#fablehaven books

[anna-undaunted]

A sketchy Warren and Seth

[annoyingbird22]

dragon riders are the horse girls of fantasy

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The Scholomance by Naomi Novik (2020-2022)

A Deadly Education is set at Scholomance, a school for the magically gifted where failure means certain death (for real) — until one girl, El, begins to unlock its many secrets. There are no teachers, no holidays, and no friendships, save strategic ones. Survival is more important than any letter grade, for the school won’t allow its students to leave until they graduate… or die! The rules are deceptively simple: Don’t walk the halls alone. And beware of the monsters who lurk everywhere. El is uniquely prepared for the school’s dangers. She may be without allies, but she possesses a dark power strong enough to level mountains and wipe out millions. It would be easy enough for El to defeat the monsters that prowl the school. The problem? Her powerful dark magic might also kill all the other students.

Fablehaven by Brandon Mull (2006-2010)

For centuries, mystical creatures of all description were gathered to a hidden refuge called Fablehaven to prevent their extinction. The sanctuary is one of the last strongholds of true magic. Enchanting? Absolutely. Exciting? You bet. Safe? Well, actually, quite the opposite...

 Kendra and her brother, Seth, have no idea their grandfather is the current caretaker of Fablehaven. Inside the gated woods, ancient laws keep order among greedy trolls, mischievous satyrs, plotting witches, spiteful imps, and jealous fairies. However, when the rules get broken, powerful forces of evil are unleashed, forcing Kendra and Seth to face the greatest challenge of their lives, to save their family, Fablehaven, and perhaps even the world.

Ranger's Apprentice by John Flanagan (2004-2011)

They have always scared him in the past--the Rangers, with their dark cloaksand shadowy ways. The villagers believe the Rangers practice magic that makes them invisible to ordinary people. And now 15-year-old Will, always small for his age, has been chosen as a Ranger's apprentice. What he doesn't yet realize is that the Rangers are the protectors of the kingdom. Highly trained in the skills of battle and surveillance, they fight the battles before the battles reach the people. And as Will is about to learn, there is a large battle brewing. The exiled Morgarath, Lord of the Mountains of Rain and Night, is gathering his forces for an attack on the kingdom. This time, he will not be denied. . . . 

Ruby Red Trilogy by Kerstin Geir (2009-2010)

Sixteen-year-old Gwen lives with her extended - and rather eccentric - family in an exclusive London neighborhood. In spite of her ancestors' peculiar history, she's had a relatively normal life so far. The time-traveling gene that runs like a secret thread through the female half of the family is supposed to have skipped over Gwen, so she hasn't been introduced to "the mysteries," and can spend her time hanging out with her best friend, Lesley. It comes as an unwelcome surprise when she starts taking sudden, uncontrolled leaps into the past.

She's totally unprepared for time travel, not to mention all that comes with it: fancy clothes, archaic manners, a mysterious secret society, and Gideon, her time-traveling counterpart. He's obnoxious, a know-it-all, and possibly the best-looking guy she's seen in any century...

The Books of Bayern by Shannon Hale (2003-2009)

She was born with her eyes closed and a word on her tongue, a word she could not taste.

Her name was Anidori-Kiladra Talianna Isilee, Crown Princess of Kildenree, and she spent the first years of her life listening to her aunt’s stories and learning the language of the birds, especially the swans. And when she was older, she watched as a colt was born, and she heard the first word on his tongue, his name, Falada.

Hex Hall by Rachel Hawkins (2010-2013)

Three years ago, Sophie Mercer discovered that she was a witch. It's gotten her into a few scrapes. Her non-gifted mother has been as supportive as possible, consulting Sophie's estranged father—an elusive European warlock—only when necessary. But when Sophie attracts too much human attention for a prom-night spell gone horribly wrong, it's her dad who decides her punishment: exile to Hex Hall, an isolated reform school for wayward Prodigium, a.k.a. witches, faeries, and shapeshifters. 

By the end of her first day among fellow freak-teens, Sophie has quite a scorecard: three powerful enemies who look like supermodels, a futile crush on a gorgeous warlock, a creepy tag-along ghost, and a new roommate who happens to be the most hated person and only vampire student on campus. Worse, Sophie soon learns that a mysterious predator has been attacking students, and her only friend is the number-one suspect. 

As a series of blood-curdling mysteries starts to converge, Sophie prepares for the biggest threat of all: an ancient secret society determined to destroy all Prodigium, especially her.

Fables by Bill Willingham (2002-2015)

When a savage creature known only as the Adversary conquered the fabled lands of legends and fairy tales, all of the infamous inhabitants of folklore were forced into exile. Disguised among the ""mundys,"" their name for normal citizens of modern-day New York, these magical characters created their own secret society that they call Fabletown.

