Best Teen Fiction 2025 (based entirely on my own opinions)
I combed through my list of books read and pulled out my favorites from this past year. They may not all be new, but they were new to me when I read them. Here are my picks....in no particular order I borrowed this expecting it to be just another hyped up ghost/horror story but found something unexpected and awesome. Here we have the trope of a group of students going into a haunted area and having something terrible happen that no one talks about and then they return and face what happened .....and Kemp keeps readers guessing by constantly flipping between then and now. What made this book awesome was the twist ending, which shows that sometimes a good ending will absolutely make (or break) a book. I enjoyed the character explorations as well as the steady rise in intensity for those in the current day but the ending? *chef's kiss* Can't explain without giving it away....but definitely give it a try. The Corruption of Hollis Brown was another w...