…there was a headstrong fairy princess and a frog with an axe. But that’s another story.
My name is Dawn Metcalf and I write dark, quirky, and sometimes humorous speculative fiction. My debut novel, LUMINOUS, is a YA paranormal fantasy by Dutton Books, in stores now.
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Young Joan Jett is my inspiration for the fearless, feckless and wily Invisible Inq, sister to Indelible Ink, consummate trickster and carefree spirit of the Twixt. She is the second Scribe, the one who marks humans with life-changing experiences kept secret, below the skin. We’ll find out more about Inq’s antics in my next book, INDELIBLE, coming out next year, spring of 2013!
While researching what makes a good sequel work, I picked up Cassandra Clare’s second book in her second series and read it all the way through in nearly one sitting.
Then again. And again.
Reading something, anything, three times in a row is almost unheard of in my world of limited time and limitless TBR piles, but there it is: it was THAT good!
Not only the pacing and descriptions as a work of craft, but the setting, the action and the premise raised the stakes as well as the most convincing love triangle developments I’ve read in the genre which is rife with them. (In my mind it’s tough to switch loyalties or split my allegiance between characters, one is always [at least to my mind] the clear and obvious choice.) But James and Will both have their own particular magic and allure and her indecision was believable–something I will always admire from this book.
Not to mention a whole host of other reasons!
