Title: Shadow and Bone (US) / The Gathering Dark (UK)
Author: Leigh Bardugo
Genre: Fantasy, Young Adult
Publisher: Henry Holt and Co. (US)/Indigo (UK)
Publication date: June 2012
Hardcover: 368 pages/ 442 pages
Surrounded by enemies, the once-great nation of Ravka [...]
Author: Chuck Wendig
Genre: Urban Fantasy
Publisher: Angry Robot
Publication date: April 24th 2012
Paperback: 384 pages
Miriam Black knows when you will die. She’s foreseen hundreds of car crashes, heart attacks, strokes, and suicides.
But when Miriam hitches a ride with Louis Darling [...]
Author: Jane Yolen
Genre: Historical, Fairytale, Young Adult
Publisher: Philomel
Publication date: November 10th 2011
Hardcover: 256 pages
With her black hair, red lips, and lily-white skin, Summer is as beautiful as her father’s garden. And her life in the mountains of West Virginia seems [...]
Title: The Haunting of Maddy Clare
Author: Simone St James
Genre: Historical, Romance, Ghost story
Publisher: NAL Trade
Publication date: March 6 2012
Paperback: 318 pages
Sarah Piper’s lonely, threadbare existence changes when her temporary agency sends her to assist a ghost hunter. Alistair Gellis – rich, [...]
Author: Erin Saldin
Genre: Contemporary, Thriller, Young Adult
Publisher: Scholastic
Publication date: February 1st 2012
Hardcover: 348 pages
Erin Saldin’s The Girls of No Return is a lacerating young adult debut about girls, knives, and redemption. The Alice Marshall School, set within [...]
Author: James Dawson
Genre: Horror, Young Adult
Publisher: Orion Children’s Books
Publication date: February 2nd 2012
Paperback: 314 pages
Something wicked this way comes… She thought she’d be safe in the country, but you can’t escape your own nightmares, and Lis London dreams repeatedly that [...]
Author: Kristen Simmons
Genre: Dystopian, Speculative Fiction, Young Adult
Publisher: Tor Teen
Publication Date: January 2012
Hardcover: 384 pages
New York, Los Angeles, and Washington, D.C., have been abandoned.
The Bill of Rights has been revoked, and replaced with the Moral Statutes.
There are no [...]
Joint Review: Fracture by Megan Miranda
Author: Megan Miranda
Genre: Speculative Fiction, Thriller, Young Adult
Publisher: Walker & Co/Bloomsbury PLC
Publication date: January 2012
Hardcover: 264 pages
Eleven minutes passed before Delaney Maxwell was pulled from the icy waters of a Maine lake by her best friend Decker Phillips. By then her heart [...]
Title: Everneath
Author: Brodi Ashton
Genre: Paranormal, Romance, Greek Mythology, Young Adult
Publisher: Harper Collins / Balzer + Bray (US) Simon & Schuster Childrens Books UK
Publication date: January 24 2012 / February 2 2012
Hardcover/Paperback: 370 pages
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