON, a novel from Catherine Fisher (author of the Oracle series) that is being hailed as “one of the best fantasy novels written for a long time.” But, in the mean time, watch its book trailer below and let us know what you think!

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Solange is your average teenage girl: she has a bunch of overprotective brothers, a best friend that she trusts with her life, and is betrothed to a 400-year-old vampire prince. Oh, did I say “average”? I meant anything but. As a vampire princess, Solange must do everything she can to overcome hordes of evil vampires, keep her best friend out of harm’s way, and --- scariest of all --- make sure her math homework’s done on time. In HEARTS AT STAKE, the first book in the Drake Chronicles, author Alyxandra Harvey introduces readers to the humorous and haunting world of Solange, her best friend, Lucy, and all the troubles that come along with being a vampire princess.

Alyxandra will be blogging with us next Friday, so make sure to stop by for more on your soon-to-be new favorite teenage vampire! Until then, here are a few trailers for HEARTS AT STAKE to whet your appetite. Let us know what you think!

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Anna Jarzab’s debut mystery thriller, ALL UNQUIET THINGS, will be hitting stores next Tuesday, January 12th, and its suspenseful book trailer has already gotten us hooked! While it appears that Brighton Day School is a "typical" elite private high school, we soon discover that the school and its students are anything but typical. The novel features scandal and secrets, as rumors surrounding murder just cannot be kept quiet.

Next week, Anna will be stopping by with a guest post, so make sure to check back soon! In the meantime, watch the gripping trailer for ALL UNQUIET THINGS. We are all HUGE Anna fans, as she is an alumnus of The Book Report Network, so don’t forget to share your comments with us below!

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Lauren Kate's most recent novel, FALLEN, is the first book in a new fantasy romance series that follows star-crossed lovers Luce --- a seventeen-year-old reform school student with a mysterious past --- and Daniel, an enigmatic and standoffish badboy with even bigger secrets.

Lauren will be joining us in a few weeks with a guest blog, but in the meantime, we wanted to share this author Q&A, as well as FALLEN'S chilling book trailer, with all of you. Be sure to let us know what you think!

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For all you Alex Rider fans out there, good news! CROCODILE TEARS, the eighth book in Anthony Horowitz's bestselling series about a gifted 14-year-old boy unwillingly recruited to the MI6, hits stores this week! This latest installment finds Alex up against a seemingly unstoppable villain looking to reap the financial benefits of an epic "natural disaster" strong enough to wipe out an entire East African country.

Check out the video below, as the author himself brings you up to speed with all of Alex's adventures leading up to the most exciting book of the series!

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Erik Raschke's debut novel, THE BOOK OF SAMUEL, follows a teenage boy whose world gets turned upside down the day his father leaves his family. From that moment on, poor Samuel seems to have one trying situation after another thrown in his direction, making him seem more like a tragic biblical figure than an ordinary kid growing up in the '80s, just trying to make sense of the complex world around him.

We'll be reviewing THE BOOK OF SAMUEL next month, so check back soon! In the meantime, take a look at the trailer below, and download an excerpt here. And if you haven't read Erik's guest blog, you can do so here. Don't forget to let us know what you think in the comments below!

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As we shared with you in our New Releases Roundup Blog a few weeks back, Kristin Cashore recently published FIRE, the much-anticipated prequel to her debut novel, GRACELING. Though set in the same fantasy world as Cashore's previous book, FIRE takes place 30 years earlier, and introduces us to a 17-year-old heroine who will just about make you forget everything you thought you knew about "monsters."



After checking out the trailer above, use the casting widget below to play director, and build your own movie version of FIRE by selecting which actors you'd like to see play Fire, Brigan, Archer and Nash!

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Josh Lieb’s buzzworthy new novel, I AM A GENIUS OF UNSPEAKABLE EVIL AND I WANT TO BE YOUR CLASS PRESIDENT, will be hitting stores October 13, and it’s already catching our eye with a brand new book trailer starring Jon Stewart! Lieb is the executive producer of "The Daily Show," and he’s exerting his executive powers to get the funnyman to talk about his latest work, so we just had to share this video with all of you.

In the book, everyone in Omaha thinks twelve-year-old Oliver Watson is dumb as rocks, but he is really a mad evil genius on his way to world domination, and he’s used his tremendous brain to make himself the third-richest person on earth. He decides to run for class president of his middle school, but it seems getting kids to like you is way more difficult than overthrowing foreign dictators.

It looks to be a hilariously entertaining and memorable read, so check out the book's website, not to mention the video below, and let us know what you think!

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Amy Efaw's buzzworthy new novel, AFTER, just hit stores yesterday and has a fantastic new book trailer that really caught our eye. So, we wanted to share it with you, along with a quick video of Amy discussing a couple of the real-life events that inspired her to write this story. It's about a seemingly perfect Stepford student and daughter, Devon, who suffers from a pretty bad case of denial over the fact that she's pregnant --- so much so that when the baby finally arrives, she abandons it in the trash.

It looks to be pretty powerful, edgy, dark, sad, and a little creepy, so check out the videos below, and let us know what you think!

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