Joint Review & Giveaway: All Men of Genius by Lev A.C. Rosen
Author: Lev A.C. Rosen
Genre: Comedy, Steampunk, Speculative Fiction
Publisher: Tor
Publication date: September 2011
Hardcover: 416 pages
Inspired by two of the most beloved works by literary masters, All Men of Genius takes place in an alternate Steampunk Victorian London, where science [...]
Author: Kody Keplinger
Genre: Contemporary, Retelling, Young Adult
Publisher: Poppy
Publication date: September 5 2011
Hardcover: 288 pages
Most high school sports teams have rivalries with other schools. At Hamilton High, it’s a civil war: the football team versus the soccer team. And for her [...]
Author: Stacey Jay
Genre: Fantasy, Speculative Fiction, Retelling, Young Adult
Publisher: Delacorte
Publication date: August 2011
Hardcover: 304 pages
“These violent delights have violent ends And in their triumph die, like fire and powder,
Which as they kiss consume.”
—Romeo and Juliet by [...]
Title: A Long Long Sleep
Author: Anna Sheehan
Genre: Speculative Fiction/Science Fiction, Dystopia, Fairy Tale Retelling, Young Adult
Publisher: Candlewick (US)/Gollancz (UK)
Publication date: August 2011 (US & UK)
Hardcover: 352 pages
Rosalinda Fitzroy has been asleep for sixty-two years when [...]
Author: A.J. Whitten
Genre: Young Adult, Zombies, Romance, Horror, Speculative Fiction
Publisher: Graphia (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
Publication Date: May 2011
Paperback: 276 Pages
Meredith Willis is suspicious of Adrien, the new guy next door. When she dares to sneak a look into the windows of his [...]
Author: Zoë Marriott
Genre: Fantasy, Fairytale Retelling, Young Adul
Publisher: Walker Books
Publication Date: July 7th 2011
Paperback: 464 pages
“On my fourteenth birthday when the sakura was in full bloom, the men came to kill us. We saw them come, Aimi and me. [...]
Title: Toads and Diamonds
Author: Heather Tomlinson
Genre: Young Adult, Fantasy, Fairy Tale, Retelling
Publisher: Henry Holt & Co.
Publication Date: March 2010
Hardcover: 288 Pages
Diribani has come to the village well to get water for her family’s scant meal of curry and rice. She never expected to meet a goddess there. [...]
Title: The Swan Maiden
Author: Heather Tomlinson
Genre: Young Adult, Fantasy, Fairy Tale, Retelling
Publisher: Henry Holt & Co.
Publication Date: August 2007
Hardcover: 304 Pages
In the quiet hour before dawn, anything can happen. A third daughter can dream of being a creature of flight and magic, of wearing a swan-skin like [...]
Title: Abandon
Author: Meg Cabot
Genre: Young Adult, Contemporary/Urban Fantasy, Retellings, Paranormal
Publisher: Scholastic
Publication Date: April 2011
Hardcover: 320 Pages
She didn’t fall into his world. She was taken.
Seventeen-year-old Pierce knows what happens to us when we die.
That’s how she met John Hayden, the mysterious stranger who’s made returning to [...]
Joint Review: Mermaid by Carolyn Turgeon
Author: Carolyn Turgeon
Genre: Fantasy
Publisher: Broadway (US) / Headline (UK)
Publication date: March 2011
Paperback: 352 pages
While in hiding at a remote convent, a king’s daughter sees a magical being dragging a shipwrecked man to the shore. The creature is a mermaid [...]
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