Young Adult
I've heard good things before about Eva Ibbotson, and I am partial to tales set during World War II, so I thought The Dragonfly Pool looked like fun. For the most part it was.
Tally Hamilton is a special girl, the kind who likes to help, who cares for others, and who sees what could be clearer th ...
B+
No doubt most of you have heard of the immensely popular Twilight series, of which Eclipse is the third installment. My mother-in-law insisted that I read her copies and then pass them along to another of her daughters-in-law. As I started talking to more and more people about this series, it seem ...
Pants on Fire is one of Meg Cabot’s stand-alone titles and was published in Great Britain as Tommy Sullivan Is a Freak. While it does not quite achieve the near-perfection of Teen Idol, my all-time favorite stand-alone YA title by Cabot, it is still a compelling read with a remarkably imperfect he ...
I follow book recommendations to discover new authors and books on the Internet all the time. However, it is rare that a book recommendation leads me to a treasure so perfect that it leaves me breathless with awe and rather frightened at how easily I might have missed it. This is what happened with ...
Anatomy of a Boyfriend wants to be like Judy Blume’s Forever, but it just ends up being a kind of boring novel where the reader gets the sense that the author is only writing in order to describe a sexual relationship. Dominique is a senior at a private school and has never met ...
Sharon Shinn’s Archangel is an all-time favorite of mine. I love her world-building, her characters and their romance. So I was curious about reading a Young Adult novel of hers. I was not disappointed in General Winston’s Daughter. This is a very good book, even if it does not quite achieve th ...
You thought being a teenager was difficult? Try living Rayne McDonald's life. As Girls that Growl opens, her life as a vampire slayer for Slayer, Inc. has become ever more precarious because she's been turned into a vampire herself. And if that weren't enough, a virus in her bloodstream renders h ...
The Boys Next Door is a cute story with adorable teenage characters who brought me back thoughts of the first boy I fell in love with, and all the incredibly embarrassing things I said and did to get him to fall in love with me. This is a light, funny read that will warm your heart. Lori has li ...
I first read and loved Howl's Moving Castle when it was published twenty years ago. In my umpteenth re-reading of the book for this DIK review, I realize I still love it as much as ever. It is, in my opinion, one of the best novels ever about finding yourself and about the nature of love.
It begi ...
This book is a true Desert Island Keeper for me: After reading a online recommendation in 2000 and recalling that I had read a few of Patricia C. Wrede’s fantasy novels years before and enjoyed them tremendously, I went and ordered a copy of the first edition (the only one then available) for more ...