Literature

LITERATURE

Book 1 in this outstanding series introduces you to a mystical king lost in a magical slumber, a privileged group of boys at an elite prep school and a girl from a family of psychics.

The Dream Thieves, the second book in the series, takes a closer look at the character of Ronan Lynch and his supernatural ability to pull objects out of dreams.

In this third installment, the intrepid Blue Sargent searches for her missing mother and a mythical king in a series of underground caverns with a sociopathic killer on her heels.

It's a race to see if Blue and the Raven Boys can unlock the mysteries of the Raven King bofre the supernatural realm rips itself apart. The series conclusion is a bittersweet novel. But will it really be the last book?

My reviews of the definitive books about the making of the first two films. MORE.

A cleverly written young adult novel which, in my humble opinion, provides some good role models for gay youth.

Quentin's schoolmate has run away and his obsession with her is leading he and his friends down a very strange rabbit hole.

Role playing games and nerd culture are more popular than ever, but this is an uneven and unsatifying look at this trend.

From the mind of Neil Gaiman, an orphaned boy is raised in a rural English graveyard by a menagerie of ghosts and a loving vampire.

Optimistic, touching and authentic, Becky Abertalli's gay-themed novel gives hope about the often painful process of coming out.

This epic World War II novel is about two women whose friendship endures as they serve their country in different ways.

His brother has vanished without a trace, yet Cullen Witter's small town seems more concerned about spotting a rare bird.

An introverted teen begins to come out of his shell when he befriends a beautiful girl and her gregarious gay brother.

You may either love A Separate Peace by John Knowles, or find it highly overrated. Recently, I went back to the Devon School to see if I still found this coming-of-age tale as powerful as I recalled from my teen years.

Few may know that A Separate Peace was based on a short story called "Phineas." Here's how the story compares to the novel.

Peace Breaks Out was hailed as a sequel-of-sorts to A Separate Peace. In this novel, Pete Hallam returns to teach at the school he once attended and finds that the hatreds that engulfed a world in war can be found in the most unlikely places.

The brick and mortar book stores are a vanishing species. Some recollections about one of my favorites.

Here are some of the lessons I learned between publishing by first and second books.

Don't fret if you never get a NYT book review. What your readers are saying is ultimately more important.

In 1979, there was no way my mom was going to let me see ALIEN. Here's how I got around that...

Romantic triangles. Missing parents. Vampires, werewolves and the like. Sigh. Let's face it, books are big business and authors and publishers always have one eye on the bottom line. Once a trend hits, hundreds of books will follow suit, creating a vacuum of creativity. This blog discusses some of the latest trends that are making YA fiction unreadable. MORE.