Anyway, I'm trying something new. YALSA which, for those of you who aren't members of the ALA, is the Young Adult Library Services Association, just released their nominations for the 2010 Teens' Top Ten, and I am going to attempt to read ALL OF THEM. These are just the nominations at this point, so there's 26 of them total.
I've already read two of them, Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins, which is the sequel to The Hunger Games, and was amazing. I check my library catalog for signs of the third book in the trilogy, Mockingjay, just about daily. And hush, hush by Becca Fitzpatrick, which was so awful I don't even think I wrote it down in my Books I've Read notebook (hereafter known as the BIRN). Seriously, it was terrible-- loose plot, awful characterization, totally boring, and I have a pretty high tolerance for YA books.
I'm also about half way through another on the list, Beautiful Creatures by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl, which is, so far, mildly better than hush, hush. It's about a boy and a girl (because what teen book isn't?) who meet and fall in love, but she is a Caster, and he isn't, and I think they're reliving a romance that their respective ancestors had during the Civil War, though I'm not too sure about this, because there's been a lot of hinting around and vague plot points so far. I think that one of the main reasons I'm disliking the book so much so far is because it is told from the boy's perspective and in first person, and the two adult, female authors don't afford Ethan a very realistic 16 year old boy voice.
All I know is that I'm going to finish this book so that I can check it off and zip through The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest before returning to the task at hand.
