Sweet and Bitter Magic by Adrienne Tooley (March 9)
This character driven sapphic fantasy is about two outcasts who find each other while a fight for a kingdom rages. This book is highly recommended for anyone who was as enamored by
Never Tilting World by Rin Chupeco and
Crier’s War by Nina Varela.
Oni Press
The long-awaited sequel to the endearing and quirky graphic novel,
Sheets, Brenna reintroduces readers to the Marjorie and her ghostly laundromat and tackles what it means to fit in, finding friends in the most unlikely places, and growing pains (even ones of the haunted variety).
At Wi16, a Romance Panel with Love for YA By Alex Green | Feb 23, 2021
The American Booksellers Association’s 16th Winter Institute was a streamlined affair this year, with booksellers logging in digitally to the three-day gathering. But the conference’s single track of sessions opened with momentum a keynote by former President Barack Obama and that spirit carried throughout in events rich with energy, from presenters and attendees alike.
“I knew that we could easily talk for three hours and the fact that we only have 40 minutes, it’s just not fair,” Scholastic v-p and editorial director David Levithan joked while moderating the LGBTQ+ romance panel. Like many of the sessions, the free-roving conversation took its own shape, with authors emphasizing young adult romance as a particularly well-suited genre for stories with expansive LGBTQ+ representation.
Alex Brown (by Henrik Meng)
2020 has been a hellish year for so many reasons, but one of the few bright spots has been the mass of absolutely incredible fiction that managed to get published. Usually I’m able to read a good chunk of new books, particularly young-adult speculative fiction, but what with –
waves hands dramatically – everything, my reading this year took a sharp left into romance fiction. It’s become my main reading genre at this point, which hasn’t left much room for anything else. However, a few books of the science fiction, fantasy, and horror persuasion have squeezed through the crush of bodices and meet-cutes. Fortunately for me, most have been so good that I inhaled them each in a few sittings. What follows is a long, rambling list of some of my favorite young-adult speculative fiction books from 2020.
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A crop of the Lost in the Never Woods cover by Loika. (Image: Swoon Reads)
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Last year, author Aiden Thomas made history with
Cemetery Boys, the first fiction book by a trans author and with a trans main character to make the New York Times bestseller list. Their next book,
Lost in the Never Woods, puts a dark spin on the classic tale of Peter Pan, and Gizmodo has an exclusive peek!
Image: Swoon Reads
Last year, author Aiden Thomas made history with
Cemetery Boys, the first fiction book by a trans author and with a trans main character to make the New York Times bestseller list. Their next book,
Lost in the Never Woods, puts a dark spin on the classic tale of Peter Pan, and io9 has an exclusive peek!
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Here’s a brief summary, followed by the full cover by artist Loika:
It’s been five years since Wendy and her two brothers went missing in the woods, but when the town’s children start to disappear, the questions surrounding her brothers’ mysterious circumstances are brought back into the light. Attempting to flee her past, Wendy almost runs over an unconscious boy lying in the middle of the road.