Whether you liked Matched or you weren’t completely satisfied with it, pick up Crossed because as Cassia breaks out of the status quo bubble that she’s always lived in, you’re going to be left reeling.

Ally Condie, however, clearly has a grasp of what the classic Dystopian genre is about and with Matched, she’s transformed it into a book that is sure to appeal to teens and maybe get them anxious to read books that are classics in the genre, like Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World and George Orwell’s 1984. And of course, after reading Matched, Dystopian YA readers of all ages won’t be able to stop themselves from consuming the entire series in one go.

Just know that you might gasp at times, find your heart breaking, tears falling from your eyes, or smiling in absolute awe of this gifted storyteller and the dazzling story that is And The Mountains Echoed.

ou will be one of the very first people to set your eyes on the book trailer for Rush, the first book in Eve Silver’s Game trilogy. Once you’ve watched it for the first time during this exclusive book trailer reveal and YA novel giveaway, you can’t unsee it, though I suspect you won’t want to anyway.

If I had to choose one word to define this novel, then it would be a toss up between “beautiful” and “layered.” Beautiful because Suma has a way with language that gives this prose novel a poetic feeling.

Jennifer A. Nielsen: Book 1, The False Prince, introduces the reader to Sage, a defiant orphan who is thrown into a twisted sort of contest where he must either learn to impersonate the missing prince of the kingdom or else be killed. Book 2, The Runaway King, continues Sage’s adventures in a race against time to save the kingdom from pirates, enemies within, and an old friend now out for revenge.

Some fantasy novels take 50 pages for the world and the characters that the author has created to charm you. With Nielsen’s The False Prince, however, it took exactly three sentences for me to be hooked on Sage’s voice, and admittedly laughing out loud at the situation in which I first met him. I don’t guarantee many things, but when it comes to this middle grade novel, I do guarantee that you will, too.