O contemporary YA, how I love thee! I love your angst, your romance, your banter, your thrill, your kissing, your exploration, your humor, and your doing all of it within settings we all know and live every day. Whether it’s a common story with a new voice or a wild new premise the likes of […]
It’s the happiest, hardest day in the bookish calendar, when all the past year’s most glorious reads are winnowed down into a list of the best of the best books to cross my desk in 2016. Here there be magnificent debuts, swoony, promise-keeping series finales, and bolts from the blue; books that enchant, provoke, and break hearts. This […]
Be warned: You won’t make it out of The Memory Book alive. In Lara Avery’s latest, Sammie McCoy is a girl focused squarely on the future, a valedictorian in the making who lives with her big family and a clutch of chickens on the side of a mountaintop, but can’t wait to leave it all behind to start her […]
Having summer fun’s not hard when you’ve got more awesome new releases than there are flavors of Pop-Ice. So rip open a Tropical Punch and exercise your pre-order muscles with July YA including a moving mental illness narrative with a sci-fi twist, a monstrous new fantasy series from the pen of Victoria “instabuy” Schwab, and a twisty ballet-world thriller. I won’t […]