YA Book Reviews

A few weeks back I posted an online book review of the fabulous WILLOW by Julia Hoban . I really enjoyed the book and Julia was kind enough to answer some questions about it for me. Interview with Julia Hoban CS: What inspired you to write WILLOW? JH: I wanted to write a book for all of us with self destructive urges, a book that would take one person from a place of self harm to a place of healing, and in doing so possibly make people question their own damaging behaviors. I chose to make Willow a cutter because it is a very ... Read Full Story

Just In Case by Meg Rosoff is about… a troubled teenager being pursued by the hand of fate My Book Review Rating: 3 stars - an interesting look into teenage life when you feel like everything is out to get you. I picked up Just in Case from the library a few months ago having heard good things about some of Rosoff’s other novels. The novel starts out in the bedroom of David Case; a teenage boy with a baby brother. A baby brother who decides that he wants to be a bird and stands a little too close to the window ledge. In ... Read Full Story

Willow by Julia Hoban is the story of Willow; a sixteen year old girl who tries to cope with the tragedy of a terrible accident which took the lives of her parents by secretly cutting herself. My book review rating : 5 stars - couldn’t put it down I was beginning to think I’d lost my reading mojo this year; after the vast number of books I got through in 2008 I’ve gotten off to a very slow start. But when I opened the package containing Willow by Julia Hoban, I took one look at the cover and new this book would reignite the ... Read Full Story

When Margo Roth Spiegelman beckons Quentin Jacobsen in the middle of the night—dressed like a ninja and plotting an ingenious campaign of revenge—he follows her. Margo’s always planned extravagantly, and, until now, she’s always planned solo. After a lifetime of loving Margo from afar, things are finally looking up for Q . . . until day breaks and she has vanished. Always an enigma, Margo has now become a mystery. But there are clues. And they’re for Q. *sighs* I don't know what to say about this book. It had some flaws, and it could have been a bit better, but that didn't stop ... Read Full Story

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