The world in Will McIntosh’s The Future Will Be BS Free isn’t that hard to imagine. An authoritarian wannabe is president of the United States, she has close ties to Russia, the rich are getting…
Posts tagged Young adult
A Nerdier Nick & Norah
Nicola Yoon sure has a knack for writing smart, charming teenagers in unusual situations. Her prose clips along at a delightful pace and one of these days she’s going to write a book with a…
Every Exquisite Thing
I have a love-hate relationship with Matthew Quick. Loved Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock and The Good Luck of Right Now, couldn’t finish Love May Fail and barely made it through Every Exquisite Thing. In Every…
Maybe My Wheelhouse is a Little Boring?
It’s hard for a book to get more in my wheelhouse than Dumplin’ by Julie Murphy. A story with fat girl who isn’t just the cautionary whale? (Thank you, Diablo Cody & “Juno” for that…
The Bunker Diary
Linus, a 16-year-old living on the streets, is abducted and hidden in an underground bunker and The Bunker Diary is his terrifying story. Linus’ story begins when he is taken by someone he thought was…
All the Bright Places
The friendship between Finch, a witty, bipolar misfit, and Violet, a depressed, popular girl, begins on the school bell tower where Finch talks Violet out of jumping, even though he often contemplates jumping himself. This…
Lies We Tell Ourselves
There’s no doubt about it, Lies We Tell Ourselves by Robin Talley is a tough read. Transporting us back to segregation-era Virginia where a handful of black students are the first to enter a white…
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….
Softened blows
I bet that reading The Fault in our Stars by John Green felt different before it landed in the collective stranglehold of a nation. I bet it packed more uff before there was a movie and…