Posts Tagged "Road Trip Wednesday"
Best Book Read in December: James Dawson’s HOLLOW PIKE
This week’s YA Highway Road Trip Wednesday asks: What’s the best book you read in December? This month I finally got my mitts on a book that’s been on my TBR list for a while: YA horror/thriller Hollow Pike. I’d heard great things about James Dawson’s 2012 debut, and it didn’t disappoint. Hollow Pike took me right back to my teen slasher-movie-watching days. The atmosphere was deliciously scary (even too much for me at times – I’m a bit of a wimp), and it was very hard to put this book down once the creepy chain of events got going. I was left guessing the identity of the ‘bad guy’...
Best Books Read in November: Rachel Ward’s NUMBERS Trilogy
This week’s YA Highway Road Trip Wednesday asks: What’s the best book you read in November? It’s been a few months since I wrote one of these. Important things like editing got in the way! The best books I read this month were Rachel Ward’s Numbers trilogy. I’d actually owned these books for a while but hadn’t got round to reading them, partly because of the one criticism I have of them—I found the beginning of book one a little slow. But, wow, was I glad I gave them another chance, because once the action got going, it did not let up one iota until the...
Best Books Read in July: DEAD JEALOUS & PAPER VALENTINE
This week’s YA Highway Road Trip Wednesday asks: What’s the best book you read in July? I read nine books in July—an unusually productive reading month for me. I loved Maggie Stiefvater’s Lament and Sarah Dessen’s The Truth About Forever, but my favourite reads were Sharon Jones’ Dead Jealous and Brenna Yovanoff’s Paper Valentine. I can’t choose between them, so I’m going to cheat and have two favourite July reads. DEAD JEALOUS From Goodreads: People think of Mother Nature as a gentle lady. They forget that she’s also Death…Sixteen-year-old Poppy Sinclair believes in quantum...
Best Book Read in June: CODE NAME VERITY
This week’s YA Highway Road Trip Wednesday asks: What’s the best book you read in June? My answer? Elizabeth Wein’s Code Name Verity. From Goodreads: I have two weeks. You’ll shoot me at the end no matter what I do. That’s what you do to enemy agents. It’s what we do to enemy agents. But I look at all the dark and twisted roads ahead and cooperation is the easy way out. Possibly the only way out for a girl caught red-handed doing dirty work like mine — and I will do anything, anything, to avoid SS-Hauptsturmführer von Linden interrogating me again. He has said that I can have as much paper as I need. All I have to...
Best Book Read in May: THE SKY IS EVERYWHERE
This week’s YA Highway Road Trip Wednesday asks: What’s the best book you read in May? It’s been a while since I read a book I loved, so I’m very happy to say I have an answer! From Goodreads: Seventeen-year-old Lennie Walker, bookworm and band geek, plays second clarinet and spends her time tucked safely and happily in the shadow of her fiery older sister, Bailey. But when Bailey dies abruptly, Lennie is catapulted to center stage of her own life – and, despite her nonexistent history with boys, suddenly finds herself struggling to balance two. Toby was Bailey’s boyfriend; his grief mirrors Lennie’s...
Glimpse
Inspired by Alfred Noyes’ poem 'The Highwayman', Glimpse is a ghost story, a love story, and a story of overcoming trauma.
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About Kendra Leighton
I’m a YA writer and chocolatier. Glimpse, my debut novel, was inspired by Alfred Noyes' poem 'The Highwayman'. It was published in 2014.Read more...
