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Liepman Literary Agency
Marc Koralnik |
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THE CRUELTY
Taken meets The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.
It's not often that we take on a new author, because it's rare to fall in love, but when we read Scott Bergstrom's YA debut, The Cruelty, that magic happenedthe thrill of finding someone new and something fresh, the shot of adrenaline brought on by a killer plot yet slowing down to savor writing like this:
On its face, it's a horror storya story meant to shock and frighten. But turn the thing over and look at it from the back and the perspective is different. Such are the cruel things we must sometimes do.
If no one else is going to act for me, then I have a choice: remain a child and do nothing, or become an adult and take action. That, it seems to me, is the difference between the child and the adult, the difference between the girl hunted by wolves and the woman who hunts them.
The Bourne Identity meets The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo in this sensational debut. Whip-smart and streetsmart, Gwendolyn Bloom is the worldly YA heroine the world has been looking for. She doesn't wait for approval or follow othersGwen shoots first and asks questions later. She's a diplomat's daughter who's already lost her mother to a violent end. When her father goes missing, and the State Department's efforts to find him disappoint, Gwen takes matters into her own handstraveling from New York City to Paris, then Berlin to Prague, on the hunt for the truth.
Scott was an advertising executive in Manhattan for many years before moving to Denver and focusing on his writing. He's an avid traveler and photographer who is fascinated by the edges of the world's great cities.
The Cruelty is the first in a planned series,
On its face, it's a horror storya story meant to shock and frighten. But turn the thing over and look at it from the back and the perspective is different. Such are the cruel things we must sometimes do.
If no one else is going to act for me, then I have a choice: remain a child and do nothing, or become an adult and take action. That, it seems to me, is the difference between the child and the adult, the difference between the girl hunted by wolves and the woman who hunts them.
The Bourne Identity meets The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo in this sensational debut. Whip-smart and streetsmart, Gwendolyn Bloom is the worldly YA heroine the world has been looking for. She doesn't wait for approval or follow othersGwen shoots first and asks questions later. She's a diplomat's daughter who's already lost her mother to a violent end. When her father goes missing, and the State Department's efforts to find him disappoint, Gwen takes matters into her own handstraveling from New York City to Paris, then Berlin to Prague, on the hunt for the truth.
Scott was an advertising executive in Manhattan for many years before moving to Denver and focusing on his writing. He's an avid traveler and photographer who is fascinated by the edges of the world's great cities.
The Cruelty is the first in a planned series,
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Published 2017-02-01 by Feiwel & Friends |