From their exclusive luxury apartment buildings on Manhattan's Upper West Side, these creatures of legend must fight for their survival in the new world.

Dragonriders of Pern by Anne McCaffrey (1968-2018)

On a beautiful world called Pern, an ancient way of life is about to come under attack from a myth that is all too real. Lessa is an outcast survivor--her parents murdered, her birthright stolen--a strong young woman who has never stopped dreaming of revenge. But when an ancient threat to Pern reemerges, Lessa will rise--upon the back of a great dragon with whom she shares a telepathic bond more intimate than any human connection. Together, dragon and rider will fly . . . and Pern will be changed forever.

Thursday Next by Jasper Fforde (2001-present)

England is a virtual police state where an aunt can get lost (literally) in a Wordsworth poem and forging Byronic verse is a punishable offense. All this is business as usual for Thursday Next, renowned Special Operative in literary detection. But when someone begins kidnapping characters from works of literature and plucks Jane Eyre from the pages of Bront 's novel, Thursday is faced with the challenge of her career.

The Locked Tomb by Tamsyn Muir (2019-present)

The Emperor needs necromancers.

The Ninth Necromancer needs a swordswoman.

Gideon has a sword, some dirty magazines, and no more time for undead nonsense.

Brought up by unfriendly, ossifying nuns, ancient retainers, and countless skeletons, Gideon is ready to abandon a life of servitude and an afterlife as a reanimated corpse. She packs up her sword, her shoes, and her dirty magazines, and prepares to launch her daring escape. But her childhood nemesis won't set her free without a service.

Harrowhark Nonagesimus, Reverend Daughter of the Ninth House and bone witch extraordinaire, has been summoned into action. The Emperor has invited the heirs to each of his loyal Houses to a deadly trial of wits and skill. If Harrowhark succeeds she will be become an immortal, all-powerful servant of the Resurrection, but no necromancer can ascend without their cavalier. Without Gideon's sword, Harrow will fail, and the Ninth House will die.

Of course, some things are better left dead.

[notcryingtoday]

i'm raising a toast to all the long book series (fantasy/sf) with the smallest fandom ever despite being a banger

[eliseyweeseylol]

Fablehaven collage I made of book one (twas was for a school project)

[mercutiotakethewheel]

I know this has been said like literally so, so many times, but like it's still, for now and forever, so fucking funny how chockfull Fablehaven is of queer subtext without the author seeming to mean to have included any of it at all.

To be completely frank (and kind of a bitch lol), though, I think most of it just comes from Mull being a bad writer:

All of his romances feel forced, in great deal because he never once seems to have a clue about what these characters actually like about each other beyond the superficial. Vanessa and Warren might be the most egregious example, and ironically the vibes on it are prolly the best of the fablehaven forced het couples.

relying too heavily on stereotypes of little kids -girly stuff like love is gross and boy crazy teenage girls which gives a lot of undertones both to kendras crushes and to seths ewww gross stuff

classic blunder of straight authors not thinking too hard about the pov implications of character descriptions, which so frequently appear in Kendra's sections that like exact schemantics of girlie's type --- hyper fem girls with an attitude

However, there's also this stuff, which just seems really genuinely cool set-up for queer concepts that I genuinely have no idea what went into them:

The first thing, literally the first thing we learn about Tanu, is that he isn't interested in romance.

Mr. Lich/The Sphinx kind of sort of opposite paralleling Lena/The Sphinx, wherein instead of Mr. Lich giving up immortality, he gives up mortality. devotion but like not. this could've literally been so genius.

Vanessa having all the trappings of a cw lesbian, not to mention the pointedly short nails, and her (until the last book) subversion of the femme fatale trope

And, then of course, there's Ronodin and Raxtus.

[haveyoureadthisbook-poll]

[blue-violin]

Wait is this moment of the year when I suddenly reintroduce into the Fablehaven community??

(I'll finish the 5th book one day)

[merkerlerspeaks]

I just read that Fablehaven is getting a movie??? Like announced within the last few days by Angel Studios, of all studios!

This better not be a hoax, I've been waiting for this for over a decade.

[igot99catsandnoproblems]

In like time travel books where they go back/bring someone forward who like died near wwII I wonder if in the background anyone tells them that Hitler dude did some fucked up shit

Like I'm reading fablehaven again and Patton died in 1941 so like he KNEW about the war but did he know know how bad the war was

He was a magic guy trying to find ways to help Seth and Kendra in the nebulous now times he was trying to find information on where the font of mortality was not how to end the axis powers

I just

Did anyone tell him ??

Not because he could do anything just to like KNOW?

I DUNNO ITS NOT LIKE RELEVANT BUT IM SURE HE ASKED LENA WHEN THEY SPENT THE NIGHT(when not fucking like animals because Lena had not seen him in like?? 70 some years) together I'm sure they talked about world events? Like youve been alive anything interesting I missed??

