...Literary traditions aren’t as much guilty of misrepresentation as they are of focusing too much on the “good guy” in my opinion. For the hero of the story to be heroic, he or she needed to face implacable evil. It would have been very inconvenient to peek behind the curtain of evil to see that the dragon is protecting vulnerable young....
Gen and her twin brother, Jack, were raised with their mother's tales of life in the World Above. Gen is …
In Extras, the last book in Scott Westerfeld’s Uglies series, Aya tells us that when Tally Youngblood made the mind-rain fall, it cured all the pretties and changed the world forever. But Tally and her friends did more than change their world; they changed ours too.