- May 31, 2023
Review of This Time It's Real by Ann Liang
I was hooked by Liang's fake-dating, famous-everyday relationship duo setup, fantastically funny dialogue, and wonderfully imperfect...
- Jan 18, 2023
Review of As Good As Dead (A Good Girl's Guide to Murder #3) by Holly Jackson
Jackson doesn't skimp on heart-pounding pacing, captivating character development, and dark turns in this third book in her young adult...
- Nov 23, 2022
Review of True Biz by Sara Nović
True Biz is a coming-of-age story, a beginner's primer on Deaf culture, and a captivating novel about romance, disappointment, fury, and...
- Sep 22, 2022
Review of Every Summer After by Carley Fortune
Carley Fortune offers a satisfying story of coming home, young love, mistakes and redemption, romance, lake life, and some past and...
- Aug 10, 2022
Review of How to Date a Superhero (And Not Die Trying) by Cristina Fernandez
How to Date a Superhero (And Not Die Trying) is a charming, irresistible young adult story about superheroes, villains, a crushing premed...
- Jun 1, 2022
Review of Young Mungo by Douglas Stuart
Young Mungo offers a striking story of disappointment, abuse, Protestant-Catholic conflict, and a young, gay love forged in the intensely...
- Mar 24, 2022
Review of Tess of the Road (Tess of the Road #1) by Rachel Hartman
Rachel Hartman's young adult story follows irresistible, hardheaded, wonderfully faulted Tess as she breaks from rigid medieval gender...
- Mar 10, 2022
Review of Legend (Legend #1) by Marie Lu
In Marie Lu's young adult dystopian series starter Legend, the Republic and Colonies war with each other, a plague separates the haves...
- Apr 15, 2021
Review of Normal People by Sally Rooney
The connection between Marianne and Connell is the beautiful, haunting, swirling source of misery, heartache, and joy and fulfillment in...
- Apr 14, 2021
Three Books I'm Reading Now, 4/14/21 Edition
The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading (actually listening to, which I recommend in this case) an offbeat, captivating celebrity memoir by...
- Mar 30, 2021
Review of She's Too Pretty to Burn by Wendy Heard
Heard's young adult thriller was a lightning-fast read, and there's a yearning for connection between the two main protagonists that...
- Mar 19, 2021
Six Fantastic Stand-Alone Young Adult Books
Aren't young adult books just the best? Young adult is one of my favorite genres to read for fun and to edit. The main protagonists are...