7 Clean YA Fantasy Books You Should Read

It’s been awhile since I’ve put together a list of recommended reads. This is because I’ve been extremely busy with writing, teaching, and having fun on Instagram. But after someone asked a question about recommended reads, I had to write this post.

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My review: A cross between Alice in Wonderland and Series of Unfortunate Events, plus a dash of steampunk, The Book of Secrets is a fun and clean YA Fantasy read.

Blurb

After Gabriel Draven smuggles home the Stone of the Seven Realms, his fear of facing consequences launches him and his oddball family on a rollicking run for their lives across the world they only thought they knew. As his journey takes him out of his realm and into another, Gabriel discovers that the deepest mystery lies at the heart of his own family, and he must do whatever it takes to find his way back home.

Strong and unapologetic, full of vivid, well-timed simile and lilting rhythm, bright with humor, at times bursting into a depth of pure simplistic beauty, The Book of Secrets looks far beyond the typical medieval swords-and-sorcery and, instead, introduces mystical creatures, absurd new worlds, and, at its heart, a hymn of praise to the complicated bond of siblinghood.

Buy the Book: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07WWY8775/

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My review: This is a perfect combination of fairy-tale and allegory that I absolutely adore in clean YA Fantasy.

Blurb

In the land of Barracks, the economy thrives on the barter of their citizens’ most precious commodity—a human heart. Each year, the Heart Reign festival is thrown for those who have become of age to trade their hearts for their deepest desires.

And this year is Adelaide Tye’s year to trade.

After despising Heart Reign for years, Addie endures her Extraction and discovers that her heart isn’t gray and dying, like all other hearts in Barracks, but bright red, alive, and teeming with power.

With a warning from the extractor of hearts, Addie rushes through Heart Reign to make her choice—trade her heart to Schism, the monster who took her brother years before, or go in search of the Mender—a mythical man said to purify hearts and save her own heart. Either decision will rip her away from the one man who has always been by her side.

Knowing there is only one real choice to make, Addie jumps through Schism’s red door and is thrust into a dark and dangerous realm where she is faced with making a trade she may not survive.

Buy the Book: https://www.amazon.com/Heartmender-Heartmaker-Trilogy-Book-1-ebook/dp/B0B57QR6WG/

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My Review: It took me awhile to get into this book, but once I did, I absolutely loved it…My heart broke with Alisa, soared with Alisa, and wept with Alisa through her trials and triumphs…This is clean YA Fantasy at its finest.

Blurb

Alísa was born to lead her clan of dragon slayers, but her vocal stammer has robbed her of confidence and respect. If she can’t lead slayers, how on A’dem is she supposed to lead dragons?

As the only child of a dragon slayer chief, Alísa’s purpose should have been simple: lead the clan in ridding humankind of the dragon scourge. But while gaining respect from hardened warriors is difficult enough with a vocal stammer, when they learn her empathic powers connect uncontrollably to the dragon enemy, it becomes impossible.

Confidence shattered, Alísa resigns herself to silent service under her father’s apprentice. But when her growing connection reveals one dragon’s capacity for good, she realizes the war isn’t as black and white as the slayers teach. Now Alísa faces an impossible choice: stay with her family in comfortable but condemning silence, or follow the dragon claiming to know her true purpose.

Buy the Book: https://www.amazon.com/Songflight-Dragon-Singer-Chronicles-Book-ebook/dp/B08B73RR76/

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My Review: This is a wonderful and clean YA Fantasy about a boy named Lander and all his struggles to accept who he is and what he must do to save his people.

Blurb:

Raised by his secretive grandfather, Pop-pop Ian, high school junior Lander’s history had always been shrouded in mystery. His after-school hours were spent in the woods flicking fire on his fingers, tracking Ian, or standing still as a statue, invisible, observing the wildlife that never noticed him.

Until the day Ian dies. His final words direct Lander to a buried box. Within it, Lander finds stones that glow when he picks them up and a letter telling him to seek out a man called Castor Elm.

Alone and pursued by menacing strangers, Lander sets out on a journey to find not only safety and friendship, but the truth of why his grandfather called him special … the truth of his legacy.

A legacy that will take him to the center of the earth. 

Buy the Book: https://www.amazon.com/Landers-Legacy-Stone-Sovereigns-Book-ebook/dp/B087T4QYLY/

5.

My Review: The plot pacing, character development, and setting are spectacular, making this book perfect for any fans of clean YA Fantasy. 

Blurb:

Chelsea Welling is a completely normal fifteen year old girl… well normal except for the pesky fact that she thinks she is going crazy. Either that or she really is being transported to a magical world known locally as Amar. However when Chelsea is transported to Amar with her friend Easton, she knows beyond a shadow of a doubt that these little trips are more than figments of her imagination. Then the unthinkable happens. Chelsea, Easton, Chelsea’s brother Clint, and their mutual friend Bobby are all stranded in Amar. They cannot return to Earth until they finish a dangerous quest that their fathers set out on over twenty years ago.

Chelsea is in for one trying week as she flees from werewolves, faces down faeries, and fits into fancy dresses- all while she struggles alongside her friends to fulfill the all-but-impossible tasks of finding out what the quest their fathers set out on was, and succeeding where their fathers failed.

Buy this Book: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01BQZHJDI/

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My review: A whimsical adventure perfect for fairy tale lovers…
This story is intriguing. Even though it has a slow start, it draws you in with its mystery and keeps you going with its non-stop adventure in this clean YA Fantasy.

Blurb:

Echo enjoys the peace and solitude of the Faeorn forest, regardless of how strange spending time in the “haunted” wood seems to others.

But on the cusp of her thirteenth birthday, the discovery of a family secret reveals why Echo has never been drawn to the sea like her mother. This discovery shakes the foundations of her world and sends Echo on a quest, not merely into the forest, but into the heart of the fae-lands themselves, to rescue the sister she didn’t know existed.

Elves, dragons, and fairy courts will put Echo’s wit and resolve to the test. But with time running out for her sister, will Echo even be able to save herself?

Buy this Book: https://www.amazon.com/Echo-Fae-Jenelle-Leanne-Schmidt-ebook/dp/B089654VWC/

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Blurb:

Lost in a foreign land and separated from his family, Corin does his best to survive as a slave in the household of a Calorin lord. With newfound friends he fights for survival in ambushes and wars. For one act of bravery, he is awarded his freedom and returns to a home that has been invaded and ravaged by the Calorin armies. When Corin sets foot on Aredor’s shores, he has one goal in mind: find his family. He is driven into the forest, where he is reunited with childhood friends. From the shelter of the woods, they begin a spirited rebellion against Corin’s former cruel master, who now holds sway over Aredor. Follow Corin’s path in his quest to free his imprisoned brother, find a father who has vanished, and ultimately free his country in The Rise of Aredor. 

Buy this Book: https://www.amazon.com/Rise-Aredor-Claire-M-Banschbach-ebook/dp/B075KM3MN7/

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