100+ Highly Anticipated New YA Fantasy Books 2022

July 2022 YA Fantasy Releases

The Darkening by Sunya Mara

The Darkening by Sunya Mara (DEBUT)

Release Date: July 5, 2022

As the daughter of failed revolutionaries, Vesper Vale knows better than anyone how to stay hidden. After her mother’s execution in the cursed storm, she and her father spent twelve years on the run.

With the queen’s soldiers on their trail, Vesper will do anything to keep her father safe. She will arm herself with dangerous magic, infiltrate the prince’s soldier-sorcerers, and weasel her way into his heart.


These Twisted Bonds by Lexi Ryan

These Twisted Bonds by Lexi Ryan (These Hollow Vows #2)

Release Date: July 19, 2022

With her sister sold to the fae, and her life caught between two fae princes, Abriella’s life is as complicated as ever. As civil war rages and the future of the fae realm hangs in the balance, Abriella must choose a side.

Prophecies always come true, and whether she likes it or not, Brie will take her place in the war.


Youngblood by Sasha Laurens

Youngblood by Sasha Laurens

Release Date: July 19, 2022

With nearly all of humanity infected by a virus fatal to vampires, Kat and her mother can barely purchase the expensive synthetic blood substitute. But Kat’s fate changes when she’s accepted to a vampire-only boarding school.

Despite having grown up on the wealthy side of the vampire world, Taylor hates it more than anything. She has never approved of their conservative way of thinking, especially as an out-and-proud lesbian.

When Taylor finds that her ex-best friend, Kat, is now her roommate at Harcote School, things feel like they couldn’t get worse. But when Taylor discovers a dead vampire and Kat finds shocking information in the school archives, the two will have to set aside their differences.

These secrets would change everything the vampire world believes. From the powerful figures in Vampirdom, to the synthetic blood they drink.


Heat Wave by TJ Klune

Heat Wave by T.J. Klune (The Extraordinaries #3)

Release Date: July 19, 2022

Nick, Seth, Gibby, and Jazz are back in the thrilled finale to The Extraordinaries trilogy. When an unexpected hero returns to Nova City, Nick’s life is upturned with the revelation of what it means to be a hero.


Padawan Kiersten White

Padawan by Kiersten White

Release Date: July 26, 2022

BEING A TEENAGER IS HARD ENOUGH WITHOUT ALSO TRAINING TO BE A JEDI….

Obi-Wan Kenobi has not been apprenticed long to Qui-Gon Jinn, and he is chafing at Qui-Gon’s training style: all meditation, no action. Obi-Wan yearns to prove himself on a mission, but when he and Qui-Gon are finally set to leave on an assignment, Qui-Gon is nowhere to be found.

Angered by his master’s abandonment, Obi-Wan sets out on the mission alone, determined to prove himself. On a mysterious planet he encounters a pack of feral, Force-wielding teens who seem to be the planet’s only inhabitants. As he experiences wild freedom with them and wonders if this isn’t the life he was meant for, Obi-Wan can’t escape the nagging sense that something is wrong with the Force there.

Growing attachments, startling revelations, and a looming threat to both the planet and his new friends will bring Obi-Wan face-to-face with his worst fear: that maybe he was never supposed to be a Jedi at all. Can he connect with the living Force in time to save himself and everyone around him?


When Stars Come Out by Scarlett St. Clair

Release Date: July 26, 2022

From the brilliant mind of A Touch of Darkness’s bestselling author Scarlett St. Clair comes a YA crossover in a darkly unique fantasy world.

Anora Silby can see the dead and turn spirits into gold coins, two things she would prefer to keep secret as she tries to lead a normal life at her new school. After all, she didn’t change her identity for nothing.

Hiding her weirdness is just one of many challenges. By the end of her first day, she’s claimed the soul of a dead girl on campus and lost the coin. Turns out, the coin gives others the ability to steal souls, and when a classmate ends up dead, there’s no mistaking the murder weapon.

Navigating the loss of her Poppa, the mistrust of her mother, the attention of gorgeous and enigmatic Shy, and Roundtable, an anonymous student gossip app threatening to expose her, are hard enough. Now she must find the person who stole her coin before more lives are lost, but that means making herself a target for the Order, an organization that governs the dead on Earth—and they want Anora and her powers for themselves.


Violet Made of Thorns by Gina Chen

Violet Made of Thorns by Gina Chen (DEBUT)

Release Date: July 26, 2022

Violet is a prophet, but that doesn’t mean everything she says is true. Working for the royal court, she knows that truth has power and not everyone deserves it.

But when she gives the infuriating Prince Cyrus a false prophesy regarding his love life, Violet unleashes a deadly curse. The kingdom’s fate rests in the Prince’s hands… and on who he picks for his bride.

Fate is unchangeable, and Violet must choose between her growing attraction to Cyrus, or taking control of her destiny.


Master of Iron by Tricia Levenseller

Master of Iron by Tricia Levenseller (Bladesmith #2)

Release Date: July 26, 2022

After defeating a deadly warlord, Ziva races against the clock to find a powerful magical healer to save her sister. But when Ziva, and the handsome mercenary, Kellyn, are captured, she is forced to create magical weapons capable of destroying the world.

Ziva will tear herself apart to save Kellyn, her sister, and the world as she joins the very war she tried to stop.


The Witchery by S. Isabelle

The Witchery by S. Isabelle (DEBUT)

Release Date: July 26, 2022

When Logan arrives at her new witchy school, Mesmortes Coven Academy, she is immediately welcomed by the infamous Red Three. One is a deathwitch, another a greenwitch, and the third has a thirst for power that may destroy her yet.

Despite prejudice, humans still turn to witches for protection from the Wolves, who rise from the swamp to feed during the Haunting Season. When two Hammersmith boys prepare their first sacrifice for protection, they are pulled into the Mesmortes witches’ plan to stop the Haunting Season entirely.


After Life by Melissa de la Cruz

After Life by Melissa de la Cruz

Release Date: July 26, 2022

In this continuation of the Blood Bloods saga, Jack Schuyler wakes up in New York after defeating Lucifer. But nothing is the same.

She looks different, her best friend has a different last name, her parents are alive, and that love of her life that she sacrificed? Alive and well.

Jack realizes that she’s stuck in an alternate reality, where Blue Bloods are murdering humans, and Lucifer is the mayor of New York — with Jack as his right hand.

She learns that she may have been sent to this alternate world to defeat Lucifer once again, and is the only one in this universe and the next, capable of destroying him.


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