(2) YA Jase and Kazi from Dance of Thieves are on their way back to Hell's Mouth but are attacked as they approach; Jase flees, but Kazi is captured and imprisoned. Separately, Jase and Kazi must work through palace intrigues and battle scenes to defeat their enemies and achieve a happy reunion. As good as the first volume was, this one is even better. The pacing is brisker, certain characters and incidents from the previous installment take on increased significance, and fantasy readers will welcome magic's more prominent role.

Reviewer: Jonathan Hunt | Horn Book Magazine Issue: November, 2019

(2) YA Kazimyrah is a premier guardswoman. Jase is newly named patrei of an outlying territory. Kazi has been sent by the queen to arrest Jase for treaty violations; things go awry when they are kidnapped, escape, and then fall in love. Deception, changing loyalties, and sacrifices await these fully rounded protagonists. Dense and detailed world-building (familiarity with the author's earlier-set Remnant Chronicles helps) includes complex politics and twisting allegiances.

Reviewer: Elissa Gershowitz | Horn Book Magazine Issue: November, 2018

(2) YA Remnant Chronicles series. Lia and Rafe must warn their kingdoms of impending invasion. Kaden tracks the pair down and, as usual, complicates matters: he still has feelings for Lia. Lia moves to thwart traitorous cabinet members and prepare her kingdom for war. Developing plot, character, and setting by rotating the point of view among the three protagonists, Pearson brings the ambitious trilogy to a rousing conclusion.

Reviewer: Jonathan Hunt | Horn Book Magazine Issue: January, 2017

(2) YA Remnant Chronicles series. The Kiss of Deception unmasked "the prince" (Rafe) and "the assassin" (Kaden), both of whom fell in love with Princess Lia. Now the fates of all three are in the hands of an iron-fisted ruler. Shifting viewpoints heighten suspense and track events in multiple settings. Bigger-picture world-building points toward a resolution not only of these players' fates but also their respective kingdoms.

Reviewer: Jonathan Hunt | Horn Book Magazine Issue: July, 2015

(2) YA Remnant Chronicles series. Rather than submit to an arranged marriage, seventeen-year-old princess Lia escapes to a distant outpost. She's tracked by her would-be husband--and also by an assassin. Pearson brilliantly headlines their alternating first-person narratives as "the prince" and "the assassin," whereas we know them from Lia's narrative only as Kaden and Rafe, keeping readers guessing which character is which.

Reviewer: Jonathan Hunt | Horn Book Magazine Issue: September, 2014

(2) YA Jenna Fox Chronicles series. In this trilogy ender, Locke (The Fox Inheritance) is recruited by the Resistance to find out whether their missing leader, long presumed dead, is really alive and imprisoned by Security. The Jenna Fox Chronicles distinguish themselves among dystopian novels because of their combination of genre appeal and literary merit, the juxtaposition of personal struggles and political turmoil, and the subtle exploration of human nature.

Reviewer: Jonathan Hunt | Horn Book Magazine Issue: March, 2013

(2) YA Jenna Fox Chronicles series. In this Adoration of Jenna Fox sequel, an unscrupulous scientist restores Locke and Kara's minds into new, improved bodies. They escape into an alien future world with one target: finding Jenna. Locke is the main character, and it's through his viewpoint that we experience the story's thrilling suspense, the friends' charged reunion, and the admirably complex playing out of trust, ethics, and betrayal.

Reviewer: Jonathan Hunt | Horn Book Magazine Issue: September, 2011

(2) YA Fate answers seventeen-year-old Destiny's wish ("Just one day, where the world is fair") with a pink convertible, a pet lamb, and three classmate companions. The friends' adventures, fraught with chance and coincidence, culminate in a climactic meeting with Destiny's family. Pearson's strong novel about the difficult business of growing up is tinged with mystery and just a touch of fantasy.

Reviewer: Jonathan Hunt | Horn Book Magazine Issue: September, 2009

(2) YA Jenna Fox Chronicles series. Jenna can't remember her past after emerging from a coma, but pieces of her memory begin to return as she recuperates. The novel is set in a future with advanced biomedical technology, and characters wrestle with the attendant ethical implications. With faith and science woven throughout, this provocative thriller is heightened by its portrait of a family under enormous stress.

Reviewer: Jonathan Hunt | Horn Book Magazine Issue: May, 2008

(3) YA Seventeen-year-old high school student Zoe gathers her courage to move out of her alcoholic mother's house. She finds temporary refuge in a rented room on Lorelei Street. Subsisting on tips from her diner job, a desperate act causes Zoe to again reevaluate her situation. Pearson's third-person narration perfectly fits the tone of a girl who keeps others at arm's length.

Reviewer: Elissa Gershowitz

(4) YA After Kait falls in love with Bram she learns that he is not only a member of the Crutchfield clan, whom her family has hated for generations, but that his father was killed by hers. Investigating her family history, Kait finds herself caught in a web of lies. Despite some unbelievable plot elements, romantic teens will relish this modern-day Hatfield and McCoy story of illicit love and twisted family loyalties.

Reviewer: Anne St. John