It’s not often my Rock & Roll Bookclub hits 100% when it comes to book completion (every member finishing the book). It’s just as rare that as a group we all agree a book is…
Posts tagged YA
Cranky Old Lady Reads Cliche Book
Epistolary novels are my genre kryptonite. I find them hard to resist and even harder to quit even when the going is not so great. This is the only reason I can give for finishing…
Unbreakable
Chasing her cat through a graveyard, Kennedy Waters runs across a ghost. Days after her ghostly encounter, Kennedy’s mother dies and Kennedy gets attacked by a poltergeist, but she’s saved by some handsome identical twin…
Dreams of Gods & Monsters
I loved the first and second books in Laini Taylor’s Daughter of Smoke & Bone trilogy, so I’m sad to say this fan girl is disappointed in the final book, Dreams of Gods & Monsters….
Aims for Depth, Induces Eye-Rolls
Have I mentioned that I recently discovered you can download and listen to audiobooks for free from the library? YOU CAN! The library is so amazing. Lauren Oliver’s young-adult novel Before I Fall was one…
Kissing Cousins
When a friend of mine said How I Live Now by Meg Rosoff had a better, more believable love story than John Green’s The Fault in Our Stars, I was all in. Hell yes, I…
Pants on Fire
Some of my favorite reading experiences involve reaching that tipping point in a book where you make a conscious decision to eschew every other thing in your life to finish the book. That happened to…
Stuck in the super store with you
Everyone knows the best place set up shop in the case of a meteorological disaster — or any kind of disaster — is at a mall or superstore. A place with fresh produce, clothing, a…
Two YA Novels that take you to the deep
At first glance, these novels may seem pretty similar. And on the surface, I suppose they are. They are both aimed at the YA market, they both deal with a mermaid-type creature (though only one…
Amelia Anne is Dead and Gone
On Monday night I was pretty sure that someone was skulking through our front yard. The bushes were moving — kind of whooshing, actually — in a way I’d never noticed and it wasn’t like…