pandemonium lauren oliver tough questions

I also loved that my editor's (who is also Kiersten's editor) dog made a cameo appearance. Coming to shelves on Feb 19!īetween Shades of Grey by Ruta Sepetys. This book is VERY different from the Paranormalcy series, a lot gritter, a lot angrier, but I think it is equally awesome. Yay for ARCs! Now, we've already established that I heart Kiersten White. Still, regardless of what market the book belongs in, it was very good. Maybe because the characters felt older at the outset on the book, like in their 20s, and of course there's no rule saying 20 something can't be YA, but they usually are in their teens. But it struck me as I was reading this that it didn't really feel like YA to me. This is another one that a lot of people are talking about, and I can see why. Like, now.Ĭode Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein. I was breathless at several moments in the reading of this book. Tiger Lily was so powerful and realistic and raw. I adore the Peter Pan story, and I heart retellings from an unexpected point of view, and I relished every page of this book. It was, like all the others, a fantastic book. I will confess that I actually squeed when I saw this book was out. And yet, Lucy never turned into a mean girl. This captured the emotions of that first really young love and first heart-wrenching break-up SO well. The Secret Sisterhood of Heartbreakers by Lynn Weingarten. It was a cool idea and Smith really makes you believe it. I sort of read this on a dare, and it was surprisingly good.

Bring back the unicorns!Ībraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter by Seth Grahame-Smith. I heart Diana Peterfreund, although I will confess I missed the evil unicorns. I didn't know how this was going to turn out in the end, which I liked. One thing that makes a great retelling is a sense of familiarity with the story, of course, but also a sense of newness. Such an amazing dystopian retelling of Jane Austen's Persuasion. It's amazing what a good cover can do.)įor Darkness Shows the Stars by Diana Peterfreund. Both work, I think, but I love the playfulness of the one on the left. My copy had the picture on the one on the right. (Side note: I was so surprised when, just now, I went to retrieve the picture of the cover and saw this picture on the left. It's a dark humor, I will warn you, and not for those who think all books should have rosy endings. I kept reading passages of this to my husband, which I imagine he found tiresome since of course I expected him to laugh and think it was as awesome as I thought it was. It's kind of like Cormac McCarthy with a sharp, amazing sense of humor. And I LOVED it-one of my favorite books of the year. This is an adult book, a Western, that I stumbled over in the line at a grocery store in Oregon, and I was so charmed by its opening pages that I bought it. But I thought it was a good book, and a thought-provoking one. As an adopted child, I find this unsettling and mindly insulting. But (and here's where it gets slightly personal) I am always wary of stories like this, where a young girl finds herself unexpectedly pregnant, and the author treats the subject like, of course, the good and natural right thing to do, in any instance, is for her to keep her baby. The characters were so real and powerful and heartfelt.

First, I thought it was very well written. I have lots of mixed feelings about this book.

Pandemonium lauren oliver tough questions