Thank you to Netgalley for providing an advanced reader copy of this title in exchange for a fair and honest review. Rachel Chavez is trying to forget something horrible that happened to her, so starting at a different school and making new friends seems like the best way to put the straight out of a horror movie event behind her. It isn’t easy to fit in at Manchester Prep, though, so when members of the […]
Tag: YA lit
Book Review: Eleanor and Park by Rainbow Rowell
Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell Eleanor is the new girl in town, which automatically means she’s lumped in with the unpopular crowd. And that would be OK if she could just blend in with the rest of the kids at school, but it’s kind of hard to miss someone with bright red hair and a kitschy sense of style. Park has lived in Omaha his whole life. But as a half-Asian, comic book nerd, […]
Zombie Books for Teens
Zombies are the “in” thing in Hollywood right now. The Walking Dead is AMC’s highest rated show with an average of 11.2 MILLION viewers each week. World War Z was both a bestseller and a hit at the box office. And despite losing big stars like Natalie Portman & Emma Stone who were at one time or another attached to the project, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies just won’t stay dead – Lilly Collins (The […]
Young Adult Dystopian Fiction: Coming to a Big and Small Screen Near You
Dystopian fiction is nothing new, but has seen a huge rise in popularity over the past few years with the success of Suzanne Collins’ bestselling YA series, The Hunger Games. And just like what the Twilight phenomenon did for the surging popularity of vampires and werewolves, The Hunger Games is doing for dystopian fiction. Many dystopian series are equally as popular with both the young adult and adult crowd and fill the shelves at your […]
Beautiful Creatures: Another YA hit Novel Goes to the Big Screen
When Hollywood can’t come up with something original, it looks to popular books to bring in big bucks at the box office. One needs to look no further than Harry Potter, Twilight or The Hunger Games to see that this formula can indeed work – Summit Entertainment made billions on the Twilight franchise alone. Warner Brothers hopes its adaptation of the novel Beautiful Creatures by the writing team of Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl, will […]