After weeks and months of seeing bloggers rave about Dear Martin, I can’t wait to pick it up too. I’m pretty curious about I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter and A Line in the Dark as well. These three represent black, Mexican and Chinese youths respectively, which is heartening because there is by far not enough ethnic diversity in YA literature. The Innocence Treatment also sounds intriguing as it deals with mental health in science fiction.

Some big names are on the list of this week’s young adult book releases, notably John Green with Turtles All the Way Down, Maggie Stiefvater with All the Crooked Saints, and Amy Reed with The Nowhere Girls. Joelle Charbonneau’s Dividing Eden novella, Into the Garden also releases this week as an ebook. Rae Carson’s The Gold Seer Trilogy also comes to a conclusion as Into the Bright Unknown hits the shelves.

Can’t believe it’s October already! I feel like September only just started; probably because I spent most of last month packing and shifting stuff ahead of our home renovation, which means the days just melded into one another for me. With renovations ongoing the coming month, then moving and unpacking again, I’ll not have a lot of time to blog but I’ll check in when I can.

Hot off the Press posts are back! The past weeks have been so busy for me, I wasn’t able to keep up with the latest releases. Things haven’t slowed down on my end but I missed knowing which books hit the shelves, so here we are. I hope you find new gems through these posts.

New month, new books! Well, one more day to August but since books in the US usually drop on Tuesdays and in the UK on Thursdays, let’s just roll with that. Have fun choosing among these YA titles hot off the press!