Josh Malerman is bold and fun and ambitious and sometimes he misses the target.
All tagged YA
Josh Malerman is bold and fun and ambitious and sometimes he misses the target.
A creepy, psychologically accurate and sometimes a little bit forceful examination of male youth.
The long-awaited sophomore novel by Fred Venturini delivers. Sort of. Pretty much.
So, I’ve read another YA novel by accident, but this one is interesting because it nails how young men think.
The Brambles shines by its execution more than it does by its ideas. Leah Erickson explores a concept many authors have explored before her, but she does it better than most.
I watched the latest source of parental and institutional uproar 13 Reasons Why, starring Katherine Langford and Dylan Minnette. Directed by Brian Yorker. Based on the best-selling novel by Jay Asher. That shit was DARK.
Thursday, 1:17 PM is a story of a young man living in a world where time stopped. Read my review to learn whether it's a good or a bad thing. Written by Michael Landweber.
I was dead-set to hate The Perks of Being a Wallflower, but could't really find a honest and satisfying way to do it. It's...kind of a good movie? Written and directed by Stephen Chbosky, Based on the novel by Stephen Chbosky.
My review of the oddly brutal, subversive and somewhat charming independent film I Am Not a Serial Killer. Starring Max Records. Based on the John Wayne Cleaver novels, by Dan Wells.
My review of Cartoons in the Suicide Forest by Leza Cantoral. Embrace the end of innocence and hurl yourself into the unknown with her. Click to read more.
The most original and underrated new voice in weird fiction T.E Grau has a new book out. They Don't Come Home Anymore is his most accessible project to date, but it is ambitious and genre bending nonetheless. A fantastic read.
Devil's Pocket would be a great young adult novel if it didn't get in its own way trying to convince you of the moral superiority of its own protagonist. Because of that, it's just an okay book.
