Imaginary Girls

The problem with writing about books for Liars fans is you don’t dare say too much about them (and those already initiated into the cult of We Were Liars fandom know exactly what I’m talking about). But once you’ve read E. Lockhart’s twisting, gorgeous gut punch of a novel, you’re likely salivating for something similar. Here are 6 recent […]

Beautiful. Haunting. Magical. These are the kinds of words you’ll find attached to pretty much every review of any book by Nova Ren Suma, and if you’ve read any of her work, you know exactly why. If you haven’t, the release of her newest, The Walls Around Us, is a perfect excuse to start. Suma […]

There’s just something about a small, tucked-away town that makes for a good story. Everyone has their eye on everyone else, but there’s enough space between houses for dark secrets and dangerous eccentricities to grow unchecked. Even better is a town with secrets of its own, the kind that make its borders difficult to breach, and its location hard to […]

A lot of young adult books deal with families—with the relationships between sisters and brothers and parents and their children. But some stories go even further, delving into the relationships between cousins and stepmoms and long-lost siblings the main character thought she’d never see again (or never knew about in the first place). It seems […]