Fans of Maggie Stiefvater, Patricia Briggs, Roshani Chokshi, and Rainbow Rowell will be richly rewarded by this contemporary fantasy series.
A lonely teen gets abilities not seen for centuries. She resolves to tell no-one, but she must secretly master them to save her only friend from a killer.
Alice Brickstone is a tall high school loner. She's angry at the world, and can only find peace in the woods, far away from her peers and her parents.
Her forest tranquillity is ruined when an old hermit shows her she has abilities straight out of an old Indian myth. Then a stranger tries to kill her. Alice barely escapes with her life ... by somehow jumping into the air and flying away.
When the stranger starts attacking other girls in town, people blame her. She's always been that girl with the mental health condition, always in trouble. As her life slowly falls apart, the familiar demons in her head prove too much to bear alone, and she finds refuge in the unexpected kindness of a girl from school.
Can she risk confiding her secrets to her first friend ever? Can she find her stalker and learn his motives? As Alice closes in on the shocking truth, the stakes get higher, and the fate of everyone she loves is in her hands.
GIRL IN THE AIR is the first book in an urban fantasy series for young adults. You'll fall in love Alice, a kick-ass teen heroine with social anxiety. Try Tyler Pike's binge-worthy series; Books 1-4 available now.
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Yeah, but will I like this book??
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The Alice Brickstone series is...
...simply great writing,
...young adult urban fantasy (aka "contemporary fantasy") with a touch of Indian mythology,
...features a strong (kick-ass?) heroine with interesting supporting cast of characters, and a gripping, tightly woven plot.
Have I read anything similar to the Alice Brickstone series?
Like The Raven Cycle, the Alice series is urban/contemporary fantasy with no vampires or werewolves, and focuses on found-family and friendship over romance. While The Raven Cycle features ley lines, spirits and clairvoyance, Alice Brickstone's powers derive from prana and siddhis out of Hindu mythology.
Like the Simon Snow series, Alice Brickstone books feature a Potterish friendship trio and a magical school. Alice is also a kind of "chosen one" main character. But unlike Simon, Alice is just taking baby steps into the world of relationships, LGBTQ or otherwise.
Like Mercy Thompson, Alice is a gritty kick-ass heroine with practical interests and magical abilities, but Alice is up against bad guys with siddhis instead of werewolves, vampires, or shifters.
Like Aruh Shaw, Alice's abilities are drawn from Indian mythology and the books are set in contemporary USA, but Aruh Shaw readers tend to be younger than fans of the Alice Brickstone series. Alice books have a crossover YA/Adult audience.
What Amazon readers are saying:
★★★★★ "I have rarely fallen in love with a heroine so thoroughly as this."
★★★★★ "Like an X-men character the awakening of her abilities is fabulous to read and the unveiling quite mesmerising yet believable"
★★★★★ "As for Alice, there are no words to describe this grown woman in a teenager's body, who makes you feel like giving her a great big hug, but also makes you feel you should be straightforward and matter-of-fact with her, because that's the way she'd want it."
