Eleanor and Park couldn’t be more different. They come from two different worlds, two different families, two different perspectives, yet end up falling in love anyway. In 1986, no one is crazy enough to try to make first love last in high school , but Eleanor and Park try anyways. Their love isn’t fast and…
Tag: YA
Review: Gypsy King
Persephone has been a slave for as long as she can remember, and doesn’t know a life outside of servitude. But that all changes one day when handsome Azriel knocks upon her master’s door. Sold to him for a small sum of gold, Persephone finally leaves her master’s house and gets to explore the world…
Highly Anticipated YA Titles of 2013 (or Books I Needed Yesterday)
So I have a bookshelf on Goodreads called ‘dying to read’. That list is kind of long, and every few months I have to go in and prune it, since some books that I was ‘dying to read’ eventually fall off my radar. Other books, on the other hand, stay on my radar, blinking furiously…
Review: Ruby Red
16 year old Gwyneth Shepherd comes from a long line of time travellers, but luckily, her cousin is the one who carries the pesky gene that travels through the female line. Gwyneth is free to spend all her free time talking about boys, movies, and school with her best friend, without worrying about travelling back…
Review: Grave Mercy
Fifteen year old Ismae barely escapes the clutches of an old, violent husband, when she is saved by the nuns of the convent of St. Mortain, the god of death. Over a two year period, she is taught by the nuns in the art of killing, seduction, and deception, in order to serve her god…