People have been throwing parties based on their favorite books for years. Type “Harry Potter” into Pinterest and you’ll find hundreds of boards dedicated to the art of butter beer cupcakes and pumpkin pasties. And while I’d never turn down an invite to a Harry Potter party, there are other YA books out there that deserve […]
No matter how many YA novels I read, there’s one thing I will never get tired of: awesome girls saving the day. And if you’ve read Vampire Academy or Bloodlines or any other book by Richelle Mead, then you already know she’s excellent at creating fun, interesting heroines. Her newest novel, fantasy standalone Soundless, is no exception. Meet Fei. She’s spent her […]
The good thing about shopping for book addicts is they can never have enough books, so it’s nearly impossible to go wrong. And with so many excellent YA fantasy reads released this year, there’s a seemingly endless supply of choices—the only difficult part of gifting is narrowing down your options until you find the right book. Lucky for you, […]
In a world where YA heroines are in charge of the United States, our President is obviously Hermione Granger, right? It doesn’t even matter that she wasn’t born in the U.S., because we simply changed the Constitution just for her. Then she achieved the first ever unanimous vote. But Hermione knows what’s up, and just […]
There must be a word for the moment you reach the end of a book series—a word for that combination of euphoria and sorrow. (It’s probably only in the German language, which always has a word for these types of complex moments.) What do you do when you’ve fallen in love with a series, and […]