Title: Legend ( Read more... )

Title: The New World (short story)/The Knife of Never Letting Go/The Ask and the Answer/Monsters of Men (all Nook)
Author: Patrick Ness
Publisher: .....someone
Genre: SciFi, Post Apocalypse, Dystopia
Release Date: 2010?

Oh, these books.  So. very. good.  Short synopsis is: Earth/home planet got screwed up.  People left at various times for various ( Read more... )

Title: Life As We Knew It (hard copy)/The Dead and the Gone (hard copy)/ This World We Live In (Nook ( Read more... )

Title: Anna and the French Kiss ( Read more... )

Title: Wither
Author: Lauren DeStefano
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing
Genre: Distopian-ish, Scifi, Mystery, YA
Release Date: 2011
( Sort of maybe spoiler-y but not really. )

Title: Dreamland
Author: Sarah Dessen
Publisher: Speak (Penguin)
Genre: General Fiction
Release Date: 2000

This is a well written treatment of a delicate subject - it's a story that needs to be told to a generation that didn't grow up with after school specials.  Covered inside are a lot of teenage problems, some more technically serious than others, ( Read more... )

Title: Incarceron
Author: Catherine Fisher
Publisher: Firebird (Penguin)
Genre: Sci-fi?  Yeah, we'll go with that.
Release Date: 2007

A key.  I have a thing for keys - modern ones, antique ones, toy ones, real ones, it doesn't matter.  I like keys.  I'm not sure what this says about my personality or psyche or whatever, but there it is.  So there's this ( Read more... )

Title: If I Stay ( Read more... )

Title: Between Shades of Gray ( Read more... )

This will be full of spoilers, so as a courtesy to those of you who haven't read it yet and might, I'll put the bulk of the entry behind a cut.  For the record, the biggest problem(s) I have with The Hunger Games are hardly unique to this trilogy, to YA literature, to sci-fi (I ABSOLUTELY REFUSE to type 'syfy' other than in quotes of irony and ( Read more... )