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The Serpent King by Jeff Zentner (view source)
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|pages=384
|publisher=Andersen Press
|date=Mar March 2016
|isbn= 978-1783443819
|website= http://www.jeffzentnerbooks.com/
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'''Longlisted for the 2017 CILIP Carnegie Medal'''
I'm hardly the first person to comment on the saturation of the young-adult fiction market in recent years. I've several friends who love YA so much they seem to exclusively read this genre, and here's the thing – I really want to like it, too. I know there's good stuff out there, but it seems like the more I look the less I find. I've slogged my way through dozens – maybe even hundreds, who knows – of formulaic, samey and often downright repetitive books which didn't inspire any of that passion in me.
This is one I'll be rushing to recommend to people. ''The Serpent King'' is dark and emotional; it's a book that will grip you tightly and wring out all the feeling it can. It's exceptionally well-written. I'm honestly astounded it's a debut novel.
I'd like to thank the publishers for sending a copy to the Bookbag. We also have a review of [[Goodbye Days by Jeff Zentner]].
If you like young adult fiction with an emotional bent, you might enjoy [[Orbiting Jupiter by Gary D Schmidt]].
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