Ash Princess. Laura Sebastian. Young adult/Fantasy. 2018. 432 pages. 5 stars.
You’re a lamb in the lion’s den, child. You’re surviving. Isn’t that enough?
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Stalking Jack the Ripper. Kerri Maniscalco. Historical fiction/Young adult/Mystery. 2016. 326 pages. 3.5 stars.
There’s nothing better than a little danger dashed with some romance.
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Jek/Hyde. Amy Ross. Mystery/Young adult/Retellings. 2017. 304 pages. 2 stars.
Are you really going to walk away? Or are you going to settle down and tell me what you want?
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Because You Love to Hate Me: 13 Tales of Villainy. Ameriie. Young adult/Short stories/Anthology. 2017. 368 pages. 4.5 stars.
Villains, the deliciously wicked. We love to hate them and they hate to be loved, if only because being hated frees them from having to be good.
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Restore Me. Tahereh Mafi. Young adult/Dystopian. 2018. 448 pages. 5 stars.
They’re coming to collect their pound of flesh, and I fear that this time–as I have every time–I will end up paying with my heart.
The Song of Achilles. Madeline Miller. Greek mythology/Young adult/LGBT. 2012. 369 pages. 5 stars.
We were like gods at the dawning of the world, and our joy was so bright we could see nothing else but the other.
Roar. Cora Carmack. Young adult/Fantasy. 2017. 5 stars.
You are lightning made flesh. Colder than falling snow. Unstoppable as the desert sands riding the wind. You are Stormling, Aurora Pavan. Believe it.
Immortal Reign. Morgan Rhodes. Young adult/Fantasy. 2018. 400 pages. 3 stars.
When something is out of my hands, I let it be free. What is done is done.
People Like Us. Dana Mele. Mystery/Young adult/LGBT. 2018. 384 pages. 3 stars.
You can get away with murder if you’re lucky. You don’t even have to be smart. Just have a social or political one up on everyone else. People look the other way if they want to. Everyone knows it.
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Want. Cindy Pon. Science fiction/Young adult/Dystopian. 2017. 328 pages. 4.5 stars.
We want and are left wanting
