What would happen if all your memories disappeared every 12 years? What would you do? In Sharon Cameron’s “The Forgetting” those questions are answered.
Browsing: young adult
I have little knowledge of the video game franchise Assassin’s Creed, but Matthew J. Kirby changed that with “Last Descendants,” which is based on the games.
Mary Hooper’s “Poppy” is my kind of book — historical fiction set during wartime, featuring a strong protagonist. It’s a mix of “Downton Abbey” and PBS’s “Crimson Field.”
“All We Have Left,” by Wendy Mills, is a deeply moving YA novel that tells the stories of two girls whose lives are greatly impacted by the Sept. 11 attacks.
“Beauty and the Clockwork Beast” is yet another book in Shadow Mountain’s Proper Romance line. What comes as a surprised is the use of otherworldly characters in this interpretation of a classic tale.
What if Vlad the Impaler had been a woman? That’s the question Kiersten White explores in the Conquerors Saga. “And I Darken” is the first book in the trilogy.
Elizabeth May’s Falconter trilogy started with a character. “I had a faery-killing girl screaming in my head and I just had to write her story down.”
“The Cresswell Plot,” by Eliza Wass, is beyond creepy. Not in a horror movie kind of way, but in a suspense, biting your fingers kind of way.
Author Beth Kephart’s latest novel, “This is the Story of You,” focuses on communities of people — young and old, afraid and brave, lost and found.
“Everland” is the first book in a planned trilogy, and if the next two books are as engaging as the first, author Wendy Spinale will have a hit on her hands.