I really am super excited for this post today! With me being an “older person” who enjoys YA, I really am LOVING this new genre New Adult. It brings the characters closer to my age and that makes it easier to relate to them. Unfortunately in the New Adult genre, mostly every book I’ve read…
Hardcover, 371 pages Release Date: January 1, 2013 Published by: Amulet Books Splintered, #1 Source: Own For fans of: Adventure, Retellings, Fantasy, Creepy, Hot Literary Guys, Beautiful Covers, YA This stunning debut captures the grotesque madness of a mystical under-land, as well as a girl’s pangs of first love and independence. Alyssa Gardner…
E-Book, 222 pages Release Date: January 1, 2013 Published by: Little Brown & Co. Altered, #1 Source: Own For fans of: Science Fiction, Dystopia, Romance, Adventure, Thriller, YA When you can’t trust yourself, who can you believe?Everything about Anna’s life is a secret. Her father works for the Branch at the helm of its latest…
ARC, 177 pages Release Date: January 10, 2013 Published by: Viking (Penguin) Illustrated by: Sam Zuppardi Series? The Misadventures of Edgar & Allan Poe #1 Source: Publisher For fans of: Action, Adventure, Mystery, Paranormal, Laughing Out Loud, and Paranormal Meet Edgar and Allan Poe — twelve-year-old identical twins, the great-great-great-great-grandnephews of Edgar Allan Poe. They…
Paperback, 453 pages Release Date: January 1, 2008 Published by: Margaret K. McElderry Books The Mortal Instruments, #2 Source: Own For fans of: Various Creatures, Action, Adventure, Angels, Demons, Hot Literary guys A murderer is loose in New York City … … and the victims are Downworlder children. Clary Fray and her fellow Shadowhunters have a…
Hardcover, 352 pages Release Date: August 14, 2012 Published by: Delacorte Books for Young Readers Stand-alone Source: Own For fans of: Chick-lit, Historical, Romance, Time Travel A romantic time travel story that’s ideal for fans of novels by Meg Cabot and Donna Jo Napoli–and, of course, Shakespeare.Miranda has Shakespeare in her blood: she hopes one day…
ARC, 262 pages Release Date: September 11, 2012 Published by: HarperTeen Firelight #3 Source: Own For fans of: Action, Adventure, Draki, YA, Fantasy Jacinda was supposed to bond with Cassian, the “prince” of their pride. But she resisted long before she fell in love with Will—a human and, worse, a hunter. When she ran away…
E-ARC, 416 pages Release Date: August 28th, 2012 Published by: Balzer & Bray (HarperTeen) Defiance #1 Source: Edelweiss* For fans of: Action, Adventure, YA Within the walls of Baalboden, beneath the shadow of the city’s brutal leader, Rachel Adams has a secret. While other girls sew dresses, host dinner parties, and obey their male Protectors,…
E-Book, 314 pages Published May 1, 2012 By HarperCollins Divergent #2 Source: Own For fans of: Dystopia, Romance, Action, Adventure One choice can transform you—or it can destroy you. But every choice has consequences, and as unrest surges in the factions all around her, Tris Prior must continue trying to save those she loves—and herself—while…
Hardcover, 359 pages Published March 22, 2011 Hyperion Book CH Hex Hall #2 For fans of: YA, Paranormal Romance, Witches, Adventure Sophie Mercer thought she was a witch. That was the whole reason she was sent to Hex Hall, a reform school for delinquent Prodigium (aka witches, shapeshifters, and fairies). But that was before she discovered the…
