This Month in Books: October 2014

Wow, October 2014 has by far been the hardest month for me to choose just eight books that I am looking forward to. September and October are always great months in terms of book releases, and this month is going…

Book Review: ‘The Eternity Cure’ (Blood of Eden #2) by Julie Kagawa

Last year, I was enraptured by the world Julie Kagawa created in the first Blood of Eden book, The Immortal Rules. A mixture of dystopia and paranormal, the world in the Blood of Eden books is dark, dangerous and intriguing.…

Books to Movies: Which of Your Favorite YA Reads Might/Will Hit the Big Screen?

  Hollywood is gobbling up movie rights to almost every best-selling Young Adult novel to hit book stands in the past few years. Can you blame them? Every studio is looking for the new Harry Potter, Twilight and now Hunger…

Book Review: ‘The Immortal Rules’ by Julie Kagawa

I always like to point out emerging or overdone genres within contemporary YA literature. We definitely have seen a surge in the supernatural, in particular vampires (Thank you, Twilight). Then, with the success of The Hunger Games, dystopias of all…