A Ray Red by Art Elbin is the first installment in the author's Soul Rays series. It's been classified as a young adult coming of age, but there are so many fascinating elements of science fiction and fantasy that it's hard to fit it into...

Wendy by Lisa Hall is a spinoff from the author's Legacy of Mara series, which begins with Girl Found. Reading as a stand-alone, this book centers around the titular character Wendy Zapata, a brilliant young student at the University of New Chicago, and is set...

Legions of Lilith: Ghosts of the Past is a work of new adult fantasy fiction penned by Deanna R Sweeney, and follows on from book one: The Awakening. We return to Veronica’s story after the first adventure at her workplace saw her coming to terms...

Vigilatus by Brenda Heller and Jimmy Adams is a dark tale of time travel and Hitler’s Germany. Theo and Gracie make plans to escape Germany, taking their robotic dog with them. A secret society called the Watch helps them, smuggling them into a castle where...

Pam Clayton is looking forward to her fourth year at OCAD University in Toronto, Canada. She hopes to complete her degree in New York City – close enough to visit her parents frequently, while leaving her small Canadian hometown. Since the death of her brother,...

Good-Bye Def Leppard: I'll Miss Those Jeans by Stef Kramer is the story of Amy Gaer, a small-town girl with big dreams. She is at a crossroads in her life and decides that returning to her home town to work is the perfect way to...

Evening in the Yellow Wood is a paranormal coming of age novel written by Laura Kemp. Justine’s childhood essentially ended one afternoon when her mother came and dragged her out of the community swimming pool where she was hanging out with her friend, Sherry. As...

#RecentGrad is a new adult fiction novel written by Dana Grant. Chelsea Darnet had thought that graduating with honors from her university and summa cum laude from grad school would have businesses lining up to recruit her. She even had the foresight to complete three...

A twisty young adult fantasy, Crocotta's Hackles by Katharine E. Wibell is an interesting third entry in The Incarn Saga, featuring a splintering kingdom and a young heroine on an impossible mission. It’s a narrative that blends legend with the action of the present to...

The Stars May Rise and Fall is a modernization of a classic tale, reinvented and penned by author Estella Mirai. Focused on the glam-metal music scene of early 2000s Japan, Mirai retells the gothic love story of The Phantom of the Opera through introducing us...