August 4, 2026
Author Gregory Rizzi’s science fiction adventure follows a colony of human settlers who—hundreds of years after crash-landing on an inhospitable planet named Ares and slowly building a glorious civilization from the ashes—are on the verge of ideological hatred-fueled self-destruction.
Jakob Daedalus is a young lieutenant in the Praetorian Guard, an elite unit that protects the […]
July 21, 2026
In the second book in the Veiled Flame series, author Meg Kramer continues to build her fascinating dual witch and human world based in San Francisco and Portland, Oregon.
When teenage witch Amoura Renly returns to Elderwood school for her second year, she turns down the opportunity to become a Champions Cadet; Champions are a […]
May 18, 2026
Meg Kramer’s Amoura Awakened is a charming YA novel in the Harry Potter vein, in which a 16-year-old girl learns that she is a witch—and that tensions inside the magical world are on the rise.
Adopted as an infant, Amoura is a clever but lonely teen. As the story begins, she receives a postcard inviting […]
April 7, 2026
In book three of the author’s YA science fiction series, a group of teenagers prevented a dangerous alien threat. Now, in the fourth book, they unite to help a terrified widow who believes her house is haunted.
The scene opens to eight years ago, with a scientist stealing top secret items at a research center. […]
March 3, 2026
In Levi Peltier’s entrancing young adult, dark fantasy novel, Kin of Fae Book 1, an ancient curse re-emerges in a village in Maine, leading to the disturbing killings of children — and no one knows how to stop it.
The story’s opening is replete with folklore, mysteries, and characters, which can be disorienting at first. […]
November 4, 2025
Monsterland Below is an action-packed YA fantasy novel paying homage to classic monsters in a post-apocalyptic setting.
The third in a series, it follows teenagers Howard and Wyatt as they head to Los Angeles after the destruction of Cooper Valley, their hometown, and eventually join with a mysterious leader’s military-style gang and a group of […]
September 16, 2025
Political intrigue, wartime strategy and magic drive much of the action in The Book of Chaos, the absorbing third and final entry in Ray Strong’s The Dragons’ War young adult, fantasy series.
Set in the fantasy world of Juro, the story offers the same mix of gritty battle, faraway lands and mystical creatures that drew […]
July 15, 2025
In Magic in the Blood, 14-year-old Alicia travels to another world, the Wild Side, where she learns to master her magical powers and battle a malevolent tree-creature, Gran’Tree.
The third installment in The Wild Side Trilogy, this YA novel opens with Alicia and her father preparing for a trip to consult Thunderbolt, one of the […]
June 16, 2025
In J.L. Witterick’s young adult novel, set in a dystopian near future, a powerful drug known as The Truth has become everyone’s favorite addiction, but suicide rates are spiralling dangerously.
When 17-year-old Flo’s mother commits suicide, Flo is sent to live with family in Orlando, Florida, near the home of Manchester Gurut, known as The […]
June 5, 2025
Zephyr’s Flight is an epic young adult fantasy novel set in the fictional world of Juro. It focuses on spirited teenager Astria Sannfjaer and her adventures with her dragon companion Zephyr, in a world on the brink of conflict.
Astria, who resides in the mountainous Invernell Valley region, longs to become a dragon rider, following […]