10/09/2017
More than a dozen YA writers take swings at the classic love triangle in this 16-story anthology edited by Parker (Beware the Wild), which features an array of genres and settings. Katie Cotugno kicks off the collection with a poignant story about a newly out lesbian pining for her brother’s longtime best friend. In Rae Carson’s tense “Omega Ship,” the last three teens in the universe—only one of whom is a girl—consider how to continue the human race. Julie Murphy’s funny-sexy “Lessons for Beginners” is a highlight: her heroine’s moneymaking enterprise as a kissing instructor (aka the “Kisser Fixer”) gets personal when she falls for one half of a couple she is coaching. Renée Ahdieh turns in a seductive escapist tryst in Buenos Aires, and Justina Ireland offers a fierce tentative romance set in the zombie-riddled post–Civil War era of her forthcoming Dread Nation. Offerings from Brandy Colbert, Alaya Dawn Johnson, Garth Nix, Veronica Roth, Sabaa Tahir, and others bring additional romantic entanglements to a volume that has something for readers of all genders and orientations. Ages 14–up. Agent: Sarah Davies, Greenhouse Literary (Dec.)
The B&N Teen blog welcomes author Natalie C. Parker to the blog this week to talk triangle, twisty, sticky and swoonworthy! The love triangle in young adult fiction is unfairly maligned. I know, I know, those are fighting words, and I’m here for it. But this is a trope with so much passion to give! A trope […]
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