Starred Review in Booklist for SPARK!

In today's issue of Booklist... A starred review for SPARK, my next book for kids!!! Eeeeee!!! Thanks so much, Booklist! SPARK comes out from Clarion Books / Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in just one month, on 5/14!

https://www.booklistonline.com/Spark-Sarah-Beth-Durst/pid=9712131

Booklist Starred Review for THE DEEPEST BLUE!

What to my wondering eyes did appear..... but a STARRED review of THE DEEPEST BLUE in Booklist!!! Eeeeeep! So thrilled, so grateful! Thank you, Booklist!  

https://www.booklistonline.com/The-Deepest-Blue-Sarah-Beth-Durst/pid=9711548

Starred Review in Booklist for THE QUEEN OF SORROW!

Eeeeep!!! So happy to be able to share another STARRED REVIEW for THE QUEEN OF SORROW, Book 3 of my Queens of Renthia epic fantasy trilogy, out 5/15 from Harper Voyager!!! Thank you, Booklist!

https://www.booklistonline.com/The-Queen-of-Sorrow-Sarah-Beth-Durst/pid=9311812

Starred Publishers Weekly Review for THE QUEEN OF SORROW!

Eeeeeeeee!!! A starred review for THE QUEEN OF SORROW, the 3rd (and final) book of my epic fantasy trilogy The Queens of Renthia (coming 5/15 from Harper Voyager)! Thank you, Publishers Weekly! I'm so thrilled and so grateful and so excited!

https://www.publishersweekly.com/9780062413383

2nd Star for THE STONE GIRL'S STORY!

Eeeeep!!! A 2nd STARRED REVIEW for my new middle grade book, THE STONE GIRL'S STORY! Thank you, Publishers Weekly! This is very happy making.

https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-1-328-72945-3

Starred Kirkus Review of THE STONE GIRL'S STORY!

Well, this totally made my day. The first trade review came in for my next middle grade book, THE STONE GIRL'S STORY (out 4/3/18). From Kirkus. And it's a STAR!!! When I saw it, I made a sound much like the sound my cat makes when she sees a bird out the window. Eeeeep!!! https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/sarah-beth-durst/the-stone-girls-story/

 

Starred Review for THE RELUCTANT QUEEN!

Starred review from Publishers Weekly for THE RELUCTANT QUEEN!!!  Yay!  So happy!

Starred Review for THE QUEEN OF BLOOD from Publishers Weekly!!!

THE QUEEN OF BLOOD got its 2nd starred review, from Publishers Weekly!!! So happy!!!!!

Starred Review for THE QUEEN OF BLOOD from Library Journal!!!

Just found out that THE QUEEN OF BLOOD got a starred review in Library Journal!!! Eeeeeep!!!

Booklist Starred Review for Vessel!

Ridiculously excited to report that Vessel received its third starred review, in the October 1st issue of Booklist!!!

I'm simply over the moon about this.  It's so wonderful to hear that people are enjoying Liyana's story.  Yay!  And thank you so much to everyone who has shared their kind words about the book.

Vessel
By Sarah Beth Durst
(Margaret K. McElderry; ISBN 9781442423763; September 2012; Fall Catalog)

Liyana is a vessel, the chosen one, nurtured, trained, and offered up by her clan for a great honor: giving her life so their goddess, Bayla, may return to earth to inhabit her body. But the goddess does not return. At the end of her day of sacrifice, Liyana is still alive, her clan having left her alone, disgraced, and in grave danger in the desert. Vessel is the read-alike for your Hunger Games–obsessed teens. From the quest to find the other clans’ spurned vessels, to the two attractive love interests, to the intelligent, independent young heroine, this folkloric fantasy, while harkening to that ever-popular novel and movie, is unique in its own web of clever, complex characters and attention-absorbing adventure. Its setting alone is so vital that it becomes another character, a part of the action. Readers will feel the desert heat, the earth-numbing droughts, the vicious sandstorms and resulting sandwolves, and the bizarre sensations of a goddess living within the body of its human vessel. Brilliantly riveting, Vessel’s only disappointment is its single volume, a fate that relegates Liyana, her lovers, and her friends to their own vessel, a single book.

-- Booklist, starred review