Love This YA Novel? Try It In Comic Form.

Lina Vilkas was 15 when a knock at her door changed her life forever. It’s June 1941, and her family’s just been arrested by the Soviet secret police. They’re being sent from Lithuania to Serbia.

Everything along the way is horrific, and the fight for Lina’s life is unrelenting. Then she gets an idea: she begins passing secret messages to her dad in another prison through drawings. She hopes it can help the family find freedom, though she knows that she’s also putting all of their lives at even greater risk.

When Will’s brother Shawn is killed by gunfire, Will wants to get revenge. He has the gun in his waistband, but as the elevator he takes from his apartment on the seventh floor goes down, Will meets several individuals in his building who may convince him that responding to violence with more violence isn’t the solution.

The short timespan of this novel, with the graphic novel format, makes it a fast read–and a read that will demand revisiting several times in one sitting.

If it’s wrong to tease a book that’s not due out for several more years, then allow me to be wrong. Dellaira’s phenomenally popular novel is getting a graphic novel edition that’s expected in fall 2028. The link here goes to the narrative version for those reasons, but there’s no one telling you not to get excited for the comic format.

Laurel’s English class assignment is to write a letter to a dead person, and she chooses Kurt Cobain. He was her sister’s favorite person, and he died young, as she did. Laurel finds the writing cathartic and begins penning a notebook’s worth of letters to dead celebrities. They help her untangle what happened to her–and ultimately, to her sister–in a way she could have never anticipated.

Monster is the story of 16-year-old Steve Harmon, who is telling his story through the format of a film script and diary entries as he awaits trial for murder. The murder occurred during a robbery at a drug store, where Steve was supposedly acting as a lookout. The details of the event are sketchy to Steve, but through the story, he begins to reconstruct what happened–and in the process, begins to free himself.

Among the major themes in the book are those of justice and the prison system–particularly as it relates to Black boys–as well as masculinity, peer pressure, and more.

Blue Sargentcomes from a family of psychics, even though she herself never had that power. Gansey is a privileged boy from an all-boys private school, and one of the boys that Blue has always avoided–the Raven Boys at that school are to be avoided.

But Gansey offers Blue something she’s always secretly wanted: to join in an adventure with him and three other Raven Boys to discover whether or not a Welsh king is sleeping beneath their mountain town. This promises to be an adventure full of the kind of magic Blue’s always longed for. But it isn’t long before the world becomes a little more dangerous than she could have bargained for.

The Dream Thieves, the second comic adaptation from the series, will hit shelves on August 4.

The first book in the beloved YA series, now a beloved adaptation, is making its comic debut. This story follows 16-year-old Lara Jean Covey, whose stored all of her unsent love letters in a box. Those letters, written to five boys, were for her and her alone. So when they’re released into the world, Lara Jean’s previously quiet love life becomes anything but.