If You Find Me by Emily Murdoch

A book review by Kat Seevers

 

This book is a very compelling and poignant novel. The heroine is a very strong but bruised -- physically and mentally -- character who is not a vampire or shape-shifter, or a fallen angel. Because she is none of those is another reason I found this novel refreshing. That is not to say that horrible things do not happen -- and they do -- retold in flashbacks and memories, but it also shows that things can work out. That a path can be changed, and for the good. That a family can be made up of many different parts and still work.

Find it in APL Teen Fiction YA FIC Murdoch, E.

Reached by Ally Condie

A book review by Madeline Soucie

Reached is the final book in the Matched trilogy. 





In the series, Cassia lives in a society set in the future. Instead of states, there are Provinces and the society knows best, which is why it controls everything. The society tells people who they are "matched" to, when they get married to their "match", when to have kids, and when people die. But at her matching banquet, Cassia is matched to two boys, one of whom isn't supposed to be on the matching list. This puts the thought in Cassia's mind that the society might not be so perfect and she stars to doubt everything she has ever known. 

Read what happens to Cassia in Matched, Crossed, and Reached.

 

Find it in APL Teen Fiction FIC YA Condie, A.