There is so much to address about The Black Prism. We have a very ambitious new fantasy world, a unique and fairly complicated magic system, an interesting political set-up, and some pretty ambiguous characters. The Black Prism [is] a spicy recipe for a series that I will definitely be lining up to finish.
Books
Book related posts (from a reader’s point of view – see ‘Writer’s Life’ for writing posts).
Laurie Halse Anderson’s SPEAK
This is the situation: Some guy thinks a rape scene is pornography, and wants to keep the book out of the hands of “impressionable teenagers”. Myra McEntire has already said everything that I was thinking about on the subject. (McEntire has a YA of her own, due to be released in May of 2011, which…
Review: The Replacement by Brenna Yovanoff
A macabre hyperbole of teenage existence… The Replacement is an excellent coming-of-age, finding-yourself tale for the YA crowd, with just the right amount of teenage angst – making it compelling to adults rather than annoying.
Wishlist: Upcoming Titles
The Black Prism by Brent Weeks. The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson. Married with Zombies by Jesse Petersen. Blameless by Gail Carriger.
Review: Shades of Gray Jackie Kessler/Caitlin Kittredge
Kittredge & Kessler have taken the two-dimensional world of superhero comic books and given it a depth and feeling that echoes the real world, but on a superhuman scale.