What YA book are you reading RIGHT NOW?

For an interesting comparison to I HUNT KILLERS, I read COUNTERFEIT SON by Elaine Marie Alphin. Both have MMCs who are sons of serial killers, and both were handled so differently - in CS, Cameron is only fourteen, and he impersonates one of his father's victims because the family have sail boats and he just wants to sail, and be safe. The characters of Jazz (IHK) and Cameron are so different, and my heart just broke for all Cameron went through, and the ending. THE ENDING. This is an old one (2000, but read more like the '80s) but so good.
Definitely read it if you've just read I HUNT KILLERS!

Now onto THE RAVEN BOYS by Maggie Stiefvater, because I found it in WHSmith totally unexpectedly (I assumed us Brits would have to wait at least a year) and put it right at the top of my TBR pile

SKINNY by Donna Cooner

Finished Bewitching. It was just as good as Beastly. I'll admit that I didn't connect to the characters on quite the same level (which is odd, because the MC reminded me a lot of myself) but I loved getting to know the witch better and read from her POV occasionally. Oh, it was also nice that the MC didn't end up with the guy she spent most of the book interested in/dating. Nice change of pace there.

I just read the first chapter of Long Lankin by Lindsey Barraclough. Not sure how I feel about it yet, but it was only one chapter.

I'm reading Such a Rush by Jennifer Echols. Love it. Damn, that woman can do sexual tension.

I'm behind the times, but I'm currently reading Insurgent. It's fairly good, but it isn't blowing me away (though I like it better than the first book).

rynthewin said:

I'm behind the times, but I'm currently reading Insurgent. It's fairly good, but it isn't blowing me away (though I like it better than the first book).

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You're ahead of me. I still haven't picked up Divergent.

Reading ADAPTATION. I loved the first part, but then it suddenly switched into an understated sort of contemporary romance... waiting to see what will come next, because the beginning was wow.

I'm reading Stealing Parker by Miranda Kenneally. It released today. Loving it. (-:

4 of my library holds came in at once and now I'm trying to choose between:
-The Diviners
-The Raven Boys
-The Unnaturalists
-Touched

Any recommendations?

Finishing up The Girl of Fire and Thorns. Interesting how it's like almost a crusade against the Rule of Cool trope.

JustJess said:

4 of my library holds came in at once and now I'm trying to choose between:
-The Diviners
-The Raven Boys
-The Unnaturalists
-Touched

Any recommendations?

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I haven't read the other three, but The Raven Boys was interesting and unusual. It's not precisely magical realism but in the vein of it.

Reading POISON PRINCESS.
I was completely taken by the logline/teaser thing for it, but the book itself seems to go in a pretty different direction. The teaser says: 22 Arcana cards. 22 young assassins. May the best hand live. So I expected a Highlander/Battle Royale/Hunger Games type of plot.

I ended up LOVING The Raven Boys.

Now reading Crown of Embers and loving this too.

Read INSIGNIA by S J Kincaid. Loved it! I don't write a lot of reviews about books on my blog, but I'll write one about this book (might take me a week or so, though). I highly recommend this book to people who like science fiction/war games style stuff. quan ao thoi trang do lot nu hang hieu bao tay cho be thoi trang cong so thoi trang cong so trang phuc co trang

Currently reading: ASHFALL by Mike Mullin. >> WOW. I thought I was done w/YA Dystopia and then I cracked open this. One of the most realistic dystopians I've read (like plausibility wise).

Just got out of the library: our very own Bethany Griffin's MASQUE of the RED DEATH.

I just started reading Throne of Glass. Liking it so far!

LadyA said:

For an interesting comparison to I HUNT KILLERS, I read COUNTERFEIT SON by Elaine Marie Alphin. Both have MMCs who are sons of serial killers, and both were handled so differently - in CS, Cameron is only fourteen, and he impersonates one of his father's victims because the family have sail boats and he just wants to sail, and be safe. The characters of Jazz (IHK) and Cameron are so different, and my heart just broke for all Cameron went through, and the ending. THE ENDING. This is an old one (2000, but read more like the '80s) but so good.
Definitely read it if you've just read I HUNT KILLERS!

