Period drama meets mystical intrigue in The Vespertine by Saundra Mitchell, a novel that will in turns have you sighing in delight over the romance and then biting your nails in anticipation of the next big twist. The Vespertine tells the story of 17-year-old Amelia van den Broek, as she spends the summer with her... Continue Reading →
Period drama meets mystical intrigue in The Vespertine by Saundra Mitchell, a novel that will in turns have you sighing in delight over the romance and then biting your nails in anticipation of the next big twist. The Vespertine tells the story of 17-year-old Amelia van den Broek, as she spends the summer with her... Continue Reading →
A word of advice? Don't read The Liar Society by Lisa & Laura Roecker late at night when you are home alone. Especially on a stormy night. Because you'll have a hard time falling asleep considering the level of heebie jeebies you'll get from reading this book. That's because despite the spunky cover, The Liar... Continue Reading →
A word of advice? Don't read The Liar Society by Lisa & Laura Roecker late at night when you are home alone. Especially on a stormy night. Because you'll have a hard time falling asleep considering the level of heebie jeebies you'll get from reading this book. That's because despite the spunky cover, The Liar... Continue Reading →
It was the copy on the back of the ARC for Gemini Bites by Patrick Ryan that initially convinced me this was a book I wanted to read: Boy? Girl? Vampire? Gay? Straight? Twisexual? Prepare to be seduced. But what I found inside these pages was less about whether or not mysterious loner Garrett was... Continue Reading →
It was the copy on the back of the ARC for Gemini Bites by Patrick Ryan that initially convinced me this was a book I wanted to read: Boy? Girl? Vampire? Gay? Straight? Twisexual? Prepare to be seduced. But what I found inside these pages was less about whether or not mysterious loner Garrett was... Continue Reading →
If you took some of today's hottest genres in Young Adult fiction, mixed them together and added a heavy dose of Greek mythology, the results would be Kelly Keaton's Darkness Becomes Her, the first in a new paranormal trilogy. The book tells the story of 17-year-old Ari, who's always hated her strange teal eyes and... Continue Reading →
If you took some of today's hottest genres in Young Adult fiction, mixed them together and added a heavy dose of Greek mythology, the results would be Kelly Keaton's Darkness Becomes Her, the first in a new paranormal trilogy. The book tells the story of 17-year-old Ari, who's always hated her strange teal eyes and... Continue Reading →
Dystopian fiction meets environmental cautionary tale in Cameron Stracher's YA novel The Water Wars. The book takes place in the not-so-distant future, in which water has become more precious than oil and the newly established countries of the world are engaged in on-going wars for control of what little drinkable water does remain. Set against... Continue Reading →
Dystopian fiction meets environmental cautionary tale in Cameron Stracher's YA novel The Water Wars. The book takes place in the not-so-distant future, in which water has become more precious than oil and the newly established countries of the world are engaged in on-going wars for control of what little drinkable water does remain. Set against... Continue Reading →
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