young adult

Review: Beastly by Alex Flinn

by Keira 06.15.2011

I saw the trailer announced at Katidom and like Kati I’m a sucker for fairytales, especially Beauty and the Beast fairytale retellings. After viewing the trailer I went immediately to the library and got a copy of the book. (How about you are you planning to do the same?) It’s an easy read, directed toward [...]

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Movie Review: Beastly starring Vanessa Hudgens and Alex Pettyfer

by Keira 04.28.2011

Summary: Kyle Kingsbury a spoiled pretty boy. He’s the undisputed king of high school and all the more arrogant for it. He mocks the ugly students and poor kids and promotes beauty as the highest standard. His politics antagonize the school’s witch, Kendra, and she calls him on it. He makes a fool of her [...]

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Review: Dark Mirror by M.J. Putney

by Keira 04.02.2011

Dark Mirror can be summed up in four words: magic, romance, time travel. The Story: When Lady Victoria (Tory) Mansfield performs magic in front of a bunch of witnesses at her mother’s annual lawn party her father banishes her to Lackland Abbey, a reform school for magic tainted aristocrats. There Tory meets two very different [...]

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Review: Sugar Rush by Kimber An

by Mandy Dougherty 11.28.2010

by Mandy Dougherty, guest reviewer Summary:Ophelia Dawson is your typical, run of the mill, high school junior. She likes nothing more than a night filled with Star Trek, sugar-free Oreos and a good birdwatch. Growing up in the small town of Togo, Alaska Ophelia has always been deemed a ‘geek’. She never fit in with the [...]

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Defend Your (Sub-)Genre

by Susan S. 09.09.2010

by Susan Sigler, guest blogger Confession time! I’ve been harboring a secret wish. A hope that someone, somewhere will give me a satisfactory reason to venture outside of my comfort zone. I’m very content you see. Here in my dark paranormal genre. There’s shapeshifters at every turn and vampires with seductive brooding qualities. In paranormal [...]

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Review: The Summer of Skinny Dipping by Amanda Howells

by Keira 06.19.2010

There was plenty to like in this novel and plenty I could have done without. I really liked the themes of becoming comfortable with who you are, staying true to yourself, loving yourself and your body, and that looks can be deceiving. All these were handled very well and probably couldn’t have been done half [...]

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Review: Oh. My. Gods. by Tera Lynn Childs

by Keira 03.29.2010

Oh. My. Gods. is a pretty decent young adult novel. As an older reader, I wish it provided me with more… more everything. I would recommend this book for young preteens up to age fourteen or fifteen. It’s clean, it’s cute, and it’s got fun paranormal elements. The majority of the work is set in [...]

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Review: Graceling by Kristin Cashore

by Keira 03.05.2009

I picked up Graceling because somebody said it was the next Twilight to get behind as Po and Katsa were a very hot couple. As far as I can tell Graceling is a stand alone and not the first in a series. It’s also rated for YA ages 14 and up, but I highly doubt [...]