The Book Shire

YA Dystopia

Top 10 New-to-Me Authors I Read in 2017

Mitali Perkins. Mitali is a veritable wizard with a pen! I will auto-buy her books until the day I die. Her contemporary YA novel You Bring the Distant [...]

Ash and Quill by Rachel Caine

Okay, I’m sorry but WHAT?!?!?!?!? WHY IS THERE NOT A RELEASE DATE FOR BOOK FOUR YET?!?!? WHY? It should be ABSOLUTELY ILLEGAL to withhold said information [...]

Paper and Fire by Rachel Caine

“Let the world burn.” *shivers* With a tagline like that, you know a book is going to take you a wild freaking ride. I’ve been pretty honest about [...]

The Forgetting by Sharon Cameron

What isn't written, isn't remembered. Even your crimes. Nadia lives in the city of Canaan, where life is safe and structured, hemmed in by white stone walls [...]

Ink and Bone by Rachel Caine

I had a hard time getting into this book – so much so that I almost DNF’d it at like 4%, but once it gets going WOW. Ink and Bone presents a strangely [...]

The Crown by Kiera Cass

 Synopsis: When Eadlyn became the first princess of Illéa to hold her own Selection, she didn’t think she would fall in love with any of her thirty-five [...]

The Jewel by Amy Ewing

Ugh. I so wanted to like The Jewel. My sweet husband gave it to me as part of my first ever book box from him, and I am all about that YA dystopian life. But [...]

The Heir by Kiera Cass

Honestly, I think I was afraid to read this book for a long time. Despite getting my hands on it a week before it came out last May, I just kept pushing it [...]

Happily Ever After by Kiera Cass

Because I love The Selection Series, I knew that this was a collection I wanted to get my hands on. I had already read two of the stories when they were [...]