" 'Starcrossed' Author Josephine Angelini Talks Love And War – YA Style". " "Starcrossed" author redefines, modernizes mythology". What She Found in the Woods (2019), Macmillan Children's Books.Witch's Pyre (2016), Macmillan Publishers.Firewalker (2015), Macmillan Publishers.Trial by Fire (2014), Macmillan Publishers.She lives there with her husband and daughter. She graduated from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, and then moved to Los Angeles. 'School Library Journal' A compelling, intricate world, a swoony romance, and a memorable cast make this one a blazing success. She is the daughter of a farmer and the youngest of eight siblings. Angelinis latest series opener combines the best elements of a magical fantasy with hints of sci-fi, history, and romance.
Biography Īngelini was born and raised in Ashland, Massachusetts. Josephine Angelini (born 1975) is an American author who is best known for her Young adult fiction novel trilogy Starcrossed. Admittedly, there were a few questions left unanswered, but it’s the same in most stories and often it’s fun to speculate the answers, rather than have the remaining plot line spelled out by the author.New York University Tisch School of the Arts In regards to the ending of this book, I’m not sure if I see much room left for a trilogy. Yet, as we also know trilogies can often end as epic failures, where you feel the same plot line is being repeated in each novel again and again, or the author just can’t maintain the brilliance of their first book (*cough* Moira Young).
Angelini explores this concept in her novel and brings into reality the dangers our actions pose, from climate change to nuclear warfare.īut, then there’s the problem with trilogies – is it just me or is basically every YA book you read nowadays part of a trilogy? Now this sometimes works, such as in the cases of the Chaos Walking trilogy and The Hunger Games. The idea that for every world that’s succeeded infinite others have failed (known as cinder worlds) is truly haunting. So firstly, parallel universes – this is an idea relatively new to me in the realms of YA fiction. I’m not sure what quite hooked me on this book, perhaps the idea of alternate universes (which has always been so fascinating to me) or the complicated relationships between characters – is it possible to have a love quadrilateral? Regardless it was a real page turner, easily devoured in one sitting! Yet together this concoction creates a compelling read, both fast-paced and exhilarating, sure to enthral most readers. To be blunt, this book is unoriginal, many elements in it have been seen before in other YA fiction.
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