★★★★ I devoured this book. I honestly cannot remember the last time I finished a book in one sitting. I picked it up after dinner - intending to read a few pages before bedtime - and literally could not put it down. To say this book is an action-packed YA would be putting it mildly. In addition - no… Continue reading Headshot: A Thriller — Matthew McAndrew

The fisherman loosed her and she dove back into the water the way a wild thing returns to a wild place, and he watched her go. ★★★★ But...his loneliness snaked into her, and she was sorry for it, for that loneliness caught her more surely than the net. Amelia - a young, restless mermaid - spent her… Continue reading The Mermaid — Christina Henry

★★★★★ I could ask my mom, I suppose, but detectives didn't work like that. Ten-year-old Zac knows he has a dad - everyone has to have a dad - but he's never met him. His nan lashes out with fury and his grandad gets real quiet every time Zac tries to talk about his dad. Most importantly, his mom (Juliet) never speaks of… Continue reading Little Big Love – Katy Regan

★★★★ You have ink in your blood, boy, and no help for it. Books will never be just a business to you. Few people, if any, have ever set eyes on a book in Jess Brightwell's London. And yet, no one is illiterate and writing is considered sacred across the world. Instead of books, everyone has blanks (think: ereader but run… Continue reading Ink and Bone — Rachel Caine

★★★★ Okay. Okay. I will try to be objective about this one but I just finished ACOWAR and I am still riding that emotional high. To summarize: for a companion novel - not bad at all. It's full of cotton-candy fluff, and I devoured every single bite. Now, this one was a bit heavy on the smut and a bit light on… Continue reading A Court of Frost and Starlight — Sarah J. Maas

★★★★★ This series will always hold a special place in my heart. Honestly, this book fueled 90% of my dragon-obsession over middle school. (How obsessed you ask? Tshirts, posters, movies, figurines - if you could slap a dragon on it, I bought it (really not kidding)). Eragon, having survived the great battle, is saddled with a completely… Continue reading Eldest — Christopher Paolini

★★★★★ I could read this one a hundred times and love it just the same.  This was my middle school book series. I read it over and over and over (and, as you may have guessed, over and over...). It had dragons! And elves and magic and swordplay and not a love triangle in sight. Even rereading it as… Continue reading Eragon — Christopher Paolini