Overview

Illustrated by hot new talent Ming Doyle, Cynthia Leitich Smith's Tantalize is reimagined as a graphic novel - seen through Kieren's werewolf eyes. As a hybrid werewolf, Kieren is destined to join an urban Wolf pack and learn to master his shift. Soon he'll leave everything behind: home, school, his family, and Quincie, his human best friend ...who's beginning to be a whole lot more than a friend. For years, Kieren has managed to keep his desires - and his wolf - at bay. But when the chef at Quincie's family restaurant is brutally murdered, Kieren resolves to be there for her, even if it means being framed or watching Quincie's beloved restaurant morph into a vampire lair. But when the new chef begins wooing her, how long can Kieren control his claws? How long can he protect Quincie - and himself? In an elegant graphic edition featuring cinematic sequential art and lush, romantic cover art, best-selling author Cynthia Leitich Smith re-envisions her delicious dark fantasy through wolfish eyes.

Full Product Details

Author:   Cynthia Leitich Smith ,  Ming Doyle
Publisher:   Candlewick Press,U.S.
Imprint:   Candlewick Press,U.S.
Dimensions:   Width: 16.80cm , Height: 1.40cm , Length: 25.80cm
Weight:   0.530kg
ISBN:  

9780763641146

ISBN 10:   0763641146
Pages:   192
Publication Date:   23 August 2011
Recommended Age:   From 10 to 16 years
Audience:   Young adult ,  General/trade ,  Teenage / Young adult ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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This format- and genre-blending story delivers on several counts as a vampire-werewolf adventure, a mystery, a romance with teeth and claws, an authentic look at diversity (both ethnic and species), and a darn good read.<br>--Booklist<br><br>Readers of Smith's novel Tantalize (Candlewick, 2007) will be excited to see the story of the secondary character fully revealed in this graphic-novel spin-off...Like Tantalize , this parallel point of view leaves readers wanting to know more about what transpires in Kieren's and Quincie's futures.<br>--School Library Journal<br><br>Leitich Smith, who first published Tantalize as a young adult novel, provides a face-paced, twisty, enjoyable ride and compelling characters who develop as the story unfolds. Doyle's illustrations capture the intensity of the emotions between the star-crossed couple.<br>--Publishers Weekly

This format- and genre-blending story delivers on several counts as a vampire-werewolf adventure, a mystery, a romance with teeth and claws, an authentic look at diversity (both ethnic and species), and a darn good read.<br>--Booklist<br><br>Leitich Smith, who first published TANTALIZE as a young adult novel, provides a face-paced, twisty, enjoyable ride and compelling characters who develop as the story unfolds. Doyle's illustrations capture the intensity of the emotions between the star-crossed couple.<br>--Publishers Weekly

This is the graphic novel version of TANTALIZE so it's a book that might appeal to reluctant readers and to people who really are visual thinkers. It's gothic, it's dark. But it also has humor. There's romance, very sweet romance, and there's controversy and there's justice issues and bad boys don't always get away, but you're not quite sure.--NPR Tell Me More This format- and genre-blending story delivers on several counts as a vampire-werewolf adventure, a mystery, a romance with teeth and claws, an authentic look at diversity (both ethnic and species), and a darn good read.--Booklist Leitich Smith, who first published TANTALIZE as a young adult novel, provides a face-paced, twisty, enjoyable ride and compelling characters who develop as the story unfolds. Doyle's illustrations capture the intensity of the emotions between the star-crossed couple.--Publishers Weekly This format- and genre-blending story delivers on several counts as a vampire-werewolf adventure, a mystery, a romance with teeth and claws, an authentic look at diversity (both ethnic and species), and a darn good read.--BooklistLeitich Smith, who first published TANTALIZE as a young adult novel, provides a face-paced, twisty, enjoyable ride and compelling characters who develop as the story unfolds. Doyle's illustrations capture the intensity of the emotions between the star-crossed couple.--Publishers Weekly

This is the graphic novel version of TANTALIZE so it's a book that might appeal to reluctant readers and to people who really are visual thinkers. It's gothic, it's dark. But it also has humor. There's romance, very sweet romance, and there's controversy and there's justice issues and bad boys don't always get away, but you're not quite sure.<br>--NPR Tell Me More<br><br>This format- and genre-blending story delivers on several counts as a vampire-werewolf adventure, a mystery, a romance with teeth and claws, an authentic look at diversity (both ethnic and species), and a darn good read.<br>--Booklist<br><br>Leitich Smith, who first published TANTALIZE as a young adult novel, provides a face-paced, twisty, enjoyable ride and compelling characters who develop as the story unfolds. Doyle's illustrations capture the intensity of the emotions between the star-crossed couple.<br>--Publishers Weekly

Author Information

"Cynthia Leitich Smith is the acclaimed author of the prose novel of Tantalize as well as Eternal, a New York Times and Publishers Weekly bestseller, and Blessed, all set in the same fictional universe. She says of Tantalize, ""An unjust accusation. A true love in peril. It's enough to make you open your teeth and howl."" A member of the faculty at the Vermont College MFA program in writing for children and young adults, she lives in Austin, Texas."

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