Browsing: YA review

Each year, Cracking the Cover compiles a list of books that make great gifts. This gift guide features young adult books published in or reviewed in 2017.

Things I’m Seeing Without You, by Peter Bognanni, is an interesting and somewhat weird take on how we honor those we lose.

I read Nikki Katz’s The Midnight Dance in one day, stopping and starting whenever I could find a chance. It’s fast paced and compelling.

I’m a bit surprised at how quickly I became swept up in Livia Blackburne’s Rosemarked. It’s a strong YA fantasy with compelling characters.

Julie Wright’s Lies Jane Austen Told Me is a silly but enjoyable contemporary novel that will likely appeal to older young adults and grownups alike.

Wild Beauty, by Anna-Marie McLemore, is the third YA novel I’ve read recently that has garnered rave reviews but failed to make an impression on me.

E.K. Johnston’s That Inevitable Victorian Thing was everything you want it to be until you hit its convenient and rushed ending.

Julie C. Dao’s YA novel Forest of a Thousand Lanterns is set in an East Asian-inspired fantasy world that is mysterious, exotic and magical.

There’s been much talk about building a wall to keep “the bad hombres” out of the U.S. The Border, by Steve Schafer, questions who those bad hombres are.

Author Mitali Perkins has the ability to bring readers of all backgrounds together. You’ll want to read her novel You Bring the Distant Near more than once.