Reviews written by Trista Roddick

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...

Kristin Lattimer has it all. She's a championship hurdler, has a full-ride scholarship to college, a terrific boyfriend she's in love with, and she's just been voted homecoming queen. One visit to the doctor changes everything she's ever known. Kristin is intersex. It's hard enough for her to try to...

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...

Cora Mason wakes in a desert setting with no clue how she got there, or where there is. The place she's in, it makes no sense. There's a jungle next to a farm, she can walk from the hot desert into freezing snow. She soon discovers she's not alone. There's...

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’...

Evie was diagnosed with terminal cancer months ago. She's exceeded the number of days the doctors had given her to live so now she's just grateful for every extra day she gets. Until she miraculously starts getting better. For so long she's been The Girl with Cancer to her family...

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...

Grace used to spend every summer at Embassy Row, running around, causing mischief, being a little daredevil. Now, at sixteen, she’s coming back to the American embassy to live closer to her grandfather, an ambassador. She’s determined to find the man with the scar who killed her mother, the man...

Simon Spier has been e-mailing with a boy named Blue for a while. He doesn't know Blue's true identity and Blue doesn't know his, but that doesn't matter. They talk about everything. Blue is the only person who knows Simon is gay. Until one day when the e-mails they've been...

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...