Time Warped by Micky O'Brady is a Young Adult science fiction novel with a powerful story and an equally incredible protagonist. Set 200 years in the future, our protagonist Nonie is a 17-year-old prodigy. However, that is not enough to validate her promotion to Lieutenant...

The Souvenir Game is a young adult coming-of-age thriller written by Christopher Renna. Sixteen-year-old Spencer Newhouse spends his time hanging out with the Wyatt Five, a group of five upper-class and somewhat privileged kids who are inseparable from each other. While playing the Souvenir Game,...

The Undiscovered Descendants is the first book of the Nordri Series by Jo Visuri. Auor Island is somewhat isolated from the mainland, but it has always been Elin's home. With her closest friends going off to school on the mainland this year, Elin is starting...

The Judgement of Samuel Ashon by Jesse Gehring is a chilling thriller. Samuel Ashon, 17 years old, has just won a holiday by email. He isn’t sure about it but accepts and is sent five tickets. He opts to take his mother, who lives to...

The Coffin: The Scarry Inn Book 2 by Shirley McCann takes place in Arizona in the town of Frighton. Clare and her friends, Lise and Kelly, are gifted a weekend getaway at The Scarry Inn courtesy of Clare’s aunt Rita. The Scarry Inn is having...

The Omicron Six by Endy Wright is a beautiful meld of science fiction and coming of age, and a story that has strong lessons on personal transformation through deep human connections. The story follows two compelling characters, Cooper Callister and Coupe Daschelete, both gifted yet...

The Girls in the Shattered World by Ben Patchett is a futuristic novel, a coming of age in a turbulent time in 2032. It has been five years since Alex’s father argued that Canada was a country of peace and won’t succumb to the broken...

The Con Woman by A. J. A. Gardiner is an amazing novel. I don’t remember the last time I enjoyed an adventure story this much, except perhaps Donald Westlake’s last novel. This novel is about the adventures of a brother-sister duo, Dawn and Roger, hatching...

Windsong is a work of fiction in the adventure genre and is the sixth installment in the Talon series of books. It is aimed at young adult readers and was penned by Gigi Sedlmayer. The book continues the adventures of Matica and her companion Talon...

Beautiful young people are often the stuff of young adult fiction, and that typical girl meets boy trope doesn’t seem to grow old. Perhaps it all depends on the author’s creativity and imagination in executing the plot. In Time to Wake by K. Thomas, Senlis,...