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Mar 262013
 

Host

Stephenie Meyer’s Alien Love Story

After her wildly popular Twilight series had teen fans crowding bookstores and theaters, Stephenie Meyer tried her hand at writing for adults with The Host, first published in 2008. Now The Host, a sci-fi thriller featuring a love triangle with only two humans involved (it’s complicated) comes to theaters on March 29 in a film adaptation written and directed by Andrew Niccol (The Truman Show). This story is vampire-free but it does have aliens–”souls” who have taken over Earth and captured humans to serve as host bodies for their occupation. Check out all the action–romantic and otherwise–in Meyer’s novel before the movie opens on the big screen later this month.

Crossover YA

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Nov 192012
 

 

Everyday

From Twilight to The Hunger Games, many YA novels have grown beyond the teen audience and become favorites of adult readers, too. If you’re looking for a crossover title with adult appeal, consider David Levithan’s latest young adult novel, Every Day. The main character known as “A” is a genderless and faceless soul who wakes up in a different teenage body every morning. A has gotten used to switching bodies, but when A wakes up as Justin and meets his girlfriend Rhiannon, the pair experience an instant connection. What follows is an exploration of identity, as Rhiannon learns to recognize A even as he/she continues to change bodies. Teens and adults alike will appreciate this brilliant meditation on life and love.