Giulietta Maria Spudich, whose book on obsession (Hannah’s Story: Vampire Love Never Dies) I really enjoyed has a free book on Amazon this weekend. Details here and blurb below, (Free through Sunday): A strong, intelligent eighteen-year old, Ariana is frustrated by her inability to contribute to her forest band as she is chained to a […]
The Blue Mirror by Kathe Koja
August 14, 2013Maggie flees to The Blue Mirror, a café that serves as her sacred space, nightly to escape her drunk, depressed mother. There she nurses a drink and spends most of her time drawing the things and people around her, translating them into her own world, which shares a name with her café hide out. It’s […]
Beautiful Dead: Jonas by Eden Maguire
August 12, 2013Darina thinks she’s going crazy. She’s seeing her dead boyfriend everywhere and having visions of beating wings and death’s head masks. If she’s off, though, the whole town is too. Four teens have died suspiciously in the past year, and the most recent was her boyfriend, Phoenix, who was stabbed during a fight. While the […]
Guide to YA Novels with GLBTQ Characters
August 9, 2013I want to give a shout out to this blog from YALSA’s The Hub. Make sure to read the comments too for more titles. Mostly, though, I want to add in the Weetzie Bat books by Francesca Lia Block as well. I HIGHLY recommend them. Tweet
Runaways takes the idea that parents are evil and makes it come true. This gang of six life long associates (not really friends since they only still hang out because of their parents’ yearly get together) accidentally discover their parents killing someone. Ooops. In the course of one night, when trying to find out exactly […]
Beauty by Robin McKinley
August 7, 2013Without a doubt this is one of my favorite books ever. A retelling of Beauty and the Beast without sexy candelabras or misogynist hunter jerks, told in a vivid tapestry of language. I could leave it there, but where’s the fun in that? Beauty is the nickname given to a girl who is not, especially […]
I Was a Teenage Fairy by Francesca Lia Block
August 5, 2013Block is one of my favorites for off beat but surprisingly soulful tales. I had a pretty good idea what I was getting into in this one before I even noticed the handwritten notes about the book someone so kindly left on the inside cover. Barbie is the daughter of a former beauty queen who […]
Crank by Ellen Hopkins
August 2, 2013Crank is Ellen Hopkins’ controversial, and sorely needed, verse novel. Kristina Snow’s life changes forever when her father and the boy she’s crushing introduce her to meth. Unlike Impulse, which is raw and shredding in its emotion, Crank is almost cold at times, brutally showing a girl on the edge of being a woman, who […]
August 2013 Book Releases
August 1, 2013*Descriptions from Goodreads.com The Uprising (The Forsaken #2) by Lisa M. Stasse In this dystopian sequel to The Forsaken, Alenna has survived the brutality of life on the wheel—and now she’s going back for more. Alenna e scaped. It was expected that she would die on the wheel, the island where would-be criminals are […]
Spam sucks
July 24, 2013Spam sucks. We get a lot of spam here. A WHOLE LOT of spam. Sadly that means we sometimes miss things. Like this awesome-sauce Kickstarter to bring Rachel Caine’s Morganville Vampires series to life through a webseries. The great news is it is totally funded, which gives us a lot to look forward to. *throws […]