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…

Cross Academy is attended by two groups of students: the Day Class and the Night Class. Yuki Cross and Zero Kiryu are the Guardians of the school, protecting the Academy’s biggest secret – the Night Class is comprised fully of Vampires! Yuki believes vampires and humans can coexist peacefully, but her partner, Zero, has different…

As You Wish is a story about Viola, a girl who has lost her place in the world since her boyfriend broke up with her, and Jinn, a genie whose only purpose on our world is to grant Viola three wishes. But Viola fears choosing the wrong wish, so Jinn is stuck here until she…

Before I even talk about these books, I just have to say that Sarah  Rees Brennan is 1) Completely adorable and 2) so funny I almost peed my pants listening to her stories on the Smart Chicks tour stop in Jackson, Mississippi (yes, I drove seven hours round trip to be able to meet some…

Monsters of Men is the kind of series closer you hope for. It’s raw and real and answers questions but doesn’t leave things so definite that you can’t use your imagination. It grows the characters and the world and the plot without wrapping everything up in a neat little bow, and when you get to…