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The Empress of All Seasons by Emiko Jean

Each generation, a competition is held to find the next empress of Honoku. The rules are simple. Survive the palace's enchanted seasonal rooms. Conquer Winter, Spring, Summer, and Fall. Marry the prince. All are eligible to compete--all except yokai, supernatural monsters and spirits whom the human emperor is determined to enslave and destroy. Mari has spent a lifetime training to become empress. Winning should be easy. And it would be, if she weren't hiding a dangerous secret. Mari is a yokai with the ability to transform into a terrifying monster. If discovered, her life will be forfeit. As she struggles to keep her true identity hidden, Mari's fate collides with that of Taro, the prince who has no desire to inherit the imperial throne, and Akira, a half-human, half-yokai outcast. Torn between duty and love, loyalty and betrayal, vengeance and forgiveness, the choices of Mari, Taro, and Akira will decide the fate of Honoku in this beautifully written, edge-of-your-seat YA...

Animorphs Book 20: The Discovery by K. A. Applegate

The Discovery is part 1 of 3 of the David sequence. I like this approach to telling a longer story by connecting three books more tightly than the rest of the continuity. The Animorphs have to deal with more exposure while protecting world leaders.

Knowing what's to come, by comparison this is pretty light. The rest of this sequence is going to be very dark and deal with some very heavy stuff, but for now there's a new element and he doesn't work well with Marco.

A boy (Marco) turns into a cobra

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