Paranormal Romance
Book Review: The Collector by Victoria Scott
“As you know, it’ll be held in the gymnasium. We’ll be selling tickets during lunch all week. So don’t forget to buy yours or you’ll be left dateless like me.”Charlie stops. Her smile falters, but she quickly recovers. “I would know…only ugly losers…” She stops reading the cue cards. Then she gazes right into the […]
Book Review: Prophecy Girl
“Oh, you think this is fun, Prophecy Boy?” I yelled, furious. “You think it’s cool that we’re swimming in other people’s feces?”Brown water dripped down his smiling face as his gaze danced over me. I couldn’t put my finger on his expression. Bemusement. Possibly insanity.“What are you grinning at?” I splashed a floating chunk of […]
Book Review: Death and the Girl Next Door by Darynda Jones
I tapped the page with my fingertips. “And this is the page Mr. Davis was looking at. I remember. he’d circled a face with a -““Lorelei,” Brooklyn interrupted in a hushed whisper. Her finger slipped up to one of the photos bordering the main picture. In it, a crowd of students stood around the flagpole of the old high […]
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Book Review: Death, Doom, and Detention by Darynda Jones
With new purpose, I worked the back of the frame off and took the picture into my hands. I was going to lean back against my headboard, take deep breaths, and concentrate. But the moment my fingers touched the picture, I tumbled inside. The sheer curtain drifted apart and I found myself standing in the hospital room while Mom […]
Book Review: The Curiositites: a collection of stories by Maggie Stiefvater, Tessa Gratton and Brenna Yovanoff
A vampire locked in a cage in the basement, for good luck. Bad guys, clever girls, and the various reasons why the guys have to stop breathing. A world where fires never go out (with references to ice cream.) Are you curious? The Curiosities began as a writing experiment between three friends, popular YA Lit […]
What do I call that? Genre 101 with Georgia McBride
I love speculative fiction so much that when I started Month9Books, I added the commonly misunderstood term to our tagline: “speculative fiction for teens and tweens where nothing is as it seems.” Those of you who are genre fiction fans, and in particular speculative fiction fans, may already know what it means. But for those […]
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TRW: Romancing the Paranormal
As a teen librarian who knows their trends, you know that books like Twilight and The House of Night series are as popular with teens as chocolate and pizza. What you may not realize is that they have a long and distinguished history within literature dating back to 1764. Paranormal romance, a subset of romance that has […]
TPIB: Paranormal Romance – Angels
Without a doubt angels are hot right now in YA fiction (Paranormal Romance). You have the Fallen series by Lauren Kate, Hush Hush by Becca Fitzpatrick and now the Embrace series by Jessica Shirvington – just to name a few. So I have been wracking my brain trying to come up with some angel crafts […]
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