Title: Skylark Author: Meagan Spooner Genre: Fantasy, Dystopia/Post-Apocalypse, Speculative Fiction, Young Adult Publisher: Carolrhoda Lab Publication Date: August 2012 Hardcover: 344 Pages Sixteen year-old Lark Ainsley has never seen the sky. Her world ends at the edge of the…
Title: The Forsaken Author: Lisa M. Stasse Genre: Dystopia, Speculative Fiction, Young Adult Publisher: Simon & Schuster Publication Date: July 2012 Hardcover: 375 Pages A thought-provoking and exciting start to a riveting new dystopian trilogy. As an obedient orphan…
Title: Monument 14 Author: Emmy Laybourne Genre: Apocalypse, Speculative Fiction, Young Adult Publisher: Feiwel & Friends Publication Date: June 2012 Paperback: 294 Pages Your mother hollers that you’re going to miss the bus. She can see it coming down…
Title: The Age of Miracles Author: Karen Thompson Walker Genre: Speculative Fiction, Literary Fiction Publisher: Random House (US) / Simon & Schuster (UK) Publication Date: June 2012 (US & UK) Hardcover: 288 Pages (US) With a voice as distinctive…
“Inspirations and Influences” is a series of articles in which we invite authors to write guest posts talking about their…well, Inspirations and Influences. The cool thing is that the writers are given free rein so they can go wild…
Title: Dead Reckoning Author: Mercedes Lackey, Rosemary Edghill & Jane Hodson Genre: Western, Horror, Zombies, Speculative Fiction, Young Adult Publisher: Bloomsbury USA Publication Date: June 2012 Hardcover: 336 Pages Jett is a girl disguised as a boy, living as…
What’s that, a post from us at Kirkus on a Friday?!? In our mad scramble to prepare ALL THE THINGS for BEA (how the heck is it BEA time already?!), we have been laboring over schedules, author signing locations,…
Title: After the Fall, Before the Fall, During the Fall Author: Nancy Kress Genre: Pre/Post/Apocalyptic, Speculative Fiction, Science Fiction Publisher: Tachyon Publications Publication Date: April 2012 Paperback: 192 Pages The year is 2035. After ecological disasters nearly destroyed the…
Title: Struck Author: Jennifer Bosworth Genre: Science Fiction, Young Adult Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux BYR Publication date: May 8 2012 Hardcover: 373 pages Mia Price is a lightning addict. She’s survived countless strikes, but her craving to connect…
Yay! This is very cool: our first post for Kirkus is up and running! It’s a review of Railsea the new YA novel by award-winning author China Miéville: A snippet from the review: When invited to go on a…
