Category: NOVL

Yeah, we all wish we were the 7th member of Kaz's crew. While we do not endorse breaking and entering, we DO endorse reading all about teen spies and criminal masterminds and the heists they pull off. So plan your own heist and get a book recommendation!

Yayyy, it’s YALLWEST time again!! I love that this festival is in one of my favorite places in the world—Santa Monica! There is so much to do in this city, but I’m going to focus on places you can walk to from the festival, starting with, of course, the ocean! (Is it really a trip…

It is officially Talk Like Shakespeare Day, and indeed, mine hearts swells with the joy of knowing that the globe (hehe, get it?) shall be filled with the prattle of a London of yester-year. In the case your mental faculties may have disregarded the signs, I was, indeed, the Shakespeare girl at my high-school. Indeed,…

Let’s be real here—there are some seriously scary (and badass) characters in YA lit where we’d have NO chance fighting whatsoever. I’d wave my white flag before it even starts. But this doesn’t stop us from appreciating their strength and resilience.

Not only did the 1920s bring great industrial, political, and economic change, but it continues to inspire fashion and lifestyle as we know it. You thought Gossip Girl showed you what city-living was all about? Well, I guess it’s time to bring you into the world of the 1920s, Libba Bray-style. She takes all things…

Game of Thrones and the Folk of the Air series are so similar (ie: political trickery, magical mayhem, and assassinations left and right), we thought why return only to Westeros? Let’s throw some Elfhame into it!  Here are the Folk of the Air characters and their Game of Thrones counterparts.

Helllllo flappers! It’s almost the weekend, which means that it’s time to party like it’s the 1920s! If you need some inspiration while you get dolled up, look no further, because these artists have encapsulated the hip to the jive characters in their fan art of The Diviners by Libba Bray.

I think on this great national holiday of ours, we should take a look back at some of our favorite book siblings, and all the lessons we can learn from them. But before we begin, I have to give a shout-out to my own siblings, Remy and Payton, who are the best Tekken rival and…

Besides the angst-ridden poems I wrote in my middle school diary and the book-themed limericks I make NOVLers endure, I am NOT a poet. No matter how hard I try, poetry will never be my strongest genre, but I have lots of fun trying (and isn’t that what writing is about at the end of…

Ahhh New York City! The city that never sleeps! If you can make it there, you can make it anywhere!  And if you set your book there, I am probably going to read it. There is something about the pull of New York, both in real life and in fiction, that just draws you in.…

More cakes to continue our Read It, Then Eat It series! In honor of the release of Defy the Fates, the finale to the stunning Defy the Stars trilogy from Claudia Gray, New York Times bestselling author of Star Wars: Lost Stars and Bloodline, Marcie is here to share the recipe and directions to her…

By Claire Eliza Bartlett, author of We Rule the Night. The Union works day and night to ensure the preservation of our homeland in this total war. Trust in the Union, and follow all posted directives, approved radio instructions, bunker etiquette and curfew and ration law. They are made to protect not just you, but…