First it was The Hunger Games, now it is Catching Fire. I haven’t seen this month young adult enthusiasm since the early days of Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight phenomenon. In fact, Ms Meyer herself is a big fun of Suzanne Collins’ nail-biters.
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I hereby give to you today, the title of the final volume of the Chaos Walking trilogy:
Monsters of Men.
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Richard Harland took the time to talk to Booktopia’s SF & Fantasy editor, Richard Bilkey, about his new book Worldshaker and share his thoughts on steampunk in general.
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New Moon movie trailer is up.
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Categorising books can be the kiss of death especially when it comes to so called young adult fiction. So many terrific books get ignored just because people get into a mind set of only reading in a certain category. So let me get it out there.
Mal Peet’s books are generally categorised as young adult fiction.
Don’t [...]
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You’d have to be living under a rock (in a coffin?) to have missed the tsunami that is Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight saga. Starting out a few years ago with a teenage girl cult following, this has since developed into a publishing phenomenon and it seems neither gender nor age is a barrier to its appeal. [...]
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