APB – Fall 2016

From the Booking Desk: This is the fifth post for this new feature here at BOLO Books – The APB (All Points Bulletin). As always, competition for these slots was tough. I have already read many of these titles, so I can wholeheartedly endorse this list. There are many...

The Fixes – The BOLO Books Review

When Owen Laukkanen ventured into the young adult writing world under the pen name of Owen Matthews, he created a new, unique style that is all his own. Just as with the Anthony-Award nominated How to Win at High School, Owen’s new YA novel, The Fixes, employs the...

Violent Ends –
The BOLO Books Review

One book, seventeen chapters, seventeen different authors. If your first thought is that this can never work, you would be forgiven, but in actually it does work and in the case of this new young adult novel, it works very well indeed. Violent Ends was conceived by...

How to Win at High School –
The BOLO Books Review

From Revenge of the Nerds to Mean Girls, our cinema history is filled with tales of teens who manage to find a way to overcome some perceived disadvantage to become popular. Now, Owen Matthews’ debut Young Adult book – How to Win at High School – gives readers the...

Melissa Marr –
The BOLO Books Interview

From the Booking Desk: I’m going to go a bit fanboy here for a moment and try not to hyperventilate. Today, I am very pleased to welcome Melissa Marr to BOLO Books.  I have loved Melissa’s work since she first released Wicked Lovely some time ago.  I have...