If you’ve entered a bookstore in the past three years, you’ll probably know about the Hunger Games; it is quite possibly the biggest young adult publishing phenom since Harry Potter. After finally reading the dystopian trilogy, I had a hard time making a judgment: Certainly, they are good. But are they great? Part of my…
A good ghost story requires ambiance, and what better location for ambiance can there be than London, England? It is a city so rich in history that every inch of it has a tale to tell. It has hundreds of famous ghosts. When you add in those cool, foggy nights for which it is renowned,…
Some books just luck out in the cover department and I think this is definitely one of them. The lush dress, the castle, the maze, the young girl who looks like she is on the verge of running – it all makes for an enchanted, fairy tale feel. Which is appropriate given that this novel…
I love dragon novels. There is something about dragons that epitomizes the fantasy genre, a style of book I love. In romance we have been fortunate to have an excellent dragon series in Shana Abe’s Drakons. Alas, it looks like I am still searching for a truly terrific YA dragon series – because this one…
Earth that was could no longer sustain us, we had messed it up so badly. Oh wait, that’s a paraphrase of the start of Joss Whedon’s Serenity. And the premise of Pixar’s Wall-E. Shrug. I’m going with it, it works here, too. So Earth could no longer sustain us and we were headed off to…
Have I mentioned lately how much I am loving the current YA market? While not every book I am picking up is a winner (I recently finished a crop of C/C- novels that left me wondering if the days of the greats were behind us), this genre continues to surprise, amaze and delight. And novels…
I’ve never really liked the legend of the Norn. Three ladies who spin, weave and cut our fate at their whim; it’s a disturbing idea. The villain of this novel finds it so as well. Maybe that is why I felt some empathy for the circumstances that got her started on her twisted path. Both…
Ten years ago I couldn’t have conceived that I would be reading a young adult book dealing with teenage angst after living through my own. Once was enough! However, after reading a review on this site of a Sarah Dessen book that intrigued my interest, I found that great characterization and storytelling such as what…
When I first learned of this novel I was emphatically not going to read it. The back cover blurb hinted of horror novel aspects. The pictures interspersed in the text gave me a creepy vibe. Then Anne Marble posted the book trailer and I became instantly obsessed. I ordered the book that day, got it from…
Call me a kid at heart! I read quite a bit in the YA field and love, love, love the changes that have taken place in that genre over the last several years. No more angst ridden novels of coming of age – bring on the magic, the mayhem, the super duper supernatural. This is…
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