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Leila Sales

Leila Sales is the author of This Song Will Save Your Life (Sept. 17, Farrar, Straus & Giroux Books for Young Readers) as well as Past Perfect and Mostly Good Girls. Visit her at leilasales.com or follow her @LeilaSalesBooks.

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‘The Bone Season’

The Next ‘Hunger Games’?

<p>Bloomsbury signed up Samantha Shannon’s <i>The Bone Season</i> as a seven-book series—not even <i>Harry Potter</i> had a vote of confidence like that. But is it any good? Leila Sales reviews the dystopian YA novel.</p>

Leila Sales

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HEAVENLY

Six Feet Under

There’s a growing genre of novels narrated by dead, young girls. Leila Sales examines the problems with supernatural protagonists.

Leila Sales

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