Judith's review
Tantalize
by Cynthia Leitich Smith
Judith's review
Tantalize by Cynthia Leitich Smith
Judith's review
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youngadultfiction
Margaret Mahy once said that food is the sex in children's books—and food is at the heart of this very sexy vampire fantasy that (happily) doesn't for a moment resile from the dark. Shades of Buffy, inevitably, with (potential) werewolf boyfriends and addiction-as-metaphor*, but Smith's take on a community riven by its inability to reconcile with its own dark heart is all her own. Readers disappointed by the representation of gender in Stephenie Myer's "Twilight" series will find no such passive heroine in Tantalize's Quincie—but they can surely look forward to a sequel...
