![]() The Summary: Juneau is a future Sage in her village. It was a rollicking adventure, and I enjoyed every step of the way. This is fish-out-of-the-water, think Tarzan plopped into the middle of New York City. I do not go back to the summary of the book once I started, and consequently, the first few chapters had me going "WHAT THE ACTUAL HECK IS GOING ON HERE?"Īs it turned out, after the beginning disorientation, this book became such a interesting, fun book, with a compelling mystery and characters whom I greatly enjoyed. This book was so strange at first, and I had no idea what I was reading. I really liked this book-but do take my words with a grain of salt, this is a woman who actually LIKED The Village after all, but the premise of falsehood was revealed to us at the very beginning of the book. It is a thriving city with massive glass buildings glistening in the late-afternoon sun. It isn’t decimated by war and poisoned by radiation. She is a huge fan of Edward Gorey and Maira Kalman (and collects both of their books/art), as well as David Sedaris, Amadeo Modigliani, and Ira Glass.Ĭheck out videos and extras from Amy at Revenant Central.īeneath me lies a city. She now lives in Paris with her two kids and her black lab, Oberon. But after almost a decade of high-pressure lifestyle in the Big Apple, she swapped her American city for a French village of 1300 inhabitants.Īfter signing with HarperCollins for the DIE FOR ME series, Amy left her job as an English professor at Tours University to write full-time. ![]() in Medieval Art History, specializing in Early Sienese Painting (1260-1348) mainly because it promised almost no hope of finding a paying job afterward.Īmy managed to find work in the world of art and antiques in New York. (And where she was called to the dean’s office for “wearing too much black”.) After all of that restrictiveness, she was forced to run far far away, specifically to Paris, France, where she only wore black and danced all she wanted.Īfter five years in Paris, she ventured to London, where she got an M.A. In DREAMFALL and NEVERWAKE a radical experiment to cure chronic insomnia goes wrong, and its seven teenage test subjects are plunged into a shared coma populated by one another’s nightmares those who die in the dream will also die in real life.Īmy's action/adventure/magic duology, AFTER THE END and UNTIL THE BEGINNING, received starred reviews from Publishers Weekly, 4 1/2 stars from RT Book Reviews, and enthusiastic reviews from Kirkus, USA Today, ALA Booklist and School Library Journal.Īfter being raised in Birmingham, Alabama, in a rather restrictive environment, AMY PLUM escaped to Chicago to an even more restrictive environment at a university that expelled people for dancing. The trilogy is accompanied by three novellas entitled DIE FOR HER, DIE ONCE MORE, TO DIE FOR and a compendium entitled INSIDE THE WORLD OF DIE FOR ME. ![]() The books have been translated into thirteen foreign languages. Amy Plum is the international bestselling author of the DIE FOR ME series (Indie Next List pick, Romance Times top pick, and recipient of a starred review from School Library Journal).
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