cassandra clare

I've already mentioned how much I enjoyed Cassandra Clare's books as part of my summer of YA novels. Another author who stood out for me was Carrie Ryan, with her original and truly terrifying vision of a future world largely taken over by zombie-like creatures. (Except that their plight is...

This summer I read a great number of YA books. Generally, I read maybe four or five of these in the course of a year, and the rest of the year I read books meant for adult readers. But there is a boom in YA fantasy right now, and while a lot of it is franchise stuff written to order in...