It’s Road Trip Wednesday again, and YA Highway asked, “What was the best book you read in June?” June has been so busy that I’ve fallen behind on my reading and blogging. But the best book I read this month was so good that I had to jump in and rave about it. My best book in...

YA Book Club is hosted by Tracey Neithercott at Words on Paper. Thanks for bring us all together, Tracey! This month we’re discussing Insurgent by Veronica Roth. Insurgent is the second book in the Divergent trilogy. It’s difficult to discuss a sequel without giving away the secrets of the first book, but I’m going to...

Today I’m reviewing Reunited by Hilary Weisman Graham, as a part of an ARC tour with the Southern Book Bloggers. Reunited will be released on June 12th, 2012. The Summary: In middle school, Alice, Summer, and Tiernan were best friends and the world’s biggest fans of the rock band Level3. But everything changed when they...

May 1st marked two amazing book birthdays. Veronica Roth’s follow-up Insurgent, and Kristin Cashore’s Bitterblue, the long-awaited sequel to Graceling. Reading these two books back-to-back illustrated how sequels can be very different but equally fantastic. I’ll be reviewing Insurgent for YA Book Club later this month, but I can’t help comparing and contrasting a little for my review of...

Today I’m reviewing The Girl in the Park by Mariah Fredericks. This ARC came to me through a tour with the Southern Book Bloggers. Please check out their site here! When prep-school student Wendy Geller is found dead in Central Park, classmate and former best friend Rain struggles to reconcile the girl she once knew...

Finally, I can post my review of Black Heart by Holly Black! Black Heart will be released on April 3, 2012. The gals at Southern Book Bloggers send ARCs of amazing YA books on reading tours, and I am so grateful that I found them through the magic of Twitter. Check them out here. Black...

I had planned to post for YA Highway’s Road Trip Wednesday, but I could spend hours with today’s task: Write a dialogue between two of your favorite YA characters. As I considered it, I couldn’t get Eldric from Chime out of my mind. (I envisioned a lively conversation between Eldric and Will from The Infernal...

Welcome to my first book review of 2012! Back in December I was lucky enough to win an advanced copy of the YA contemporary Awkward by Marni Bates. (Many thanks to Kate Scott over at Kate Scott Writes for hosting the giveaway. Click on the link to check out her blog!) Mackenzie Wellesley is happy...

I have a confession to make. Sometimes when people ask me what I’m reading, I hesitate before answering. For some reason, I feel like I need to explain why I’m reading a young adult novel, when I have not, in fact, been a ‘young’ adult for many years. And then, I feel guilty for explaining....

Yay! It’s finally time for Fall Book Club! Thank you to Tracey at Words on Paper for hosting this awesome blog discussion. October’s book was Daughter of Smoke and Bone, by Laini Taylor. Daughter of Smoke and Bone is fresh, different, and exciting. I’ve never read anything quite like it. These qualities make it a...