Narrator Amanda Ronconi portrays plucky Anora in this paranormal drama, part of an enchanting series inspired by Greek mythology. Anora has switched schools after being mixed up in a student's death and freaking out her mother by telling her she can see spirits of the dead. Daniel Thomas May portrays teen heartthrob Shy in a lofty theatrical tone. Missing ghosts, dead knights, and vicious gossip bring Anora and Shy together in a genre-bending, action-packed romance. Ronconi makes the magic and fear of madness that fuel Anora vivid and believable. May captures the charismatic hero Shy, but some of his female character voices are too shrill. Nonetheless, this is a seductive beginning to a new series. S.T.C. © AudioFile 2022, Portland, Maine
The summer is heating up and so are the books we have speeding to our shelves! With fantasy finales that will make your heart race, romances that either break your heart in two or give you the warm and fuzzies (maybe read these in tandem), and a dark, steamy fairytale debut, July’s new YA releases […]
We love reading books that help us escape, and what better way to do that than with books that literally take us out of this world and put us in a new one? Whether they’re continuations of series bringing you back to worlds full of magic and mayhem or they’re brand-new fantasies whisking you away […]
I’ve always been a voracious reader since I was little, but as I grew older, my parents encouraged me to start branching out into adult books more and more. I’m a stubborn soul, though, and the YA section of my local library remained my happy place. I didn’t start adventuring into adult spaces until I […]