New YA: April 1-7.

New hardbacks:

Grave Mercy: His Fair Assassin, Book I (His Fair Assassin Trilogy), by R. L. LaFevers:

All I want to do is go and read it again. I loved it so much that I just treated—he’d probably say “treated”—my husband to a long-winded list of all of Ismae’s most awesomely awesome moments. Of which there were many. (I didn’t tell him about all of the swoony parts though. He’d have really glazed over if I launched into a squee-fest about the fabulosity of Robin LaFevers’ inversion of the classic Heroine-Tends-the-Hero’s-Wounds scene.)

The False Prince: Book 1 of the Ascendance Trilogy, by Jennifer Nielsen:

The subject of the first episode of The Roy Girls Read, and the recipient of a resounding four thumbs up.

I Hunt Killers, by Barry Lyga:

Beyond Jazz, who's such a fabulous narrator that I'd recommend the book for his voice and characterization alone, everything else here is straight-up, flat-out super. The mystery and investigation, the friendships, the secondary characters, the depiction of media and its view of Jazz as a commodity, the pacing, the atmosphere, everything. There's a wonderful balance between dark humor and actual gravity, between real life and epic drama.

The List, by Siobhan Vivian

Take a Bow, by Elizabeth Eulberg

Fire Ascending (Last Dragon Chronicles), by Chris D'Lacey

Above, by Leah Bobet

Cat Girl's Day Off, by Kimberly Pauley

Dying to Know You, by Aidan Chambers

Black Heart (Curse Workers), by Holly Black

The Fame Game, by Lauren Conrad

Fear: A Gone Novel, by Michael Grant

Immortal City, by Scott Speer

The Marked (Delcroix Academy), by Inara Scott

New paperbacks:

Red Glove (Curse Workers), by Holly Black:

At some point, I got so involved in the story that I stopped guessing -- which says a whole lot for the book, as that's a real rarity for me. In Red Glove, Holly Black captures the classic noir atmosphere and sensibility while keeping Cassel's voice and behavior believably teenagery. In other words, at times, he's hard-boiled and tough, while at others, he complains about his mother.

Between Shades of Gray, by Ruta Sepetys:

It’s being marketed as well-researched, literary historical fiction, an Important Document that sheds light on events that are largely unknown to its audience, but Between Shades of Gray is also a totally gripping survival story. It will be unfortunate if the focus on it as the former scares off readers who would really, really enjoy it as the latter.