#39: Gritty, The Gritty YA Novel

Eric and Kelly talk about YA adaptations of all stripes and share their spring YA TBRs.
This episode is sponsored by Book Riot Insiders, The Iliad by Gareth Hinds, and Chicken Girl by Heather Smith from Penguin Teen Canada.
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Show Notes:
Hungry Hearts edited by Elsie Chapman and Caroline Tung Richmond
It’s a Whole Spiel edited by Katherine Locke and Lauren Silverman
This Time Will Be Different by Misa Sigiura
The Weight Of Our Sky by Hanna Alkaf
I Don’t Want To Be Crazy by Samantha Shultz
Parkland by David Cullen
The Shadow Queen by CJ Redwine
A Long, Long Sleep by Anna Sheehan
Hunted by Meagan Spooner
Sherwood by Meagan Spooner
The Forest Queen by Betsy Cornwell
I, Claudia by Mary McCoy
Cinder by Marissa Meyer
Ash by Malinda Lo
Blanca and Roja by Anna-Marie McLemore
Forest of a Thousand Lanterns by Julie C. Dao
Stepsister by Jennifer Donnelly
Splintered by AG Howard
His Hideous Heart edited by Dahlia Adler
A Blade So Black by L.L. McKinney
A Sky Without Stars by Jessica Brody and Joanne Rendell
Heart of Iron by Ashley Poston
The Wrath and the Dawn by Renee Ahdieh
Ordinary Girls by Blair Thornburgh
Bookish Boyfriends: The Boy Next Door by Tiffany Schmidt
With The Fire on High by Elizabeth Acevedo
Forward Me Back to You by Mitali Perkins
Finding Yvonne by Brandy Colbert
All Of Us With Wings by Michelle Ruiz Keil
We Are The Perfect Girl by Ariel Kaplan
Somewhere Only We Know by Maurene Goo
Brave Face by Shaun David Hutchinson
There’s Something About Sweetie by Sandhya Menon