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by   LIBERTY HARDY Jan 12, 2023 Did your school have any of these things: creepy vibes, supernatural murders, witches, ghosts, and/or vampires? Probably only the first thing, at best. But if it had the others, I am jealous! School would have been much more interesting if there were supernatural factions serving dark vibes alongside the hot lunches. That’s probably why the popularity of YA dark academia books has exploded over the last several years. Because who wouldn’t have wanted to have a witch for a science lab partner, or a ghost that haunted their dorm room?! If you would have liked these things, then you definitely want to check out this list of eight of the best dark academia YA fantasy books! Here you’ll find unsolved murders that set a pall over the school; missing students who attempted spells in the forest at night; secret societies; supernatural serial killers; and more! Getting to study abroad? Exciting! Getting to study abroad while being hunted by the ghost of ...

by  MIKKAKA OVERSTREET Jan 20, 2023 January is a great time to read YA books about fresh starts, though I find it hard to believe it is 2023. To be fair, I’m pretty sure that it took me two full years to recover from 2020. Nonetheless, I am ready to acknowledge that we made it through another trip around the sun and that’s worth writing about. However, I am not a resolutions person. It feels like too much pressure to put on myself at the beginning of a new year. I know full well I’m not suddenly going to start waking up at 5 a.m. to run and that I’m still going to throw out most of a bag of salad every week because I’ve let it go bad. Resolutions simply overwhelm me. Counterintuitively, though, I love the idea of fresh starts. I believe in second chances. I believe that every day offers a new opportunity, a new chance to turn dreams to reality. Most of all, I believe it’s never too late to be better than you were yesterday. “Isn’t it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no...

by    TIRZAH PRICE Jan 5, 2023 Welcome to 2023, YA readers! There’s just something about that brand-new year feeling —  new intentions ,  new calendars ,  new reading logs , and best of all, new young adult books! I am super excited about this avalanche of 2023 releases, and this January is bursting with so many amazing new books that I’m not sure my TBR can handle it. There is no possible way that I could cover them all, so instead of focusing on the heavy hitters likely already on your radar (ahem, new books from  Holly Black ,  Cassie Clare , and  Emma Lord ), I wanted to shout out the amazing books coming out this month that might not be on your TBR yet, but totally should be! This is just a small sampling of amazing YA hitting shelves, but I tried to offer you a nice mix of genres! From romance to high fantasy debuts to hard-hitting contemporary stories about grief and identity, there should be a little something in here for everyone. We’ve a...

  Tika Viteri   Dec 27, 2022 Audiobooks  are GREAT. Print and ebooks are also great, but they give a different experience than listening to a great story. Young Adult fantasy in particular lends itself to audiobooks because the storylines are (usually) straightforward, the characters are engaging, and the setting takes us to a world where magic exists in some form or another. Fantasy deals with the same problems as our reality, but through a different lens, which in turn allows us to process life’s challenges from more directions than just head-on. The more perspectives we can incorporate into our overall thought process, the more informed we are, especially as we tackle what it means to be alive in Terran Sun Cycle 2022. It sounds like an exaggeration, but humans have been imagining fantastical and paranormal creatures for millennia, with no sign of slowing down. It means something deeply important. A good narrator is key to a successful audio book, and because the marke...