Here are two new book deals that are intriguing in premise, Juneau by Amy Plum and Starry Nights by Daisy Whitney. Read the synopsis’ below and tell us what you think.
Author of the DIE FOR ME trilogy, Amy Plum’s JUNEAU, about a seventeen-year-old girl who has been raised to believe that her family, and the rest of their village, escaped World War III by moving to a remote area in the Alaskan wilderness – but when everyone in her village mysteriously disappears, she’s forced to set off in search of them, only to discover that her life has been a lie and there never was a third World War.
While Juneau sounds a little like The Village it will be interesting to see where it goes. It will be all about the execution of the book.
Daisy Whitney’s fantasy YA novel, Starry Nights was pitched as “Night at the Museum meets The Da Vinci Code, with a feminist twist.” Set in modern-day Paris, the book follows a teenage boy and tour guide at Musée d’Orsay who falls for a girl that is trapped inside a painting. Whitney’s debut, the YA boarding school novel Mockingbirds, was published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers in 2010 and received a starred review from Publishers Weekly.
This sounds like an interesting idea and as Whitney has only written contemporary novels thus far it will be interesting to see her switch to something with fantasy elements.