![]() ![]() “Within These Wicked Walls” is a fantasy retelling of “Jane Eyre” starring an exorcist named Andromeda and a handsome young heir named Magnus Rochester. 5 on the young adult hardcover list: “When not writing, she’s a physical therapy assistant who doesn’t really know how to settle on one career field.” Welcome to the club, Ms. Why don’t authors seize the opportunity to tell us about their pets or unusual hobbies? (Or at least get real about where they live - and I say this as someone who lives in suburban New Jersey, not “outside New York City.”) So what a pleasure it was to stumble across this refreshing take on Lauren Blackwood, whose debut novel, “Within These Wicked Walls,” makes an entrance at No. ![]() ![]() TELL IT LIKE IT IS What can we learn about authors from the brief biographies on the back of their book or on their website? Many of these descriptions are the literary equivalent of announcements on the subway: omnipresent but saying nothing. ![]()
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