Category Archives: YA Fiction

Congrats, Mats & Sara!

Many of you know that I am a huge fan of Sara Elfgren and Mats Strandberg’s Engelsfors series that started with Cirkeln. Well, 30,000 youth voted and their choice was clear: Eld is was voted the best YA book of … Continue reading

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Review: Gayle Forman’s Just One Day

I was in the mood for a romantic book that wasn’t a romance. At first, I thought I wanted some chick lit or women’s fiction but then I stumbled upon Gayle Forman’s Just One Day and it struck a nostalgic … Continue reading

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Hating Heidi Foster Is Heartbreakingly Compelling…

Sometimes you read a book that stays with you for a long while. You think about the characters and their fates, what they’ve learned through the course of their emotional journey. Hating Heidi Foster by Jeffrey Blount is one such … Continue reading

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Getting to know Jeffrey Blount

On this cold, snowy day in Stockholm, when the streets are slick with ice and you just want to curl up with a good book, it seems fitting that you should meet the author of the beautifully-written Hating Heidi Foster, Jeffrey … Continue reading

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A new take on a fairy tale: Marissa Meyer’s Cinder is a page-turner

As much as I love stories about dystopian societies, it’s not very often that I read them. Then I saw the cover for Cinder and I was intrigued. I asked around and then one of the staff at Science Fiction … Continue reading

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And the winners of the The Circle Giveaway are…. …Helen Greenwood and Melissa Saenz! There were a total of 20 entries for the giveaway and their entries had the coolest, creepiest stories. Congratulations, ladies! Your copies of the Circle will … Continue reading

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Something wicked this way comes…

So you know how I love Cirkeln by Sara Elfgren and Mats Strandberg…and how excited I was when it  came out in English? Well, now I can share The Circle (Cirkeln‘s title in Englsih) with you. Mats and Sara have kindly given me two copies … Continue reading

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