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SFF: The Tell-Tale Heart

For Valentine's Day this year, we present a series of SFF novels where hearts are built, broken, sold, lovestruck, and consumed. #HillsboroPublicLibrary #WCCLS

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  • Bring Me Their Hearts

    Wolf, Sara, 1990-
    In this young adult novel of court intrigue and fantasy romance, Zera is an unaging soldier for the witch who keeps her heart in a jar. When she is sent to take the heart of the kingdom's dark prince, it becomes a game to see who will take down the…
    Book, 2018©2018 — Y WOLF

  • His Hideous Heart

    Thirteen of Edgar Allan Poe's Most Unsettling Tales Reimagined

    In this diverse anthology, thirteen young adult authors reimagine Poe's speculative fiction short stories for a modern age. The new stories are printed alongside Poe's original tales for comparison, including the eponymous story "The Tell-Tale…
    Book, 2019New York : Flatiron Books, 2019. — YA HIS

  • Song of Blood and Stone

    Penelope, L., 1978-
    This first-in-a-series, romantic fantasy is set in a world divided by race, politics, and a magical barrier separating the warring kingdoms of Elsira and Lagrimar. When Jasminda, a rare Earthsinger, finds a battered spy on the outskirts of her farm,…
    Book, 2018New York : St. Martin's Press, May 2018. — FSF PENELOPE, L.

  • Storm Front

    Butcher, Jim, 1971-
    In this classic, long-running urban fantasy series, Harry Dresden is the world's only wizarding private detective. And it all starts here, in book one, when two bodies show up missing their hearts.
    Book, 2000New York : ROC : New American Library, 2000. — FSF BUTCHER Jim

  • Tarnished Are the Stars

    Thor, Rosiee,
    In this queer, young adult scifi novel, Anne Thatcher knows first hand the tyranny of the Commission's strict laws against technology, with an illegal, clockwork heart beating in her own chest, but she's determined to help those who need it anyway.…
    Book, 2019New York : Scholastic Press, 2019. — YA THOR Rosiee

  • Everything I Thought I Knew

    Takaoka, Shannon,
    In this lightly scifi, young adult novel, Chloe's entire life plan is thrown out of order when she's told she needs a heart transplant. It's a success, but now it's summer, she's fallen behind in school, trying not to fall in love, and having…
    Book, 2020Somerville, MA : Candlewick Press, 2020. — YA Takaoka

  • The Hearts We Sold

    Lloyd-Jones, Emily,
    In this fast-paced, Faustian, young adult novel (set in Portland!), Dee Moreno sells her heart to a devil to escape her abusive family. Now, at her demon's command, she fights the monsters that threaten to escape from other realms.
    Book, 2017New York ; Boston : Little, Brown and Company, 2017. — YA LLOYD-JONES, EMILY

  • Heart in a Box

    Thompson, Kelly, 1976-
    This manga-style graphic novel follows Emma, who wishes her heart away after it's broken. But soon Emma realizes being heartless isn't that great and sets out to recover it, confronting the messy, uplifting, sometimes terrifying nature of…
    Graphic Novel, 2015Milwaukie, OR : Dark Horse Books, 2015.

  • A Heart of Blood and Ashes

    Vane, Milla.,
    Conan the Barbarian meets Game of Thrones in this dark barbarian romance. Vowing to avenge his parents' murders, Madek kidnaps the cruel king's daughter. But she proposes a truce, a marriage, that will allow both of them to get the revenge they…
    Book, 2020New York : Jove, 2020. — ROM VANE Milla

  • The Kaleidoscope Sisters

    Stephens, Ronnie K.,
    A blend of My Sister's Keeper and portal fantasy, this young adult novel tells the story of Quinn, whose younger sister Riley is dying from a degenerative heart disease. When Quinn discovers a doorway to a magical realm, she thinks it could be the…
    Book, 2018Brooklyn, New York : Akashic Books, [2018].

  • The Lightning-Struck Heart

    Klune, TJ
    In this light-hearted, comedic fantasy, Sam, a magician's apprentice, goes on a quest with Sir Ryan Foxheart, his first and unrequited love, to save the kingdom's prince from a terrible dragon.
    eBook, 2015[S.I.] : Dreamspinner Press, 2015. — Overdrive

  • Fireheart Tiger

    Bodard, Aliette de,
    Set in a pre-colonial Vietnamese-esque world, princess Thanh navigates court intrigue and machinations, even as she's drawn to two very different women and the choices she must make for herself and for her kingdom.
    Book, 2021New York : Tordotcom, 2021. — BODARD, ALIETTE

  • Every Heart a Doorway

    McGuire, Seanan
    This portal fantasy novella, while not a romance, captures the love of and longing for the places that make us whole, a feeling that will be deeply familiar to readers of SFF novels.
    Book, 2016New York, NY : Tom Doherty Associates, 2016. — McGuire, Seanan