Love unique young adult fiction? Here are some exciting new YA titles to look forward to from Hachette Australia, coming out in 2025.
The Forest King’s Daughter by Elly Blake
Publish date: 11/02/2025
For fans of Holly Black and Stephanie Garber, a new young adult fantasy trilogy from the NYT bestselling author of Frostblood.
As a child, fey princess Klara snuck out of her father’s castle and did the forbidden: she befriended a demon boy. On their third meeting, her new friend Zeru gave her a demonstone ring. He thought it was one of many in his mother’s jewelry box, not to be missed. But the trinket was actually a dangerous and powerful artifact, which the demon queen will stop at nothing to get back.
Now, with the demons mounting attacks to retrieve the ring, the conflict between demons and faeries has intensified. After a decade of skirmishes, the demon army draws ever closer to the faerie stronghold. Klara wants to prove to her father that she is worth more than the demonstone she wields as a weapon. Zeru, her childhood friend, now enemy, has been waiting for the right opportunity to get the ring back and right the wrong he did to his people.
The Girl You Know by Elle Gonzalez Rose
Publish date: 25/02/2025
A twisty YA dark academia thriller, full of secrets between twin sisters, privilege, identity swap … and murder, for readers of Ace of Spades and Holly Jackson.
An unputdownable and utterly compulsive dark academia thriller about who is allowed to break the rules and who suffers the consequences.
The week before Luna’s twin sister Solina was supposed to head back for her final term at the prestigious Kingswood Academy, she told Luna she was dropping out.
Twelve hours later, she was dead.
Luna knows Solina’s death wasn’t an accident. There’s a reason Solina didn’t want to go back to Kingswood – Luna knows the truth is there and she has nothing left to lose. All she has to do is become Solina.
There’s no limit to how far Luna will go to avenge her sister – even if she has to burn all of Kingswood to the ground.
The Floating World by Axie Oh
Publish date: 13/05/2025
The first in a new magical YA fantasy duology from the author of The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea, set in an East Asian inspired world.
Lower your gaze. The light is not for you.
Ex-soldier Sunho lives in the Under World, a land of perpetual darkness. Possessing just his name and sword, he comes across the score of a lifetime – a chest of coins for hunting down the girl who wields silver light.
Ren is a spirited acrobat travelling with her family. But everything changes when they are attacked by a demon. Desperate, Ren releases a blast of silver light and kills the monster – but cannot save her beloved uncle from grievous injury.
Determined to save him from succumbing to the poisoned wound, Ren sets off for the mountains, where the creature came from – where Ren herself fled from ten years ago. Her path collides with Sunho’s, but he doesn’t realize who she is. As the two grow closer, it becomes clear their pasts – and destinies – are more entwined than they could possibly have imagined…
Inspired by Celestial Maidens from Korean myth and pitched as Final Fantasy meets Castle in the Sky, an amnesiac sword-for-hire and a theatre troupe performer with mysterious powers discover that their destinies will change the fate of multiple worlds.
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