Oddly hallowed words convince this cynical reader

[fieria]

Just cracked open a post-apocalyptic young adult book that's about ESP and all that neugothicky rot, and inside I found accolades from: Lloyd Alexander, Charles de Lint, Andre Norton, and Tamora Pierce. Translation: a recommendation from JK Rawling or the Pope would be redundant. All of those authors on the bookjacket are head honchos in fantasy

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[dillemmapickle]

now i too must find this little unknown and plop down for a read... woot

[fieria]

I found out about it from a lovely blog called "Book Smugglers" that has a YA focus this month. The two girls who run the site have a really relaxed but polished writing style--no elite word usage, no book snobbery about what's considered a good book beyond "did you like it?" and they sometimes write two-person conversational reviews. I dig em!

Here's the blog:
thebooksmugglers.com
I feed it to my LJ friends page so I actually read the blog instead of forgetting about it :)

[dillemmapickle]

I know have this book ordered and hopefully on its way... i am excited...

[fieria]

It's a five six book series! The way she set it up, it reminds me of Susan Cooper's The Dark is Rising sequence.

I got a bit annoyed at some of the extraneous dialogue Carmody inserted that never panned out later in the book, as well as a few of the story cliches, but overall it was a solid introduction to an new author (for me, not for the book market).