making sure that what happens is her idea, and that nothing serious happens before she knows what world she’s living in. “Trying to build sexual tension in a romance when doesn’t know what’s going on-that leaves consent very murky. Doing so meant not only attempting to balance Jaxon’s supernatural abilities with Grace’s own inherent strength, but also tackling the topic of consent-a task that Wolff found tricky early in the book, before Grace learns that Katmere isn’t just an exceptionally private high school, and that her crush is a vampire. Historically, a woman’s role in vampire mythology has been that of the hapless victim, but Wolff said she worked hard to avoid that trope with Grace. Grace does her best to blend in, but then becomes romantically involved with Jaxon Vega, a powerful vampire with more than his share of enemies, placing an even bigger target on her back. With the exception of her cousin Macy, Grace’s new classmates greet her-the school’s lone mortal-with a mix of suspicion and hostility.
When Crave’s teenage heroine, Grace, loses both of her parents in a car crash, she’s forced to relocate from San Diego to rural Alaska, where her only living adult relative, Uncle Finn, serves as headmaster of Katmere Academy, a boarding school for the supernatural.
I think that for all of us, as we suffer pain and setbacks in life, the idea of becoming something that nobody can hurt is a powerful one.” As for why, specifically, vampires, she said, “Vampires are kind of the superheroes of the paranormal world. But when things get darker-when there are hints of a recession, or something happens from which readers might need a temporary escape-paranormal fiction makes a comeback. “For the last decade or so, it’s been all contemporary, all the time,” she observed.
Why are vampires making a comeback after years on the sidelines? According to Wolff, when everything is going well, people are happy to read realistic YA. Author Tracy Wolff has written more than 60 books-some under pseudonyms, many involving paranormal creatures-but her new YA fantasy novel, Crave (Entangled Teen, Apr.), first in a trilogy, represents her first foray into vampire fiction.
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