Lush. If I had to pick just one word to describe Laini Taylor’s startlingly original new novel Daughter of Smoke and Bone that word would be: lush. Lush in every definition of the word – full of sensory detail, a world that you can sink right into and be totally immersed. If you follow YA…
There comes a moment when you’re reading Harry Potter when you stop thinking about Quidditch, about quaffles and beaters and chasers and bludgers, and you just know it. Which is not to say that, suddenly, you have every single rule figured out and know exactly what’s happening in every second. It’s that you just accept…
As librarians we bend over backwards for our reluctant readers. We salivate at the idea that a book is perfect for reluctant readers, that it’s so appealing that kids who don’t like books will LOVE it. We preen with delight when non-readers tell us “I loved this book and I never read books.” We feel…
When I started thinking about why I loved The Monstrumologist series (the series is The Monstrumologist, The Curse of the Wendigo and the forthcoming Isle of Blood, which – DON’T FORGET – releases next week and is the book we’re currently doing a PR push for!) why I thought it was so damn special in…
Recently, there was a bit of online outcry when it was announced that Simon & Schuster had decided not to continue Rick Yancey’s Printz-Honor winning series The Monstrumologist. After much protest from fans, word came down that there would be a fourth book in the series, huzzah, good work fandom! BUT! Fandom must never rest! …