Before our first round judges start making their decisions we’d really like to hear from you about the books on the NHYA 2011 short-list. I mean, what’s a book tournament without STRONG OPINIONS from readers, right?
If you are getting ready to use your srs frowny face if a certain book doesn’t move on we’d love to know. If you’ve reviewed one, or more of the books please leave us links to check out. We’ll add your links into this post once the tournament starts, so that anyone who drops by can check out your useul NHYA resource.
Gush, squee, debate away! We’re listening 
Reviews and Discussion
Doret: ‘The judges for Stingz and Five Flavors of Dumb have two great books to look forward to.’
Paranthetical: ‘Agreed about ‘Five Flavours of Dumb’,I think that’s my favorite of the ones I’ve read, and that’s saying something, because I also loved ’8th Grade Superzero’ pretty hard.’ ‘The Kid Table’, ‘A Love Story Starring My Dead Best Friend’.
Rhapsody in Books: ‘Pull’, ‘When the Stars Go Blue’. ’I loved both of them!’
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June 10, 2011 at 1:54 am
Doret
The judges for Stingz and Five Flavors of Dumb have two great books to look forward to. Stingz was very good. I loved Jace Adams, the main character. He was one of my favorite male characters of 2011. If someone asked if they should read Stringz the answer will always be yes. As much as I enjoyed Stingz I’d be very suprised if
Five Flavors of Dumb didn’t move on. That book was so freakin good. I can easily see it making it all the way to the end.
June 10, 2011 at 11:36 am
Sam @ Parenthetical
Agreed about Five Flavors of Dumb! I think that’s my favorite of the ones I’ve read, and that’s saying something, because I also loved 8th Grade Superzero pretty hard.
None of the ones I’ve read are paired up against each other (so far)! So the only opinion I can pretend to have about 1st round is that, while I thought Last Summer of the Death Warriors was okay, it was also pretty formulaic in a lot of ways, and I have heard such amazing things about Hamburger Helpin that I hope that moves on.
Links to my other reviews:
The Kid Table
A Love Story Starring My Dead Best Friend
June 15, 2011 at 4:42 am
rhapsodyinbooks
I did a review of Pull which is here:
http://rhapsodyinbooks.wordpress.com/2011/02/22/review-of-“pull”-by-b-a-binns/
I also did a review of When The Stars Go Blue which is here:
http://rhapsodyinbooks.wordpress.com/2011/02/25/review-of-“when-the-stars-go-blue”-by-caridad-ferrer/
I loved both of them!