Young Adult

Young adult literature is anything that readers from the age of 12 -18 choose to read, not necessarily something they have been assigned to read.
Characteristics of Young Adult Literature: YA authors write from the viewpoint of young people. “I want the credit.” In many YA novels the parents or other authority figures are absent. The characters are forced to confront their problems on their own. The literature is fast-paced, the stories told as a frantic pace with emphasis on powerful images. YA literature involves a variety of genres and subjects, with about half being contemporary realistic fiction. It includes stories about characters from many different ethnic and cultural groups. The characters are no longer all white, middle class characters. There are fewer taboos about what can be included. YA books are basically optimistic with characters making worthy accomplishments. The characters are faced with challenges, which earn the reader’s respect, even if they don’t succeed. The characters show change and growth. Successful young adult novels deal with emotions that are important to young people.

23 Sep

Blog Tour and Excerpt: The Death Bringer by J. Scott Coatsworth

Sci-fi/Fantasy

OUT NOW!!! Aik will never be the same … and neither will his world.

20 Oct

Release Day Review and Excerpt: On Thin Ice by RJ Scott and V.L. Locey

GLBTQ Romance

5 STARS!!! Sorry can be a difficult word to believe, but trusting your heart is everything.

29 May

Pre-release Review and Excerpt: Off the Ice by RJ Scott and V.L. Locey

GLBTQ Romance

5 STARS!!! A coming-of-age love story with high school, hockey rivalry, friendship, family, and coming out.

15 Sep

Release Blitz, Review and Excerpt: Raven’s Call by Jaxon Altieri

GLBTQ Romance

4 STARS! Ren finds more to life in the city that never sleeps than working at his uncle’s Shinto temple. And one of those things is trouble.

17 Jul

Release Blitz, Excerpt and Giveaway: Netminder by Jeff Adams

Giveaway

OUT NOW!! After a summer that was nothing like he’d planned, teenage secret agent Theo Reese is back to school and to work with Tactical Operational Support’s IT department. His world turns upside down arriving home from hockey practice to a major security breach.

21 Jun

Release Blitz, Excerpt and Giveaway: Schooled by Jeff Adams

Action & Adventure

OUT NOW!! Secret agent and teenage computer genius Theo Reese lives in two separate worlds—and they’re about to collide.

16 Jun

Book Blast and Excerpt: Tracker Hacker by Jeff Adams

Romance

OUT NOW!! Can Theo get the job done, save his dad, and make things good with his boyfriend?

20 May

Blog Tour, Review, Excerpt and Giveaway: Burn That Bridge by J.R. Gray

Giveaway

4 STARS!! Coming out as trans in rural Alabama, where football rules and cheer is life, might have been the worst way to start my senior year.

30 Apr

Release Blitz, Excerpt and Giveaway: Burn That Bridge by J.R. Gray

Giveaway

OUT NOW!! Coming out as trans in rural Alabama, where football rules and cheer is life, might have been the worst way to start my senior year.

04 Apr

Book Blast and Excerpt: Young King Arthur and the Round Table Knights by Siryn Sueng

Fantasy

BOOK BLAST Book Title: Young King Arthur and the Round Table Knights Author: Siryn Sueng …

5.0
13 Nov

Review: InVision by Sherrilyn Kenyon

C L F Fantasy

Think you have a lot of pressure on your shoulders? Nick Gautier was born to bring about the end of the world . . . it’s not easy being the heir of a demon overlord.

29 Jan

Blog Tour: Crossroads by Mary Ting

Paranormal Romance

Award winning author, Mary Ting’s Crossroads Saga gets a facelift. Take a trip into the realm of angels and demons.

3.0
11 Jan

Review: Muirwood: The Lost Abbey, a graphic novel by Jeff Wheeler et al.

Fantasy

Maia, the daughter of the king of Comoros, has been banished, her rank and station taken away. Although magic is forbidden of women in her world, Maia secretly learned…and now her desperate father has sent her on a dangerous quest to save their kingdom. ~ Told in stunning graphics.

4.0
31 Oct

Review: Initiation by Rebecca Royce

Apocalyptic and Post-apocalyptic

Follow sixteen-year-old Rachel Clancy as she fights vampires, werewolves in Rebecca Royce’s YA Paranormal/Dystopian/Fantasy chock full of action, danger, and suspense.

5.0
23 Oct

Review: Voyage of the Defiance by S. E. Smith

Action & Adventure

When an act of defiance serves up a dish of life lessons that are almost fatal. Ms. Smith has a real winner here!