This is a special week! Today I’ve joined with other indie authors to participate in INDIEpendence Day! A huge celebration of indie books! Click on the badge to the left or the one down below to visit more websites highlighting…
Doug Solter
Young Adult Author and Screenwriter blogging about books, writing, movies, music, and life.
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This Is Not A Test Book Review
Shop Indie Bookstores When I think of zombies, I go back to the classic George Romero movies such as Night of the Living Dead and Dawn of the Dead. To me, those are the standards that I think most zombie…
Tagged with: author, book, contemporary, Courtney Summers, Doug Solter, fiction, horror, novel, review, teen, This Is Not A Test, YA, young adult, zombies
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THE CROWN Book Review
Shop Indie Bookstores First, I should point out that I know Nancy Bilyeau, author of THE CROWN. We’ve taken some writing classes together under Max Adams and we move around the same circle of online writing friends. When you support…
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Scars Book Review
Shop Indie Bookstores Wow. This book is so raw. Honest. And yes, gutsy. Yet SCARS doesn’t hit you over the head with its subject matter. The novel deals with many issues such as cutting, rape, abuse, and homosexuality. But the book doesn’t…
Tagged with: abuse, author, book, Cheryl Rainfield, cutting, Doug Solter, homosexuality, rape, review, SCARS, YA, young adult
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Clean Book Review
Shop Indie Bookstores What’s cool about CLEAN by Amy Reed is that, it’s this awesome mix of BREAKFAST CLUB meets ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO’S NEST. But instead of getting screwed by the system, the patients are getting help for a change. The…
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The Revenant Book Review
Shop Indie Bookstores This is one of the best ghost stories I’ve ever read. What I like about THE REVENANT is that the book is more than a ghost story, it’s a story that explores every teen’s fantasy of leaving home and forging a new life. But with a…
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Heist Society Book Review
Shop Indie Bookstores What a fun book. HEIST SOCIETY reminds me of OCEAN’S 11. The type of con movie where you actually root for the charming criminals because the people they’re stealing from are such dirt bags. HEIST SOCIETY centers on a teen…
Tagged with: Ally Carter, book, Heist Society, reviews, Series, YA, YA Authors, YA books
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The Mockingbirds Book Review
Shop Indie Bookstores I enjoyed reading THE MOCKINGBIRDS by Daisy Whitney. Date rape is an important issue that should be addressed in all schools, especially at colleges. This book does a fantastic job not only exploring the affects of rape,…
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Paper Towns Book Review
Shop Indie Bookstores Paper Towns is about a teenager who has been in love with his beautiful, yet mysterious classmate Margo Roth Spiegelman. One night when Margo shows up at his bedroom window and asks for help, the guy can’t…
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Leviathan Book Review
Shop Indie Bookstores What a fantastic adventure book. I’m a giant history nerd so any alternative WWI history story that deals with… A) Charles Darwin discovering how to splice animal genes which makes beasts that power factories as well as…
