“I’ve loaded plenty of guns in video games, but there you just have to walk over the bullets.” This quote from J. Scott Boyd’s young adult mystery/thriller, Black Forest, if properly attended to, will tell you everything you need to know about this perfectly tuned,...

The discovery of two young girls' bodies triggers an unprecedented phenomenon in the brilliant young adult mystery, Some Laneys Died (A Skipping Sideways Thriller) by Brooke Skipstone. When Delaney West was thirteen, she found her father in the arms of another woman. Laney tells her...

Love on the Run by J. P. Castle is the first book in the teen and young adult dystopian series, 18 from Breckenridge. The story begins in the year 2085 with the violent and sudden arrival of the military in the otherwise peaceful and secluded...

The Soul Collector is a work of fiction in the paranormal genre that is aimed at young adult audiences and was written by author Laura Daleo. The novel explores the world of the Soul Collector, the queen of a dark kingdom somewhere between the living...

One Grey Night It Happened, penned by author Michael Fields, is a work of fiction in the thriller genre aimed at young adults. Containing some mature language and sexual situations that would suit older teen readers, the book follows the friendship between protagonists Jeremiah Willis,...

The Ascender by Tracey L. Pacelli is a work of science fiction based on The Mandela Effect and other cool fantasy stuff from the future. This book will appeal to young readers who ponder the ‘what if’ questions related to science, technology, aliens, and more....

Two teenage boys fight to stay alive in the scintillating suspense novella, The Mill Trap by P.D. Platt. The mill that supported a large community has closed and the town is dying out. Fortunately, the Olympic size swimming pool is still available to the residents...

M.D. Allen continues the tale of a group of teenagers who were transferred to the Inner Realm on their sixteenth birthday. The Door is the second book in the Matilda Seer series, adding more intensity and force to the first book, Matilda Seer. Ethan and...

An Object of Desire by Jenny Twist starts with two girls, Hannah and Rea, on holiday in Tangiers. They are enjoying themselves until they notice two menacing characters following them. Everywhere the girls go, there they are. Despite feeling fear behind their backs all the...

Two boys and a young woman are being chased by government agents in the riveting adventure novel, Hollis Whittaker by CB Shanahan. Hollis is an ordinary ten-year-old. He likes to read comics, ride his bike, and play in the woods near his home. One day,...