Kirkus reviews are in...

[creative-lefty2.livejournal.com]

...and "A Conspiracy of Kings" made the list! Yeah!

Here's the link: http://www.kirkusreviews.com/lists/2010-best-books-teens-complete-list/. The one we most care about is nearly at the bottom of the page.

Comments

[brandy-painter.livejournal.com]

Yay! Good day for our favorite author. It also made the SLJ Best Books of 2010 (again all the way at the bottom).

http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/slj/newslettersnewsletterbucketextrahelping/887793-443/best_books_2010_fiction.html.csp

[jade-sabre-301.livejournal.com]

GERALD MORRIS FINISHED UP HIS SQUIRE'S TALES?

OMGNOWAI

/now must track down all of them

d'ohhh

[thnidu.livejournal.com]

What's wrong? I don't see it on that Kirkus page at all. ... Oh, THERE it is! Middle column, 2nd from the bottom. So why doesn't my browser's FIND "turner" find it?

("Maybe because you had Match case set and you typed it with a small t?"
 "Shut up, Loiosh.")

[beth-shulman.livejournal.com]

Wow, that list is all over the place. I loved some of it and really disliked others.

[creative-lefty2.livejournal.com]

I think they do it alphabetical by author. It's the only why to justify why it's always at the bottom.

[lizzyazula.livejournal.com]

"For series fans, unmissable."

Unmissable, indeed.

[reader-marie.livejournal.com]

Yep, and it's amazing (as they all are). I want to do a series read myself, but I've switched libraries since I did my last one, so I hope I'll be able to find them all...

[jade-sabre-301.livejournal.com]

no one does royals and politics quite like Turner

ALL MY HOPES DREAMS AND ASPIRATIONS, CRUSHED IN ONE SENTENCE

[ninedaysaqueen.livejournal.com]

You haven't heard, Jade? And, wait...? You're a GM fan!!!??? Why didn't you tell me? Come visit me at squirestales.

The final two were published recently.

The Squire's Quest (09)

Why is it, Terence wondered, that the things you know most surely are always the things you can’t demonstrate to any one else?
And why is it, after all of these years, that Terence is still just a squire, offering advice on how best to scrub the rust spots from armor? But Squire Terence has more to worry about than his place on the social scale. For all the peace and prosperity that has made England famous across Europe, Terence is uneasy. After nearly six months without contact with the World of the Faeries – not even from his old friend, the mischievous sprite Robin – Terence is sure something is rotten in King Arthur's court.

The Legend of the King (10)

In this final installment of the Squire's Tale series, Terence and his fellow Knights of the Round Table must come together in a last stand to save Camelot. The characters Gerald Morris has brought to life throughout his series—Terence and Gawain, Lynet and Gaheris, Luneta and Rhience, Dinadan and Palomides—each have an important role to play in this climactic final conflict. Maintaining their faith, selflessness, and honor, Arthur's court bands together to try to defeat Morgause and Mordred and banish the dark magic from England forever.

And man, are they awesome! SQ blew me away, but then I read LeK. There are no words. It's THAT good.

[ninedaysaqueen.livejournal.com]

Did you see LeK on there, Beth?

[beth-shulman.livejournal.com]

YESSSS I did. I really liked that book. I really liked it. And it's a Horn Book starred something as well!