By: Peter DavidGenre: Young Adult FantasyPublisher: Peter Hartog “Short in stature but long in thread count, Buddy was a mishmash of patches and repairs. Faded over time, they had become proud badges of his bravery and heroism…Inside Buddy might be polyester stuffing, but further still came the steady beat of a heart…This was the Heart […]
By: Amélie Wen ZhaoGenre: YA FantasyPublisher: Random House Children’s Book “If she closed her eyes, she could remember exactly how her world had ended.Snow, falling like ashes.Wind, sighing through bamboo.And the song of a woodlute weaving into the skies.She’d had a name, once. Her mother had given it to her. Lian’er, meaning “lotus”: The flower […]
By: Sue Lynn TanGenre: FantasyPublisher: Harper Voyager Publishing “Few wrote poems about the half-moon or immortalized it in paintings-devoid of the elegant arch of a crescent or the perfect wholeness of the orb. Clinging to both light and dark, and lost somewhere in between. It resonated with me, a child of a mortal and immortal […]
By: Gina Chen Genre: YA Fantasy (14+) Publisher: Random House, Delacorte Press Violet Made of Thorns, by Gina Chen, was an enjoyable YA fantasy. It is a fantasy romance of enemies to lovers, a touch of darkness, a dangerous prophecy, magic, court intrigue, and excellent chemistry between the characters. Violet is a seer who can […]
WARNING: There may be spoilers for the series BY: E. G. RadcliffeGENRE: YA FantasyPUBLISHER: Mythic Prairie Books I started reading again in 2019. I read The Percy Jackson Series and the others that Rick Riordan wrote. I found a re-kindled love for reading, especially fantasy and science fiction. I never stopped. During the summer of […]
By: A.R. Witham Genre: YA FantasyPublisher: Nepenthe House (Self Published) Content/Trigger Warnings:Shown on page: Child Abuse (foster mom hits main character); Child Abduction (main character kidnapped by monster)Alluded to: Child Neglect (foster mom ignores her wards) “A boy is best seen through his father’s eyes. He is beautiful, and seven. Sun-kissed hair lashes in the […]