Miss AddictedNowToFacebookFlair is present and accounted for, having caught up from yesterday, and commenced today's wordcount.
I read a bunch of books recently, and realized I have been dilatory, so we are going to now have the Grand Return of:
Middle-Grade & YA reviews, ETC...
Today we feature:



All of which have splendid covers. *triumph!*
Peeled in one-line:
An aspiring journalist who loves her orchard-country town tries to get to the bottom of a "haunting" causing trouble
Ever:
To save her aunt, a young carpet-weaver will be sacrificed--and a young god who loves her is determined she should not die.
Savvy:An odd family manifest superpowers on the 13th birthday--and just before the heroine's, tragedy strikes she's determined to fix with her new "savvy"
( In which I expound, a thing at which I excell )What I have started and am going to hazard to recommend, because I'm impressed so far:

Stoneheart is grim, but the writing is drawing me in despite the fact I don't really do grim boy fiction ^_^ (or grim girl fiction, either, come to think of it...)
Airman is likewise a bit darker than Colfer's usual fare, but very steampunk as far as I can see. To give you an idea, explosion is in the first chapter, and by the third (?) there's already a body count. There's been some foreshadowing, but it could go anywhere from here. I'm gonna see...
If you saw this before there was an LJ cut, I got it accidentally posted before I wrote my actual reviews. Yipes...so, this is the real McCoy.
On a totally not YA/MG note, I also just finished
Shadowbridge. Not totally my thing, but writing that good trumps all, as Miss Snark and her many cohorts say. Wish I got a better visual of the world. I feel like the descriptions kind of skirt around the grand central image, which is kind of frustrating. I need a little more for my imagination to go on.
Otherwise, it's been Georgette Heyer and Wooster and Jeeves for me, ducks.
Playing with Fire has been moving slowly, but I am in love with Skulduggery as always.
*oooh. There must be Skulduggery flair. Shiny!*