Sometimes we read fantasy for its intense themes and motifs: star-crossed love, scary battles, heroes and heroines making hard choices. Sometimes we read it for its humor, lighthearted banter, and clever characters. And sometimes, when we’re lucky, we read it for both. In the 11 short stories in The Bane Chronicles, readers get both sides of the fantasy coin: […]
Do you like a little romance with your action? A touch of New York grit with your demon slaying? A little Goth with your comic book geek, vampire with your steampunk, swashbuckling with your werewolf angst? A little…oh, you get the idea. Cassandra Clare is one of those authors who likes to put every subgenre into a […]
This year’s most thrilling teen releases take readers on journeys to postapocalyptic kingdoms, the bottom of the sea, a madcap Florida, and a former asylum that will make your skin crawl. Here are the books young readers will be putting on their wish lists this holiday season.
A teen novelist, set loose in New York City after her debut sells big. A girl mutated by fever, just discovering the extent of her new supernatural powers. The dregs of the human race, fighting to survive alien invasion. In the best teen books of the year, young protagonists navigate life in our world and at the end of it. They struggle to survive and thrive in imagined universes, dead-end towns, and deep under the sea. These are the year’s most moving, heart-pounding, and engrossing teen books.
Sometimes we read fantasy for its intense themes and motifs: star-crossed love, scary battles, heroes and heroines making hard choices. Sometimes we read it for its humor, lighthearted banter, and clever characters. And sometimes, when we’re lucky, we read it for both. In the 11 short stories in The Bane Chronicles, centered on a favorite character from Cassandra Clare’s […]
