Tori Knightwood

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Category: First Love

Let’s Talk About: The Sun is Also a Star

May 18, 2017 /

Liza Street talks about: The Sun is Also a Star by Nicola Yoon:

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This book, you guys! It was soooooo good! Swoony but realistic. I won’t say anything more about the end because it would be a huge spoiler, but I will say that the whole thing is just incredible. This book encapsulates everything I love about YA contemporary romance–believable characters with real problems that didn’t feel orchestrated. Their actions were plausible, their voices distinct and youthful (I mean, they sounded like legitimate teenagers to my 30-something ears).

The story for the most part takes place over a single day, but I didn’t doubt for a second that these two fell for each other.

Nicola Yoon has another popular book, Everything, Everything, which I am very interested in reading. And I just saw a movie trailer for it, so that’s exciting!

(from Tori, Liza, and Sibyl’s shared blog)

First Love: Bitten

February 16, 2017 /

Back when I was a younger Liza, I was new to the world of paranormal and urban fantasy. Sure, as a teenager I read LJ Smith’s Vampire Diaries series, but when I was an adult, I stumbled across a copy of Kelley Armstrong’s Stolen, it felt like a whole new world had opened up to me.

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I read Stolen in probably a single sitting, and then I had to go back and find Bitten. I loved Bitten even more than Stolen, and thus began my decade-long love affair with Kelley Armstrong’s writing.

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At the time, she was also posting short stories and novellas from the Women of the Otherworld universe on her website, and I greedily read them–including a delicious prequel to Bitten. Years later, she published those stories in a collection called Men of the Otherworld.

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Next week over on my personal blog, I’ll discuss how Season One of the television series lives up to the novels.

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(from Tori, Liza, and Sibyl’s shared blog)

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