Author Interview: Legally Yours, Violet Lopez by Elba Luz Legally Yours, Violet Lopez follows a high-achieving Latina student with a near-perfect record defending her peers against the disciplinary board who gets blackmailed into taking the one case she specifically refused. Enemies to lovers, class tension, and a protagonist who will […]
Author Interview: Night of Madness by Ryan Douglass Mara is a horror fan whose only fond memories of her dad involve his favorite filmmaker, Jack Stanley, and when Stanley announces a contest sending five teen influencers to spend the night on the set of his most terrifying film, Mara engineers her way […]
Author Interview: The Secret to Belonging by Megan E. Freeman Written entirely in second person, set partly in 1980s California and partly in northern Norway, The Secret to Belonging follows a narrator with no name through a family shaped by her brother’s addiction and a year abroad that changes everything. The Secret […]
Author Interview: Absent by Rex Ogle Rex writes from his own life, from poverty and domestic violence and food insecurity and the experience of being a kid that a system let’s slip through the crack (or worse, blames them for it), and keeps coming back to the hurt and the […]
Author Interview: Dead Girls by Beck Kubrick Dead Girls, out September 22nd, is a feminist slasher graphic novel following Ash Hargreeves, the teenage daughter of an infamous serial killer, who gets blamed for a new wave of copycat murders in her town and decides to hunt down the actual killer […]
Audiobook Review & Author Interview: Building 903 by Lois Lowry, Banned Together and the Unite to Read Project with Alyssa Chrisman, and Why This Moment Needs It All Books have always been one of the first things power tries to control, and the people who fight back have always been […]
Author Interview: Jill Tew & Her New Special Editions Jill Tew writes the kinds of dystopian stories that feel pulled directly from the headlines and handed back to you with a Black girl at the center and a love triangle that will ruin your life. Her debut, The Dividing Sky, […]
Author & Illustrator Interviews: Milton Makes a Move by Jonathan Graziano, with art by Dan Tavis August is National Dog Month, and we are leaning in. This week on BookCrushin we are celebrating all things dog, and we could not think of a better way to celebrate than with Jonathan […]
Author Interview: Killing Sadie by Rachel Peterson Everybody knows what happened at the barn party. Except nobody’s story quite matches. Killing Sadie is Rachel Peterson’s debut YA thriller, and it is the kind of book that keeps you second-guessing every narrator right up until the moment the whole thing snaps […]
Author Interview: Survival Show by Juno Dawson Juno Dawson has spent her career writing about what it costs to be yourself in a world that does not want you to be, and Survival Show is that same instinct dialed up to eleven. Taryn Beck lives in a Scottish refugee camp […]