Since Rachel Hawkins and Ally Carter were touring together, and both are published by Disney’s Hyperion, it seemed only fitting that I’d read them one after the other and review them in that way as well. I really enjoyed the first two books in the Hex Hall series, especially Demonglass. I liked them because they…

I’ve talked about my love for Ally Carter’s Gallagher Girls series on this site before. I talked about how smart they are, how perfectly paced and well planned and manage to capture just the right tone for each individual book. I’m pretty sure Ally Carter has to be some sort of writing robot/machine, because, for…

In two days, The Hunger Games will hit theaters nationwide. Here at WhatchYAreading, we love the Hunger Games trilogy. We love Katniss, Caitlin and I have exchanged many words over Peeta and Gale, and I think we all cried while reading Mockingjay. With the movie so close to being out and almost all of us…

One of the earliest books Kate and I bonded over was Michelle Zink’s Prophecy of the Sisters. And over the next two years we got to read the rest of the trilogy, if not together then at least in the spirit of togetherness, all with much discussion about Dimitri and sisters and awesomeness. So, when…

Melina Marchetta herself was awesome enough to answer all these questions that we sent her! In a very awkward email where I had to restrain myself from swearing my undying loyalty and other things that I’m sure would’ve garnered me some sort of restraining order. If you are even slightly interested in the books we’ve…

These are the last of Melina Marchetta’s books that we will be covering this week. I feel bad about Looking for Alibrandi, but we have our super awesome interview to post tomorrow… Saving Francesca and The Piper’s Son have something in common, other than the similar cast of characters, and that is a subtlety of…

Jellicoe Road is, at least here in North America, Melina  Marchetta’s most beloved book. Well, among people I know anyway. It’s won a Printz award. If someone looks at me and says the words “Jonah Griggs” I know we are going to get along fabulously. And yes, this has happened to me…recently. Sometimes, just saying…

Froi of the Exiles is released in North America today! Yay! And we’re giving away a copy! More yay! We’re very excited! Froi is the sequel to Finnikin of the Rock (which we all had fun extolling yesterday) and takes place three years after the events in that book. We see Finnikin and his wife…

It’s Monday, March 12th! Do you know what that means? Tomorrow Froi of the Exiles (by Melina Marchetta) will be released here in North America! If you’ve stopped by the blog before you may have noticed that we absolutely love Melina Marchetta. We love her to itty bitty, how-is-one-person-so-awesome bits. And we wanted to do…

Caitlin: When starting this book, I wanted one thing to happen…or well, not to happen. I wanted there to not be a new love interest introduced or for Emma and Brendan to break up…you know how book twos always seem to be about the intense emotional drama. I wanted the drama to come from outside…