The Split: A Young Adult Book Review Podcast for Readers and Writers

It's tough letting go, especially when you love YA colonization thrillers! Check out Bryan and Robert's review of The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness. 

Todd Hewitt is just one month away from becoming a man in a world where everyone can hear each other's thoughts. The Noise germ laid all thoughts bare years ago, but despite the cacophony, Todd knows the people he loves are keeping secrets. When he's forced to flee with his dog, whose thoughts also cloud his mind, he runs smack dab into the biggest secret of all. Todd must set off on a journey with a newfound friend as he seeks to learn the truth about who he is and why the members of his town seem to be stalking his every move.

Unlike this show, Monument 14 wasn't a disaster at all! Check out our review of the action-packed Monument 14 by Emmy Laybourne. 

Dean is like most kids his age. Awkward, nerdy, and endlessly hung up on the most popular girl in school. When he runs to catch the bus one morning, little does he know he and his classmates are about to change forever. The hail struck first, taking down the ever-present computer network and ending millions of lives. As the group of 14 students tries to take refuge in a chain superstore, a cloud of unearthed chemical weapons will turn what little is left of their city streets into a wasteland. To stay alive, they'll need to stick together. Even if Dean and several of his classmates are ticking time bombs just waiting to go off.

If Robert and Bryan could specialize in any material, it would be book reviews! Check out their review of The Paper Magician by Charlie N. Holmberg. 

Ceony Twill was the top of her class at the Tagis Praff School for the Magically Inclined, but even that doesn't mean she can choose her fate. While most students get to choose their material specialty, she's stuck with paper and the eccentric Emery Thane will be her guide. After she forever bonds to paper as her specialty, her master is attacked by a practitioner of dark, flesh magic. Now she must use everything she's learned to keep Emery Thane alive in a journey that will take her into the chambers of Thane's still-beating heart, his mind, and his soul.

Unlike paper towns, this review really does exist! Check out Bryan and Robert's review of John Green's second most popular book, Paper Towns. 

Quentin Jacobsen's girl next door, Margo Roth Spiegelman, has always been a beautiful mystery. When she enlists his help in an all-night revenge campaign, Quentin thinks his love may finally be realized. At least, until she disappears, leaving a trail of indecipherable bread crumbs in her wake. With the help of his friends, Quentin will track down the girl next door, but it's looking less and less likely that he ever knew the real Margot at all.

Get out your Tarot deck and polish your Louisiana accept, because we're going to the deep South! Check out Bryan and Robert's review of Poison Princess by Kresley Cole. 

Evie Green is one of the popular kids in her Louisiana high school, at least until she starts seeing terrifying visions. Shortly after the cajun outcast Jack Deveaux takes an interest in her and her secret hallucinations, the world is changed forever, and Evie's visions may have everything to do with it. Will an ancient prophecy light the way to a world-altered battle between good and evil? Will Evie find out which side she's on before it's too late?

Listen as Bryan and Robert use their Grace of killer book reviewing! This week, check out their review of Graceling by Kristin Cashore. 

In a world where a select few possess special talents known as graces that can range from dancing to swimming, Katsa's power is killing. She's been forced to use her abilities for her tyrannical uncle for most of her life, but when a kidnapping plot reveals much more below the surface, Katsa must team with another Graced fighter to save a young girl and an entire kingdom.

People are lining up to win our podcast affection! Check out Bryan and Robert's review of the novella The Prince by Kiera Cass. 

Before thirty-five girls were chosen to compete for Prince Maxon's heart on the selection, he was just a boy trying to come to terms with a life that would never be the same. Did he know love before America came into his life? Did he consider sending her home after her surprise assault? All two questions will be answered in this 64-page novella set in the world of The Selection.

Nerds... in... space! Check out Robert and Bryan's take on Hugh Howey's debut novel, Molly Fyde and the Parsona Rescue. 

Molly Fyde was the only girl in Flight Academy until she was expelled by her sexist commander. She'd nearly adjusted to a life in normal high school when her father's old starship turned up on the other side of the galaxy. She sets off on a long journey across the cosmos with her old flight partner/crush and treats it like a Spring Break vacation. Gunfire, flooding, arms dealers, betrayal, and even a fusion bomb may turn this into the last trip Molly will ever take.

Bryan and Robert are deliriously excited to review another Lauren Oliver book! Check out their review of her series starter Delirium. 

Lena Haloway is about to be cured. As soon as she turns eighteen – or in 95 days, not that anyone’s counting. Cured of what? Of a disease that has been a destructive force in mankind since the dawn of time: love.

Once she is cured, she’ll be free to be “paired” with a government-chosen life-long partner, and there’ll be no chance she’ll be struck down by the debilitating amor deliria nervosa. Lena is nervous: some of her friends caught the disease before they were cured, and even her mother committed suicide after the “cure” failed for the third time in a row.

But what Lena doesn’t yet know is she’s about to meet Alex – a security guard at the curing labs – and plunge headlong into a world she would rather never have discovered.

Soon she’ll be confronted with a difficult choice: will the “cure” be worse than the disease?

Try as they might, Bryan and Robert can't get their hands to light up, but they'll drown this week's sorrows in a review of I Am Number Four by Pittacus Lore. 

Nine Loriens came to Earth a decade ago, and while they look like humans, they're faster and stronger than any person alive. 15-year-old John Smith, a.k.a. Number Four, has been protected from the murderous Mogadorians due to a charm that prevents the Loriens' enemies from harming them out of order. When Numbers One through Three fall, Number Four is now vulnerable. He's next, but he's not going down without a fight.