I love a powerful YA heroine. I love warriors and badasses and heroines who hate makeup and even the girls who don’t really get along with their kind. But I also love the girly girls. The ones who know that being of value and taking time on your looks aren’t mutually exclusive, who wear their red lipstick like armor and get knocked over flat by new love. When […]
This week we’re doing the snow-day dance (it’s a modified version of the Hucklebuck), because we’re stuck indoors with nothing to do but read. Among today’s best YA releases are a twisted fairy-tale, a dishy new thriller, and a 1960s story set in the legendary Brill Building. We always knew installing a pneumatic tube between our apartment and […]
Sarah Cross’s Beau Rivage series and Alethea Kontis’s Woodcutter Sisters series are like Rose Red and Rose White, two dark and light fairy-tale sisters. Both are juicy, wildly fun retellings, that also deal in the blunt brutality familiar to any fairy-tale fan. But where Cross’s world is a contemporary one, a small 21st-century town where death and dismemberment pass […]