Joint Review: Daughter of Smoke and Bone by Laini Taylor
Title: Daughter of Smoke and Bone
Author: Laini Taylor
Genre: Fantasy, Young Adult
Publisher: Little, Brown (US) / Hodder & Stoughton (UK)
Publication date: September 27th
Hardcover: 432 pages
“Errand requiring immediate attention. Come.”
The note was on vellum, pierced by the talons of [...]
Title: The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer
Author: Michelle Hodkin
Genre: Paranormal, Young Adult
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing
Publication date: September 27th 2011
Hardcover: 450 pages
Mara Dyer doesn’t think life can get any stranger than waking up in a hospital with no memory of how she got [...]
Author: Carrie Jones and Steven E. Wedel
Genre: Young Adult, Paranormal, Romance, Horror, Speculative Fiction
Publisher: Bloomsbury (US & UK)
Publication Date: September 2011 (US & UK)
Hardcover: 320 Pages
Aimee and Alan have secrets. Both teens have unusual pasts and abilities they prefer to keep hidden. But [...]
Author: Gary D. Schmidt
Genre: Historical Fiction, Realistic Fiction, Young Adult
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Publication date: April 5th 2011
Hardcover: 368 pages
Midwesterner Gary D. Schmidt won Newbery Honor awards for Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boys and The Wednesday Wars, two coming-of-age novels about unlikely [...]
Title: The Boyfriend List
Author: E. Lockhart
Genre: Contemporary, Young Adult
Publisher: Delacorte (US)/ Corgi (UK)
Publication date: September 2011
Paperback: 229 pages
Ruby Oliver is 15 and has a shrink. She knows it’s unusual, but give her a break—she’s had a rough 10 days. [...]
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 William Shakespeare
[...]
A few weeks ago, our UK HQ received what can only be described as the coolest book-related invitation ever. To celebrate the release of Nightshade, the sequel to The Poison Diaries, I was to be whisked away to Alnwick Castle in the North of England and take part in a two-day event visiting the locations [...]
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 house, she [...]
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. We were [...]
Author: Jesse Petersen
Genre: Apocalypse, Horror, Comedy, Zombies, Speculative Fiction
Publisher: Orbit
Publication Date: September 2010
Paperback: 244 Pages
A heartwarming tale of terror in the middle of the zombie apocalypse.
Meet Sarah and David.
Once upon a time they met and fell in love. But now [...]
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