Episode 07
Seventh Episode: The one where we talk about all types of teen fantasy books
Marisa and Mary return this time to talk about teen fantasy books of all types, and answer the hardest listener question: "What is your favorite book of all time?"
As always, if you need to add more books to your To Be Read pile, check out the Books Mentioned below! Thank you to Audra, the teen who asked our question this episode!
Marisa talked about
Marisa's first book was the genre-defying Jane Unlimited by Kristin Cashore. This is the choose your own adventure ending book for teens, it all starts with an invitation to a strange mansion on a remote island...
A brand newly released debut book was Marisa's second book: Cinderella Is Dead by Kalynn Bayron. Two hundred years after Cinderella and things are not well in the kingdom: Sophia would rather run away with her girlfriend than attend the ball...when things go awry she meets someone who will help her smash the patriarchy, and a great F/F romance.
Mary talked about Witchy by Ariel Slamet Ries, a middle grade graphic about a girl with a secret in a witch kingdom where your power is defined by the length of your hair; this book has won awards and has great LBTQIA+ themes.
For her second book, Mary talked about Tochi Onyebuchi's Beasts Made of Night, a Nigerian-influence fantasy where corrupt mages call forth sin beasts from those who can afford it, while young sin eaters like Taj must slay the beasts.
Books we talked about this episode:
Marisa's books:
Jane Unlimited by Kristin Cashore. High School, Grades 9+. Published September 19, 2017.
Cinderella Is Dead by Kalynn Bayron. Teen, Grades 7+. Published July 7, 2020.
Mary's books:
Witchy by Ariel Slamet Ries. Middle Grade, 5+. Published September 17, 2019.
Beasts Made of Night by Tochi Onyebuchi. Teen, Grades 7+. Published October 21, 2017.
Books mentioned:
Romeo and/or Juliet by Ryan North
Hazel Wood by Melissa Alpert
We Were Liars by E. Lockhart
Nimona by Noelle Stevenson
Archival Quality by Ivy Noelle Weir
Encyclopedia Brown comics by Steenz
Okay Witch by Emma Steinkellner
Tea Dragon Society by Kate O'Neill
A Curse So Dark and Lonely by Brigid Kemmerer
The Killing Joke by Alan Moore
The Stepsister by Jennifer Donnelly
Cinder by Marissa Meyer
Akata Witch by Nnedi Okorafor
Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi
A Song of Wraiths and Ruin by Roseanne A. Brown
All of Rick Riordan's work
War Girls by Tochi Onyebuchi
Uncanny X-Men
Sandman by Neil Gaiman
Strangers in Paradise by Terry Moore
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
Geisha, a Life by Mineko Iwasaki
Throne of Glass series by Sarah J. Maas
Harry Potter series by J. K. Rowling
