Comfort Reads

Some books are like comfort food. You're bored, or feeling down, and all you want to do is sit somewhere cosy with a plateful of cheesy lasagne. And a good book. Teen novels with a splash of magic and a good dollop of romance are my comfort food, and luckily for me there's plenty to choose from. I've read a bunch of good ones recently, so I thought I'd share them with you. Here they are

The Unquiet - Jeannine Garsee

Rinn isn't excited about moving back to her mother's hometown. It's cold, it's in the middle of nowhere, and a ghost may be haunting the school. Fortunately, there's a cute boy-next-door, and she makes friends pretty quickly. But soon she has to figure out whether the ghost is real, or if the voices in her head are back. 

Shiver - Maggie Stiefvater

Since surviving a wolf attack as a child, Grace has been…well, her friends would say obsessed with the yellow-eyed wolf who spends every winter watching her. Every summer she misses him, and he, as a human, can't work up the courage to talk to her. That's until there's another attack, the town seeks revenge, and a yellow-eyed boy with a bullet wound turns up on her doorstep.

Team Human - Justine Larbalestier & Sarah Rees Brennan

Mel might live in a town founded by vampires, but she isn't terribly fond of the undead. She's quite happy considering them as an abstract concept, and if they just stayed that way everything would be fine. But her best friend, a dreamy romantic with a taste for history and poetry, is falling for the new boy at school - a 160 year old vampire, and Mel is determined to put a stop to their foolish romance, whatever it takes. But because Mel has a habit of taking care of things, she's also volunteered to look into the mysterious disappearance of her other friend's father, and then there's the good-looking wannabe vampire that she definitely (maybe) doesn't want to get involved with...

Unspoken - Sarah Rees Brennan

Kami Glass is clever, ambitious, and maybe just a little insane. After all, people usually leave their imaginary friends behind with childhood, don't they? At the start of the new school year, Kami's biggest concern is reviving the school newspaper, but life in the sleepy English town of Sorry-in-the-Vale is about to get weirder, as the mysterious Lynburn family returns to their manor on the hill. All sorts of dark secrets are waiting for an aspiring investigative journalist to sniff them out, and it turns out that Kami's imaginary friend may be a little more real than everyone thought.