Return to Currently Reading Menu

Note: Most links go to the book's page on Amazon.com.

Ann Halam's Siberia. Most adult writers who decide to try YA make a mistake (imo) in doing so, that is, the attitude that young adult writing is easy because it's simple-minded usually produces a predicable, flat story, usually with a hammer-head social message, and told in a condescending voice. (Notice how many kidzbooks by celebrities swiftly end on the remainder table, and then vanish.)

Well, not this one. The voice is just right, the world intense, tense, scary, and then breath-taking with magical possibility as the heroine goes from a hut in Siberia to a creepy prison school and then . . . no, just treat yourself and read it. And then, if you like complex, beautifully written adult sf, try the books by Gwyneth Jones.

Return to Currently Reading Menu