Cross posted from FREE/BARGAIN - Science Fiction, Fantasy - 2016
Court of Fives by Kate Elliott (Court of Fives Book 1) is currently $2.99 in the US.
It's her first YA novel
https://store.kobobooks.com/en-us/ebook/court-of-fives
Jessamy's life is a balance between acting like an upper-class Patron and dreaming of the freedom of the Commoners. But away from her family she can be whoever she wants when she sneaks out to train for The Fives, an intricate, multilevel athletic competition that offers a chance for glory to the kingdom's best contenders. Then Jes meets Kalliarkos, and an unlikely friendship between two Fives competitors--one of mixed race and the other a Patron boy--causes heads to turn. When Kal's powerful, scheming uncle tears Jes's family apart, she'll have to test her new friend's loyalty and risk the vengeance of a royal clan to save her mother and sisters from certain death.
A second YA fantasy novel also discounted is Circle of Magic #01: Sandry's Book
by Tamora Pierce which is $1.99 in the US
https://store.kobobooks.com/en-us/eb...-sandry-s-book
Four elements of power, four mages-in-training learning to control them. In Book 1 of the Circle of Magic Quartet, gifted young weaver Sandry is brought to the Winding Circle community. There she meets Briar, a former thief with a way with plants; Daja, an outcase gifted at metalcraft; and Tris, whose connection with the weather unsettles everyone, including herself. The four misfits are taught how to use their magic, but when disaster strikes, it's up to Sandry to weave together four different kinds of power to save herself, her friends, and Winding Circle.