02 May 2025
Twisty New YA Books You Won’t Be Able to Put Down
Packed with secrets, betrayals, and jaw-dropping twists, these YA thrillers deliver nonstop suspense. If you love high-stakes drama and heart-pounding tension, these books are your next obsession.
Dystpopia!: Hero’s Quest
by David Horn
Release Date: April 29, 2025
Who’s really in charge of this story? Murray, the author, a 45-year-old recently divorced down-on-his-luck writer? Or Hero, his 17-year-old, tough-as-nails female protagonist? While Hero fights to save her own Kingdom of Dystpopia in a post-apocalyptic desert wasteland of misery, Hero also battles Murray the author in this hilarious novel.
Broken Star
by Michelle Madow
Release Date: April 24, 2025
Sapphire Hayes never planned to fall for Prince Riven Draevor of the Winter Court. Not after he gave up his love for her. Not after he made her beg to survive. Not after the god of love struck her with a cursed arrow that turned heartbreak into agony.
Wicked Blood (The Royals: Vampire Court Book 4)
by Megan Montero
Release Date: April 18, 2025
Love is a curse, it hangs over my head like an executioner’s blade. Hundreds of years of secrets and lies are tumbling down around me. The House of Shade is on the brink of collapse and my enemies have me trapped.
I Used to be an Evil Genius
by Pixel Ate
Release Date: April 23, 2025
Xander Quinn is a genius. A teenage mastermind. Some might even say a supervillain in training, though he prefers the term “ethically flexible entrepreneur.” His latest heist? Foolproof. The part where a superhero showed up and he got yeeted into a world of magic, monsters, and medieval nonsense? Yeah. Not part of the plan.
The Secret Of Us
by Zarin Madiyha
Release Date: April 30, 2025
Izzy Evans thought her final year of boarding school would be a quiet countdown to freedom—a chance to dodge university brochures and steer clear of her ex, Ryan. While everyone else seems to have their futures mapped out, Izzy is paralysed by the thought of making the wrong choice.
Ties of Dust
by Deborah Grace White
Release Date: April 25, 2025
Flora owes her role as a royal bodyguard to her ability to control Dust—the invisible magic created by movement. She doesn’t precisely pretend to be a man. She just doesn’t correct those who assume the Siqualian princess’s bodyguard must be a man…which is everyone. Including the delegation of the foreign prince to whom the princess is betrothed.
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