The Bone Season by Samantha Shannon
Claire Lines
Paige Mahoney is one of the rarest and most powerful clairvoyants in the known world. She is the infamous Pale Dreamer, known for her ability to control the minds of…
YA
The 5th Wave by Rick Yancey
Sonia Grace
The 5th Wave is the first in an ongoing trilogy by Rick Yancey. The second book, The Infinite Sea came out in September, and the third book is expected in…
Guest Blog by Ryan Graudin: Creating A Sense of Danger
Ryan Graudin
The setting of my YA novel THE WALLED CITY is based on a real place called the Kowloon Walled City, a neighborhood that existed in 1980s Hong Kong. It was…
The Sleeper and the Spindle by Neil Gaiman, illustrated by Chris Riddell
Lucy Hounsom
Neil Gaiman and Chris Riddell: a partnership fated to succeed from the start. Gaiman’s modest, restless prose teamed with the trademark art of Riddell results in a frank and glorious…
The Boundless by Kenneth Oppel
Will Everett has spent a long time wishing adventure would find him, but when it does it’s not quite what he expects. In one eventful day he meets the rail…
Rebel Belle by Rachel Hawkins
Jo Niederhoff
Harper Price has everything. She’s president of the Student Government Association, has Cotillion coming up, does well in school, has a great group of friends (and one best friend, Bee),…
Trial By Fire by Josephine Angelini
Joie
After a fair debut from this author with her Starcrossed trilogy, this new beginning of another left a bit to be desired. What compelled me to pick it up was…
Vowed by Liz de Jager
Vowed is the second book in The Blackhart Legacy and reunites us with kick-ass hero Kit Blackhart. I was impressed by Kit the first time around and I’m pleased to…
Illusions of Fate by Kiersten White
Illusions of Fate pleasantly surprised me with its depth. The blurb on the back suggests merely another “girl goes to court, girl feels like an outcast, girl meets boy, TRUE…
Ruin and Rising by Leigh Bardugo
The YA trilogy that started with Shadow and Bone concludes with Ruin and Rising – with quite a few unhappy readers. Apparently, the uproar is over a relationship that didn’t…
Half a King by Joe Abercrombie
Richard Bray
What Half a King does is remind us that it’s not the violence or occasional profanity that has made Abercrombie such a tour de force – it’s his perceptive ability…
The Joe Abercrombie YA Experiment is a success!
Overlord
We all love Joe Abercrombie here at Fantasy-Faction, but when we heard that Lord Grimdark was to give writing a Young Adult novel a shot we couldn’t help but react…