Reviews written by Trista Roddick

Aza Ray has been sick her whole life. What she has is so rare the doctors actually named it after her and the disease makes it almost impossible for her to breathe, speak, live her life. The doctors keep predicting her death and she keeps defying them. For now. When...

The follow-up to Prisoner of Night and Fog, Conspiracy of Blood and Smoke finds Gretchen and Daniel living their lives, safe from the happenings of their hometown. A telegram from a friend sends Daniel back to Germany and Gretchen soon follows. Daniel is wanted for murder and they must clear...

Leo Hollings and her sister Paris are used to having only each other to rely on. Their mother follows her whims, from city to city and from guy to guy until she met Tommy, their new gambling addicted stepfather. Paris is a dreamer and Leo is a realist. Leo has...

Hallelujah is good at being silent. She’s been silent since the night of the incident with Luke Willis, the preacher’s son, even though her silence meant no one ever heard her side of the story. She was silent at school, silent at home, just silent. Months later, at a youth...

Wilhelmina has secrets. She’s a member of a group called the Ospreys, a group of orphaned children who use their skill to steal and gain information. These children are all of noble birth, orphaned when the Indigo Kingdom overtook their homeland, and Wil, she’s the lost princess. Either of those...

When Sam’s best friend Hayden kills himself, he leaves behind a playlist of songs with one message: listen and you’ll understand. Sam listens and he tries to decipher each song, wanting to understand what happened that night of the party, the night before Hayden killed himself. As hard as he...

Grace Fontaine is new in town, a sweet girl, and she’s caught the eye of one of the most popular boys in school. Just like she was supposed to do. Grace was adopted as a child by a pair of con artists who have been using her and her ‘brother’...

For a school assignment, Laurel must write a letter to someone who has passed away. She chooses Kurt Cobain because her sister May loved him and they both died too soon. Laurel finds herself writing letters to many dead celebrities, revealing everything from a new crush, new friendships to secrets...

Skylar Evans has a plan and it doesn’t involve staying in Creek View and ending up like all the others who never left: living in a double-wide trailer, working a dead-end job. It’s one more summer after graduation and then she’s gone. But then her mother loses her job and...

Lex was happy before, before her family split apart, before the break-up with her boyfriend, before everyone stared at her like they were waiting for her to break. Now, she’s the girl whose brother killed himself. She keeps trying to move on, to block out that night, but a secret...

The sequel to Unspoken finds Kami and her friends in a fight against Rob Lynburn and his sorcerers. Rob wants power and he wants the town. He wants a blood sacrifice. Kami and her friends don’t have a lot of people willing to stand with them against Rob and the...

It started off innocently. A forged permission slip for a fellow student leads Max Cantrell, his best friend Preston and his girlfriend Parvati, to start Liars Inc, selling lies to their classmates. They’ll forge permission slips, lie about study sessions, all for a price. It seemed harmless. Until Preston needs...

Nalia is the only survivor after the massacre of her clan. She’s a powerful jinni, one of the most powerful, but that doesn’t save her from the dark caravan, who bring jinnis from Arjinna to earth and sell them. Nalia finds herself bought and owned by a human master, Malek,...

When Roza disappears from Bone Gap, no one is surprised. After all, it's not the first time someone had left Sean and Finn O'Sullivan. Their own mother left them, ran off to Oregon with a new man and never looked back. That's just life for the O'Sullivan boys. But Finn...

Taylor’s family is always busy so there’s not much time to spend bonding, but they get along even if they aren’t close. Her father’s diagnosis changes all that and Taylor finds herself going to her family’s cottage in the Poconos for one last summer together. Going back means facing the...