I’m a sucker for weird YA, vivid world-building, powerful girls, uncanny boys, enchanted objects, lush imagery, monsters with human faces, and the thin places between the mundane and the magic, so next year’s crop of fresh fantasy has me lying atop my pile of books like Smaug on his hoard. 2016 will herald the close of irresistible series from authors […]
This month on the Teen shelves, Victoria Aveyard returns with a follow-up to last year’s best-selling dystopic fantasy Red Queen, Tommy Wallach follows We All Looked Up with a coming of age tale with an irresistible touch of magic, and Ruta Sepetys tells a little known chapter of World War II history through the eyes of […]
{{ean3}These Vicious Masks, by Tarun Shanker and Kelly Zekas In a Regency sphere of stuffed-shirt suitors, boring balls, and a mother with a nose for a man with prospects, Evelyn has zero interest in becoming a bride. She takes solace in her brilliant, medically gifted younger sister, Rose; the company of the intriguing Mr. Kent; […]
2016 is going to be a great year for fairy tale retellings in the YA world, what with The Rose and the Dagger and A Court of Mist and Fury and SO MANY OTHERS. But it’s also going to be a great year for classic lit retellings, starting with these returns to two of our favorite magical locales—Neverland and […]