Today we are thrilled to host a stop on Phoebe North’s blog tour celebrating the release of Starbreak, the second book in her Starglass sequence. Thea was a fan of Starglass, the eponymous first book in the series, so…
Old School Wednesdays is a weekly Book Smuggler feature. We came up with the idea towards the end of 2012, when both Ana and Thea were feeling exhausted from the never-ending inundation of New and Shiny (and often over-hyped)…
Title: Complicit Author: Stephanie Kuehn Genre: Thriller, Young Adult Publisher: St. Martin’s Griffin Publication Date: June 24 2014 Hardcover: 256 Pages Two years ago, sixteen-year-old Jamie Henry breathed a sigh of relief when a judge sentenced his older sister…
Hello everybody! It is almost July, which means it is that time of year again: time for us to look back at our reviews and list our favourite books of 2014 so far. Without further ado, we present you…
Hello everyone, and Happy Sunday! We interrupt today’s World Cup viewings to bring you a look at this upcoming week. This Week on The Book Smugglers: On Monday, we kick things off with a retrospective look at our year…
“On The Smugglers’ Radar” is a feature for books that have caught our eye: books we have heard of via other bloggers, directly from publishers, and/or from our regular incursions into the Amazon jungle. Thus, the Smugglers’ Radar was…
It’s Friday which means that we are over at Kirkus! Today, Ana takes a look at The Dogsland Trilogy by J.M. McDermott, following the release of the last book, We Leave Together. Check out our previous reviews of books…
Title: Minion Author: John David Anderson Genre: Superheroes, Speculative Fiction, Middle Grade/Young Adult Publisher: Walden Pond Press Publication Date: June 2014 Hardcover: 288 Pages John David Anderson returns to the world he created in Sidekicked with an entirely new…
Old School Wednesdays Readalong: So You Want to Be A Wizard by Diane Duane
Old School Wednesdays is a weekly Book Smuggler feature. We came up with the idea towards the end of 2012, when both Ana and Thea were feeling exhausted from the never-ending inundation of New and Shiny (and often over-hyped)…
The results for our July Old School Wednesdays Readalong are in! After 115 votes, the book we will be reading is: Anna is more than shy. She is nearly invisible. At seven, terrified of school, Anna retreats within the…


















