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This Week’s YA Release Spotlight
Our Violent Ends by Chloe Gong
The year is 1927, and Shanghai teeters on the edge of revolution.
After sacrificing her relationship with Roma to protect him from the blood feud, Juliette has been a girl on the warpath. One wrong move, and her cousin will step in to usurp her place as the Scarlet Gang’s heir. The only way to save the boy she loves from the wrath of the Scarlets is to have him want her dead for murdering his best friend in cold blood. If Juliette were actually guilty of the crime Roma believes she committed, his rejection might sting less.
Then a new monstrous danger emerges in the city, and though secrets keep them apart, Juliette must secure Roma’s cooperation if they are to end this threat once and for all. Shanghai is already at a boiling point: The Nationalists are marching in, whispers of civil war brew louder every day, and gangster rule faces complete annihilation. Roma and Juliette must put aside their differences to combat monsters and politics, but they aren’t prepared for the biggest threat of all: protecting their hearts from each other.
Briar Girls by Rebecca Kim Wells
Lena has a secret: the touch of her skin can kill. Cursed by a witch before she was born, Lena has always lived in fear and isolation. But after a devastating mistake, she and her father are forced to flee to a village near the Silence, a mysterious forest with a reputation for luring people into the trees, never to be seen again…
Until the night an enigmatic girl stumbles out of the Silence and into Lena’s sheltered world. Miranda comes from the Gather, a city in the forest brimming with magic. She is on a quest to wake a sleeping princess believed to hold the key to liberating the Gather from its tyrannical ruler—and she offers Lena a bargain. If Lena assists her on her journey, Miranda will help her break the curse.
Mesmerized by Miranda and her promise of a new life, Lena jumps at the chance. But the deeper into the Silence she goes, the more she suspects she’s been lied to—about her family’s history, her curse, and her future. As the shadows close in, Lena must choose who to trust and decide whether it’s more important to have freedom…or power.
When We Were Them by Laura Taylor Namey
When they were fifteen, Willa, Luz, and Britton had a friendship that was everything.
When they were sixteen, they stood by one another no matter what.
When they were seventeen, they went through the worst.
And when they were eighteen, Willa ruined it all.
Now, the week of graduation, Willa is left with only a memory box filled with symbols of the friendship she has nearly destroyed: A book of pranks. Corsages from a nightmarish homecoming. A greasy pizza menu. Greeting cards with words that mean the world… It’s enough to make Willa wonder how anything could tear her, Luz, and Britton apart. But as Willa revisits the moments when she and her friends leaned on one another, she can’t avoid the moments they leaned so hard, their friendship began to crack.
As Willa tries to find a way back to Luz and Britton, she must confront the why of her betrayal and answer a question she never saw coming: Who is she, without them?
The Forgotten Memories of Vera Glass by Anna Priemaza
YA Magical Realism
Vera has a nagging feeling that she’s forgetting something. Not her keys or her homework—something bigger. Or someone. When she discovers her best friend Riven is experiencing the same strange feeling, they set out on a mission to uncover what’s going on. Everyone in Vera’s world has a special ability—a little bit of magic that helps them through the day. Perhaps someone’s ability is interfering with their memory? Or is something altering their very reality? Vera and Riven intend to fix it and get back whatever or whomever they’ve lost. But how do you find the truth when you can’t even remember what you’re looking for in the first place?
More YA Books Hitting the Shelves This Week
- Believe Me by Tahereh Mafi (Fantasy)
- Graceling by Kristin Cashore, Gareth Hinds (Graphic Novel)
- The Diamond Keeper by Jeannie Mobley (Historical Fiction)
- Fly by Night by Tara O’Connor, Triona Farrell (Graphic Novel)
- The Nobleman’s Guide to Scandal and Shipwrecks by Mackenzi Lee (Historical Fiction)
- The Year I Stopped Trying by Katie Heaney (Contemporary)
Other Free New Release Resources
This is only scratching the surface of the YA books hitting stores this week! If you want to keep up with all the latest new releases, check out:
- My monthly upcoming new releases calendar
- The Ultimate 2022 YA Book Release Spreadsheet – A downloadable spreadsheet of over 325+ upcoming YA releases
- Book Bird’s Guide to 2021 YA Releases – A comprehensive list of all the YA books being released each month
- 2021YA – A US book release database by Rec It Rachel and Vicky C Books
- YA Buzz – An instagram account dedicated to sharing the latest Young Adult book news
- Calendar of Book Releases – An epic YA book release Google calendar created by Tween to Teen Book Reviews
Now over to you:
Leave a comment and let me know one new release being published this week that you’re excited about!
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