Oh man, who doesn’t love the whole rich boy/poor girl (or vice versa!) romance trope? From Cinderella to Pretty In Pink to Pretty Woman to Titanic, we swoon at the meet-cutes, we angst over differences and circumstance, we fret over power dynamics, and despite it all, we root for our lovebirds to overcome the seemingly […]
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.
Nothing earns the phrase “highly anticipated” like a sequel to a really great book, a promise to spend more time with the characters and worldbuilding into which you’ve already dug so deep and never want to emerge. The wait between a book and its follow-up can be totally excruciating, but here are twelve books whose […]
I’m a sucker for weird YA, vivid world-building, powerful girls, uncanny boys, enchanted objects, lush imagery, monsters with human faces, and the thin places between the mundane and the magic, so next year’s crop of fresh fantasy has me lying atop my pile of books like Smaug on his hoard. 2016 will herald the close of irresistible series from authors […]
Spring is coming, and with it a whole barrel load of YA books so good I’d tramp through a late-season blizzard in flip-flops to get to them. The month’s most exciting releases include stellar debuts, tricky thrillers, stories of loss and healing, and a fairy tale–inflected beauty that’ll mess with your head. Find a comfy chair and get […]