The main character, Cass, was a strong and uniquely relatable character to learn about as the story progressed.
I have always loved the darker books, and there is nothing spookier than conspiracy, murder, the Black Plague and love becoming dangerously intertwined.
From page one, I was under its spell, and the novel turned out to be one of my favorite books I have read so far this year. A murder mystery set in magical Venice, Italy around the Renaissance era, Venom ties death, beauty and love into one potent concoction. In this YA adaptation of “The Heart and the First,” Greitens weaves his personal experience as a Navy SEAL with second-person narratives about serving with one of the most elite military outfits in the world.īy Miranda KenneallySourcebooks Fire, 256 pp.: $8.99, for ages 13 and upĪ troubled teen gets caught up in a student-teacher romance.īy Ned VizziniBalzer + Bray, 400 pp.: $17.99, for ages 13 and upĪ 15-year-old boy obsessed with a role-playing game gets sent by his parents to a summer camp where he’s forced to interact with “normal” kids in the real world.Venom by Fiona Paul is eerie. Paired with a boy and urged to perform riskier dares with higher stakes, she eventually learns her life is on the line.īy Jessica KhouryRazorbill, 372 pp.: $17.99, for ages 12 and upĪ young woman, who was created to be a new breed of immortal, escapes from a secret lab deep in the Amazonian rain forest and discovers the truth about her origins.īy Francine ProseHarperTeen, 256 pp.: $17.99, for ages 13 and upĪ modern retelling of “The Turn of the Screw” for teens, a young man spends the summer on a private island far from civilization and its technological amenities.īy Melissa MarrHarperCollins, 320 pp.: $17.99, for ages 13 and upīilled as “Game of Thrones” for teens, the new series from the “Wicked Lovely” author follows a boy and girl who are forced into battle for a chance to join the ruling elite.īy Eric GreitensHoughton Mifflin, 288 pp.: $16.99, for ages 12 and up Patterson applies his thriller template to the young adult genre with a new series about a teenage girl who becomes the prime suspect in her wealthy parents’ murder.īy Jeanne RyanDial, 304 pp.: $17.99, for ages 14 and upĪ teenage girl joins an anonymous game of dares that is broadcast live online. Set in Renaissance Venice, a young woman stumbles upon a murdered body and is drawn into a world of secret societies, courtesans and killers.īy James Patterson and Maxine PaetroLittle, Brown, 384 pp.: $19.99, for ages 12 and up In this paranormal, historical thriller, a young woman moves to New York during the roaring ‘20s, only to find herself embroiled in an occult-related murder mystery.īy Elizabeth GeorgeViking, 448 pp.: $18.99, for ages 12 and upīestselling novelist Elizabeth George makes her young-adult debut with a coming of age story about a teenage girl who hears other people’s thoughts.īy Fiona PaulPhilomel, 448 pp.: $17.99, for ages 14 and up
0 kommentar(er)
