young adult – Aryssa Reads

You Say It First

A little more “substance” than a lot of YA romantic contemporary, but you’ve still got that teen angst and emotion to get you through

I could FEEL so much of her personality and heart in this book, and it was the perfect low-stakes teen contemporary I needed this week.

There are few things I like more than a boarding school book, and a boarding school book with an under-pining of toxic pandemics? Oooh, right?

A super queer, very bloody short story collection about vampires

I LOVED Good Girl’s Guide to Murder when I finally picked it up

Ava, CJ, Jordan, and Martha have been best friends since they were five years old–one of them will be President of the United States.

I was sold the second I heard about Yes No Maybe So

I, in theory, love a good short story collection

A Star is Born gets a country-teen crossover in You’d Be Mine by Erin Hahn

In an attempt to be a better librarian one day, I’ve tried to step outside my reading comfort zone in 2019

YA fiction that packs a real punch? Yes please

Beloved YA author Ally Condie is back with a new book, the Last Voyage of the Poe Blythe, and I can’t wait to dive into it.