We're back! The break was great, but both of us were anxious to get back to book talk, so we're opening up the second season with discussing a book with both read during the off season that completely blew us away, Girl Made of Stars by Ashley Herring Blake.

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You can find Emily on twitter @emilysaysgo

You can find Kenzie on twitter @kenziehalwen

For our LAST off season episode, we're going to do our best to talk about our top 5 favorite YA books with twist endings without, you know, ruining the twist. Read these books! You won't regret it.

We are so excited to be back to regular episodes next week! We're also in the process of planning out season two, so if you want to hear us talk about anything, let us know on twitter @shelf_involved.

We're back with another off season episode with the painstaking task of narrowing down our top 5 YA fantasy novels. Enjoy the gushing, you know we're obsessed with these books.

Tell us your favorite YA fantasy books so we can read them! Find us on twitter @shelf_involved

Today we have a very special guest, BFF of the podcast (or at least the co-hosts), Amy! Amy is someone who is at times exasperated by the naming trends in YA, so we played a fun game with her and made her guess which YA title corresponds to which one-sentence plot. We had a great time.

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We're back with another mini episode in our off season! This week we're talking about some of our favorite novels that tackle important, topical issues. Full disclosure, we couldn't *quite* narrow it down to five.

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We're back with another special off season episode! This week, we're having our good good friends (and producers) Alex and Ryan on to play a fun game with us. We're throwing it all the way back to 90s family road trip vibes with mad libs, but with a Shelf-Involved twist. Ryan and Alex help us complete the first page of our new YA dystopian novel. We enjoyed lovingly teasing a genre we love. 

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Welcome to a very special mini episode! We didn't want to leave you hanging in between seasons, so please enjoy some of these shorter snippets. We'll be back in September with more full episodes.

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This week we're talking about covers and how we all totally judge books this way. There is such a massive volume of YA books coming out, that trends in cover design are changing fast yet remaining distinct from adult fiction. We had more thoughts on this than we realized.

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This week we're talking about setting in YA. A lot of YA has an ambiguous, suburban setting, and that mostly works, but we love it when authors take the time to make their setting specific and an integral part of the story. We're talking about those books this week.

Tell us your favorite setting-heavy books on twitter @shelf_invovled

You can find Emily on twitter @emilysaysgo

And you can find Kenzie on twitter @kenziehalwen

In a continuation of our discussion on WW2 novels, this week we're talking about historical fiction as a genre (and the books that aren't set during WW2). Emily is a fan of the genre, but Kenzie's more a skeptic. Together they talk about what they like about the genre, why it's so popular, and what makes them hesitant to pick up a historical fiction novel.

As always, please tell us your favorite HF novels, so we can read them! Find us on twitter @shelf_involved.