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With her latest YA novel, I Am Made of Death, Kelly Andrew once again drops us into the world of her first books The Whispering Dark and Your Blood, My Bones. Since the moment she fell into a hole at Red Rock Canyon at four years old, the protagonist, Vivienne Farrow, cannot speak without causing imminent death. Broken and terrified, she met a creature that crawled into her bones and made her voice poisonous. Tired of feeling so out of control within her own body, Vivienne decides to risk death by convincing a medical student to perform a theoretical surgical exorcism on her. A bigRead More →

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Your Blood, My Bones by Kelly Andrew is a paranormal YA novel full of sinister things that will drag the reader into dark places. Protagonist Wyatt Westlock has always been kept away from the darkest parts of the legacy she inherited as one of the Westlock guardians of Willow Heath. Growing up on her family’s forest surrounded land, she is content to run wild with James and Peter, her childhood friends. She doesn’t question the dark rituals her father and his guildsman conduct in the dead of night, or why one of her best friends never seems to belong. After a tragic night, Wyatt’s motherRead More →

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Young readers looking for a good ghost story with adventure and history stirred in will find it in Bridge of Souls by Victoria Schwab.  In this third volume in the City of Ghosts series, Schwab features twelve-year-old Cassidy Blake whose parents are the Inspecters: World-traveling, ghost-hunting, paranormal investigators. As they travel the world to produce film accounts of their findings, Cassidy tags along from Paris to Edinburgh and beyond.  This episode has the family filming in New Orleans, a place where color, style, and sound collide; a place of contradictions. Although Cassidy has always had a brain that doodles, helping to show her things thatRead More →