Category Archives: young adult
Castle Hangnail by Ursula Vernon
Read February 2017 Recommended for fans of fairy tales and clever girls ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Castle Hangnail is unbelievably charming and one of the first reads of the year to make it to my ‘to … Continue reading
Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians by Brandon Sanderson, or Author’s Notes to Way of Kings
Read August 2016 Recommended for librarians, fans of Lemony Snicket and Artemis Fowl ★ ★ ★ Also known as The Official Author’s Notes for The Way of Kings. Stay with me. The first clue is in Chapter 2. “I’ve … Continue reading
The Pygmy Dragon by Marc Secchia. Or, Back to class!
Read July 2016 Recommended for the author. To re-work. ★ “This week’s assignment will be to write two chapters of a young adult book about a Pygmy girl, dragons and special powers.” At least, that’s how I imagine The … Continue reading
The Egypt Game by Zilpha Keatley Snyder
Read June 2016 Recommended for young adult readers, fans of imagination ★ ★ ★ 1/2 Based on Wanda’s excellent review, as well as my own fondness for ancient Egypt, I picked up this young adult book … Continue reading
Leviathan by Scott Westerfeld
Read February 2016 Recommended for fans of young adult, biotech, Austria ★ ★ ★ An Adventure in Which an Aristocratic Young Man Discovers How to Pilot an All-Terrain Walker and that he is Now an Orphan, and a … Continue reading
Shadowshaper by Daniel Jose Older
Read October 2015 Recommended for fans of urban fantasy, UF ★ ★ ★ ★ I’m rather annoyed by the label ‘message fiction,’ as I feel like it implies everything else doesn’t have a message. Yet I suppose … Continue reading
Positive by David Wellington. Not so much.
Read September 2015 Recommended for fans of YA and zombies. And flat story-telling ★ ★ See Finn and his parents. See Finn leave New York. See Finn fight off a scary woman. See Finn meet a man traveling with … Continue reading
The Artful by Wilbert Stanton. Not really.
Read July 2015 Recommended for tolerant fans of young adult dystopias who want to read a movie script ★ 1/2 Truthfully, I can only blame myself. With a well-known addiction to the apocalypse (but a choosy one), a kindle … Continue reading
The Commons: Book One. Not that common.
January 2015 Recommended for fans of ★ ★ ★ ★ A very good read. Thanks to Koeur for the recommendation and NetGalley for the reviewer’s copy.
The Girl Who Fell Beneath Fairyland and Led the Revels There
Read August 2014 Recommended for fans of Valente, purplish prose, shadows ★ ★ ★ ★ 1/2 Once you’ve been to a world filled with magic, what happens next? September first visited Fairyland in The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland … Continue reading
