Paranormal fiction with a comedic twist, Cat Girl’s Day Off by Kimberly Pauley is a laugh-a-minute romp through the life of one quirky teenage girl, the cats whose thoughts she can hear, and an homage to one of the greatest movies of all time, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off. Natalie Ng’s little sister is a super-genius [...]
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Ariel better move over, because there’s another little mermaid shaking things up under the sea in Of Poseidon by Anna Banks. Okay, so maybe she’s not exactly a mermaid, but Emma — the heroine of Of Poseidon – has one fishy story that will have readers swooning for more: Galen, a Syrena prince, searches land [...]
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Christopher Moore’s latest book, Sacre Bleu, opens with the prologue telling us that this book is about the color blue. How can you write a book about the color blue? This is how. Christopher Moore pulls it off with his great gift of story and humor. Sacre Bleu begins with the death of Vincent Van [...]
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A contemporary romance of the best kind, prepare to fall in love with First Comes Love by Katie Kacvinsky. Like his name, Gray is dark and stormy. Dylan, a girl always searching for what’s next, seemingly unable to settle down, is the exact opposite: full of light and life. On the outside, they seem like [...]
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Everything that first seduced me when I read Abandon by Meg Cabot is back and then some in the new sequel, Underworld. Cabot’s sexy and imaginative retelling of the Persephone story gets intensified, with higher stakes, more romance, more risk, and more to love. Escape from the realm of the dead is impossible when someone [...]
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Classic fairy tales get new life in Enchanted by Alethea Kontis, a re-telling of “The Frog Prince” that is sprinkled with elements of countless other beloved stories. Kontis lovingly weaves in references to classics like “Jack & the Beanstalk,” “Cinderella,” “The Red Shoes,” and “The Princess & the Pea.” It isn’t easy being the rather [...]
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“For never was a story of more woe, than this of Juliet & her Romeo” … until now, that is. Because the tale of Romeo & Rosaline is full of far more woe — as proven by When You Were Mine by Rebecca Serle, a modernized re-imagining of Romeo & Juliet told from the perspective [...]
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It’s not often we feature a coloring book here at Novel Novice. In fact, we’ve never featured a coloring book here before … but as they say, there’s a first for everything. And as it’s Prom Week, it’s fitting that The Fashion Coloring Book from our friends at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt is the first coloring [...]
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I firmly believe you are never too old for fairy tales, and The Hero’s Guide to Saving Your Kingdom by Christopher Healy is the perfect book to support my argument. Though written for middle grade readers, this book’s content is so hilarious, so universal, and so appealing that it transcends any age group. Healy’s laugh-out-loud [...]
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Deeply seductive, Masque of the Red Death by Bethany Griffin is a dark romance in a haunting world wrought with temptation, disease, class warfare, and a mysterious prince. Drawing on elements of Edgar Allan Poe’s classic short story, Griffin’s novel is wholly unique and entirely addictive from the very first page. Everything is in ruins. [...]
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