For a book with a far-fetched premise, Rebecca Stead’s When You Reach Me has a very real and believable quality about it.
When You Reach Me, by Rebecca Stead
Tag: Fiction
Uprooted, by Naomi Novik
Naomi Novik’s Uprooted was one of my favorite reads this year. A rich, atmospheric, wonderfully written fantasy for adults with warlocks and witches and kings and court and an enchanted wood.
The Girl at Midnight, by Melissa Grey
Marketing for the new young adult book The Girl at Midnight by Melissa Grey spends a lot of time comparing it to other popular books in the genre, including Cassandra Clare’s City of Bones and Laini Taylor’s Daughter of Smoke & Bone. Most early reviews have also noted the similarities. But what I hope doesn’t get lost in the noise of mentioning these other books is that THIS one is very, very good.
Read full reviewThe Sin Eater’s Daughter, by Melinda Salisbury
From the opening lines of Melinda Salisbury’s debut novel, The Sin Eater’s Daughter, I felt swept forward into a world of uncertainty and tension. After the first paragraph alone, I wanted to ask a half-dozen questions.
Rather than frustrate me – which it could have easily done – I found myself engaged and excited at being a few steps behind the narrator, anxious and ready to understand unfamiliar words and their meanings, and get a handle on the complex world of the author’s creation.
Nightbird, by Alice Hoffman
In Alice Hoffman’s gentle and enchanting Nightbird, Twig and her mother have a secret, one that keeps them separate from the town, and separate from friends. That is until the Halls and their two young daughters move into the house down the road. They are Twig’s first neighbors ever, and – as it turns out – descendants of the woman who brought her family lasting turmoil generations before.
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