sometimes the way people talk about YA on here kinda irks me. i’ll be the first to make “a court of x and y” jokes, and i agree that like any genre it has its popular drivel, but there is also a lot of really cool concept YA being published right now. it’s not all waifs in ball gowns okay
okay fuck it. new YA that i think looks cool. source: i’m a bookseller.
the ones we burn, rebecca mix - a blood-witch’s mission to assassinate the prince she is betrothed to is compromised by the discovery of a deadly plague—and the beautiful princess intent on stopping it.
hell followed with us, andrew joseph white - sixteen-year-old trans boy benji is on the run from the cult that raised him—the fundamentalist sect that unleashed armageddon and decimated the world’s population.
six crimson cranes, elizabeth lim - the exiled princess shiori must unravel the curse that turned her six brothers into cranes.
if you could see the sun, ann liang - a chinese american girl monetizes her strange new invisibility powers by discovering and selling her wealthy classmates’ most scandalous secrets.
last night at the telegraph club, malinda lo - (national book award, stonewall book award) america in 1954 is not a safe place for two girls to fall in love, especially not in chinatown.
elatsoe, darcie little badger - elatsoe lives in a slightly stranger america—one shaped dramatically by the magic, monsters, knowledge, and legends of its people, both indigenous and not. she can raise the ghosts of dead animals. but her beloved cousin has just been murdered, in a town that wants no prying eyes…
an arrow to the moon, emily pan - a lyrical and magical novel about two teens who fall in love despite their families being caught in a bitter rivalry.
the grief keeper, alexandra villasante - after escaping a detention center at the u.s. border, 17-year-old marisol agrees to participate in a medical experiment hoping to keep her and her younger sister from being deported to el salvador.
seasparrow, kristin cashore - newest book in the graceling series!
anyway support your local bookstore, don’t buy from amazon, get a book for a teen in your life if you aren’t one
best thing about uncle iroh is that if you pay attention he is actually just as much of an idiot as zuko but has just mastered the art of coming across as a wise old man. the even better thing is that zuko is the only one on the planet who somewhat realizes this and no one would ever believe him because he’s zuko
like uncle iroh 100% does dumb shit on purpose sometimes to get people to underestimate him and keep zuko from capturing the avatar, but other times he just, and i cannot emphasize this enough, does impulsive dumb shit for no reason other than the fact that terminal stupid presumably runs in the royal family’s blood
uncle: “you never think things through, prince zuko!”
also uncle:
once got captured by the earth kingdom army buck ass naked bc he really wanted to go to a hot spring in enemy territory
betrayed zhao at the Northern Water Tribe with no escape plan and then spent 3 weeks starving on a boat
immediately went to a spa resort upon publicly committing treason
ate a poisonous plant and, in the spirit of Two Fish Hook Sokka, was going to solve the problem by eating another potentially poisonous plant
decided the safest place in the world they could go was the city he once FAMOUSLY laid siege to for 600 days
instead of lying low or giving a modicum of a shit about people recognizing him, overachieved himself into becoming one of the most well-known restaurant owners in said city
in fact overachieved so hard that he got an invite to meet the earth king (whose city he, again, once FAMOUSLY LAID SIEGE TO) which he fucking? accepted????
Everyone complaining about amogus in glass onion clearly seems to forget that during covid they along with the world were obsessed with it. This movie is set during the pandemic and shows us exactly how the rich and powerful showed no regard for it (birdie Jay throwing a massive party, miles inviting his friends over to his private island) while benoit had a mental breakdown from being locked inside for so long and his husband hugh grant is stress baking.
I know this is about ecological balance and population control but I can’t help but imagine those wolves are on a covert mission to assassinate moose extremists or some shit
