Illuminae by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff
Sonia Grace
Illuminae was a good time from beginning to end. The plot itself is fairly straightforward – teenagers break up, teenagers’ planet gets invaded, teenagers barely escape onto improvised evacuation ships…
YA
Magonia by Maria Dahvana Headley
Nicole Singer
I was a little surprised how much I liked this book. A race of birds? Songbirds that fly in and out of people’s lungs? Sky vessels and squallwhales? There’s plenty…
Review: Dreamland by Robert L. Anderson
Overlord
I’ve made a real effort to widen my Young Adult reading over the last year or so. Mostly this is the result of multiple conversations I had with authors at…
Demon Road by Derek Landy
Lucy Hounsom
Derek Landy’s new novel is just as exciting, just as break-neck and just as addictive as his wildly successful Skulduggery Pleasant series. I tore through those books because I loved…
Rags & Bones – New Twists on Timeless Tales edited by Melissa Marr and Tim Pratt
Rebekah Loper
This is a humble little book, appearance-wise, but it holds a lot of wonder. The list of contributors to this anthology are just the start of it, many of them…
Ink and Bone by Rachel Caine
Joie
My first novel by this author did not readily impress me at the beginning. A child-operated book-smuggling outfit run by a greedy, cold-hearted family—not all that unique of a plot…
Shadow Scale by Rachel Hartman
Seraphina is tangled amid the grapple for power between the dragon rebels and the human court. The dark secret of her true identity – half-dragon, half-human – has now become…
The Darkest Part of the Forest by Holly Black
If you’ve ever read anything by Holly Black you will know that when it comes to fairy tales, she does not mess around. She takes every trope you’ve ever heard…
Unmade by Sarah Rees Brennan
Jo Niederhoff
Unspoken made me fall in love with the most remarkable cast of characters I’d ever encountered in a young adult novel. Kami Glass, intrepid high school reporter (and girl who…
Under the Empyrean Sky by Chuck Wendig
Dan Hanks
Chuck Wendig is a name most readers here will recognise. A stellar writing force on the internet, his opinions, arguments, sage advice and (often) sage profanity are well known and…
Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs
Lew Kelly
A curiously told tale, not driven by words but by pictures; a unique selling point, and probably the reason why Ransom Rigg’s debut novel dominated the New York Times Bestseller…
The Death House by Sarah Pinborough
Alister Davison
With a title like The Death House, you’d be forgiven for thinking this was one of those gory shlock horrors written towards the end of the twentieth century. Unusually for…