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YA book reviews

A Torch Against the Night by Sabaa Tahir

OH MY FLIPPING GOSH HOW THE HECK AM I SUPPOSED TO WAIT UNTIL FREAKING WHO KNOWS WHEN 2017 FOR BOOK THREE?!?!?!?! SERIOUSLY SABAA??!??! A Torch [...]

100 Days by Nicole McInnes

100 Days takes a familiar trope – terminally ill teen – and shows that even familiar things can feel new and fresh when done well. Moira, Agnes, and [...]

Holding Up the Universe by Jennifer Niven

It took me a while to write this review because this book… This book changed my life. You know that feeling when you meet a protagonist who just gets it? [...]

Wild Swans by Jessica Spotswood

Synopsis: The summer before Ivy’s senior year is going to be golden; all bonfires, barbeques, and spending time with her best friends. For once, she will [...]

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 Last Boy and Girl in the World by Siobhan Vivian

What would you do if your town was flooding and no one was going to do anything to save it? That’s pretty much the premise behind The Last Boy and Girl in [...]

The Orphan Queen by Jodi Meadows

Synopsis:  Wilhelmina has a hundred identities. She is a princess. When the Indigo Kingdom conquered her homeland, Wilhelmina and other orphaned [...]

Down With the Shine by Kate Karyus Quinn

Synopsis: There's a reason they say "be careful what you wish for." Just ask the girl who wished to be thinner and ended up smaller than Thumbelina, or the [...]

The Forbidden Wish by Jessica Khoury

She is the most powerful Jinni of all. He is a boy from the streets. Their love will shake the world... When Aladdin discovers Zahra's jinni lamp, Zahra is [...]