Review: Traitor to the Throne // Alwyn Hamilton
There’s a sweet spot where sequels want to be: the fine line between derivative and different. Replicate too much of the magic that made…
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Review: Caraval // Stephanie Garber
Stephanie Garber’s Caraval is a sumptuous feast steeped in the fantastical and decadent unto the final word. Set in a quasi-historical fantasy world that…
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Interview with Joanne O’Sullivan, author of BETWEEN TWO SKIES
Joanne O’Sullivan’s debut novel, Between Two Skies, features Evangeline Riley, a sixteen-year-old girl who loves her hometown, Bayou Perdu. She spends most of her…
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On Why Fiction Matters
When I began The Passed Note, it was because of a book of short stories. Specifically, it was because of a book of retold…
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YA Feild Guide to a Post-Fact Era// A Review of #Passingnotes Twitter Chat
Literature does not exist in a vacuum. Stories may be recorded on a page, but as I mentioned in my last Twitter chat…
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Review: When the Moon was Ours // Anna Marie McLemore
Occasionally, I read a book and wish I had written it myself. When the Moon was Ours is such a novel. The novel follows…
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All about the Ladies // a Review of #passingnotes Twitter Chat
We at The Passed Note try to engage with the topic of YA literature through Twitter chats on a semi regular basis. This past…
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13 YA Characters to be for Halloween // This Week on Our Shelf Life
Every week, we normally browse through the internet, searching for great articles on YA and the world of young adult literature. Often, it’s news…
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Nutt’s “Dangerous Fantasy” // This Week in Our Shelf Life
Every week, the staff at The Passed Note scrambles through the Internet for news on YA literature. That’s right, we comb through YA must-reads and…
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