Title: Living Hell Author: Catherine Jinks Genre: Science Fiction, Horror, Young Adult Publisher: Harcourt Children’s Books Publication Date: April 2010 Hardcover: 272 Pages What happens when a single moment changes everything? For seventeen-year-old Cheney, life on earth exists only…
Title: The Shadow Speaker Author: Nnedi Okorafor-Mbachu Genre: Speculative Fiction, Young Adult, Post-Apocalypse Publisher: Hyperion Book CH Publication Date: March 2009 Paperback: 352 pages Stand alone or series: Stand alone but with room for more. When 15-year-old Ejii witnesses…
Title: Please Ignore Vera Dietz Author: A. S. King Genre: Contemporary YA Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers Publication Date: October 2010 Hardcover: 336 pages Stand alone or series: Stand alone Vera’s spent her whole life secretly in love…
Today we bring you the latest installment in our feature, “What She Said…” in which we both review books that the other has already read and reviewed. The idea arose because of the dilemma that if one of us…
Title: The Tomorrow Code Author: Brian Faulkner Genre: Apocalyptic, Science Fiction, Young Adult Publisher: Random House for Young Readers Publication Date: September 2009 Paperback: 368 Pages “The end of the world started quietly enough for Tane Williams and Rebecca…
Title: The Reapers are the Angels Author: Alden Bell Genre: Post-Apocalyptic, Zombies, Speculative Fiction, Horror Publisher: Holt Paperbacks Publication Date: August 2010 Paperback: 240 Pages Zombies have infested a fallen America. A young girl named Temple is on the…
Title: Flygirl Author: Sherri L. Smith Genre: Historical fiction (YA) Publisher: Speak Publication Date: 2009 (first edition) / 2010 on paperback Paperback: 288 pages Stand alone or series: Stand alone Ida Mae Jones dreams of flight. Her daddy was…
Title: Matched Author: Ally Condie Genre: Young Adult, Dystopia, Speculative Fiction Publisher: Dutton Juvenile Publication Date: November 2010 Hardcover: 384 Pages Cassia has always trusted the Society to make the right choices for her: what to read, what to…
Title: Heroes Return Author: Moira J. Moore Genre: Fantasy Publisher: Ace Publication Date: August 2010 Paperback: 358 pages In a realm beset by natural disasters, only the magical abilities of the bonded Pairs – Source and Shield – make…
Title: Hull Zero Three Author: Greg Bear Genre: Science Fiction Publisher: Orbit Publication Date: November 2010 Hardcover: 320 Pages A starship hurtles through the emptiness of space. Its destination-unknown. Its purpose-a mystery. Now, one man wakes up. Ripped from…
Title: White crow Author: Marcus Sedgwick Genre: Horror Publisher: Orion Children’s Publication date: July 2010 Hardcover: 272 pages Stand alone or series: Stand alone It’s summer. Rebecca is an unwilling visitor to Winterfold – taken from the buzz of…
Title: The Silent Land Author: Graham Joyce Genre: It seems to be categorised Literary Fantasy, whatever that means. Publisher: Gollancz Publication date: 18 November 2010 Hardcover: 256 pages Stand alone or series: Stand alone A young couple are caught…
Title: Monsters Directed and Written by Gareth Edwards; Starring Whitey Able and Scoot McNairy Release Date: October 29, 2010 (US) Official Website: www.monstersthemovie.com Available for Rental on iTunes USA Synopsis: Alien life forms have spread throughout Central America leading…
Title: Dark Matter Author: Michelle Paver Genre: Horror Publisher: Orion Publication date: October 21, 2010 Hardcover: 256 pages Stand alone or series: Stand alone ‘What is it? What does it want? Why is it angry with me?’ January 1937.…
Title: Dark Harvest Author: Norman Partridge Genre: Horror, Speculative Fiction Publisher: Cemetery Dance Publications (original) / Tor (reprint) Publication Date: October 2006 (original) / September 2010 (reprint) Paperback: 208 pages Halloween, 1963. They call him the October Boy, or…
Title: Glitter Rose Author: Marianne de Pierres Genre: Horror/Fantasy Publisher: Twelfth Planet Press Publication Date: September 2010 Hardcover: 69 pages Stand alone or series: Contains 5 stories, 4 of them related and part of a self-contained cycle. The Glitter…
Title: The Curse of the Wendigo Author: Rick Yancey Genre: Horror, Young Adult, Speculative Fiction Publisher: Simon & Schuster Children’s (US & UK) Publication Date: October 2010 Hardcover: 448 Pages While attempting to disprove that Homo vampiris, the vampire,…
Title: Four and Twenty Blackbirds Author: Cherie Priest Genre: Southern Gothic Publisher: Tor Publication date: 17 Oct 2005 Paperback: 285 pages Stand alone or series: First in a trilogy Although she was orphaned at birth, Eden Moore is never…
Title: The Scorch Trials Author: James Dashner Genre: Dystopian/Post-Apocalyptic, Speculative Fiction, Young Adult Publisher: Delacorte Press Publication Date: October 2010 Hardcover: 384 pages The Maze was only the beginning… Solving the Maze was supposed to be the end. No…
Title: StarCrossed Author: Elizabeth C. Bunce Genre: Fantasy, YA Publisher: Arthur A. Levine Books Publication Date: October 2010 Hardcover: 400 pages Digger thrives as a spy and sneak-thief among the feuding religious factions of Gerse, dodging the Greenmen who…
Title: Bloodthirsty Author: Flynn Meaney Genre: Contemporary YA Publisher: Poppy Publication date: October 5 2010 Paperback: 240 pages Stand alone or series: it can be read as a standalone but I think there will be a sequel. Some vampires…
Title: Hunger Author: Jackie Morse Kessler Genre: Fantasy YA “Thou art the Black Rider. Go thee out unto the world.” Lisabeth Lewis has a black steed, a set of scales, and a new job: she’s been appointed Famine. How…
Title: Fly On The Wall Author: E. Lockhart Genre: Contemporary YA Publisher:Delacorte Books for Young Readers/ Corgi Childrens Publication date: First edition: 2006/ 2007,2008. Paperback: 208 pages Stand alone or series: Stand alone At the Manhattan School for Arts,…
Title: Prospero in Hell Author: L. Jagi Lamplighter Genre: Fantasy (Contemporary) Publisher: Tor Publication Date: August 2010 Hardcover: 352 Pages The exciting, suspenseful story of Miranda’s search for Prospero, the fabled sorcerer of The Tempest The search of a…
Title: Erekos Author: A.M. Tuomala Genre: Fantasy Publisher: Candlemark & Gleam Publication Date: September 2010 Ebook: 250 Pages For three hundred years, Erekos and Weigenland have fought to hold the borderland between the two nations. As the first storms…