PATTON WOULD ASK IK HE RESPECTS TIME AND DOESNT WANT LENA TO BE SPOILED FOR HIM BUT HE IS VERY OKAY WITH KNOWING ABOUT PRESENT/HIDTORY AFTER HE DIED ABOUT WORLDLY EVENTS LIKE THE SPYNX GETTING THE ARTIFACTS

Idk man like

WHAT DID HE SAY WHEN SHE SAID THAT BC THE WAR WAS GOING ON WHEN HE WAS ALIVE

[weirdosnailz]

This is an appreciation post for my fav bookshelf in my room!! I have a few more, but this one is definitely the best looking/most organised ♡＼(￣▽￣)／♡

Starting from the top I have:

J. K. Rowling’s Harry Potter, Crimes of Grindelwald - the original screenplay, Quidditch Through the Ages, Tales of Beedle the Bard, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them + the first two books from all 4 special House editions

Rick Riordan’s Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Heroes of Olympus, Trials of Apollo, the Sun and the Star, Kane Chronicles, Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard + most of the companion books regarding the Riordanverse

Jennifer Cervantes’ Storm Runner

Samantha Shannon’s Priory of the Orange Tree & A Day of Fallen Night

R. F. Kuang’s Poppy War

2/3 books from James Islington’s Licanius Trilogy

Brandon Mull’s Five Kingdoms, The Candy Shop War, Fablehaven, Dragonwatch + the 1st Beyonders book

Holly Black’s The Folk of the Air main books, The Modern Faerie Tales Trilogy, Book of Night, Curse Workers

Paulina Hendel’s Żniwiarz (eng. reaper)

Veronica Roth’s Divergent

Naomi Novik’s Scholomance

+ Rick Riordan’s Percy Jackson’s Greek Gods & Percy Jackson’s Greek Heroes

(yes I keep the toa and magnus chase box set thingies on a separate shelf, I just like looking at all the books and I still wanted to display the beautiful artwork on the boxes)

[butahumbleguest]

You ever think about how everyone was super ready and willing to offer Seth forgiveness and redemption because he didn't know what he was doing, made mistakes, and was trying to do what's right even though he accidentally ended up hurting people?

But Ronodin did that and they rejected him, and by the end I guess he just did too much wrong and it warranted him basically going to hell to be tortured?

Do you think Seth wonders where that line is? How many mistakes before you can't be forgiven, how much harm before you're irredeemable? Does he think he's close, or past it already? Does he have to constantly make up for it, convince everyone and himself that he doesn't deserve the same fate? Or does he think that line doesn't exist, that Ronodin deserved a chance too?

[bobdarock]

When fablehaven makes it onto jeapordy

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Summaries under the cut

Gallagher Girls by Ally Carter

Cammie Morgan is a student at the Gallagher Academy for Exceptional Young Women, a fairly typical all-girls school—that is, if every school taught advanced martial arts in PE and the latest in chemical warfare in science, and students received extra credit for breaking CIA codes in computer class. The Gallagher Academy might claim to be a school for geniuses, but it's really a school for spies. Even though Cammie is fluent in fourteen languages and capable of killing a man in seven different ways, she has no idea what to do when she meets an ordinary boy who thinks she's an ordinary girl. Sure, she can tap his phone, hack into his computer, or track him through town with the skill of a real "pavement artist"—but can she maneuver a relationship with someone who can never know the truth about her?

Fablehaven by Brandon Mull

Trespassers will be turned to stone

For centuries, mystical creatures of all description were gathered to a hidden refuge called Fablehaven to prevent their extinction. The sanctuary is one of the last strongholds of true magic. Enchanting? Absolutely. Exciting? You bet. Safe? Well, actually, quite the opposite . . .

Kendra and her brother, Seth, have no idea their grandfather is the current caretaker of Fablehaven. Inside the gated woods, ancient laws keep order among greedy trolls, mischievous satyrs, plotting witches, spiteful imps, and jealous fairies. However, when the rules get broken, powerful forces of evil are unleashed, forcing Kendra and Seth to face the greatest challenge of their lives, to save their family, Fablehaven, and perhaps even the world.

The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel by Michael Scott

Nicholas Flamel was born in Paris on 28 September 1330. Nearly seven hundred years later, he is acknowledged as the greatest Alchemyst of his day. It is said that he discovered the secret of eternal life. The records show that he died in 1418. But his tomb is empty and Nicholas Flamel lives. The secret of eternal life is hidden within the book he protects—the Book of Abraham the Mage. It's the most powerful book that has ever existed. In the wrong hands, it will destroy the world. And that's exactly what Dr. John Dee plans to do when he steals it. Humankind won't know what's happening until it's too late. And if the prophecy is right, Sophie and Josh Newman are the only ones with the power to save the world as we know it. Sometimes legends are true. And Sophie and Josh Newman are about to find themselves in the middle of the greatest legend of all time.

