It’s of little surprise that a twenty-something in the early years of her career and graduate school would be really into Peter Pan stories. The concept of never growing up and old, living forever as a footloose and fancy free child or teen (depending on who is interpreting it) sounds just about fantastic every morning…

The Zombies vs. Unicorns winner was… *drum roll please*… Bailey! Congratulations! And thank you to everyone who entered! On to today’s review and GIVEAWAY … Warning: If you have not read the first two books in the Strange Angels series (Strange Angels and Betrayals), then not only will you probably not understand what’s going on, but…

Last year when Beautiful Creatures came out I’d been coming off a long streak of really bad books. Then as if by a miracle here was this book that was everything I was craving and didn’t even know. It was full of the small town Southern atmosphere as thick as the heat and humidity in…

I LOVED Rampant, so very, very much. It had kick ass girls, awesome killer unicorns, and didn’t stray away from hard subjects. The main characters would talk both about the right time to have sex and the morality of killing an endangered species. Even if said species was eating a couple of humans. So, needless…

Let’s do the good news first. I’m pleased to announce that the Vampire Knight giveaway winner is: Melanie! Thanks to everyone who entered. I’m so happy to see several of our followers also read manga, or are interested in starting. I highly recommend it. Check out your local library as many have several popular series…

John Green’s Paper Towns is an onion. Peel it back, layer by layer, and it provides an entirely different story. It’s sweet. It’s sassy. It’ll make you cry. It’s both incredibly nonrealistic, and both incredibly real. It’s an enigma- like most Green novels, what you expect is never quite what you get. It’s hard for…

Time to take a break from YA so I can tell you about a fantastic and fascinating book called On The Edge by Ilona Andrews. You may know Ilona from her Kate Daniels series. This book is kind of like those with the magic, but sooo much better (in my opinion, anyway). To quote Caitlin…

I didn’t know much about Shadow Hills when I picked it up at my library, but it was in the Texas YA Authors section and I love to support Texas authors, it seemed to be more mystery than paranormal, which I was in the mood for, and I’m a sucker for simplistic covers. What. A….

Before we get down to talking about how zombies are better than unicorns, we have to announce the winner of the signed Sarah Rees Brennan books. Only…we’re not going to just announce the winner. You’ll have to read below to see who it was! Recently two of us here at whatchYAreading sat down and read…

And now we bring ourselves to the third book in the Penguin Five. I must say, I’m loving the Penguin Five. In fact, I’m just loving Penguin. They’ve done such awesome things with the marketing for these books. I hope we get a Penguin Five 2011. I loved so many things about this book that…