Sometimes all it takes to make the ordinary into something tragic and story-worthy are a few little facts that aren’t visible to the naked eye. In Kara A. Kennedy’s debut YA novel, we’re ushered into …
So, a meandering path led me to the discovery of this author. It started with needing to use an audible credit and stumbling upon A Wizard's Guide to Defensive Baking by T. Kingfisher. T. Kingfisher i…
The Haunting of Lake Lucy is a ghostly novel of mystery set against the backdrop of a seemingly quiet, lake resort--a peaceful vista suitable for a creepy tale in the style of many classic horror stor…
Anne Rice's classic novel established the modern view of vampires as alluring and sensuous antiheroes. The memories of the vampire Louis, told to a young reporter in a San Francisco hotel room, wind a…
Susan May Warren starts book two of her Alaska Air One Rescue in typical Warren fashion. Why waste even one page without some action? Readers are immediately immersed in exciting and dangerous rescues…
Retrograde continues The Airship Pirates Chronicles that began in The Wrath of Fate. This second installment ramps up the action, making the narrative fly by. The characters are colorful and creativel…
Woe: A Housecat's Story of Despair is the collection in a single book of Lucy Knisley's comics about her beloved family cat, Linney. In the advance reading copy, the drawing styles randomly vary from …
The Jewels of Kalispell book 2, With Each Tomorrow, by Tracie Peterson and Kimberley Woodhouse focuses on a true historic plot point. The book takes place in 1894 and revolves around the railroad and …
Exclusion and the Chinese American Story is a collection of many stories, which Blackburn weaves together to form a view of the Chinese American experience as a whole. Each individual story is interes…
Adventures of Mary Jane is really fan fiction created for a minor character from Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. The author gives Mary Jane her own back story against the drop of the expa…
I’ve been a fan of Kristin Cashore since her first book was published in 2008. Graceling, the first book in a series of five so far, was a little bit more fantasy driven than most books I read as a te…
There has been a recent surge in Asian-inspired YA fantasy, and I love the twist this gives to these worlds. Of Jade and Dragons continues in this trend and mixes in a steampunk element, making the st…
