This month is a feast for readers of middle grade and fantasy. If you love exciting novels with big-hearted characters or thrilling novels with captivating twists, you’ll find so much to love this month. As we get closer to the…
The Spookiest Halloween Reads, Recommended by Our Favorite Authors
Anyone who says they don’t love Halloween is a liar. It’s just the best holiday. Candy of all shapes and sizes, the ability to dress up as your favorite characters, and a wide variety of the best reading and movie…
Book Review: Burn Our Bodies Down by Rory Power
Warning: You will lose sleep while reading Burn Our Bodies Down. Its a book that burrows into you like a restless itch, until you’ve read half in one gulp, gasping for air at the end. I yearned to unravel the…
YALLWest 2020: 4 Tips on Writing Suspense
Although shelter-in-place orders have led to so many anticipated events being cancelled, some thankfully were moved online… and YALLWest 2020, cleverly renamed YALLStayHome, was one of them. YALLWest is a book convention featuring Young Adult and Middle Grade authors, usually…
‘Wilder Girls’ Author Rory Power’s Second Novel Announced!
Today is a BIG day for news headlines, but the one headline that I can’t get out of my mind is a fantastic piece of bookish news. Rory Power, author of the instant New York Times bestseller Wilder Girls (read…
YA Books that Complement School Readings
The school year has already begun for most of you high school students out there, unless you’re one of the lucky ones, which means that you’re going to spend the next nine months reading a bunch of classics that you…
Book Review: Wilder Girls by Rory Power
The thing you should know before starting Wilder Girls by Rory Power is that it is excruciatingly beautiful and excruciatingly brutal. The prose packs a punch that steals your breath away from the get-go until you’re 300 something pages in and still…