**Cross Posted from the Circulation Desk** IFWG Publishing Australia (2021) ISBN: 978-1-925956-83-2 Available: Paperback, Kindle edition ( Bookshop.org | Amazon.com ) Dispossessed is a character-driven debut YA novel from New Zealand author Piper Mejia. With unusual traits and a rapidly changing physical presence, sixteen-year–old foster child Slate is a perpetual loner who is used to rejection. When Malice, a woman claiming […]
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Book Review: Raising Hell by Bryony Pearce
September 27, 2021**Cross Posted from the Circulation Desk** UClan Publishing, 2021 ISBN-13 : 978-1912979547 Available: Paperback ( Amazon.com.uk ) Four years ago Ivy Mann and her friends Danny and Elena did a ritual to raise their friend Violet from the dead. Violet came back as a revenant and killed Danny before Ivy was able to stop her, and […]
Night World #4: Dark Angel by L.J. Smith
January 26, 2012I’ve pointed out before that the Night World books, so far, often have a touch of real life conflict in them, under all the vampires and witches and true love. In Secret Vampire, Poppy and James have to learn how to be on their own in a world that almost certainly is dangerous to them. […]
Night World #3: Spellbinder by L.J. Smith
January 19, 2012Finally we get to something without vampires! Don’t get me wrong, I loved the first two Night World books, but it’s always fun to read about something other than vampires. (It was true when this book came out too. There were lots of vampire and teen serial killer stories. Not so much with the werethings […]
Night World #1: Secret Vampire
January 16, 2012*Real life intervened last week so you’re getting a triple play of L.J. this week instead of a double. Enjoy!* “It was on the first day of summer vacation that Poppy found out she was going to die.” Doesn’t that just go straight for the gut? Secret Vampire, the first book in L.J. Smith’s Night […]
Reading L.J. Smith
January 11, 2012Of all the authors I’ve read, met or loved L.J. Smith will always have a special place in my heart. Part of it is the books themselves. I’m a sucker for paranormals. Smith’s first books came out in the 90s, back before urban fantasy and paranormal romance were the genres they are today. To invoke […]
Review: Ghost Town (Morganville Vampires, Book 9) by Rachel Caine
November 16, 2011NAL Trade; Reprint edition, 2011 ISBN-10: 0451232917 Available: New Ghost Town is Book Nine of Rachel Caine’s Morganville Vampires series. The series takes place in Morganville, a Texas town run by vampires, and the heroine is Claire Danvers, a young student who is attending Texas Prairie University. The series is notable amongst YA vampire fiction, […]
YA-Inspired Pumpkin carving patterns
October 27, 2011These were just too cool not to share! Kate Hart has this great post up where you can not only download patterns for pumpkin carving YA covers but YA Highway is also holding a contest if you make a book-pumpkin. I’m partial to the Hex Hall pattern, because it’s one of my favorite books. But […]