In 2011, The Near Witch appeared in bookstores—the debut novel by a young author named Victoria Schwab. Though it received some enthusiastic early reviews—and found devoted fans—it was quite unlike the books that were hitting the YA bestseller list at the time, and didn’t perform strongly enough to warrant the publication of a sequel. Within […]
There must be a word for the moment you reach the end of a book series—a word for that combination of euphoria and sorrow. (It’s probably only in the German language, which always has a word for these types of complex moments.) What do you do when you’ve fallen in love with a series, and […]