Several years back, a certain bookseller named Melissa grabbed my arm and said, “Sarah!  You’ve got to read this!  Now!”  She handed me the galley for THE WARRIOR HEIR, and I put it on my to-be-read pile.  As usual, Melissa was dead-on.  From the moment I started WARRIOR HEIR, I knew this was an author [...]

One of the best things about Rick Riordan’s PERCY JACKSON AND THE OLYMPIANS series being such a massive hit (beyond the fact that they’re just great books) is that now there are lots of other Greek mythology-based books, too. I enjoyed last year’s THE NIGHT TOURIST, based on the Orpheus myth – the story of [...]

Two things kept running through my head while I was reading this.
1. This is what it must be like to be inside a teenage boy’s head.
2. Teenage boys are jackasses. Hilarious, predictable, often meaning well but totally failing jackasses.
Will Carter is 14 and entering his freshman year of high school, and he is totally desperate [...]