Ruta Sepetys has made a name for herself with her historical fiction, portraying events not often written about. I’ve only read her previous work, Salt to the Sea, but I inhaled that book over two days. It was an impactful, […]
I admit: I was weary with The Bridge Home after discovering there were second person mentions. Even though the plot grabbed me, second POV isn’t my favorite. Something told me to give the book a chance though, so I bought […]
A Very Large Expanse of Sea spoke to me. This is a very personal story; Mafi says this is inspired by her own adolescence. There are times when it gets more “tell and no show” to make up for time, which is […]
Long Way Down is the book you’d give to a person skeptical about YA. The person who thinks there is no quality literature for a young audience would be hard pressed to find something to dismiss about Jason Reynolds’ book. It’s […]
The Radius of Us is a timely book. It expertly handles many current issues through our protagonists: Gretchen, a girl trying to handle the aftermath of a brutal attack; and Phoenix, a boy from El Salvador who is seeking asylum for […]
“Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe,” by Benjamin Alire Sáenz, is one of the most absorbingly relatable and exquisite books I have ever had the pleasure to read. The sparse, poetic prose captures the confusion and longing […]
I don’t even know how to start this review. My first book by Hoover was Maybe Someday and I was impressed by her writing. I next purchased Hopeless in audio at the insistence of Nereyda from Mostly YA Book Obsessed […]
I loved the synopsis of The Last Changeling as soon as I read it. The dark and complex world of Faerie more than lives up to expectations – it’s just a pity that the rest of the novel doesn’t. Seventeen-year-old […]
This is one of the funniest books I’ve read all year – and it was such a surprise, too! I didn’t expect to enjoy Lottie Biggs Is (Not) Mad as much as I did, but with such passionate storytelling, highly […]
We’ve all known someone like Chelsea Knot at one point or another. For Chelsea, high school means one thing: popularity. There is nothing more important to her than the approval of girls like Kristen, her so-called best friend – and […]
What’s Left of Me is one of the most thematic and thought-provoking YA novels I’ve read in a long time. So many YA dystopians are about the end of the world as we know it and nothing else; What’s Left […]