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Apr 23, 2024 | 
kirkusreviews.com | Scott Reintgen |Rebecca Ross
Substantial and satisfying: Readers will look forward to being reunited with these characters. A brilliant magician who seeks to destroy the system of inequality propping up her world is aided by new allies and feels the complications of romance in this middle entry in the Waxways trilogy. As expected, Landwin Brood doesn’t appreciate Theo’s new bond to Ren Monroe; despite her brilliance and magical prowess, Landwin won’t look past her Lower Quarter origins.
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Mar 9, 2024 | 
kirkusreviews.com | Lauren Blackwood |Rebecca Ross
A lackluster and sometimes disturbing mishmash of overused tropes. The Plague has left a population divided between Elites and Ordinaries—those who have powers and those who don’t; now, an Ordinary teen fights for her life. Paedyn Gray witnessed the king kill her father five years ago, and she’s been thieving and sleeping rough ever since, all while faking Psychic abilities.
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Mar 9, 2024 | 
kirkusreviews.com | Michael Barakiva |Rebecca Ross
An imaginative, funny, and of-the-moment race to save the world. Precious gems, resourceful teenagers, and a deadline to save the world: What could possibly go wrong? Reed de Vries is finishing up his junior year of high school, and things are going well. He’s the president of his school’s Gay Straight Alliance and is thinking about running for student council. As for his best friend, Arno Sarkisian—well, the two boys may be becoming more than friends.
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Feb 13, 2024 | 
kirkusreviews.com | Tessa Gratton |Justina Ireland |Lauren Roberts |Rebecca Ross
An adventure with a slow start but one that’s worth the wait. The Stormwall blockades hundreds of worlds from Republic aid, but as the Nihil expand their empire, cracks in the wall threaten the future of their impenetrable domination. Avon Starros loathes everything about the Nihil.
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Feb 11, 2024 | 
sonderbooks.com | Rebecca Ross
by Rebecca Ross read by Alex Wingfield and Rebecca Norfolk Review posted February 11, 2024 Macmillan Young Listeners, 2023. 14 hours, 7 minutes. Review written January 9, 2024, from a library eaudiobook. Starred Review 2024 Sonderbooks Stand-out: #2 Teen Speculative Fiction Ruthless Vows is the second half of the duology begun with Divine Rivals, and finishes up the story.
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Jan 2, 2024 | 
sonderbooks.com | Rebecca Ross
by Rebecca Ross read by Rebecca Norfolk and Alex Wingfield Review posted January 2, 2024. Macmillan Young Listeners, 2023. 10 hours, 50 minutes. Review written December 28, 2023, from a library eaudiobook.
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Nov 4, 2023 | 
kirkusreviews.com | Rebecca Ross
A village girl and a demon must battle an old god to save a magical wood in this reimagining of “Beauty and the Beast” that’s steeped in Polish folklore. Seventeen-year-old Liska Radost, pale-skinned and periwinkle-eyed, seeks to quell rumors that she’s a witch and flees her village in search of the fern flower that can grant her desire to be rid of her magic. She ventures into the Driada, a supernatural forest that’s home to the antlered, shape-shifting Leszy, its warden.
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Oct 21, 2023 | 
kirkusreviews.com | Amélie Wen Zhao |Rebecca Ross
An action-filled tale of love, magic, and demons. The teens at the heart of Song of Silver, Flame Like Night (2023) continue to battle a colonizing army. Lan knows that using the Silver Dragon’s Demon God power will lead to its taking over her mind and body. Rather than wield this power against the imperialistic Elantians, she is searching for the Godslayer (believed by some to be mythical) to destroy the Four Demon Gods and their dark influence.
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Oct 7, 2023 | 
kirkusreviews.com | Rebecca Ross
A highly original tale exploring grief and weaving together the realistic and fantastical. A guilt-stricken 14-year-old Black girl in Harlem travels with her cousin and her brother’s best friend on an underground odyssey as she tries to make sense of her grief. The murder of Harriet Adu’s older brother, Tunde, in a shooting at their old school fractured her family. Attending a new school, where her reputation as “The Girl Whose Brother Died” follows her, hasn’t made Harriet feel any less lonely.
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Sep 23, 2023 | 
kirkusreviews.com | Allison Saft |Rebecca Ross |Laura Nowlin
A bit uneven, but fans of Regency romances will revel in this fantastical affair. A tailor and a prince become entwined in a tenuous romance. When Niamh, who’s from a working-class Machlish family, receives an invitation to serve as the tailor for the royal wedding of Avaland’s Prince Christopher to the Castilian Infanta Rosa, she boards the ship, convinced that this Season will change her family’s fortunes.
