This was my first book by Holly Black, but I am already on to another. She has a real skill for world building and it shows in The Darkest Part of the Forest. Fairfold is painted with such realism as a town where human and fairy folk are so used to coexisting that it is…
This was my most anticipated book of 2015 and I am so pleased to say that it lived up to my excitement. Ee created a wonderful and terrifying angel apocalypse and then used it to show how humanity – both the good and bad of it- continue on after a catastrophe. Since neither of the…
Two things led me to read this book: the hype and the fact that it was billed as Magical Realism. I heard multiple authors crow about how wonderful it is, and saw a stunning number of positive reviews. I’m a huge fan of Young Adult and Magical Realism, so how could I resist? The description…
Narrated by Elizabeth Evans and Anthony Ferguson Welcome to a world populated by humans, the Nephilim, and the Stained. Who are the Stained and what do they do? Well, even after reading this first installment in Ella James’ Stained series, I’m afraid I can’t give you a good answer, and it isn’t for fear of…
The blurb on this book says “For readers of A Game of Thrones and The Hunger Games comes an epic new series.” Sounds awesome, right? Someday I will remember that blurbs are written to sell me books and trust them a bit less. Quin Kincaid is ready to take her Oath and become what she…
Julie Cross’s Whatever Life Throws At You straddles the line between Young Adult (the heroine is only seventeen) and New Adult (the characters have sex), making it hard to categorize. A wonky ending and a bit of slow pacing kept it from being an A read for me, but I can still recommend it for…
The Romeo and Juliet story has been done to death. So it was quite refreshing to pick up Magnolia by Kristi Cook, a story that promised Romeo and Juliet in reverse. And despite a heroine and hero who are a little too close to perfect, this book delivered on that promise. In the town of…
Jane Austen’s books are so timeless and classic, it’s easy to forget that many of her characters’ problems and the stories’ plots are based on the social mores of a specific time and place in history. It’s only when reading Diana Peterfreund’s Persuasion-inspired For Darkness Shows the Stars that I came to realize how critical…
Isla Martin has been in love with Joshua Wasserstein since she first saw him in ninth grade, but between Isla’s shyness and Josh’s misunderstanding of her relationship with her best friend Kurt, the two never managed to get on the same page. Suddenly it’s senior year, and these bicultural New Yorker/Parisians have started to figure…
I’m not a great reader of YA, so I may be coming at The Burning Sky from a slightly different angle from its target audience. But Sherry Thomas is one of my favourite writers and I’d probably read the back of a cereal packet if she’d written what was on it! The premise of the…
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