Young Adult

Picture a wagon rolling to a halt at the edge of a churning wall of darkness, the air gone cold and wrong, something vast breathing on the other side. Here’s my honest, spoiler-free take on the Shadow and Bone audiobook.…

The reed staff cracks against Zélie’s ribs before she can raise her guard, and Mama Agba’s voice cuts louder than the blow: fight like your life depends on it, because in Orïsha it does. This is the Children of Blood…

Some books wreck you gently, and this is one of them. Settle in for my take on the They Both Die at the End audiobook. I pressed play on They Both Die at the End expecting a quick, tidy listen…

Hidden passages click open behind the bookcases, riddles are carved into the paneling, and somewhere in the sprawling Hawthorne mansion a dead billionaire has left his fortune to a girl who never once heard his name. A few spoiler-free thoughts…

Few coming-of-age novels have earned the cult devotion that John Green’s Looking for Alaska carries, the kind of book people quote from memory and press into a friend’s hands years after they first read it. Settle in for my take…

If Six of Crows left you pacing the kitchen at 2 a.m., Crooked Kingdom is the audiobook you queue up before you’ve even taken your earbuds out. I’ve spent real hours with the Crooked Kingdom audiobook, so here is the…

Some mysteries you read; this one you overhear. Let me walk you through the A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder audiobook. From the first recorded interview, the A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder audiobook pulls you into a small-town case…

Six teenage crooks, one break-in everyone says can’t be done, and a payout big enough to rewrite all of their futures — if any of them live long enough to collect. A few spoiler-free thoughts on the Six of Crows…