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Took this advice last night and read COUNTERFEIT SON (I was looking for a short read to be able to finish in one night, and it was perfect). It was very different from my usual fare, but still engaging. Quite sad, though. I was thankful it ended as it did.

Next up, I have THE DIVINERS (by Libba Bray), which I originally bought to read last night then realized how long it was. I've spoiled myself recently with books I can read in one sitting (and discovered I rather like this). But that one would be a heck of a long sitting to finish.

Ellielle said:

Took this advice last night and read COUNTERFEIT SON (I was looking for a short read to be able to finish in one night, and it was perfect). It was very different from my usual fare, but still engaging. Quite sad, though. I was thankful it ended as it did.

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COUNTERFEIT SON was great, and a really interesting contrast to I HUNT KILLERS. I really liked Cameron and felt so SO sorry for him all the way through. I think I would've liked the ending even more, and been drawn into Cameron's struggle more, if I'd hadn't sort of guessed the BIG THING at the end fromn a review I read . But it was done well, and I'm so pleased someone tried one of my morbid, dark book recommendations

Just finished a bit of Brit lit - SILENCED by Simon Packham. The concept of a mute MC was really interesting to read, and Packham absolutely nailed the voice - it read just like a sixteen year old boy, you could almost hear him in your head. And the characters - even the minor characters - were very well-drawn and three dimensional (except for perhaps Will).
Only disappointment was the way the whole novel was leading up to why the MC felt so crazily guilty about his best friend's death - I was expecting a bit more of a WOW revelation. Also the MC says early on about how he did some really regrettable, criminal things with Will, and they were pretty tame

Now onto AU REVOIR, CRAZY EUROPEAN CHICK by Joe Schreiber.

Chanelley said:

I ended up LOVING The Raven Boys.

Now reading Crown of Embers and loving this too.

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I started reading TRB, but have temporarily given up - I really wanted to love it, but although MS is still amazing with setting and characterisation, the whole thing with the ley lines and dead Welsh kings is a bit tedious for me (hey, what can I say, I'm a contemporary YA kinda girl!).

I'm at the bit where the three raven boys get their fortunes told, but after that - does it get better?

Amy I felt like TRB was complete set up for Book 2. People will obviously disagree with me and lol I'm sure they have as it's a NYTbestseller, but I just liked it didn't love it. Basically I need Book 2 to get into Book 1.

Finally finished Long Lankin a moment ago. It wasn't bad, but it was pretty tedious to read. I got really fed up early on with all the slang. Yes, the author is British so I'm sure it was all accurate, but there was so much of it, the same words over and over.

Next up is Sweetly by Jackson Pearce.

I'm reading Throne of Glass and totally loving it. Definitely getting passed along to my brother and my boyfriend when I'm finished.

Up next is either:
-- Defiance
-- Dearly, Beloved
-- Alice in Zombieland

Thoughts?

KTC said:

I'm reading Stealing Parker by Miranda Kenneally. It released today. Loving it. (-:

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Different strokes. I had to put this down after two chapters. To be fair, it was a longshot because it features two of my least favorite topics: baseball and religion. Still, the writing didn't do it for me. Some of the pop culture references were laughably dated, too.

Working through WHERE THINGS COME BACK, but also re-reading HOW TO SAY GOODBYE IN ROBOT by Natalie Standiford, which is one of my favorites. (It holds up well.)

Smiley0501 said:

Amy I felt like TRB was complete set up for Book 2. People will obviously disagree with me and lol I'm sure they have as it's a NYTbestseller, but I just liked it didn't love it. Basically I need Book 2 to get into Book 1.

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I hoped it would have an ending. I mean, it has such a slow build-up--we deserve some pay-off. xd
Still, I like it. There's something about it... tangible. Like you are right there with them.
It's interesting that it's a NYTbestseller--I wouldn't have thought so, because it struck me as very "indie". Not to everyone's taste.

Just finished with Sweetly. It was okay, I guess. I kind of feel like Pearce needs to move beyond the werewolves (werewolves, in a Hansel & Gretel retelling? what?) so I'm hoping there's no trace of them in her third fairy tale book, Fathomless, whenever I pick that up.

For right now I'm moving on to something called Above, by Leah Bobet. Never heard of it before I found it on the library shelf, but it sounds interesting enough.