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[Isamlq]

So if you liked the dark, twisty world of , go for . It's got a dark world and some twisted people who blur the lines between good and bad... I loved it. steampunk+dystop+romance but with dark/gothick-y feel to it.

[Stacia (the 2010 club), groupaholic, YA-MA founder]

I'll try them when I can get my hands on them!

[[deleted user]]

is not out here yet...Im dying to get my hands on it

[Joan (official heroine hater)]

Melanie wrote: " is not out here yet...Im dying to get my hands on it"

Yes, that one has been on my highly anticipated list. Good to know it might live up to my expectations. Will be buying it now when it comes out, not waiting for the library.

[Carina]

Looking forward to both books!

[Catherine]

I'll be teaching a unit on Mystery Novels to 8th graders soon and I'm looking for some really good, appropriate mysteries. I'm looking for books that have some action in them and are engaging for both boys and girls. Thanks in advance for your help.

[Jenny]

You could use basically any Agatha Christie books or Sherlock Holmes stuff. Or Lois Duncan, though I think hers are more thriller than mystery.

Here are some more recent YA or YA-friendly mysteries:
- teenage Sherlock Holmes
- boy+girl POV, trying to solve murder of their friend
- psychic + murder mystery; reads more like contemporary than paranormal
- paranormal mystery
- adult book with young girl protagonist, ya-friendly
- boy's neighbor disappears, he follows clues to find her
- historical mystery
- part murder mystery, part psychological thriller

[Catherine]

Jenny wrote: "You could use basically any Agatha Christie books or Sherlock Holmes stuff. Or Lois Duncan, though I think hers are more thriller than mystery.

Here are some more re..."

Thank you for these suggestions! These are great.

[Carina]

We can always count on Jenny to save the day!

[Emily]

Catherine wrote: "I'll be teaching a unit on Mystery Novels to 8th graders soon and I'm looking for some really good, appropriate mysteries. I'm looking for books that have some action in them and are engaging for b..."

I think Carl Hiaasen's mysteries (the ones for kids, NOT his adult titles) are good. They generally have an environmental theme, too. Of the 2 I've read, is my favorite. He also has a new one for teens, .

I'm a big fan of Aly Carter and I enjoy her Heist Society mysteries. Of the band of about 6 teens, 2 are girls, but your boys may find them too girly. And the covers are a little girly.

Another one I read recently was . It's a girl whose mother is missing and the girl is convinced she is not dead.

And Jenny mentioned these already, but I enjoyed the historical mystery series The Agency. .

[Ian]

Catherine wrote: "I'll be teaching a unit on Mystery Novels to 8th graders soon and I'm looking for some really good, appropriate mysteries. I'm looking for books that have some action in them and are engaging for b..."

Hi Catherine,
For something a little more offbeat -- I loved them in Grade 8 -- I'd suggest Gregory McDonald's "Fletch" series, about newspaper columnist and sleuth Irwin Fletcher.


Made a couple of pretty funny movies out of them too, but the books are (obviously) way better.

[Catherine]

You all are awesome! You've given me some wonderful ideas; thank you so much.

[Jenny]

I thought of a couple more that are recent releases. I haven't read these yet but they could be worth looking at:

[Stacia (the 2010 club), groupaholic, YA-MA founder]

Actually, nm. I don't think the book would work for younger than High School. Going to erase that.

[Carina]

I rarely mass recommend anything, but having JUST finished this, and comparing it to another that wasn't so good, I just have to.

For all those fans or not so fans of .. I recommend you read ..

Yes, somewhat predictable and not the most original idea, and yet I could not get enough. Heart wrenching and tear jerker.It was executed the way Secret Year shuld have been done, IMO.
I found my self on the brink of tears quite a few times, and my chest ached for a long portion of the book. GOOD book. Either that, or my hormones(which have been driving me nuts the past couple days) affected my view on it!

[Stacia (the 2010 club), groupaholic, YA-MA founder]

Gah. I hate that you hated Secret Year because I had purchased it at the Borders going out of business sale and keep telling myself that one day I'll get to it. Now, I'm not so sure...

[Carina]

I didn't hate Secret Year, though! It was good...more like ok.
Its just that I heard all these "AMAZING" things about it before I picked it up, and it did NOT live up to my expectations. I thought it was over hyped, but maybe I'm one of the exceptions. Who knows.

[Isamlq]

I cannot stop thinking about this. I hope you guys read it.

[Gwennie]

I'm definitely going to read it soon. I"m pretty excited for it.

[Katy]

Okay so I definitely need help as I have no idea what to read lately.

I'm looking for a good emotional contemporary YA. Maybe something not so popular?

Also, been looking for good UF/PNR Adult series to get into, that isn't totally focused on sex. I don't mind some sex scenes, I just don't want that to be all it's about :P

[Samantha]

I tried to compare our shelves a bit and here are some of my suggestions.

Emotional contemporary (I tried to pick a few different situations)- , ,

UF (PNR is a little more difficult to find, since most will focus on that aspect of the story) not entirely fixated on sexy times- , , , , ,

That's just a few. Some of the UF I recommended are the heavy hitters in the genre, but I didn't see them on your books read.

[Katy]

Thank you! I will look into those!! :)

I havent read much adult fiction since high school (oddly enough) and I wasn't really into UF back then. Honestly I mostly read Stephen King haha.

[Rae]

Bless this thread

[Isamlq]

Katy wrote: "Okay so I definitely need help as I have no idea what to read lately.

