The females in Alyssa Gardner’s family line are cursed. It’s been this way ever since Alyssa’s great-great-great-grandmother Alice Liddell went down the rabbit hole. Alice’s adventures may have inspired Lewis Carroll’s classic novel but it also caused strangeness and mental instability for every female born to Alice’s family line ever since. Alyssa knows about Alice and …
This is the third Jennifer E Smith novel I’ve read and each time I’m sort of blown away by how she takes a simple idea and turns it into a great contemporary YA read. In The Geography of You and Me we get to see one version of what if two complete strangers with very …
Title: The Queen’s Choice (Heirs of Chrior Trilogy #1) Author: Cayla Kluver Genre: Fantasy, Fae, High Fantasy, Young Adult Publisher: Harlequin Teen Publication Date: 28th January 2014 Pages: 500 Rating: 4 stars Synopsis (from goodreads): My life is no longer mine to control. By a single deed, I have become something more than I wanted to be. When sixteen-year-old …
Title: Frostbite (Vampire Academy Graphic Novel #2) Author: Richelle Mead Adapted by: Leigh Dragoon Illustrated by: Emma Vieceli Genre: Paranormal Romance, Young Adult, Vampires, Urban Fantasy, Graphic Novel Publisher: Razorbill Publication Date: April 2012 Pages: 164 Rating: 4 stars Synopsis (from goodreads): The drama and romance continue in this 144-page full-color graphic novel adaptation of the second Vampire Academy …
Title: How to Convince a Boy to Kiss You (Aurora Skye #2) Author: Tara Eglington Genre: Contemporary Romance, Realistic Fiction, Young Adult Publisher: Harper Collins Publication Date: November 2013 Pages: 446 Rating: 4 stars Synopsis (from goodreads): The course of true love never did run smooth. For a girl who shares her name with a princess …
Title: Allegiant (Divergent #3) Author: Veronica Roth Genre: Dystopia, Science Fiction, Young Adult Publisher: Harper Collins Publication Date: October 2013 Pages: 526 Rating: 4 stars Synopsis (from goodreads): The faction-based society that Tris Prior once believed in is shattered—fractured by violence and power struggles and scarred by loss and betrayal. So when offered a chance to …
Title: Suddenly You (The Jane Austen Academy #4) Author: Cecilia Gray Genre: Contemporary Romance, Young Adult, Retelling Publisher: Gray Life LLC Publication Date: November 6th, 2013 Pages: 145 Rating: 4 stars Synopsis (from goodreads): Fanny doesn’t want to be at The Jane Austen Academy. She intends to lay low until graduation when she can try out for the …
Title: Break It Up Author: E. M. Tippetts Genre: New Adult, Contemporary Romance Publisher: Self-Published Publication Date: November 2013 Pages: 216 Rating: 4 stars Synopsis (from goodreads): Kyra Armijo is making a few changes in her life. One of them being, she’s no longer going to give it up to every guy who looks at her twice. …
Title: Game Plan Author: Natalie Corbett Sampson Genre: Realistic Fiction, Contemporary, Young Adult, Publisher: Fierce Ink Press Date Published: November 2013 Pages: 360 Rating: 4 stars Synopsis (from goodreads): Just because the play goes wrong, doesn’t mean you quit the game. Ella Parker seems to have everything: great friends, an awesome family and a star position on …
Title: The Isobel Journal Author: Isobel Harrop Genre: Art Journal, Realistic, Young Adult, Non-fiction, British Publisher: Hot Key Books Publication Date: November 2013 Pages: 208 Rating: 4 stars Synopsis (from goodreads): THE ISOBEL JOURNAL is no ordinary snapshot of a contemporary teenage life. A charming and vivid narrative scrapbook of the eighteen-year-old author’s sketches, mini-graphic novels, photographs …