Browsing: YA review

After reading the first chapter of Emery Lord’s The Names They Gave Us I wasn’t sure if I wanted to stick with the book. Turns out I’m glad I kept reading.

Reading Kelley Armstrong’s Missing is like watching a Lifetime movie — whether you like it or not, once you’ve started, you’re in it for the long haul.

Melissa De La Cruz’s latest historical-fiction novel, Alex and Eliza, retells the events of Elizabeth Schuyler and Alexander Hamilton’s courtship.

The Vicar’s Daughter is in keeping with Josi S. Kilpack’s other Proper Romance novels. It’s clean, easily accessible and entertaining.

Rosalyn Eves debut novel, Blood Rose Rebellion, is a magical tale set in an alternative Victorian reality, and it’s just as good as it sounds.

A List of Cages is not a “light” book. It deals with some pretty serious issues. But in Robin Roe’s gentle hands, those issues are handled with tact and care.

I didn’t particularly like or care about the characters in Kim Savage’s Beautiful Broken Girls, but for some reason, I couldn’t put it down, either.

I really have no idea what it is like to be a black woman in America. That’s why I find books like Renée Watson’s Piecing Me Together so compelling.

What first appealed to me about Marianne Kaurin’s Almost Autumn was, of course, the cover and the setting — WWII Oslo, Norway.

I picked up Daughter of the Pirate King shortly after reading three excellent, but hard books. I needed a light adventure and that’s exactly what I got.