Everything You Need to Know About If You Could Be Mine by Sara Farizan 21 Aug 2013 | 05:57 pm

If You Could Be Mine reveals is an LGBTQ story we haven’t seen Young Adult fiction before. It follows seventeen-year-old Sahar who has been in love with her best friend, Nasrin, since they were six. B...

Top 10 Reasons to Read the SIGMA Force Series 20 Aug 2013 | 08:18 pm

Typically I read stand alone novels, but I do find it extremely refreshing to get lost in a series that keeps me engaged and distracted for weeks at a time. Most recently, I’ve found the perfect serie...

YA Wednesday: Enter the Asylum 14 Aug 2013 | 10:14 pm

As if it wasn’t already terrifying enough, Madeline Roux’s Asylum—the spine-tingling tale of a sanatorium-turned-school—is packed with found photos of real-life mental institutions.  Canada has more t...

It’s Not Love, It’s Just Paris: A Review by Suman 13 Aug 2013 | 06:23 pm

“And one day, after everything, you will wake up and realize you really haven’t suffered much at all.” Lita del Cielo is the daughter of two Colombian immigrants who arrived in America with nothing b...

It’s Not Love, It’s Just Paris 13 Aug 2013 | 06:06 pm

Bookmarks: August 9th 9 Aug 2013 | 10:28 pm

Summer is almost over but here at The Savvy Reader we refuse to believe it. There are still a few weeks left, and we are going to try to read as many books possible! Starting with today, the best day ...

Savvy Reader Book Club: The Ghost Bride 8 Aug 2013 | 07:16 pm

What makes The Ghost Bride a good book club choice? “Yangsze Choo‘s The Ghost Bride is an incredible debut novel. At its bones, it is a coming-of-age story complicated with family secrets and restles...

Suman’s Favourite Quotes from YA Books 7 Aug 2013 | 09:04 pm

I’ve been keeping journals full of my favourite quotes from books, movies, and TV shows since I was a little kid. I recently went through stacks and stacks of notebooks filled with quotes from recent ...

A Q&A with Yangsze Choo, author of The Ghost Bride 6 Aug 2013 | 11:50 pm

All of us at the The Savvy Reader cannot stop talking about The Ghost Bride, and today we are very lucky to welcome the kind and extremely talented Yangsze Choo to the blog to talk about it with us! B...

The Ghost Bride: A Review by Shannon 1 Aug 2013 | 06:35 pm

The Ghost Bride hooked me from the very first page, and if you’ve heard anything about the book you’ll understand why. Li Lan is the daughter of a respectable Chinese family in colonial Malaysia. Unfo...