Voices of Dragons by Carrie Vaughn
A rock-climbing adrenaline junkie teenager stumbles across a dragon who asks for help with his English. The rock-climbing thing was cool because I haven’t seen that in YA lit (I’m sure it’s out there, but I hadn’t come across it yet), so I wanted to throw a party when I saw a teenage girl saying … Read more
Gone by Lisa McMann
Gone is the final book in Lisa McMann’s Wake trilogy. It is, by far, the best of the three books. The conflict in this one felt so much more real to me–higher stakes, in my opinion, because it had to do with Janie’s relationship with Cabel instead of her work with the police. Maybe this … Read more
My Soul to Take by Rachel Vincent
A Monday Book Review Let me first say (as if you have a choice) that I really enjoy reading Rachel Vincent’s Shifters series. It’s fun, it’s got a spunky strong heroine, and even though the main character’s name is spelled in a really annoying way (Faythe), the story is good enough that I can (usually) … Read more
Prologue Problems
A Friday Free-for-All [in which our heroine obsesses about writerly things] I’ve been reading literary agent Mary Kole’s blog, kidlit.com. Right now she’s doing a series of critiques on story beginnings and her first critique post caught me by surprise. The author wrote one word: Preface, and Kole stopped immediately to comment “Ah, our first … Read more
