Books Young Adult Spotlight Most Anticipated Young Adult SFF/H for November & December 2025 Check out 13 of the best YA titles publishing this season By Alex Brown | Published on November 10, 2025 Comment 0 Share New Share Not many young adult books in the science fiction, fantasy, and horror genres are published at the end of the year—November and December is less than half of September and October, if my tallies are correct—but that doesn’t mean the ones we get are worth ignoring. There are some real gems on their way that you don’t want to miss. Vampires and werewolves are holding down the paranormal side, and romantasy continues its domination of fantasy, but there’s a good mix of horror and sci-fi, too. These are my thirteen most anticipated YA books for the end of the year. Interview with a Vampire The Last Vampire by Romina Garber (Wednesday Books; December 2, 2025) What do you get when you mix dark academia, Pride & Prejudice, and vampires? Lorena is accepted into a prestigious boarding school where she and her new friends accidentally awaken a nearly 300-year-old vampire. Magic, blood-drinking, and attraction bind her and William together. She wants to find out why he was locked in a coffin, sleeping away the centuries, and he wants to figure out how to restore vampires to their rightful place of power. The Uninvited by Nancy Banks (Delacorte Press; December 16, 2025) Moving from Portland, Oregon to Paris, France is a big leap, but one Tosh is thrilled to take. With a new romance building with another immigrant kid, Nick, and a new artist friend in Noor, Tosh is having a great time. Right up until she encounters Cole and his brand of toxic masculinity. But that’s not all she has to deal with. Vampires are skulking around in the catacombs. It’s vampires meets feminism meets Emily in Paris. Thrills & Chills Beautiful Brutal Bodies by Linda Cheng (Gorgeous Gruesome Faces #2 — Roaring Brook Press; November 4, 2025) After tragedy strikes some of her fans, singer superstar Tian retreats to an isolated wellness center, with collaborator Shenyu in tow. But there’s something sinister about the island. Being there also brings out the monstrous side of Liya, her bodyguard and only real friend, a side she’s desperately trying to keep at bay. The girls are pulled together by their attraction, but the creature prowling the island and the creepy retreat owners might keep them apart forever.  Hear Her Howl by Kim DeRose (Union Square & Co.; November 4, 2025) As much as I love vampires, I’m a werewolf girlie at heart. This book takes us back to the 1990s when Rue is packed off to a rural school in New England after getting caught kissing a girl. The Catholic boarding school is strict and patriarchal, and Rue can’t help but push back. When her new paramour, Charlotte, teaches her how to transform into a wolf, all bets are off. Rue taps into her feminine power and feminist rage. Twin Tides by Hien Nguyen (Delacorte Press; December 9, 2025) Caliste Ha and Aria Nguyen couldn’t be more different. Caliste is an LA influencer with a wealthy but negligent father. Aria struggles to take care of her ill Aunt Thu and make ends meet. A phone call from a police officer in a small town in Minnesota yanks them together. Turns out they’re twins separated as toddlers when their mother disappeared. The mother whose body just turned up in the Midwest. A Vietnamese folklore-infused murder mystery. Science Fictional Coldwire by Chloe Gong (The StrangeLoom Trilogy #1 — Margaret K. McElderry Books; November 4, 2025) In this dystopian future, upcountry is where the privileged live in the lap of virtual reality luxury, while downcountry is for everyone else stuck in the muck and the mire of the real world. Two nations, Atahua and Medaluo, have long been at war. In upcountry, Atahuan soldiers in training Lia and Kieren, are sent to the enemy nation to retrieve a kidnapped scientist. In downcountry, Eirale and Nik, get tangled up in a murder conspiracy involving Medaluo. Romance and dystopia, two great tastes that go great together. MindWorks: An Uncanny Compendium of Short Fiction by Neal Shusterman (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers; November 18, 2025) Do I really need to sell you on this? It’s a collection of 43 short stories written by one of the most popular YA science fiction and dystopian authors around. Two of the stories are in the Arc of the Scythe universe, and if you work with teen readers you know how hugely popular that series is. Plus, the cover is so unique and intense! The Common Curse Deadly Ever After by Brittany Johnson (G.P. Putnam’s Sons Books for Young Readers; November 4, 2025) Amala was a proper young lady before she was murdered on her wedding night. Kha’dasia wanted to be a warrior, not a princess, but her dream was cut short when she died while traveling. Both teen girls are resurrected in a mysterious forest and given a quest: be kissed by their true love in the next five days. If they succeed, they can return to the world of the living. If they fail or are kissed by the wrong person, their deaths will be permanent. When the girls start wanting to kiss each other, things get hectic. Break Wide the Sea by Sara Holland (Break Wide the Sea #1 — Wednesday Books; November 11, 2025) Annie, the heir to a whaling company, has spent most of her life capturing whales, whose magic provides power to cities. She’s also cursed. The more heartbreak she feels, the more she turns into one of the monstrous finfolk who attack ships. Now with her inheritance at risk and her romantic relationship shattered, the curse has nearly consumed her. She makes a deal with half-finfolk ship