Wednesday, June 8, 2011

Appetite for destruction: Say bye to vampires and hello to Hell-on-Earth

National Post: 2011 June 8

Earth may not have ended this past May 21, as a small-but-confident group of religious zealots had hoped, but our planet fares much worse in a new crop of teen fiction: Thanks to Suzanne Collins’ mega-selling Hunger Games trilogy, dystopian and post-apocalyptic kid lit has replaced vampires as the biggest thing in YA publishing