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Add Out of the Ashes By Kara Thomas to Your Summer TBR

Posted on May 22, 2023May 23, 2023 by Josh Flores

Kara Thomas, known for her YA thrillers, now explores a new, thrilling story about family secrets and murder in her latest release for adult audiences…

The Sky Is Mine: The Brutal, Heartbreaking Path to Recovery

Posted on Apr 27, 2020Apr 25, 2020 by Joshua Flores

Izzie is slipping, falling, unable to stand back up on her own two feet. She feels alone, isolated, her words unable to be heard by Jacob, by her mother, and especially by her best friend, Grace. The Sky Is Mine by Amy Beashel is a harrowing and painful look at the violent, tragic experiences of […]

The End and Other Beginnings: A New Beginning for Veronica Roth

Posted on Nov 26, 2019Nov 25, 2019 by Joshua Flores

First there was the world of Divergent, full of romance and breath-taking risks. And then came Carve the Mark, a fantastical, re-imagined world. Now, Veronica Roth introduces readers into various new worlds in her anthology The End and Other Beginnings. With disturbing and moving accounts of the effects of technology and life in the future, […]

Hope and Other Punchlines: A Tragic Yet Often Humorous Take on Teen Grief

Posted on Jun 19, 2019Sep 22, 2019 by Joshua Flores

Abbi has lived trying to hide from her fame. Having been captured in a photo that everyone seems to be obsessed about, Abbi just wants to live a normal life—one where she is not known as the girl in the 9/11 photograph. When she begins working at a summer camp, she thinks her time known […]

The Hummingbird Dagger: A Dark Descent into Lost Memories

Posted on Apr 22, 2019Sep 22, 2019 by Joshua Flores

Fragmented memories. Blood. A blade. And then darkness. The Hummingbird Dagger provides the intrigue of Sherlock Holmes and the eerie and sinister atmosphere of Stalking Jack the Ripper. With both a mysterious backstory and plenty of suspense, The Hummingbird Dagger by Cindy Anstey is a thriller that teen audiences are certain to enjoy. Violence, lies, […]

The Music of What Happens: Profound, Funny, and Completely Charming

Posted on Feb 18, 2019Feb 15, 2019 by Joshua Flores

Max and Jordan don’t meet on a blind date or at a coffee shop or in any romantic situation at all. Their love story begins on a food truck. The Music of What Happens is a feel-good, romantic, and thoughtful look at love and family, the difficulty of sexuality, and the damaging effects of the […]

Interview with J. Albert Mann, Author of What Every Girl Should Know

Posted on Jan 8, 2019Mar 1, 2019 by Joshua Flores

What first inspired you to write historical fiction, specifically for young adult audiences? YA and historical fiction are a perfect fit because so much in life depends on the experiences we have when we’re teens, and this includes historical figures. People who end up doing amazing things often do them in response to their childhood. […]

Strange Days: A Quirky yet Enthralling Teen Sci-Fi Story

Posted on Dec 3, 2018Dec 3, 2018 by Joshua Flores

Alex’s life is about to unravel. His family dynamics are complicated at best, the men in his family have begun dying at young ages without explanation, and a series of unexplained disappearances have appeared around the world, supposedly due to aliens. In Constantine Singer’s Strange Days, readers are brought into a dangerous world full of […]

Why We Love ‘To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before’

Posted on Nov 10, 2018Nov 8, 2018 by Germ Magazine guest author

To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before is a film adaptation of the young adult novel written by Jenny Han. The story revolves around Lara Jean (Lana Condor), a movie-watching, baking-loving romantic. Her secret love letters to all of the boys that she’s loved before get sent out, causing her imaginary love life to become […]