Young Adult | ReadSusanBerry

Posts from the ‘Young Adult’ category

For 15 years old, Madness is an impressive first older young adult novel that has fantasy, paranormal and horror aspects set in a dystopian game setting. There is a plot that keeps moving with enough light (or slow) moments for the reader to catch their…

Madness by Paityn Parque

October 13, 2021

Comment

Creepy and forbidding, that is what Hud and Bek faces during a run for their lives. It you want a short story, try Andrew C. Jaxon’s The Dark Unseen. At 78 pages, it is a short gripping young adult read that is a blend of horror…

Review of Andrew C. Jaxson’s Prequel The Dark Unseen

July 6, 2019

The Queen’s Daughter is the first book that I have read about Joan, the daughter of King Henry II and Queen Eleanor of the Aquitaine. It is the world where England, France and Toulouse battle each other for lands that are taken and retaken from…

The Queen’s Daughter by Susan Coventry: A Review

August 21, 2016

Comment

Set in St Louis and London, Far From Home is a short Christian fantasy work (96 pages on Kindle) that has the feel of a post-apocalyptic world with one religion. If you are told about the faith, you must either accept or essentially be terminated,…

Warrior Christians: Review of John C. Dalglish’s Far From Home

April 22, 2016

Comment

For Tolkien fans, and readers of fantasy fiction, Gateway to Fourline is one to pick up. It is not a book of magic in the usual sense. The magic is very light consisting of dream scenes, sudden appearances of creatures and humans, and soulful orbs.…

Tolkien + Tudor England: A Review of Gateway to Fourline by Pam Bronson

March 29, 2016

Try Not to Breathe is creepy in a realistic way. Although the story line concerns events in the past for Amy, the victim beaten and left to die, it is a crime that occurs all too often. Seddon to this reader shows why it…

Shouting From The Inside: A Review of Holly Seddon’s Try Not to Breathe

February 24, 2016

January 27, 2016 1 New Book For Your TBR Roshani Chokshi’s Young Adult Fantasy-Paranormal The Star-Touched Queen: An East India fantasy tale of a father-ruler’s arranged marriage’s plans for his daughter gone amuck and the daughter’s fight for love, survival and her kingdom. Expected publication: May 3, 2016. Find…

Waiting on Wednesday

January 27, 2016

WWII has fueled many books. Some would say that the WWII has consumed them by fire and in a way it did. For some the consummation was not total; for those lucky souls, they were able to move on, not forget about the war, Hitler,…

Twin Lives: A Review of Irma Joubert’s The Girl From The Train

December 23, 2015

Comment

Alex Fayman’s Superhighway is a speculative fiction novel that is a mix of techno, science fiction, dystopian, and thriller elements. Superhighway is a good first start for Alex Fayman. His idea, the transporting of humans through the Internet via network fibers is not unlike the “Beam Me…

Coming Via The Network: Review of Alex Fayman’s Superhighway

November 25, 2015

Although there are those who disagree that John Connolly’s The Book of Lost Things is a YA book, to this reader it was. Ever since reading the Harry Potter series, I have loved the magical world of fantasy. Most of the books in…

Another World: Review of John Connolly’s The Book of Lost Things

November 19, 2015