Out of My Mind by Shannon Draper

Melody is not like most people. She cannot walk or talk, but she has a photographic memory; she can remember every detail of everything she has ever experienced. She is smarter than most of the adults who try to diagnose her and smarter than her classmates in her integrated classroom - the very same classmates who dismiss her as mentally challenged because she cannot tell them otherwise. But Melody refuses to be defined by cerebral palsy. And she's determined to let everyone know it - somehow.

The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare

Orphaned Kit Tyler knows, as she gazes for the first time at the cold, bleak shores of Connecticut Colony, that her new home will never be like the shimmering Caribbean island she left behind. In her relatives' stern Puritan community, she feels like a tropical bird that has flown to the wrong part of the world, a bird that is now caged and lonely. The only place where Kit feels completely free is in the meadows, where she enjoys the company of the old Quaker woman known as the Witch of Blackbird Pond, and on occasion, her young sailor friend Nat. But when Kit's friendship with the "witch" is discovered, Kit is faced with suspicion, fear, and anger. She herself is accused of witchcraft!

Books of Bayern by Shannon Hale

She was born with her eyes closed and a word on her tongue, a word she could not taste.

Her name was Anidori-Kiladra Talianna Isilee, Crown Princess of Kildenree, and she spent the first years of her life listening to her aunt’s stories and learning the language of the birds, especially the swans. And when she was older, she watched as a colt was born, and she heard the first word on his tongue, his name, Falada.

From the Grimm’s fairy tale of the princess who became a goose girl before she could become queen, Shannon Hale has woven an incredible, original, and magical tale of a girl who must find her own unusual talents before she can lead the people she has made her own.

Fudge by Judy Blume

Life with his little brother, Fudge, makes Peter Hatcher feel like a fourth grade nothing. Whether Fudge is throwing a temper tantrum in a shoe store, smearing mashed potatoes on the walls at Hamburger Heaven, or trying to fly, he's never far from trouble. He's an almost three-year-old terror who gets away with everything, and Peter's had it up to here! When Fudge walks off with Dribble, Peter's pet turtle, it's the last straw. Peter has put up with Fudge for too long. Way too long! How can he get his parents to pay attention to him for a change?

Bartimaeus by Jonathan Stroud

Nathaniel is a boy magician-in-training, sold to the government by his birth parents at the age of five and sent to live as an apprentice to a master. Powerful magicians rule Britain, and its empire, and Nathaniel is told his is the "ultimate sacrifice" for a "noble destiny."

If leaving his parents and erasing his past life isn't tough enough, Nathaniel's master, Arthur Underwood, is a cold, condescending, and cruel middle-ranking magician in the Ministry of Internal Affairs. The boy's only saving grace is the master's wife, Martha Underwood, who shows him genuine affection that he rewards with fierce devotion. Nathaniel gets along tolerably well over the years in the Underwood household until the summer before his eleventh birthday. Everything changes when he is publicly humiliated by the ruthless magician Simon Lovelace and betrayed by his cowardly master who does not defend him.

Nathaniel vows revenge. In a Faustian fever, he devours magical texts and hones his magic skills, all the while trying to appear subservient to his master. When he musters the strength to summon the 5,000-year-old djinni Bartimaeus to avenge Lovelace by stealing the powerful Amulet of Samarkand, the boy magician plunges into a situation more dangerous and deadly than anything he could ever imagine.

Shadow Children by Margaret Peterson Haddix

Luke has never been to school. He's never had a birthday party, or gone to a friend's house for an overnight. In fact, Luke has never had a friend.

Luke is one of the shadow children, a third child forbidden by the Population Police. He's lived his entire life in hiding, and now, with a new housing development replacing the woods next to his family's farm, he is no longer even allowed to go outside.

Then, one day Luke sees a girl's face in the window of a house where he knows two other children already live. Finally, he's met a shadow child like himself. Jen is willing to risk everything to come out of the shadows - does Luke dare to become involved in her dangerous plan? Can he afford not to?

Princess Academy by Shannon Hale

Miri lives on a mountain where, for generations, her ancestors have quarried stone and lived a simple life. Then word comes that the king's priests have divined her small village the home of the future princess. In a year's time, the prince himself will come and choose his bride from among the girls of the village. The king's ministers set up an academy on the mountain, and every teenage girl must attend and learn how to become a princess.

Miri soon finds herself confronted with a harsh academy mistress, bitter competition among the girls, and her own conflicting desires to be chosen and win the heart of her childhood best friend. But when bandits seek out the academy to kidnap the future princess, Miri must rally the girls together and use a power unique to the mountain dwellers to save herself and her classmates.

[scyrler]

The most important thing in my new apartment:

Brandon Mull altar

[carolinelikesdinner]

Warren Burgess :3