New YA: March 15-21.

Still mega-super behind, but I find these round-ups so helpful, so please bear with me as I get caught up!

New hardbacks:

The Difference Between You and Me, by Madeleine George

Dark Eyes, by William Harlan Richter

Wonder Show, by Hannah Barnaby

When You Open Your Eyes, by Celeste Conway

Traitor's Son: The Raven Duet Book #2, by Hilari Bell

A Temptation of Angels, by Michelle Zink

The Secret Circle: The Divide, by L. J. Smith

Ichiro, by Ryan Inzana

New paperbacks:

Stay, by Deb Caletti:

Like many of Deb Caletti's recent heroines, Clara is bright and very, very mature for her age—at times, she sounds a good twenty years older than she actually is—but, as usual, the storyline, romance and characters are all engrossing enough that I easily gave her a pass.

The Vespertine, by Saundra Mitchell:

I love how you just drop me into the story and let me figure out what's going on. I love how your prose in The Vespertine is both tight -- nothing overblown, overdone or unnecessary -- but still reminiscent of an old-school Gothic novel. That every time Amelia's voice got flowery, it felt right and true and real. I loved that I believed the dialogue, that I believed in the friendships, that I believed in the characters.

Inexcusable, by Chris Lynch:

He's unreliable at best--closer to deluded, really--but I thought the scariest thing about him was that he would have occasional moments of clarity.  For split-seconds, he would drop the illusions and the rationalizations and the technicalities of responsibility that he so totally depended on to keep his ideal vision of himself intact, and he would know.  For a brief moment, he would see his actions for what they were.  Under his layers and layers and layers of protestations, he knew.  And that made everything even worse (and in adding that complexity, Chris Lynch made the book even better).