Think walking in heels is hard? Try wielding a sword in a ballgown. Or just read about it in one of these five amazing YA reads about girls who know how to kick ass—no matter what they’re wearing.
Season two of Agent Carter is back tonight, and we’re already obsessed with it. And what’s not to love? There’s a kickass woman protagonist who’s intelligent and powerful; there are historical details including a non-anachronistic take on sexism; and there are the spy thriller storylines, which keep you on the edge of your seat. When you watch Peggy Carter trying to […]
Fans of Cassandra Claire’s bestselling Mortal Instruments series let out a collective squee when Freeform resurrected the franchise’s onscreen potential after the film didn’t do so great. Enter the Shadowhunters TV show, giving fans another chance to see their favorite characters from City of Bones in as close to real life as possible. The series has me thinking: what […]
I remember the first time I noticed the “Teen Paranormal Romance” section while shlepping my haul through the bookstore. It felt as if a new age was upon us, a classification born where before there was none. I waited for the revolution…but nothing has yet rocked my organizational world like the hottest thing since the […]
The magical boarding school novel forms a robust subgenre of children’s and young adult fantasy literature. Harry Potter learns he’s a legacy student at Hogwarts; Percy Jackson is spirited off to a training ground for demigods; Lissa and Rose get dragged back to St. Vladimir’s, the vampire academy. This, despite the fact that the boarding […]