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J.L. Torassa

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Jillian Torassa, first and foremost, is a student of the dark that makes life terrifyingly beautiful. Her works range from YA Dystopia to Mythological Horror, but each of her stories searches to find a necessary thread of hope and resilience within the deepest despair.

Her most recent works, including the novel Morning Son, focus on prehistory, myth retelling, and paranormal / psychological horror, excavating the evil of the human condition while also searching for the possibility of redemption.

With an English degree from BYU, Torassa brings an academic appreciation for narrative structure to her chilling tales. By day, she channels her passion for literature as an elementary school librarian, ensuring that the next generation understands
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Average rating: 4.42 · 89 ratings · 15 reviews · 3 distinct works
Rebel Thirds (Rebel Thirds #1)

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The Tail of Emily Windsnap by Liz Kessler
"This is an embarrassing, cutesy little girl book. I know, "Dead Dove, Do Not Eat" is practically printed on it -- what was I expecting? Well, it was on a rec list with a whole lot of Gail Carson Levine and Shannon Hale, which I continue to enjoy long" Read more of this review »
The Tail of Emily Windsnap by Liz Kessler
"Girl discovers she turns into a mermaid in water. Fine as it goes, but I wish the mermaid society had been a *little* more imaginative. Basically, it's exactly the same as human society: kids go to school, there are shops, government, courts and jail" Read more of this review »
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I can see why a young girl would like this book, but I'm a firm believer that the phrase "it's good for a children's book" is a cop-out. I've read more than 10 other children's books in the last two months, and this was by far the worst. A book shoul ...more
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Perfectly fine. I'm not a fan of sports books, so not particularly interesting to me, but the story was fine. Because it followed the story of elite athletes, it didn't feel terribly relatable, even though it tried to be with the boys' families and b ...more
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Thomas More
“For if you suffer your people to be ill-educated, and their manners to be corrupted from their infancy, and then punish them for those crimes to which their first education disposed them, what else is to be concluded from this, but that you first make thieves and then punish them.”
Sir Thomas More, Utopia

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