Posts Tagged With: Young Adult

Young Adult Week! Review: Under the Bridge by R. Cooper

Posted on January 17, 2014 by justjenbo

Reviewed by JustJen

Title: Under the Bridge
Author: R. Cooper
Heroes: Chris/Nick
Genre: M/M Young Adult
Length: 24 Pages
Publisher: Self-published
Release Date: October 15, 2012
Available at: Smashwords
Add it to your shelf: Goodreads

Blurb: Grad night is supposed to be a night of carefree celebration before growing up and leaving childhood behind, but after graduation Chris is spending his night wandering streets alone with a black eye and a split lip. Beat up yet again for being out and proud, he is contemplating how glad he’ll be to leave his childhood, and this town, behind, when he stumbles across the town’s other outcast, his childhood best friend, Nick. Chris hasn’t spoken to Nick in years. When Nick was thirteen his family moved away, and when they came back to town a year later, Chris had a new stepfather, a new set of bruises, and no interest in being friends with Chris or anyone else. He’s spent high school getting into trouble and breaking hearts while Chris has been getting ready for college. On the surface they couldn’t be more different, but it isn’t long before Chris starts to see that Nick is just as scared and lonely as he is, and just as used to pain. Continue reading →

Categories: 4 Star Ratings, JustJen's Reviews, LGBT, Published in 2012, Theme Week | Tags: Abuse, Bittersweet, Coming Out, Hurt/Comfort, M/M, R. Cooper, Self-Published, Under the Bridge, Young Adult, Young Adult Week | 1 Comment

Young Adult Week! Review: Ash by Malinda Lo

Posted on January 16, 2014 by Heather C

Reviewed by Heather C

Title: Ash
Author: Malinda Lo
The Heroines: Ash & Kaisa
Genre: YA Fantasy, F/F
Length: 272 pages
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Release Date: August 11, 2009
Available at: Amazon & Barnes & Noble
Add it to your shelf at: Goodreads & Booklikes

Blurb: Cinderella retold

In the wake of her father’s death, Ash is left at the mercy of her cruel stepmother. Consumed with grief, her only joy comes by the light of the dying hearth fire, re-reading the fairy tales her mother once told her. In her dreams, someday the fairies will steal her away, as they are said to do. When she meets the dark and dangerous fairy Sidhean, she believes that her wish may be granted.

The day that Ash meets Kaisa, the King’s Huntress, her heart begins to change. Instead of chasing fairies, Ash learns to hunt with Kaisa. Though their friendship is as delicate as a new bloom, it reawakens Ash’s capacity for love—and her desire to live. But Sidhean has already claimed Ash for his own, and she must make a choice between fairy tale dreams and true love.

Entrancing, empowering, and romantic, Ash is about the connection between life and love, and solitude and death, where transformation can come from even the deepest grief. Continue reading →

Categories: 1.5 Star Ratings, Heather C's Reviews, LGBT, Published Before 2010, Theme Week | Tags: Ash, F/F, Fairy Tale, fantasy, Malinda Lo, The Blogger Girls, Young Adult, Young Adult Week | 1 Comment

Young Adult Week! Review: Safe by C. Kennedy

Posted on January 15, 2014 by susan65coug Miss Behaving

Review by Susan65

Title: Safe
Author: C. Kennedy
Heroes: Nicolo (Nico) Caro and Caleb Deering
Genre: M/M YA Contemporary
Length: 89 Pages
Publisher: Harmony Ink
Release Date: October 24, 2013
Available at: Dreamspinner Press, Amazon, All Romance eBooks & Barnes and Noble
Add it to your shelf: Goodreads & Booklikes

Blurb: They met at ten; they kissed at twelve, and were madly in love by eighteen.

Caleb Deering is the captain of the swim team and the hottest senior in school. He comes from a loving home with a kind father and a caring, but strict, mother who is battling breast cancer. Nico Caro is small and beautiful, and has a father who rules with an iron fist–literally.

One morning Caleb forgets himself, and he pecks Nico on the lips at school. A teacher sees them and tattles to the Headmaster. The accidental outing at school might be the least of their problems, because the ball set in motion by the school’s calls to their parents could get Nico killed. In the face of that very real danger, Caleb knows he has only one mission in life: to keep Nico safe. Continue reading →

Categories: 3 Star Ratings, Book Review, LGBT, Published in 2013, Susan65's Reviews | Tags: Abuse, Barely Legal, Bullying, C. Kennedy, Coming Out, Coming-of-Age, Contemporary, Dreamspinner Press, Family Drama, First-Time, Harmony Ink, High School, Hurt-Comfort, M/M, Safe, Young Adult, Young Adult Week | 2 Comments

Young Adult Week! Review: Throne of Glass by Sarah J. Maas

Posted on January 12, 2014 by Nikyta

Reviewed by Nikyta

Title: Throne of Glass
Author: Sarah J. Maas
Series: Throne of Glass #1
Heroes/Heroine: Celaena Sardothien, Chaol Westfall, & Prince Dorian (Sorta)
Genre: M/F YA Fantasy
Length: 404 pages
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Release Date: August 7, 2012
Available at: Bloomsbury, Amazon & Barnes & Noble
Add it to your shelf: Goodreads & Booklikes

Blurb: In a land without magic, where the king rules with an iron hand, an assassin is summoned to the castle. She comes not to kill the king, but to win her freedom. If she defeats twenty-three killers, thieves, and warriors in a competition, she is released from prison to serve as the king’s champion. Her name is Celaena Sardothien.

The Crown Prince will provoke her. The Captain of the Guard will protect her. But something evil dwells in the castle of glass–and it’s there to kill. When her competitors start dying one by one, Celaena’s fight for freedom becomes a fight for survival, and a desperate quest to root out the evil before it destroys her world.

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