Thanks to Stephenie Meyer, teen fiction and vampires is on fire and the past couple of years has seen an explosion of new series riding the popularity wave. One of the newest entries in this subgenre is Max Turner’s debut which was originally released in Canada last year.
Not quite 300 pages long, Night Runner is a nonstop, high-speed adventure / mystery / thriller starring 15-year-old Zack Thompson who discovers that he’s — what else — a vampire!
August 12th, 2009. Robert Thompson´s rating: 3.5 | Max Turner | Stand-Alone, Young Adult | SFF Reviews | no comments |
Weetzie Bat: Dangerous Angels by Francesca Lia Block
Francesca Lia Block writes strange but intoxicating tales; stories that are surreal and yet oddly comforting. To classify her books are nearly impossible. The format is that of fairytales, in which her protagonists face a series of challenges, and learn a valuable life lesson by book’s end. Yet her genre is that of magic realism, in which she fills the city of Los Angeles (and in one case, New York) with all sorts of weird and wonderful occurrences, such as wishes granted by genies,
August 12th, 2009. Rebecca Fisher´s rating: 5 | Francesca Lia Block | Young Adult | SFF Reviews | no comments |
Looking forward to reading the review.
Always my pleasure, Marion! I'm almost finished with Book #3 now, and hope to be reporting on it very shortly....
After reading your review, I'm quite sure I never read this one, or Book Three for that matter. I loved…
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On her blog, "Aunt Beast" says she is in the early stages of working on another Tinfoil Dossier novella, so…