When it comes to fantastical YA, a lot of attention gets paid to books that specialize in fantasy creatures: dragon slayers, vampires in love, werewolves with a heart of gold. I’m a huge fan of all of the above, but sometimes I like to take my craving for adventure somewhere beyond our own world. It’s […]
We’ve slogged through the winter and come out of it relatively intact, which can only mean one thing: summer blockbuster season is almost upon us! All the franchise movies and sequels and big-budget blow-em-ups you could want are coming soon to a theater near you. But I understand that doesn’t help you RIGHT NOW. How can you possibly wait any longer […]
June brings us a bevy of supernatural adventures featuring brujas, love potions, ghosts, and prophetic dreams. Action-packed sequels to the fantasy series An Ember in the Ashes, Flame in the Mist, and Generation One round out the list, and for contemporary fans, Morgan Matson provides a weekend wedding escape.
It’s a new year, which means a new spacefaring lineup of awesome YA sci-fi to take you to other worlds and galaxies! Here are twelve forthcoming YA sci-fis heading your way in the first six months of 2018, featuring space pirates, alien wars, wormholes, cybernetic bounty hunters, sentient spaceships, Star Wars–style action-romance, and so much […]