“Write what you know” is one of the most common pieces of authorly advice, and it’s both great and terrible. Some of the best books come from writing your own experiences, while some of the other best books comes from digging so deep into the unknown one can’t tell whether it’s truly a work of […]
You cried when you read the book, you cried double when you saw the movie, and now you’re all cried out and in need of a seriously good follow-up read (and a glass of water). Gayle Forman’s elegiac heartbreaker If I Stay finds teenaged Mia on the precipice between death and life, after the rest […]
Maggie Stiefvater is the best-selling author of books including the Shiver trilogy, The Scorpio Races, and the thrilling, mind-bending Raven Cycle, continuing next week with third installment Blue Lily, Lily Blue. The last time we saw Blue Sargent and her raven boys, in 2013’s The Dream Thieves, Blue was fighting her attraction to doomed golden boy Gansey; tortured Ronan […]
More than once, while reading Blue Lily, Lily Blue, I paused to silently thank Maggie Stiefvater for making the Raven Cycle a four-book series. After this, there will be one more book following four prep-school boys and the feisty daughter of small-town psychics Blue Sargent in their search through the mountains of Virginia for the legendary, wish-granting […]
