NBS recommends action-packed adventure reads

Otherworld Chronicles: The Invisible Tower

By Nils Johnson-Shelton

P385

MANILA, Philippines - In Artie Kingfisher’s world, a wizardsnamed Merlin, fire-breathing dragons, and swords called Excalibur exist only in legends and lore until the day his video game Otherworld springs to life. Cryptic clues lead Artie to a strange place called the Invisible Tower, where he discovers that nothing in his life is as it seems. Artie is none other than King Arthur, brought to life in the twenty-first century. He has won the battle in the virtual Otherworld, now the key to saving the real Otherworld lies in his hands as well. Green dragons, hungry wolves, and powerful sorcerers… suddenly Artie must battle them all as he wields Excalibur and embarks on a quest worthy of the Knights of the Round Table. With his sister Kay by his side, Artie steps into the Otherworld straight toward his destiny.

Under The Never Sky

By Veronica Rossi

P349

Exiled from her home, the enclosed city of Reverie, Aria knows her chances of surviving in the outer wasteland known as The Death Shop are slim. If the cannibals don’t get her, the violent, electrified energy storms will. She’s been taught that the very air she breathes can kill her. Then Aria meets an Outsider named Perry, a wild savage and her only hope of staying alive. A hunter for his tribe in a merciless landscape, Perry views Aria as sheltered and fragile, everything he would expect from a Dweller. But he needs Aria’s help too as she alone holds the key to his redemption. Opposites in nearly every way, Aria and Perry must accept each other to survive. Their unlikely alliance forges a bond that will determine the fate of all who live under the never sky. In her enthralling debut, Veronica Rossi sends readers on an unforgettable adventure set in a world brimming with harshness and beauty.

Switched: A Trylle Novel

By Amanda Hocking

P365

When Wendy Everly was six years old, her mother was convinced she was a monster and tried to kill her. Eleven years later, Wendy discovers her mother might have been right. She’s not the person she’s always believed herself to be, and her whole life begins to unravel all because of Finn Holmes. Finn is a mysterious guy who always seems to be watching her. Every encounter leaves her deeply shaken, though it has more to do with her fierce attraction to him than she’d ever admit. It isn’t long before he reveals the truth that Wendy is a changeling who was switched at birth, and he’s come to take her home. Now Wendy’s about to journey to a magical world she never knew existed, one that’s both beautiful and frightening and where she must leave her old life behind to discover who she’s meant to become.

Angel Burn

By L.A. Weatherly

P299

Willow knows she’s different from other girls, and not just because she loves tinkering with cars. Willow has a gift — she can look into the future and know people’s dreams and hopes, their sorrows and regrets, just by touching them. She has no idea where this power comes from, but Alex, the assassin, does. Gorgeous, mysterious Alex knows more about Willow than Willow herself. He knows that her powers link to dark and dangerous forces, and that he’s one of the few humans left who can fight them. When Alex finds himself falling in love with his sworn enemy, he discovers that nothing is as it seems, least of all good and evil. In the first book in an action-packed, romantic trilogy, L.A. Weatherly sends readers on a thrill-ride of a road trip and depicts the human race at the brink of a future as catastrophic as it is deceptively beautiful.

Fallen In Love: A Fallen Novel In Stories

By Lauren Kate

P559

What makes your heart race a little faster? Just in time for Valentine’s Day, it is Fallen in Love —four wholly original new stories collected in a new novel set in the Middle Ages by Lauren Kate. Fallen in Love gives fans the much talked-about but never-revealed stories of Fallen characters as they intertwine with the epic love story of Luce and Daniel. The stories include “Love Where You Least Expect It: The Valentine of Shelby” and “Miles, Love Lessons: The Valentine of Roland,” “Burning Love: The Valentine of Arriane” and “Endless Love: The Valentine of Daniel and Lucinda.”