What Light by Jay Asher Pages : 316 Genre : YA, Contemporary Stand alone My Rating : 3/5 About the Book  : Sierra’s family runs a Christmas tree farm in Oregon—it’s a bucolic setting for a girl to grow up in, except that every year, they pack up and move to California to set up their Christmas tree lot for the season. So Sierra lives two lives: her life in Oregon and her life at Christmas. And leaving one always means...

The Midnight Star by Marie Lu Narrated by Carla Corvo & Lannon Killea Pages/Time : 316/9h07 Genre : YA, fantasy Series : The Young Elites, book 3 My Rating : 4/5 About the Book  : Adelina Amouteru is done suffering. She’s turned her back on those who have betrayed her and achieved the ultimate revenge: victory. Her reign as the White Wolf has been a triumphant one, but with each conquest her cruelty only grows. The darkness...

Harry Potter and The Cursed Child by J. K. Rowling, John Tiffany & Jack Thorne Pages : 343 Genre : YA, Fantasy Series : Harry Potter My Rating : 3.5/5 About the Book  : It was always difficult being Harry Potter and it isn’t much easier now that he is an overworked employee of the Ministry of Magic, a husband and father of three school-age children. While Harry grapples with a past that refuses to stay where it belongs, his...

The Female of the Species by Mindy McGinnis Pages : 352 Genre : YA, Thriller, Contemporary Stand alone My Rating : 4.5/5 About the Book  : Alex Craft knows how to kill someone. And she doesn’t feel bad about it. When her older sister, Anna, was murdered three years ago and the killer walked free, Alex uncaged the language she knows best. The language of violence. While her crime goes unpunished, Alex knows she can’t be trusted...

The Darkest Corners by Kara Thomas Pages : 336 Genre : YA, Mystery Stand alone My Rating : 4/5 About the Book  : There are ghosts around every corner in Fayette, Pennsylvania. Tessa left when she was nine and has been trying ever since not to think about it after what happened there that last summer. Memories of things so dark will burn themselves into your mind if you let them. Callie never left. She moved to another house, so she...

The Dead Girls of Hysteria Hall by Katie Alender Pages : 329 Genre : YA, Horror Stand alone My Rating : 4/5 About the Book  : Delia’s new house isn’t just a house. Long ago, it was the Piven Institute for the Care and Correction of Troubled Females—an insane asylum nicknamed “Hysteria Hall.” However, many of the inmates were not insane, just defiant and strong willed. Kind of like Delia herself. But the house still wants to...

The Dead House by Dawn Kurtagich Pages : 400 Genre : YA, Horror Stand alone My Rating : 4.5/5 About the Book  : Three students: dead. Carly Johnson: vanished without a trace. Two decades have passed since an inferno swept through Elmbridge High, claiming the lives of three teenagers and causing one student, Carly Johnson, to disappear. The main suspect: Kaitlyn, “the girl of nowhere.” Kaitlyn’s diary, discovered in...

The Call by Peadar O’Guilin Pages : 312 Genre : YA, Horror Stand alone My Rating : 3.5/5 About the Book  : 3 minutes and 4 seconds. The length of time every teenager is ‘Called’, from the moment they vanish to the moment they reappear. 9 out of 10 children return dead. Even the survivors are changed. The nation must survive. Nessa, Megan and Anto are at a training school – to give them some chance to fight...