The Barnes & Noble YA Book Club

by Emily Thiede

A dark fantasy debut full of complex characters, relationships you can’t help but root for, and vivid world-building, This Vicious Grace will keep readers captivated from start to finish. Alessa has a gift from the gods that’s supposed to magnify a partner’s magic, but instead it’s killing every suitor she touches, and with her island in danger and a powerful priest convincing her soldiers that her death is the island’s only hope, she hires Dante, a cynical outcast who could either help her or destroy her.