I'm looking for a good emotional contemporary YA. Maybe something not so popular?

Also, been looking for good UF/PNR Adult s..."

for YA


For UF
i second that nom on

[Samantha]

Oops, thanks, Isa! I hadn't realized I put the 5th in the series by accident. :S

And Katy you're very welcome!

[Isamlq]

Samantha wrote: "Oops, thanks, Isa! I hadn't realized I put the 5th in the series by accident. :S"

no biggie! imo the fifth was waaaay better than one. my persinal fave is 3 and 4

[Samantha]

Me, too. With 3 edging a little out on 4, oh the tension! ;)

[Hillary]

I agree fully with and Both series are good!

Also might like and . The Shifter series has a little more sex not a lot, but some.

As for YA contemp I compared our shelves...a few on your TBR a couple not:
You liked If I Stay...read from Adam's pov!
Just...so good.
There is just something about Ockler's books that I like but can't put my finger on.
And one that isn't so much emotional as..."What...you...haven't read this yet?!" :

[Katy]

thank you Isa and Hillary! I'm gonna have so much fun at the book store today!

and as for my friend told me about it like a year ago and I just haven't even thought of picking it up. but maybe now I will :)

[Stacia (the 2010 club), groupaholic, YA-MA founder]

Love Anna. It's a fun book.

[Jenny]

Katy wrote: "Okay so I definitely need help as I have no idea what to read lately.

I'm looking for a good emotional contemporary YA. Maybe something not so popular?

Also, been looking for good UF/PNR Adult s..."

A good emotional contemporary that isn't too popular and hasn't been mentioned yet is
.
Anything by John Green, Sarah Dessen, Sarah Ockler.
Also:

[N.B.]

I'm actually after some advice. Thanks to a programme that works with my computer speech software, I can now read ebooks (yay!) and I'm starting with the Iron Fey series by Julie Kagawa. I noticed that there are two novellas, and I was wondering if I need to read them or not? I've come across this sort of thing before where it's just a re-telling of an existing story from the point of view of another character or it's just a short story to fill in the time between books. Are these books esential to the series? Do they add anything or can the novels be read without them and still make sense?

[Hillary]

The novels make sense just fine not reading them. You arent missing vital bits if you ignore them.

[Rae]

Where do I find these novellas in the first place? My friend read the Iron Fey series and said she didn't even know they had them. Is it an internet exclusive thing? Even searching through GR to rate/add books I have in my possession already I was surprised at how many novellas or "Book 1.5" etc. there were that I had no idea about.

[Stacia (the 2010 club), groupaholic, YA-MA founder]

Some of the novellas are free if you check online, either at the author's website or on Amazon, B&N, etc. I seem to recall picking up one of the Iron Fey shorts a while back for no cost from B&N.

[Hillary]

They were free for a time, no longer so I believe. Some are part of anthologies originally and then released alone. Some are internet only from the author's website and some are released as ebooks only. The Iron Fey were ebook/audio download only releases I believe.

[Jenny]

I think the one from Puck's POV is still free.

Edit: yeah, Summer's Crossing is free until the end of THIS month. Winter's Passage is no longer free.

They're not imperative to the story. They're just fun little extras that take place between the books. Like, Winter's Passage is the story of Ash and Meghan's journey from one place at the end of book one to another place where book 2 begins.

[Isamlq]

so, you guys should try which has a similar feel to

stacia, your kid brother analogy on the currently reading thread for BTL 3 and that rock book applies here. Though the girl, she seema less kick ass than the one in Daughters, she really isn't... and the boy's story was similarly sad to the one in Daughter, for less romantic reasons though. But mainly, I'm crushing on the writing and the imagery: dark and creepy and different.

now im even more excited for

[Stacia (the 2010 club), groupaholic, YA-MA founder]

Sounds like my kind of book.

[Gwennie]

That's one I've been wanting to read.

[Hillary]

I've wanted to read that but have been hesitant because while, okay...didn't wow me. Now I will have to bump it up on the priority scale. :)

[Jenny]

Hillary wrote: "I've wanted to read that but have been hesitant because while, okay...didn't wow me. Now I will have to bump it up on the priority scale. :)"

Same. The only thing that I really liked about The Replacement was the mood. And her forthcoming one looks good.

[Stacia (the 2010 club), groupaholic, YA-MA founder]

That's why I didn't end up reading The Replacement. Everyone seemed meh on it.

[Gwennie]

Me too, I wanted to but the reviews were very lukewarm.

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[Isamlq]

So fans of STORYTELLER and FORBIDDEN. I'm hoping you guys read:




A narrator you can't quite trust in a story that's even more compelling.

[Stacia (the 2010 club), groupaholic, YA-MA founder]

You must really want me to read this one if I'm seeing it again.

I'll go grab my copy!

[Isamlq]

Stacia ~ mistress of mediocrity wrote: "You must really want me to read this one if I'm seeing it again.

I'll go grab my copy!"

oh yes! the topics touches on the taboo, but what she says on the acknowledgements rocked me (I'd quote it but it's too darned long!) The author is pretty good. (even her YA post apoc/survival ASHES was good, even with that being a bit split personality in focus) This one has a teacher/student thing in it.

[Stacia (the 2010 club), groupaholic, YA-MA founder]

I have a weird interest in student/teacher books, so now I'm even more curious.

[Isamlq]

Stacia ~ mistress of mediocrity wrote: "I have a weird interest in student/teacher books, so now I'm even more curious."

be curious! ;) i'm sending you a PM btw. :)