Thanks to J. Hearne for his glowing review of Children of Pride!

This book is a shockingly good first offering in the world YA fiction. I could not possibly recommend it more highly if you’re looking for intelligent, witty, and carefully crafted storytelling in the YA world. It does not fall into the trap of repetition and derivative adaptation as so many books in the genre do, but rather is bold enough to carefully undermine the tropes so common to the genre.