We’ve got mind-bending dystopias and survival sagas to unpack this month join us!
Beginning this month, EW is here to provide reviews and recommendations of the biggest new YA titles.
And its all the better for it.
Credit: Disney-Hyperion; Freeform; Viking Books for Young Readers; HarperTeen
Loneliest Girlis sci-fi in nature.
Shes hurtling away from Earth, searching for the planet her family was headed toward.
But shes completely on her own.
Viking Books for Young Readers
(At times it recalls, among other titles, the misfire of a movie that wasPassengers.)
(Theres also, in a bit of a change for this genre, very little dialogue.)
But James pushes past merely meeting expectations; a straightforward love story this is not.
HarperCollins
Its ending, especially, offers a harrowing surprise.
Through it all and yes, the plots developments must go unmentioned here there remains Romy.
(And an eerily well-timed one at that.)
HarperTeen
But when framed for a shocking crime by unknown adversaries, Zu goes on the lam.
This statement is at the core of Kate Alice Marshalls young-adult survival novelI Am Still Alive.
Pitched as WildmeetsThe Revenant,I Am Still Alivemarks an assured debut from Marshall.
These quibbles, however, dont detract from the thematic and representational power of the book.
