Stephanie Oakes Follow

The Meadows offers a welcome addition to the Young Adult Dystopian book shelf. I found the first pages to be well written and compelling. I was drawn into the world the author created immediately and it held me firm until the end of the selection. Although Young Adult books are not my preferred genre, I found the writing style not just direct but artful. Oftentimes direct, clear, and succinct writing is seen as simple and artless; however Stephanie Oakes's prose shows that this is not the case in her book. The writing here is direct yes, but also vivid, realistic, and engaging. The same is true for the dialogue that is clean, crisp, and charged. Like the Internal monologue that it's opens this book, the dialogue helps the reader not just picture.the scenes as they are.written, but remember them. A strong story, told in a compelling way, that bring light to a underrepresented group in You'd Adult Literature