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Category Archives: Young Adult
Review: In Real Life by Cory Doctorow and Jen Wang
In a nutshell, In Real Life is a graphic novel that tackles some of the same themes and concepts as Doctorow’s earlier YA novel For the Win, most notably: gold-farming in online games, from an economic and social perspective; the … Continue reading
Posted in Graphic novel, Reviews, Young Adult
Tagged Cory Doctorow, First Second, Jen Wang
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The Winner’s Curse by Marie Rutkoski (reviewed with Liz Bourke)
Kestrel is the daughter of General Trajan, the Valorian general who conquered the Herran peninsula and enslaved its people. She leads a comfortable, even pampered life in the subjugated Herrani capital. Her real love is music, but with her eighteenth … Continue reading
Posted in Fantasy, Reviews, Young Adult
Tagged Farrar Straus and Giroux, Marie Rutkoski
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Empress of the Sun by Ian McDonald
I don’t usually get this effusive about books, but I’ve rarely had as much fun with a Young Adult SF series as I have with Ian McDonald’s Everness—now up to three books with the brand new, shiny addition of Empress of … Continue reading
Dreamwalker by C.S. Friedman
There are two unusual things about Jessica (“Jesse”) Drake, the teenage protagonist of Dreamwalker, C.S. Friedman’s first foray into Young Adult fiction and the start of what’s billed as a new, “open-ended” series. First of all, Jesse has bizarre dreams … Continue reading
Antigoddess by Kendare Blake
I’ll start out by making an admission: the main thing that drew my attention to Antigoddess, the first installment in Kendare Blake’s new series The Goddess War, was its title. The book didn’t really look like my cup of tea, but, … Continue reading
The Rithmatist by Brandon Sanderson
In Brandon Sanderson’s new YA fantasy novel, a teenager named Joel wants nothing more than to become a Rithmatist. Rithmatists have the power to give life to two-dimensional figures called Chalklings. They’re also the only defense humans have against Wild … Continue reading
The Different Girl by Gordon Dahlquist
In Gordon Dahlquist’s new novel The Different Girl, Veronika, Caroline, Isobel and Eleanor are four young girls who live on a small island with their two adult caretakers Irene and Robbert. The girls are completely identical aside from the color of … Continue reading
When We Wake by Karen Healey
I read some great YA novels last year, but also a few less than impressive ones. In my reviews, I explained my reservations about the novels I didn’t like in some detail. At one point, I started to wonder whether … Continue reading
Homeland by Cory Doctorow
To prepare for Homeland, the sequel to Cory Doctorow’s wildly successful 2007 YA novel Little Brother, I decided to give that first book a quick re-read. Not for the first time, I was struck by how clever and awesome it is that … Continue reading
The Crossing by Mandy Hager
Sister Maryam lives on Onewēre, a small island in the Pacific chosen by the Apostles of the Lamb after the Tribulation destroyed life on Earth as we know it. The people of Onewēre lead their lives according to the religion … Continue reading
Far Beyond Reality 