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Haines, Lise.
Teen Fiction HAINES
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Haines's first book for teens offers an altered version of the modern world, with a public hungry for violent, on-camera combat. Lyn, the "daughter of seven gladiators," has grown up in Glad culture with a mother who has made a career out of being a Glad wife she is resigned to public life and the way TV audiences relish making sport out of her family's many tragedies. When Lyn's seventh stepfather is killed in the arena, rules dictate that she be betrothed to her father's murderer, the gladiator Uber. The spotlight turns on Lyn as cameras follow this unlikely, staged courtship, as well as Lyn's eventual trip into the arena to face her fiance. The novel's present-day Boston setting and pop culture references (designers like Galliano and Jean Paul Gaultier dress the gladiators) feel off, pulling readers out of the story. Haines's neo-Gladiator world hangs on readers' ability to reimagine today's celebrity-obsessed culture accommodating gruesome, televised fights to the death, and shaky world-building makes this a tall order. Ages 14-up. (Oct.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
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Haines, Lise.
Teen Fiction HAINES
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From Publishers' Weekly:
Haines's first book for teens offers an altered version of the modern world, with a public hungry for violent, on-camera combat. Lyn, the "daughter of seven gladiators," has grown up in Glad culture with a mother who has made a career out of being a Glad wife she is resigned to public life and the way TV audiences relish making sport out of her family's many tragedies. When Lyn's seventh stepfather is killed in the arena, rules dictate that she be betrothed to her father's murderer, the gladiator Uber. The spotlight turns on Lyn as cameras follow this unlikely, staged courtship, as well as Lyn's eventual trip into the arena to face her fiance. The novel's present-day Boston setting and pop culture references (designers like Galliano and Jean Paul Gaultier dress the gladiators) feel off, pulling readers out of the story. Haines's neo-Gladiator world hangs on readers' ability to reimagine today's celebrity-obsessed culture accommodating gruesome, televised fights to the death, and shaky world-building makes this a tall order. Ages 14-up. (Oct.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
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