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New Young Adult Releases! (September 19th, 2023)

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Have I missed any new Young Adult releases? Have you added any of these books to your TBR? Let me know!

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New Standalones/First in a Series:

Nightbreaker by Coco Ma

When A Brown Girl Flees by Aamna Qureshi

How to Find A Missing Girl by Victoria Wlosok

A Prayer for Vengeance by Leanne Schwartz

The Forest Grimm by Kathryn Purdie

Of Dreams & Destiny by Sandhya Menon

All the Fighting Parts by Hannah V. Sawyerr

A Study in Drowning by Ava Reid

Champion of Fate by Kendare Blake

The Society for Soulless Girls by Laura Steven

The Only Girl in Town by Ally Condie

The Collectors by Various

Running Past Dark by Han Nolan

Archives of Despair by Caleb Finn

New Sequels:

Shadow Coven (The Witchery #2) by S. Isabelle

A Crown So Cursed (The Nightmare-Verse #3) by L.L. McKinney

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    Blurb: Fifteen years ago, The Vanishing thrust Manhattan into darkness, forever changing the City That Never Sleeps. Aboveground, resilient New Yorkers have adapted by clinging to the vestiges of their cosmopolitan lives. Below the streets–well, you never go underground unless you have a death wish. Or unless you’re Rei Reynolds. By day, Rei attends the an elite New York prep school, but by…

Wow I haven’t updated in a while sorry for anyone keeping up with this 😂 

I finished Shadow Frost and I really enjoyed it! Coco Ma was only 15 when she first wrote this book and the writing is incredible for someone so young. I will say that there were a few moments when it was evident a teenager was writing it - and that’s not a bad thing! But like for example, when a couple first kissed in the book, one of the people whooped and punched their hands in the air and yelled “finally!” I think it was supposed to come off as cute and endearing but it made me LOL and cringe a bit. But anyway I am excited to continue the series and see how Coco Ma grows as a writer! 

I also read Daughter of the Pirate King by Tricia Levenseller and I really enjoyed it! A lot of the plot felt a bit obvious until the last few chapters when it threw a curveball and I wasn’t sure how it would end. But I’m now reading the second book in the duology, Daughter of the Siren Queen, and I’m a few chapters in and liking it. A simple enemies-to-lovers pirate ya fantasy that I am really enjoying!