Tantalize: Kieren's Story

Written by Cynthia Leitich Smith

Illustrated by Ming Doyle

Series: Tantalize | Book 5

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Paperback

$19.99

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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

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. ~School Library Journal

The characters are well developed and the graphic novel format enhances the storyline. This popular novel, redone as a graphic novel, is a quick read for those who enjoy action with some romance. Smith has set up the story to continue in a sequel and leaves the reader wanting more. ~Library Media Connection

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About the Creator(s)

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.

Ming Doyle was born in 1984 to an Irish-American sailor and a Chinese-Canadian librarian. Since earning her BFA from Cornell University in 2007, she has depicted the sequential exploits of zombie superheroes, demonic cheerleaders, vengeful cowboys, and dapper mutants. Tantalize marks her first full-length graphic novel as well as her first encounter with a were-opossum. She lives in Boston.