Penguin YA SA

What’s your pick: slow burn or love at first sight? 🐢💘⚡

How far would you go to find out what really happened?

Roslyn hasn’t been the same since her sister died. No answers, no closure — just questions that won’t leave her alone.

So when the girls her sister spent her last summer with return to town, Roslyn does the only thing she can think of: she joins them.

But these girls aren’t ordinary.

They’ve made a deal with Death himself — spared from dying, but forced to repay that debt by reaping souls.

Now Roslyn is closer to the truth than ever before… but it comes at a cost.

Because some answers don’t come for free.

Dark, eerie, and completely gripping — this one will stay with you.

What if you didn’t get in… and decided that wasn’t the end of the story?

Raven, Atticus, and Dorian have always dreamed of studying magic at Sibylline. When they’re rejected, they refuse to let that be it.

So they find another way in.

Sneaking into lectures. Stealing knowledge. Living a life they were never meant to have.

But the deeper they go, the stranger things become. Their magic grows. So do their feelings for each other.

And beneath it all, something dangerous is waiting.

Dark academia, secret magic, and messy relationships — this one’s got everything.

What do you do when moving forward feels like leaving someone behind?

Olivia Lupo is stuck between two worlds: the life waiting for her, and the one she’s not ready to let go of. While her friends head off to varsity, she stays home, holding onto every moment with her grandmother, Annie.

Then a box of old memories leads her to Martha’s Vineyard — a place her grandmother once called magical. There, Olivia retraces Annie’s past… and unexpectedly runs into Connor, a boy who might just change her future.

It’s a summer of nostalgia, new feelings, and impossible choices. Because sometimes love shows up when your heart’s not quite ready for it.

Which character are you basically the same person as right now? 💭

Imagine knowing every time someone lies… and realising just how often it happens.

Rowan James has spent her whole life trying to ignore what she can do. Because once you know the truth, you can’t un-know it.

Then Hadrian Fitch — her old rival — shows up at her door, injured and asking for help.

At the same time, things in Caball Hollow start getting… strange. Objects disappear. People pretend they never existed. And something dark is moving through the town.

Now Rowan has to figure out what’s real — and who she can trust.

Because in a place where everyone lies, the truth might be the most dangerous thing of all.

What happens when the gods meant to protect you… fail?

In the Kingdom of Kwa, dragon gods have always kept the darkness at bay. Until one mistake unleashes something far worse than anyone imagined.

Suddenly, the stories everyone grew up hearing aren’t stories anymore.

At the centre of it all is Moremi — the only one with a strange connection to the gods, and possibly the only one who can restore what’s been broken.

But with a guarded prince, a complicated past, and a world on the edge of collapse… nothing is simple.

High-stakes, rich with African mythology, and impossible to put down — this is the kind of fantasy that pulls you all the way in.

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They keep finding their way back to each other…

Even when they shouldn’t.
Even when it hurts.
Even when everything is on the line.

Because some connections?

You can’t outrun them. 👀✨

Violet was never supposed to be “the girl in the love song”…
But every lyric.
Every chord.
Every moment.
It’s always been about her. 🎶✨
And when the world finally starts listening to him…
she might be the only one not hearing it. 💔