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 [...]
Joint Review: Cinder by Marissa Meyer
Author: Marissa Meyer
Genre: Science Fiction, Young Adult
Publisher: Feiwel & Friends
Publication date: January 3rd 2012
Hardcover: 387 pages
Humans and androids crowd the raucous streets of New Beijing. A deadly plague ravages the population. From space, a ruthless lunar people watch, waiting to make [...]
Author: Kelly Meding
Genre: Urban Fantasy, Superheroes
Publisher: Pocket Books
Publication Date: October 25 2011
Mass Market Paperback: 384 pages
Kelly Meding’s war-ravaged Los Angeles is ground zero for the ultimate Meta human showdown in this sexy, action-packed new series.
Fifteen years ago, Teresa “Trance” West was a [...]
Author: Matthew J. Kirby
Genre: Historical Fiction, Fantasy, Young Adult
Publisher: Scholastic Press
Publication date: October 11 2011
Hardcover: 336 pages
Matthew J. Kirby, author of The Clockwork Three, deftly weaves a brand-new tale with chilling cleverness and subtle suspense that will leave readers racing breathlessly [...]
Author: Lauren Oliver
Genre: Fantasy, Middle Grade
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton Ltd
Publication date: October 4th 2011
Hardcover: 307 pages
We meet Liesl the night after the day her young father has died. That same day she is visited by a ghost, Po, an [...]
Joint Review: Cold Kiss by Amy Garvey
Author: Amy Garvey
Genre: Speculative Fiction, Young Adult
Publisher: Harper Teen
Publication date: September 2011
Hardcover: 304 pages
It was a beautiful, warm summer day, the day Danny died.
Suddenly Wren was alone and shattered. In a heartbroken fury, armed with dark incantations and a secret [...]
Joint Review: The Alloy of Law by Brandon Sanderson
Title: The Alloy of Law
Author: Brandon Sanderson
Genre: Fantasy, Steampunk, Western
Publisher: Tor (US)/Gollancz (UK)
Publication date: November 2011
Hardcover: 336 pages
Fresh from the success of The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson, best known for completing Robert Jordan’s Wheel of [...]
Joint Review: Ashfall by Mike Mullin
Author: Mike Mullin
Genre: Apocalypse, Disaster, Young Adult
Publisher: Tanglewood Press
Publication date: October 11th 2011
Hardcover: 466 pages
Under the bubbling hot springs and geysers of Yellowstone National Park is a supervolcano. Most people don’t know it’s there. The caldera is so large that it [...]
Halloween Week Joint Review: Anna Dressed in Blood by Kendare Blake
Author: Kendare Blake
Genre: Horror, Young Adult
Publisher: Tor Teen
Publication date: August 30th 2011
Hardcover: 316 pages
Cas Lowood has inherited an unusual vocation: He kills the dead.
So did his father before him, until he was gruesomely murdered by a [...]
Halloween Week Joint Review: Midwinterblood by Marcus Sedgwick
Author: Marcus Sedgwick
Genre: Horror
Publisher: Orion
Publication date: October 6th 2011
Hardcover: 224 pages
Have you ever had the feeling that you’ve lived another life? Been somewhere that has felt totally familiar, even though you’ve never been there before, or felt that you know someone well, [...]
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