Don’t Look Backby Jennifer Armentrout
~post by Katie P.
The first rule of good Young Adult fiction is this: Never underestimate your audience. It’s immediately apparent when an author breaks this rule, and dilutes plot, censors reactions, or clarifies all ethical ambiguities so that the reader doesn’t have to. It’s apparent, and insulting. Young adults are a dream audience; they’re intelligent, curious, brave, searching and quick to form deep emotional attachments to characters. New York Times-bestselling author Jennifer Armentrout’s latest YA thriller, Don’t Look Back, takes care to follow the golden YA rule, and benefits greatly from it.
First in Don’t Look Back’s favor is its main character, Samantha Franco. When Sam regains consciousness, she has no memory of who she is, where she is, or how she got there. Her family and friends are strangers, and, more than that, the stories they’re telling her about…
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