The Best New YA Books Out in February 2023

Wildblood by Lauren Blackwood (February 7)

Victoria is simply a Wildblood, with a magical quality to support herself and others from ghostly monsters successful the Jamaican jungle. She was kidnapped arsenic a kid and forced to enactment arsenic a circuit usher to a tourer company, and erstwhile she’s passed implicit for a overmuch deserved promotion, she begins to strategy for a mode out. That’s erstwhile she meets Thorn, a golden miner hoping to find a priceless vein of golden successful the jungle. He hires her to usher him, and arsenic they statesman to respect past autumn for each other, Victoria starts to question what she wants for the future.

Daughters of Oduma by Moses Ose Utom (February 7)

Dirt lives successful a a satellite wherever girls are expected to vie successful Bowing, an elite combatant athletics that is astatine the halfway of their lives. Dirt has aged retired of the athletics and spends her days coaching the younger girls, but erstwhile an onslaught leaves them susceptible successful an upcoming contention and their precise beingness is connected the line, Dirt volition person to re-enter the contention and get herself backmost successful warring signifier successful bid to prevention her sisters.

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Seven Faceless Saints by M.L. Lobb (February 7)

Rossana lives successful the metropolis of Ombrazia, wherever saints and their disciples tally a corrupt government. When Rossana’s begetter dies astatine the hands of the military, the lone happening connected her caput is revenge. Meanwhile, Damian is simply a defender successful the Palazzo, and portion helium seems ruthless and unaffected not helium outside, wrong he’s doubting everything. When a murderer targets a disciple, Rossana and Damian squad up to find the killer, but soon uncover a sinister crippled neither of them ever expected.

This Time It’s Real by Ann Liang (February 7)

Eliza ne'er expected that her effort connected gathering the emotion of her beingness astatine 17 would spell viral…but erstwhile it does, she has a large problem: she made it each up. Now she has to prosecute Caz, a classmate and actor, to unreal to beryllium her fellow successful bid to support up the ruse. But erstwhile Caz’s acting is simply a small excessively good, Eliza is near wondering if possibly having everything spell to program isn’t what she wanted aft all.

The Pledge by Cale Dietrich (February 14)

Sam is the sole subsister of a horrific execution spree that launched him into questionable fame, and helium wants thing to bash with reminders of that atrocious night. Now astatine college, helium decides to remake his individuality and joins a fraternity successful the hopes of making caller friends and leaving his past behind. But erstwhile 1 of his frat brothers ends up dead, Sam realizes that idiosyncratic is acceptable connected recreating his past, and this clip he’s going to person to look it caput on.

When You Wish Upon a Lantern by Gloria Chao (February 14)

Liya and Kai were erstwhile champion friends, but aft an epic misunderstanding, they’re nary longer connected speaking terms. But Liya realizes that each of that is going to person to alteration successful bid to prevention her family’s struggling privation lantern store. She concocts a program not to reconcile with Kai, but to enlist his assistance successful secretly fulfilling the wishes that radical constitute successful their lanterns…and on the mode discovers that she mightiness person a privation of her ain to marque true.

Always the Almost by Edward Underhill (February 14)

Miles is simply a trans pianist who wants to triumph backmost his fellow (who broke up with him 2 weeks aft helium came out) and triumph a classical soft competition, beating his nemesis. But with his ex stubbornly ignoring him, things aren’t going truthful well…until a caller feline with a bosom of golden arrives successful municipality and seems to really similar Miles. And erstwhile their fake dating strategy turns real, Miles has to reckon with who helium is and who helium wants to be.

Last Chance Dance by Lakita Wilson (February 21)

When Leila’s fellow breaks up with her weeks earlier graduation, she’s devastated. Enter: The Last Chance Dance. Held astatine the extremity of the schoolhouse year, the creation is simply a accidental for students to taxable their crushes to the creation committee. If their crush besides names them, the matches are revealed. Leila is shocked to find herself matched with each 3 of her crushes and idiosyncratic she ne'er expected, and present she has 4 dates and a ticking timepiece to find emotion earlier the schoolhouse twelvemonth ends.

Where Darkness Blooms by Andrea Hannah (February 21)

Bishop is simply a unusual municipality known for its windstorms, sunflower fields, and missing women. When 3 women spell missing, their daughters are near down to prime up the pieces, each of them grieving and dealing successful their ain way. But erstwhile secrets are revealed connected the time of their funerals, the near down girls find that possibly they unsocial person the powerfulness to uncover Bishop’s secrets.

She is simply a Haunting by Trang Thanh Tran (February 28)

Jade is not looking guardant to spending the adjacent 5 weeks successful Vietnam, surviving successful the French assemblage location that her begetter is restoring. Immediately upon arrival, it’s wide that thing isn’t close astir this place, and unsettling occurrences are lone the beginning. But with her begetter and sister incapable oregon unwilling to judge Jade’s misgivings, she has to crook to an unexpected miss for assistance if she’s to survive.