Young Adult

Some graphic novels (non Cybil)

1 Comment / 2010, Books in Bed, Comics & Graphic Novels, Young Adult /

First – Nemi. Love it. I want the whole series. A girl with an attitude. A lot of attitude.

Next – The Grave Robber’s Daughter. Short, easy to read, just creepy enough to be fun.

Then – The Chuckling Whatsit (author also write The Grave Robber’s Daughter). This one was also excellent, but a little long. At one point I felt like I just wanted to skip to the end but I stuck with it and was glad I did.

Last – The Man Who Grew Young. Why do I feel like I’ve already read this? That’s what I kept thinking, all the way through. Familiar. Interesting but… it doesn’t quite work for me.

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M is for Magic

2010, Books in Bed, Children's Literature, Favorites, short stories, Young Adult /

How the heck did I miss M is for Magic? I mean I know I’m not the biggest Gaiman fan in the world (I like him but I don’t go crazy or anything) but I do tend to read new releases by “big” children’s fiction and YA fiction authors pretty quickly. Still, I missed it and was glad I happened to see it on the YA shelf the other day. Great short stories. I did indeed laugh out loud several times. And I learned what a “gonk” is, so that was cool, too.  That’s what I like about Gaiman, I always learn something new while being entertained.

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Need

2010, Books in Bed, Favorites, Sci Fi and Fantasy, Young Adult /

So Need is about Faeries? And Were? Who knew? For some reason I thought it was just a regular old teen trouble novel. Silly me.

It wasn’t quite as good as Holly Black’s faeries but it was darn good. The dialogue was good. I like to be able to laugh while renegade faeries are trying to steal the faerie princess away from the evil faerie king who doesn’t really want the princess – just her mother.

I think I might have just given away the whole book. Oops. Read it anyway, it’s fun. I stayed up long after midnight to finish it last night.

Or maybe I’m just a wee bit prejudice since Zara is a Charleston girl.

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The Lost Sister

1 Comment / 2010, Books in Bed, From the Stacks Challenge, Sci Fi and Fantasy, Young Adult /

I have no idea how The Lost Sister came to be on our bookshelf. It looks too new to have been picked up at a used bookstore or used booksale but it also doesn’t look like a book I’d have just picked up off the shelf at full price. Could it have been a free review copy that I somehow forgot I had and never read? Oy, I hope not.

Modern witch tale set in New England. Mean girls – really mean girls. Really, really mean girls. Girls so mean that they tried to kill a girl during a hazing ritual (not that all of the girls participating in the hazing ritual knew that death was the real goal, not just pain and humiliation…) Astral projection, dream hopping, sisters who grew up thinking they were cousins, boyfriend/girlfriend problems… everything a good teen mean girl witch book should have.

It wasn’t bad. It wasn’t great. I enjoyed it and if there’s a sequel (which it feels like there should be) I’d probably read it eventually.  I think I’d rather read about Cordelia and Maddy’s parents/grandparents than about Cordelia and Maddy again. Tess and Sophie seem really interesting. Abigail and Rebecca along with the evil Kiki. Feels like a much more interesting story, to me.

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White Cat

2010, Books in Bed, Favorites, Sci Fi and Fantasy, Young Adult /

It’s been a Holly Black weekend. I like those kinds of weekends.

I will admit to being nervous about White Cat. It isn’t about faeries. Even though I’ve read Black’s short stories, which weren’t all about faeries, I was still a little concerned that I might not like her non-faerie work as much – or enough. Wrong.

The curse work was really interesting. And as usual, her characters are fascinating – even the most minor of them.

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Kith: Good Neighbors Book 2

2010, Books in Bed, Comics & Graphic Novels, Women, Young Adult /

Holly Black’s faeries are some of the best and Kith was an excellent follow up to Kin.  I cannot wait to see what Rue does. I kind of hope she doesn’t save the human world. Wouldn’t that be awesome?

Oh one thing, was her father drawn differently in book 2 than in book 1? It felt like he was but I don’t have book 1 here to compare it with. Anyone out there own them both? Or have them book checked out of the library at the same time?

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Alt Ed

1 Comment / 2010, Books in Bed, Fiction, Young Adult /

Alt Ed is like The Breakfast Club but without Ally Sheedy. Or without any of the really cool characters that made up The Breakfast Club, now that I think about it. The Breakfast Club Lite? Errr. It wasn’t a bad book, it was a nice book. But it’s impossible to not compare it to the movie – and of course this nice little book will come up way short in those comparisons. If I hadn’t grown up with The Breakfast Club, I’d probably like Alt Ed a heck of a lot more than I did.

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