Tag: Young Adult

Adelaide and the Dragon Castle

The cover of Adelaide and the Dragon Castle has gold lettering and swirls on greenish background

Adelaide and the Dragon Castle has a lot of my favorite things in YA fantasy–great characters, coming of age, dragons. I love the way Adelaide finds her own solutions in […]

Scarlet

A paperback copy of Scarlet sits on a ladderback chair. On the cover, red fabric flows.

This is book 2 in The Lunar Chronicles by Marissa Meyer, and it’s every bit as good as Cinder. The story continues, with great new characters taking center stage. I […]

Find Layla

The cover of Find Layla on a computer screen. The cover shows the name in bubble letters of various colors on a background of light blue

I found this, strangely enough, when I was researching ways to format text messages in a book. (If you’re stressing about that, btw, this book does it seamlessly.) In the […]

Cinder

A paperback copy of Cinder rests on a red poster tube. On the cover, a woman's leg in a red pump has mechanical parts showing through the skin.

My fourteen-year old has been begging me to read this one for at least a year now–and it’s spectacular. I love the world-building. Everything from Cinder’s cyborg parts to her […]