Title: The Bone Witch Author: Rin Chupeco Publisher: Sourcebooks Fire Pub. Date: 7 March 2017 Genre: Fantasy, Magic, Necromancy, YA This book is really two story-lines converging. In one, young Tea is learning to control her new magic without letting the darkness in. In the other, the Bard is recounting his meeting with…
Category: YA
The Pain Eater
Title: The Pain Eater Author: Beth Goobie Published: Second Story Press Pub. Date: 13 September 2016 Genre: Contemporary Fiction, YA Maddie Malone has been a train wreck since that terrible day last March. She tries to control her nightmare pain so it does not consume her, but the only method she has found…
The Girl From the Sea
Title: The Girl From the Sea Author: Shalini Boland Publisher: Adrenalin Books Pub. Date: 9 June 2016 Genre: Fiction, Psychological Thriller, Mystery, YA Mia washes up on a beach. She cannot remember who she is or what happened to her. After she is identified and begins to resume her supposed life, she begins having…
Can’t Forget
Title: Can’t Forget Author: Colleen S. Myers Publisher: Champagne Books Pub Date: 6 Jun 2016 Series: Solum #2 Genre: Romance, Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Teen/YA This is book 2, and though reading book #1 is a good idea, this book can be read as a standalone. I have included the blurb for book 1 ‘Must…
The Guineveres
Title: The Guineveres Author: Sarah Domet Publisher: Flatiron Books Pub. Date: 4 October 2016 Genre: Lit. fiction, coming-of-age, YA Four very different girls arrive at the Sisters of the Supreme Adoration convent school from four very different circumstances. Regardless, each have a history shadowed by loss and betrayal, a bond enhanced by also sharing…
Everything You Want Me To Be
Title: Everything You Want Me To Be Author: Mindy Mejia Publisher: Atria/Emily Bestler Books Pub. Date: 3 January 2017 Genre: Mystery, Thriller, Suspense, Contemporary, YA Question: How many secrets can be exposed during an investigation into a young girl’s murder? Answer: As many as it takes to make a gripping and satisfying mystery….
Anna and the Swallow Man
Title: Anna and the Swallow Man Author: Gavriel Savit Publisher: Knopf Pub. Date: 26 January 2016 Genre: YA, Historical Fiction, War Anna is a young girl in 1939 Poland when the Germans come and take away her father. Left alone to fend for herself, she falls into the care of the Swallow Man, who…
Last Seen Leaving
Title: Last Seen Leaving Author: Caleb Roehrig Publisher: Macmillan Children’s Publishing Group, Feiwel & Friends Pub Date: 4 October, 2016 Genre: Teen, YA, Mystery, Suspense-Thriller The relationship between Flynn and enigmatic January keeps getting weirder and more strained, but when she goes missing, Flynn is driven to find her. As he uncovers more and more…
Quista, Book One: Danay
Title: Quista, Book One: Danay Author: Aviva Bel’Harold Publisher: EDGE Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing / EDGE-Lite Pub. Date: 9 May, 2016 Series: Quista #1 Genre: YA, Sci-Fi, Middle-Grade I read enough YA books that I am comfortable with their literary shortcomings and can enjoy them for what they are, entertainment. Some of them…
The Salarian Desert Game
Title: The Salarian Desert Game Author: J.A. Mclachlan Publisher: EDGE Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing Pub. Date: 12 April 2016 Genre: YA, Sci-Fi, suspense, adventure Kia is a young girl, a talented interpreter asked to go undercover for a mysterious and powerful agency, but the timing means she has an undercover agenda…
Wipe
Title: Wipe Author: Joseph Turkot Publisher: Indie Pub. Date: 5 August, 2014 Genre: YA, Post-Apoc, Spec Fic This review is for the omnibus – parts 1-5, the complete series. Long after the world-as-we-know-it ended, civilization has pooled into communities held together by dogma of one sort or another. In Acadia, Maze and Wills…
Kids of Appetite
Title: Kids of Appetite Author: David Arnold Publisher: Viking Books for Young Readers Pub. Date: 20 September, 2016 Genre: YA, urban fiction, adventure, contemporary, recommended As the police interrogate several witnesses, the incredible story unfolds. After Vic suffers one too many losses, he becomes lost himself. Luckily, he is found by Mad and her group…
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