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Nov 5, 2024 | 
bookcrushin.com | Alex Light |Amber Clement |A.S. King |Pascale Lacelle
Happy New Release Tuesday and if you are in the USA – happy election day! Today is the last day to vote, please vote if you are able! Let’s celebrate the right to read with voting to end book banning and you know treason and fa$cism.
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Nov 5, 2024 | 
semananews.com | Sam Rajan |Julie Leong |Pascale Lacelle |Isabel Ibanez
The end of the year is fast approaching, but there are still plenty of fantasy books coming out over the next two months — and November 2024 sees many exciting titles hitting shelves. The winter is the perfect time to snuggle up with a good book, and lengthy fantasy reads offer a great escape from the cold. Whether readers are diving into a high-stakes series or enjoying cozy fantasy narratives, they’ll be able to lose themselves in the pages.
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Nov 1, 2024 | 
booklistonline.com | Pascale Lacelle
Nov. 2024. 544p. Simon & Schuster/Margaret K. McElderry, $21.99 (9781665939300). Grades 9-12.
REVIEW.
First published November 1, 2024 (Booklist).
In this riveting sequel, Emory is reunited with best friend Romie, whom she believed to be dead. The girls are in the world of the Song of the Drowned Gods, and they have reached the Wychwood. They’re given shelter by the locals but held at arm’s length from any of the community’s rituals.
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Oct 29, 2024 | 
kirkusreviews.com | Pascale Lacelle
Perhaps a more genuinely enlightened protagonist would have made this debut more engagingAudrey Rose Wadsworth, 17, would rather perform autopsies in her uncle’s dark laboratory than find a suitable husband, as is the socially acceptable rite of passage for a young, white British lady in the late 1800s. The story immediately brings Audrey into a fractious pairing with her uncle’s young assistant, Thomas Cresswell.
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Oct 26, 2024 | 
barnesandnoble.com | Isabelle McConville |Isabel Ibanez |Pascale Lacelle |CG Drews
Best YA Books of November and December 2024If your upcoming holiday break isn’t enough to get you excited about the end of the year, these books are sure to do it. From classic romcoms to monster stories and fairytales, there’s so much to look forward to this holiday season. Call up your bestie and plan your holiday-themed read-athons — you’ll want to gush over these books with everyone you know. Please enable javascript to add items to the cart.
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Oct 11, 2024 | 
kirkusreviews.com | Pascale Lacelle
An original blend of African-inspired mysticism and adventure. A 17-year-old Black Canadian girl with roots in an African country “not located on any maps” attempts to find her grandfather and is drawn into another world, where a battle rages against darkness. Kadsa Abasi’s Grandpa Edoje wants her to care as much as he does about finding his homeland; he’s searched across the continent of Africa for a way back.
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Oct 11, 2024 | 
barnesandnoble.com | Pascale Lacelle |Isabelle McConville
Magical Worlds: A Guest Post by Pascale Lacelle If you’ve ever been drawn to the wonders of the moon, this book is for you. An atmospheric dark academia fantasy set at the prestigious Aldryn College for Lunar Magics, our YA Monthly Pick is a dazzling tale. Discover the magic behind the scenes of Curious Tides in Pascale Lacelle’s guest post, down below.
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Sep 14, 2024 | 
kirkusreviews.com | Pascale Lacelle
An expansive and engaging sequel that builds on the fresh worldbuilding of the original. Emory and Baz find themselves separated across time and space in this sequel to Curious Tides (2023). Following the events in the Dovermere sea caves, Emory Ainsleif and Romie Brysden follow in the footsteps of their favorite book, Song of the Drowned Gods, and cross into the Wychwood.
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Oct 3, 2023 | 
powderandpage.wordpress.com | Pascale Lacelle
Published: October 3, 2023Publisher: Margaret K. McElderry BooksSeries: Drowned Gods #1Genre: Fantasy, Young AdultPages: 544 (Hardcover)My Rating: 4 StarsA copy of this book was provided by the publisher in exchange for an honest review. Synopsis:Ninth House meets A Deadly Education in this gorgeous dark academia fantasy following a teen mage who must unravel the truth behind the secret society that may have been involved in her classmates’ deaths.
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Oct 1, 2023 | 
booklistonline.com | Pascale Lacelle
Oct. 2023. 544p. Simon & Schuster/Margaret K. McElderry, $21.99 (9781665939270). Grades 9-12.
REVIEW.
First published October 1, 2023 ().
In the world of Lacelle’s luminous debut, everyone is assigned to a house named for the phase of the moon during which they are born: new, waxing, waning, and full. A fifth, the House of Eclipse, is feared and loathed by the rest of society because its members have access to a range of magic.
