Starstruck (Balog's most ambitious title of the three) features a poor, overweight, unpopular New Jersey girl whose boyfriend has just returned from three years in California looking like a golden god. The hero of Sleepless is a Sandman-a supernatural being whose job is to lure humans into sleep-who falls in love with one of his charges. Fairy Tale is a short, bittersweet romance about a girl torn between her childhood friend and the changeling who has been sent to take over his life. Her books-2009's Fairy Tale, 2010's Sleepless, and 2011's Starstruck-are all grade-A examples of genuine weirdness. And in any given love triangle, the heroine is always better off choosing the more emotionally constipated option.Īuthor Cyn Balog's novels actually break some of the above rules, which is why I'm such a fan. It's not at all creepy for a zillion-year-old magical being to continue attending high school. Wearing Converse is proof positive of an artistic nature. For a genre that should be all about creativity, most YA paranormal romance is actually pretty standardized.
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