Hey YA Readers: Welcome to news o’clock!
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A new YA standalone novel about dark faeries for fans of Laini Taylor and Sarah J. Maas. Prince and his faerie courtiers are staggeringly beautiful, unrelentingly cruel, and exhausted by the tedium of the centuries—until they meet foster-siblings Josh and Ksenia. Drawn in by their vivid emotions, undying love for each other, and passion for life, Prince will stop at nothing to possess them. First seduced and then entrapped by the faeries, Josh and Ksenia learn that the faeries’ otherworldly gifts come at a terrible price—and they must risk everything to reclaim their freedom.
There’s so much great stuff going on. Let’s dive in!
- Get your free audiobooks all summer long. Audiobook Sync is a rad program where you can get free YA audiobooks and classics. The program is live now, so get listening.
- The adaptation of Walter Dean Myers Monster hasn’t yet had a distributor. It does now, and we’ll be seeing this in the fall!
- Remember how the Chaos Walking adaptation was supposed to come out this year? It looks like it…might maybe happen next year? But also it was a mess so who knows.
- Alex Rider adaptation casting news.
- YA author Saundra Mitchell will be adapting the Broadway play The Prom to a YA novel.
- This is so cool: a team of Philadelphia rappers have written and released a song inspired by Angie Thomas’s The Hate U Give.
- Jenny Han was named one of Variety’s 2019 Power Women of New York.
- The best YA books by black women you haven’t read yet.
- Have you been reading Refinery29’s YA month series? You can read all of the posts here.
- Casting news for the RL Stine Fear Street adaptation.
- VERY important update on the final book in Libba Bray’s “The Diviners” series.
- A book cowritten by Becky Albertalli and Alisha Saeed is coming and it sounds incredible.
- Speaking of Becky Albertalli….there’s a Love, Simon TV show in the works from Disney’s streaming service.
- The Bank Street Best Children’s Book lists are out. Add some awesome YA to your TBR.
- Last, but not least, a look at YA authors who began their careers in libraries (including yours truly!).
Blast From The YA Past…
Let’s take a peek at a few of the things we’ve written at Book Riot from years gone by.
- 51 beautiful YA book quotes for every mood.
- Great fiction/nonfiction pairings for YA books.
- Quiz: Which Harry Potter character is your reading soulmate?
- Searching for Taiwan in YA literature.
- #OwnVoices YA stories about the immigrant experience.
- The best/worst Harry Potter pickup lines.
- Why we shouldn’t sugarcoat YA.
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Thanks for hanging out, and we’ll see you later this week!
— Kelly Jensen, @veronikellymars on Instagram and editor of (Don’t) Call Me Crazy and Here We Are.