Three sips to mind the dead… Rebekkah Barrow never forgot the attention her grandmother Maylene bestowed upon the dead of Claysville, the small town where Bek spent her adolescence. There wasn’t a funeral that Maylene didn’t attend, and at each one Rebekkah watched as Maylene performed the same unusual ritual: She took three sips from…

I love Susane Colsanti’s books for the sole reason that they take me back to what it was like to be in high school without having to, you know, actually be in high school. Her books really capture the realities of being a teenager without making them completely shallow, which I’ve really appreciated because it…

So, we wanted to do something spectacular for the release of Legacy. Cayla is a super awesome person, we love her book, she loves…well, she  likes our podcast at the very least. And Legacy was a fantastic book. And Cayla said she’d do something on our blog, so we just had to come up with…

Dictionary.com defines satire as “a literary composition, in verse or prose, in which human folly and vice are held up to scorn, derision, or ridicule.” Beauty Queens most certainly falls into this category. Delicious, delicious satire, but with just the right amount of bite to be palatable to the YA genre. Survival. Of the fittest….

It’s bad, people. It’s real bad. I’m going to have to come down with Mono somehow and just read for a month. The spine you can’t read is Gayle Forman’s “If I Stay” See what I mean? And that’s just my YA, I have two shelves of adult reads that I fear I’ll never get…

You might not have heard much about this book, if anything at all. But the way Macmillan is heavily promoting it, you will hear more buzz about it as its release date approaches. (It’s September 27th, in case you want to mark your calendars.) I didn’t know much about it when I requested to read…

With zero ado whatsoever, the winner of Blood Magic is: Rachel! Congratulations! You will be receiving an email from us shortly. Now you must decide if you want the book right away or if want to wait and get it signed. Thank you to everyone who entered!

Zombies! If a book has zombies in it, there is a 99% chance I will read it. Even cameo zombies! Even zombies you can’t be positive are, in fact, zombies! Because zombies are fascinating and awesome. Also because I think I’d do rather well in a zombie apocalypse (and the internet quizzes I’m always taking…

I’ll be the first to admit that this is not my typical kind of book. I generally stick to the supernatural romps and if I break into reality, it’s generally only  for John Green (my love for this man knows no bounds). Occasionally though, when I find a road trip book, I do dip my…

A mysterious island. An abandoned orphanage. And a strange collection of very curious photographs. It all waits to be discovered in Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, an unforgettable novel that mixes fiction and photography in a thrilling reading experience. As our story opens, a horrific family tragedy sets sixteen-year-old Jacob journeying to a remote…