In honor of Mother’s Day, instead of extolling the virtues of the great fictional moms out there (of which there are many) I’d like to take time to discuss the worst parents I’ve encountered in young adult books thus far. Let’s face it, they can’t all be Rachel Morgan, mother of Cammie Morgan, ex-spy, and …
Basically this review should be a video of me doing a fangirl flail, but I don’t feel like putting on make up, so just picture a big pink Kermit flail of joy. That would be me. I’m going to post most of this review after a Spoiler!Cut, so if you’ve read it and want to …
Spoiler-Free Quick & Dirty Thoughts: It was incredible overall. Every actor sold their character to me. They all embraced the world they were in and ran with it, from the irritating airhead Effie Trinket to the nicely-bearded Game Maker Seneca. (My friend Ben left wanting a similar bread. Go, make up crew!) The costumes were …
There was an article in The Guardian recently asking why dystopian novels are so popular right now, especially in the young adult section. It’s not, thankfully, one of those alarmist articles decrying YA as evil and bad and destroying our children. It was written by a YA author, Moira Young. She concludes that the chaos …
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