captain Silas to help her break her curse, but what happens when freeing herself means damning everyone else? Persephone’s Curse by Katrina Leno (Wednesday Books; December 2, 2025) Legend has it that the Farthing sisters—Clara, Winnie, Bernadette, and Evelyn—are descended from the goddess Persephone, Queen of the Ancient Greek Underworld (and sometimes the goddess of spring). If that wasn’t strange enough, they also have a ghost living in their attic, Henry, who died as a teenager. When one sister falls in love with Henry and another sends him into the Underworld, the chaos they cause trying to bring him back stretches between the worlds of the living and dead. Love Is in the Air The Hero Complex by Helen Comerford (The Love Interest #2 — Bloomsbury YA; November 11, 2025) A superhero romcom? Okay! In the first book, Jenna met Blaze, a new superhero in the Heroics and Power Authority, and was cast into the role of Superhero Love Interest. Jenna now has superpowers of her own, but hasn’t figured out how to control them. The ousted former leader of the HPA offers her a dangerous deal, one that is too tempting to ignore. Meanwhile, now that she’s no longer being forced to play the part of the Love Interest, maybe she and Blaze can have a real romance. My Roommate from Hell by Cale Dietrich (Wednesday Books; November 11, 2025) Owen is an overachiever determined to squeeze every drop of success he can out of college. Free from Hell for the first time, Prince Zarmenus is just as determined to get the most from his college experience…even if that means having all the fun he couldn’t have back home. Shenanigans ensue. Eventually, Owen and Zarmenus’ college futures are at risk, so the roomies strike an unusual bargain: be each other’s fake boyfriend. And yes, this fake dating scenario that goes about as well as they always do in romance novels.  I’ll Find You Where the Timeline Ends by Kylie Lee Baker (Feiwel & Friends; November 18, 2025) Time travel! It’s a shame we don’t get more of these, since I adore them so much. Mina’s ancestor, Ryūjin, a Japanese dragon god, gave her the ability to travel through time. She has been training for years for a job in the Descendants, an organization dedicated to maintaining the timeline, but they may not be as benevolent as she thought. She discovers a secret sister they tried to erase, and the only way to find her is to double-cross the Descendants. With the help of Yejun, a rogue agent also searching for someone, she tries to find her lost sister without getting erased from time herself. [end-mark] The post Most Anticipated Young Adult SFF/H for November & December 2025 appeared first on Reactor.

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A motorist was seriously injured after someone threw a frozen water balloon through his windshield, hitting him in the face Thursday night while he was traveling down a highway in Northern California.The incident occurred on Highway 20 near Hallwood Boulevard in Marysville in Yuba County, KCRA-TV reported. Marysville is about an hour north of Sacramento.'Somebody went through all of that for just a random act of violence.'"It came through the window and hit me in the face," the victim, Alex Plant, told the station. "Forced a lot of this glass into my face, in my eyes."Plant told KCRA he was driving home from work around 9:30 p.m. and traveling about 45 miles per hour when he said something from a car traveling in the opposite direction was thrown out its window."I barely saw it for a quarter of a second before it just came straight through," Plant told KCRA.The victim added to the station that while he was able to pull off the two-lane highway, he had to ask Siri to call 911, as he had no idea what hit him after it crashed through his windshield."My eyes were already starting to close up, so I couldn't even look at the phone if I wanted to," Plant noted to KCRA.Turns out that a piece of white balloon was stuck in the shattered glass as first responders arrived, the station said.Plant told KCRA he was taken to a hospital where medical staff spent hours removing shards of glass from his face and eyes.RELATED: Husband of Woman Severely Injured by Rock Thrown From Highway Overpass Commits Suicide "I wasn't even sure I'd be able to see my family, to be honest with you," he added to the station. "It was really stressful."Plant's eyes were open as he spoke to KCRA, but small cuts were visible on his face — and he told the station his vision has been compromised."Out of this right eye, if I were to close the left one right now, you know, everything's a little bit blurry. It's hard to focus a little bit. And like I said, just the sensitivity to light," Plant explained to the station.In the end, the victim has been left wondering why someone would do such a dangerous and destructive thing to anyone."I was a random victim, but somebody didn't randomly do this act, right?" Plant noted to KCRA. "Somebody went through all that trouble to, like, freeze it, tie it off, you know what I mean? And then throw it through the windshield before it defrosted. That's just crazy. Somebody went through all of that for just a random act of violence."The station said California Highway Patrol is investigating the incident, but officials have limited information and no witnesses. Officers are working to identify the suspect and the suspect vehicle, KCRA reported.In addition, Plant and his family are asking anyone with information that could assist in the investigation to contact the California Highway Patrol, the station said.Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

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