CONSUME OR BE CONSUMED: YOUNG ADULT HORROR – FICTION

Careful what you wish for in Vanessa Montalban’s These Vengeful Wishes, in which a teen girl’s rage is ignited by a vengeful female spirit with a thirst for justice. The Summer I Ate The Rich by Maika Moulite & Maritza Moulite is a biting modern-day fable inspired by Haitian zombie lore that explores what happens when a Haitian American girl uses her previously hidden abilities to exact revenge on the wealthy elites who have caused her family pain. Trang Thanh Tran’s They Bloom At Night tells the story of a small Louisiana town overtaken by a strange red algae bloom, a teen who confronts the past she buried, and the monsters that swim beneath us…and live within us. Jihyun Yun captures the haunting of family myths in And The River Drags Her Down, where one sister breaks rules and uses ancestral magic to bring another sister back from the dead, with harrowing results.

Buy These Vengeful Wishes – Montalban

Buy The Summer I Ate the Rich – Moulite & Moulite

Buy They Bloom at Night – Tran

Buy And the River Drags Her Down – Yun