The Sword of Summer is the first book in the Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard series by Rick Riordan.
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‘Red Queen’ and ‘Glass Sword’ – my opinion!
Vox pop: With the February 9th release of ‘Glass Sword’, the second book in Victoria Aveyard’s series ‘Red Queen’, #bookstagram floods over with pretty pictures of both books, and readers comment that they can’t get hold of ‘Glass Sword’ fast enough.
( Photo above: Karoline from Denmark. Reach her at Instagram/#bookstagram: @karolinebooks1009 )
‘My Heart and Other Black Holes’ by Jasmina Warga
The book is pretty depressing and sad with all the talk about suicide and depression, but it could quickly turn from sad to witty in a matter of a few lines.
Interview with ‘Teenage Love’
It’s 9 p.m. this past Thursday in October. Anna Lidell and Katy Gunn have just performed an energetic and quite intimate concert at Herlev Library in the context of the local Subkult 2015 festival, wherein we’re very lucky to get an interview.
‘Firsts’ by Laurie Elizabeth Flynn
I had great expectations to this book. The plot-idea sounded appealing to me, and I thought the main character would go through some kind of development. But I was disappointed. After reading, I was so confused, and I was not sure what the book was actually about. It left me with more questions than answers.
‘NEED’ by Joelle Charbonneau
There is a difference between wanting something and needing something. Students at a high school in Nottawa realize that, when a new social media is spreading among them. ‘NEED’ by Joelle Charbonneau is an extremely relevant and realistic book. We are living in an age where almost every teen is using some kind of social media, and I think that is why the book spoke so much to me.
‘Trust Me, I’m Lying’ (Trust Me #1) by Mary Elizabeth Summer
I kept thinking that I was one step ahead of the book, but in the end I realized the story was always one step ahead of me. ‘Trust Me, I’m Lying’ shows how love can come at the most unexpected times and how you are willing to go anywhere in order to keep your family safe.
‘Dark Room’ by Tom Becker
Due to the uninspiring cover and the toe-curling slogan ‘Are you ready for your close-up?’, I almost skipped this novel. The only reason I changed my mind was the overall positive reviews on Goodreads. Now, I’m really glad I gave it a chance, because ‘Dark Room’ isn’t horror at all, but über good YA mystery that doesn’t disappoint a bit. In fact the wonderfully creepy atmosphere and excitement that hung in the air at night in gloomy, southern Saffron Hills, was absolutely to die for!
‘Hello, I Love You’ by Katie M. Stout
Sometimes you think you know exactly what you’re going to get, and you got the entire book planned out in your head. ‘Hello, I Love You’ was nothing like that. From the moment I got on the plane to Korea with the main character Grace, I was just as lost as her and had to find my way.
‘Hello, I Love You’ shows us how love can be tricky and difficult and most of all, that sometimes it is worth fighting for, even if you’re scared.
‘How to be brave’ by E. Katherine Kottaras
High School student Georgia is determined to go through a self-made bucket list to live life after her mothers dead. The blurb sounded really interesting, but ‘How to be brave’ and espcially Georgia’s bucket list disappointed me big time. Amanda from our editorial board asked me this very good question: “What items would you have liked instead on Georgia’s bucket list, in order to understand her better?”
‘A School for Unusual Girls’ (Stranje House #1) by Kathleen Baldwin
‘A School for Unusual Girls’ isn’t just another story about a guy and a girl falling in love though. It is a book about finding yourself and finding people who accept you for you.
‘Between’ by Dora Hilburn
“17 year old Anna moves into the haunted Fenway House with her dad.” And already at that point, it sounded like one of those novels I’m addicted to scare myself with in the late hours and with only the reading lamp on. But the story was really slow-paced, and the author couldn’t get deep into the characters to build up catching moments. I had so high hopes for this one, but it ended up feeling like preparing for a fabulous teenage road trip — in a car without spark plugs.
‘The Anxiety Survival Guide for Teens’ by Jennifer Shannon
“Hi Everyone! My name is Peter, and I’m the editor at Youth Culture Denmark. I was suffering from severe anxiety when I was a teen in the 90ies, and I would have paid anything to get introduced to Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) through a self-help book like this.” Everyone: “Hello Peter” 🙂 (Photo: Peter Henrichsen, Youth Culture Denmark)
‘Lies We Tell Ourselves’ by Robin Talley
A brutal book with so much to say: ‘Lies We Tell Ourselves’ were one of my most anticipated reads for this summer, and it did not disappoint me.
‘Just One Day’ (Just One Day #1) by Gayle Forman
Allyson has never done anything unexpected until she meets Willem. He asks her to go to Paris with him for just one day, and so she does. The book is a good mixture of travelling, love and finding yourself, which pretty much describes most teenagers wishes. Together I think Willem and Allyson make our times most epic love story.
