Notes from the Wild: Vol. 15
Cities around the world are marking June as the first-ever Pride Month, and to celebrate, we’re taking a look at a few young adult titles that feature bisexual protagonists or strong secondary characters. These […]
Category Archives: YA Romance
Yash and Janet’s Fanmix for The Coldest Girl in Coldtown by Holly Black
The Book Wars’ first ever fanmix! Woo! The songs can be found here, and our rationale for why these songs remind us of The Coldest Girl in Coldtown by Holly Black […]
Nafiza Recommends: Chime by Franny Billingsley
I’d better start with a confession, Nafiza: the first time I read Chime, I didn’t like it. I mean, I got why you did: the atmosphere of the setting; the little […]
Review: The Winner’s Crime (The Winner’s Trilogy #2) by Marie Rutkoski
Hardcover, 416 pages Published March 3rd 2015 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR) Source: ARC from Publisher As is often the case with me, I found The Winner’s Crime to be […]
The Sin Eater’s Daughter by Melinda Salisbury: A Review
Paperback, 320 pages Expected publication: February 24th 2015 by Scholastic Press Source: Publisher I am always in search for a protagonist who is morally ambiguous. Someone who realizes that she […]
Dissonance by Erica O’Rourke: A Review
Hardcover, 484 pages Published July 22nd 2014 by Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers Source: Publisher A small confession: Dissonance has been languishing on my to-read pile for a long while […]
Love Triangles: [Insert That Overused Line From A Robert Frost Poem]
Whether you genuinely enjoy them, are entirely repulsed by them, or enjoy being repulsed by them(?), it seems to me that love triangles are (and will continue to be) a […]
David Levithan – A Review
“I want love to conquer all. But love can’t conquer anything. It can’t do anything on it’s own. It relies on us to do the conquering on its behalf.” – Everyday […]
The Lynburn Legacy [Alternate Title: ASDFGHJKL!]
Kami Glass loves someone she’s never met . . . a boy she’s talked to in her head ever since she was born. She wasn’t silent about her imaginary friend […]
The YA Novel and Bad Romance
To set the context for this post, let me tell you about the academic thesis I nearly wrote. I was (am still) interested in the question of perpetuation of rape […]
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