Flora's Dare and the Andre Norton award

[deborah]

I have such mixed feelings about Flora's Dare having won the Andre Norton award. On the other hand, I have mad love for the only other one of the nominees I'd had a chance to read so far, namely, Graceling. On the other hand, I think that Graceling seems to be getting a lot of (very well-deserved) buzz, while Flora's Dare Seems to be much less well-known, at least among children's literature folks. So here's hoping that Cashore and Wilce both get all of the buzz they deserve, and both get widely pushed on young adult fantasy readers as the splendid books they are.

And yes, I KNOW I have to read everything else on the list! I am so ashamed of myself. But first I have to review these five books sitting on my desk, and before I can do that I need to finish one of them, and then I need to *cough* write the paper I will be presenting in two months.

Comments

[deborah]

I need to make time to read AJF, don't I?

[lady_schrapnell]

Weeeell. I thought it was interesting and laudable for the size of the questions taken on, but pretty seriously flawed. But a lot of people have loved it so maybe you need to find out if you're with them on it.