Browsing: YA review

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.

If you found out you were going to die, what would you do? Len Vlhaos’ Life in a Fishbowl follows a father faced with just that decision.

E.K. Johnston’s “Spindle” is a companion novel to “A Thousand Nights,” which is the retelling of “Arabian Nights.” However, each book stands alone.

Josi S. Kilpack’s “The Lady of the Lakes” tells the story of Walter Scott and the two women he loved — Mina and Charlotte.

Author Louise Gornall pulled from her own mental health experiences for “Under Rose-Tainted Skies,” adding an authenticity that literally throbs on the page.

Sometimes you pick up a book that has the right elements but just doesn’t resonate. That was the case with E. Katherine Kottaras’ “The Best Possible Answer.”

Michaela MacColl is known for taking famous writers and putting them into mysteries — her most recent, “Secrets in the Snow” features Jane Austen.