This incongruous book cover does not begin to hint at the story between the boards. Kate Grable works as the student trainer for her high school's football team. She is smart, knowledgeable and takes her job seriously. She takes good care of the players even though the coach is not as concerned with their health as he is the team's performance.
When she discovers vials of drugs in the coach's office, she suspects he is foisting steroids on his team. When the football players begin falling ill and developing zombie-like symptoms (such as taking bites out of their classmates) she fears it may be something far worse. This is a very clever story and Kate is a smart and worthy heroine.
Cynthia Leitich Smith has one of her excellent interviews with Carrie Harris today at her blog Cynsations. And speaking of Cynthia...
At a recent author appearance at Blue Willow Bookshop in Houston, Cynthia described the process of working with an illustrator in this kind of storytelling. She described a collaboration which made me think of the relationship between a movie director and cinematographer with each of them sharing both roles.
4 comments:
What!? The cover of Bad Taste then sounds like it has NOTHING TO DO with the story.
Why am I surprised by this?
It's on my List; it's just been bumped up higher; thanks.
(hahahah! My word verification is "hyper." Does someone else know about my Halloween candy consumption?)
It was such a thrill to see you at Blue Willow. What a wonderful store!
T--I honestly thought the book was going to be about...diabetes or drug abuse. Cannot even fathom what they were thinking.
Good review!! I think the story sounds a bit confusing. But at the same time the interesting thing is that its all about vampires, werewolves and zombies such stories are fun to read with all those supernatural creatures. Thanks for sharing the post.
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