Buzz Worthy News: April 24, 2017
Welcome to Buzz Worthy News where the stories are awesome (or at least fun to read). Need your book industry news? Never fear, Kate Copeseeley is here to give it to you straight. In this week’s Buzz Worthy News: #CloakandDagger Trailer, Cast Rumors for Aladdin, and... Keep Reading »
Hot New Titles: July 14th 2015
Welcome to Hot New Titles the feature that supports the decision to buy ALL THE BOOKS listed. Weeeeeeeee! New releases include About a Girl by Sarah McCarry, The Blind Wish by Amber Lough and Deceptive by Emily Lloyd-Jones. Cover reveals include Glass Sword by... Keep Reading »
How to Make Your Own Fantasy Map
What I see a lot of from avid readers is an intense love of maps in fantasy books. They seem to collect them and talk about them and compare them. Which, to me, is like collecting, talking and comparing bits of chewing gum wrappers. I may occasionally feign interest in a... Keep Reading »
Buzz Worthy News: Messy Book Adaptions 25/04/2014
This week covers Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s passing, more YA movie news, John Green makes Time magazine’s 100 most influential people list (it’s totally just part of his world domination strategy that appears to be working quite well in his favor), Book Con releases its list of author guests — spoiler: there are more cats invited than POC, way to go for diversity!, and Game of Thrones is rapey, but what else is new? All this and more!
Hot New Titles: April 20th 2014
Welcome to Hot New Titles! New releases like The Forever Song, Don’t Look Back and To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before. Hot New Titles is also now covering Book Deals for hot titles to put on your radar. We’re most excited for Tonight the Streets Are Ours by Leila Sales, Shut-In by Marisa Reichardt and Blackhearts by Nicole Castroman. Cover reveals include The Darkest Part of the Forest by Holly Black, Talon by Julie Kagawa, and the Australian cover for Clariel by Garth Nix. Badass.
Hot New Titles: April 13th 2014
Welcome to Hot New Titles! New releases like Dreams of Gods and Monsters, Plus One and Far From You. Cover reveals include the redesigns for Brandon Sanderson’s Mistborn, The Well of Ascension, and The Hero of Ages publishing under Tor Teen; the gorgeous cover of debut author Fonda Lee’s Zeroboxer; and the Australian redesigns for Sabriel, Lirael, and Abhorsen by Garth Nix. They are stunning and, of course, our fav of the week!
Buzz Worthy News In Which Ebooks Are Dying 04/04/2014
Welcome back to Buzz Worthy News where the stories are awesome and not at all well-written. Need your YA industry news? Never fear, Kat and Kate are here to give it all to you. Just, ya know, not in any kinda sophisticated sense or nothing. Basically: Your first look at If I Stay, Percy Jackson movies are DOA, and the April Fools Pranks just kept coming. All this and more is happening in this week’s Buzz Worthy News.
Buzz Worthy News is Cuddlebuggery’s weekly news post bringing you all the best information about the book and blogging world, particularly for the venn diagram of people who overlap between the two. For new releases and cover reveals of all the best Young Adult fiction, check out our Sunday post: Hot New Titles.
Review: Dreams of Gods and Monsters by Laini Taylor
So, though I picked this poor novel apart, I applaud Taylor for ending it all as she did. It works. It works well. She made some interesting (some may say poor, some may not) decisions, yes, but she was kind enough to bid adieu in a manner that was both expected and unexpected, bright and dark, perfect and problematic.
