Cinder review: a cyborg Cinderella retelling with a sharp heroine and slow-burn romance, though the worldbuilding takes a book to settle in.
Honest review of The Gilded Ones by Namina Forna: a furious, feminist YA fantasy debut with an unforgettable heroine and shaky worldbuilding.
Red Queen review: Mare Barrow's caste-system fantasy delivers betrayal and momentum, even if the prose and worldbuilding stay thin.
A brutal, character-driven YA fantasy review of An Ember in the Ashes: two POVs, a slow burn that earns it, and a middle that sags a little.
James Dashner’s The Maze Runner series drops a bunch of amnesiac teenagers into a deadly, ever-changing labyrinth. It’s part The Hunger Games, part Lord of the Flies, and entirely fueled by teenage angst and killer robots. But does this dystopian ...
(Dystopia isn’t dead—it just got a facelift.) Remember when The Hunger Games took over the world and suddenly every book had a love triangle, a corrupt government, and an overly competent teenager leading the revolution? Yeah, dystopian fiction was everywhere. ...
If you’re interested in the kinds of stories that get told in and about prison, and then this list is for you! These mostly YA books are all largely set in prisons, detention facilities, and penitentiaries, across a range of ...
We all love the written word. But sometimes we’ll yearn to have our books read to us, just like they were when we were kids being told bedtime stories. Good thing there are audiobooks! With amazing narrators who bring the ...
Outer space, alien worlds, first contact – there’s something amazing, appealing, and romantic about the idea of the final frontier coming into a collision course with our home planet of Earth. What happens when we meet aliens? What changes in ...
Are you a lover of fairytale retellings AND sci-fi? If yes, this giveaway is for YOU! To celebrate the upcoming launch of NeverSea (book 1 in the Echoes of the Lost Series) – a sci-fi retelling of Peter Pan and ...
