The old Etruscan city of Grifonia swarms with year-abroad students―thousands of them from all over. Ostensibly, they've come to study. But really they are here to reinvent themselves, to shuck their identities and buck constraints far from the watchful eyes of parents and others who know them too we...
Grifonia is an ancient Italian city which plays host to swarms of foreign exchange students every year. Irish student Tabitha Deacon arrives wanting to immerse herself fully into Italian life and so turns down the university accommodation and quickly finds herself renting a room in a small cottage w...
This book was the best of both magical novels and Southern fiction, and I loved every minute of it. Once I started reading it I couldn't put it down. The characters were believable, and even though some of them seemed too perfect in the beginning they eventually revealed their flaws, and by the end ...
Thank you to Knopf Canada/Random House Canada for providing me with an advanced reader’s copy of this book to review. I will say with rather fair certainty this book will end up being one of the most – if not THE MOST – memorable books of this whole year. I didn’t know what to expect from it exact...
This was a pretty good book. It was definitely different than most of the books I read. I like story, I didnt expect it end the way it did. It sucks The White Glove War doesnt come out till July.
This book wasn't what I was expecting at all. I was looking for something fun and lighthearted, and this book was not that. And I might have been fine for that, except the author kept hitting the main character with one bad situation after another, with no real resolution. I found I was much more in...
http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/culturebox/2011/06/writing_youngadult_fiction.htmlYA readers are "excited to judge" the authors.YA readers don't give a damn about details, just the story.YA is mindlessly slopping together a story.
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