Julie Leung

About Julie Leung

By day, Julie Leung noodles on pixels and bits for the digital marketing department at Random House Children's Books. By night, she listlessly transcribes her nerdy brain droppings into Word, Photoshop, and Facebook format.

April 28, 2013

Your Latest Fate: Lauren Morrill’s Meant to Be

Morrill's debut novel is a romantic comedy befitting dreamy bookworms with a taste for screwball. Consider this literary confection the equivalent of a Cadbury cream egg – a brightly wrapped sweet treat that tugs at the heartstrings of the Anglophile in all of us.

July 15, 2012

A Fairy Tale for the Postmodern Fangirl: Marissa Meyer’s Cinder

In Cinder, her first book in The Lunar Chronicles, Meyer has reinterpreted a classic fairy tale, setting it in a futuristic city and making the 'princess' a cyborg. For fans of anime and sci-fi, this young-adult book will delight.

April 15, 2012

The Beauty of Disillusionment: Graffiti Moon, by Cath Crowley

Cath Crowley's Graffiti Moon achieves the minor miracle of capturing disillusioned teen voices in a way that not only avoids the pitfalls of many young-adult stereotypes, but also reaches a level of poeticism that is simply sublime.