40 fantasy and science fiction books you should read in 2022
By Daniel Roman
For The Throne by Hannah Whitten (Wilderwood #2) — June 7
Hannah Whitten’s debut novel For The Wolf was an instant New York Times bestseller when it released last year, and now she’s back to conclude the Wilderwood duology.
The first book was a twist on classic fairy tales like Little Red Riding Hood and Beauty and the Beast, repainting Red as a fiery young woman set to be sacrificed to a wolf residing in the mystical forest neighboring her village. But when Red rails against that system, she ends up discovering that Wolf is in fact a very attractive, lonely, and cursed individual whom she falls for.
The sequel promises to follow up on that story with the same sort of personality and panache that made Whitten’s debut resonate with so many:
The First Daughter is for the Throne
The Second Daughter is for the Wolf…
Red and the Wolf have finally contained the threat of the Old Kings but at a steep cost. Red’s beloved sister Neve, the First Daughter is lost in the Shadowlands, an inverted kingdom where the vicious gods of legend have been trapped for centuries and the Old Kings have slowly been gaining control. But Neve has an ally–though it’s one she’d rather never have to speak to again–the rogue king Solmir.
Solmir wants to bring an end to the Shadowlands and he believes helping Neve may be the key to its destruction. But to do that, they will both have to journey across a dangerous landscape in order to find a mysterious Heart Tree, and finally to claim the gods’ dark, twisted powers for themselves.
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