Fifty Shades of YA

The Infinite Moment of Us by Lauren Myracle The Skinny: For as long as she can remember, Wren Gray’s goal has been to please her parents. But as high school graduation nears, so does an uncomfortable realization: Pleasing her parents once overlapped with pleasing herself, but now... not so much. Wren needs to honor her…

It is both dark AND triumphant!

Dark Triumph by R.L. LaFevers The Skinny: Sybella, one of Mortain's daughters and the convent's deadliest weapon, is sent back to her home in order to find the betrayers of the duchess of Brittany - those who are marked by St. Mortain. She also hopes that her father, the hated d'Albret, will be marked by…

It was like grease lightening!

Under the Never Sky by Veronica Rossi The Skinny: When she is kicked out of her domed home, Aria is stranded in the outside, a world she is not equipped to live in. Perry, an Outsider in search of his kidnapped nephew, finds her wandering and lost. An unlikely duo, the pair team up to…

Killing me softly with his song…

Kill Me Softly by Sarah Cross The Skinny:Mirabelle's past is shrouded in secrecy, from her parents' tragic deaths to her guardians' half-truths about why she can't return to her birthplace, Beau Rivage. Desperate to see the town, Mira runs away a week before her sixteenth birthday—and discovers a world she never could have imagined. In…

Darling it’s better down where it’s wetter

Sea of Tranquility by Katja Millay The Skinny: Former piano prodigy Nastya Kashnikov wants two things: to get through high school without anyone learning about her past and to make the boy who took everything from her—her identity, her spirit, her will to live—pay. Josh Bennett’s story is no secret: every person he loves has…

Where exactly do all these cities exist and can I visit them?

City of Lost Souls by Cassandra Clare The Skinny: This one is way too complicated to summarize, so here is my bullet-point summary: Jace and Sebastian are bonded together - if one dies, the other dies Clary and the Gang want to find Jace, but have to go behind the Clave's back to do so…