The Dazzling Heights is the sequel to Katharine McGee’s spell-binding The Thousandth Floor. It’s a young adult dystopian novel set in a futuristic New York City completely different from anything I’ve ever imagined. McGee’s NYC is encased in an enormous tower with a thousand stories, and the higher the floor, the richer the residents. One…
The planet Genesis has tried to secede from Earth’s ring of colony planets in order to create an ethical, environmental and religious utopia, but Earth isn’t letting it go without a fight. Thirty years earlier, a vicious war ended in stalemate, but the conflict has resumed. Noemi Vidal is one of her planet’s many teen…
Scarlett Dragna has dreamed of attending the magical and immersive fantasy adventure called Caraval for nearly as long as she’s dreamed of escaping life on her colonial-era island, where her brutal father, the governor, keeps Scarlett and her sister Donatella under lock and key. On the eve of her arranged marriage, Scarlett finally receives three…
I enjoyed every bit of this book and I need/want to convince you to read it too! Delightful, charming, funny, addictive and entertaining, The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue is chock full of both vice and virtue. The Grand Tour of Europe planned by our protagonist quickly goes awry and evolves instead into a…
Earlier this year, I fell head over heels in love with The Queen of Blood, book one in Sarah Beth Durst’s Queens of Renthia series. When I first heard about it, I figured it would be like the many young adult fantasies out there in which a young woman with extraordinary power saves the world…
Adorable book alert! If you need something cute, funny, and romantic to read this summer that will also introduce you to a new, diverse voice in fiction, I have to wholeheartedly recommend When Dimple Met Rishi. Honestly, I have been trying to nudge everyone I know into reading it for the last week. It’s that…
My grade for Follow Me Back bounced up and down like a dysfunctional pogo stick. One minute I felt a C would be a fair grade for what seemed to be not much more than grammatically correct fanfiction. A hundred pages later a particularly insightful moment bounced it back up to a B. I then reconsidered…
If you had to describe your high school experience in one word, what would it be? Awesome? Horrible? Rad or cool? According to the heroine of Corrie Lynn Wang’s The Take Down there are only two ways to emerge from high school: Scarred or Worshipped. By the end of senior year though, she’s fairly certain…
Code Name: Verity is one of the most memorable YA novels I have ever read. A breathtaking story about a young Scottish woman taken prisoner for being a spy in Nazi Germany, it was heart wrenching, enlightening, beautiful, and lyrical. The Pearl Thief is the prequel to that tale, a look at Julia before she…
Have you ever longed for a Disney movie with a lot of cussing, sex, drugs and alcohol? You know, sort of An American Pie but with the silliness of The Shaggy Dog – minus the magic? Look no further, Rachel Cohn’s Kill All Happies will deliver on that dream. In the desert, about an hour’s…