This week we added the following new adult fiction titles to our new book display area… Christmas Jars Reunion by Jason F. Wright The Christmas Clock by Kat Martin Plain Promise by Beth Wiseman The Ninth Daughter by Barbara Hamilton The Quiet War by Paul McAuley  The Final Detail by Harlan Coben Half Broke Horses by Jeannette Walls Rough ...

... got excited...I mean real excited. Let me explain why. Their criteria for New Adult would be a protagonist 18 years of age or older who ... felt like there was something missing b/w the young adult and adult categories. For example, when Bella graduates from HS ... Series, is she still considered YA/Teen or this new category, New Adult? Regardless, many adults as well as teens read and loved the series. ...

How do you get a job reviewing Young Adult fiction? I would love the opportunity to read all day long. Next up in my list of fantastical fiction is Rampant by Diana Peterfreund which is about KILLER UNICORNS. Real unicorns are venomous, man-eating monsters with huge fangs and razor-sharp horns. And they can only ...

... was reading Kristin Cashore's debut novel Graceling (young adult fiction) and was enjoying it. In July, I confirmed that I enjoyed it. Thus I was very much looking forward to Cashore's second novel in the 'verse called "Fire& ... Cashore's writing is very vivid - very reminiscent of my favourite young adult writers like Robin McKinley, Tamora Pierce and Garth Nix ...

Over at Strange Horizons, author Karen Healey has an amazing essay about body transformations in young adult fiction. She looks at adolescent physical changes in several novels, including the Twilight series ... YA where the protagonists aren't ever totally satisfied with their transformations. I like fiction that acknowledges the difficulty and terror of acquiring new bodies and new ...

Moved from teenage fantasy/romance to middle-aged angst in a few days. Nick Hornby is consistently enjoyable. And his latest, Juliet Naked, is his best - so far. Not about a boy (geddit?) but a reclusive middle-aged former rock star and alcoholic. An acoustic, bare-bones, untextured version of his first hit, Juliet, is dicovered and packaged as Juliet Naked (I'm a good girl, I am,, I don&# ...