If not, it has now.
And I'm the one who used it.
Yes, that's right: Kirkus Reviews has totally revamped their website, and they've added blogs. I'll be posting original content (i.e. not available here or anywhere else) there every other week. (As will a whole pile of other bloggers -- including, today, Sarah Wendell of Smart Bitches, Trashy Books! I got paired with one of the SBs! Woo!)
Anyway. For my inaugural post, I revisited Joe Francis' Worst Nightmare: Lois Duncan's Daughters of Eve. Which, I'm happy to report, was made of even more crazy than I remembered.
Great review! I re-read Daughters of Eve a few years ago (on a marvelous Lois Duncan retrospective, during which I discovered some of her books were even better than I remembered), and as an adult I found it oddly more enjoyable and definitely more disturbing than I had as a teen.
Posted by: Elizabeth Bunce | 15 October 2010 at 02:52 PM
Oh fun! Now I have to go get the book--it's years since I read it. I think the last Duncan novel I read was the one about the non-aging family.
Posted by: dangermom | 15 October 2010 at 03:00 PM
Oh wow! I LOOOOVVVVVVVVVVVED Duncan something awful, but this was the one book that was just too creepy even for me. It's interesting when you think it's not one of the supernatural ones, but maybe that's what makes it so creepy!
Posted by: rockinlibrarian | 15 October 2010 at 03:30 PM
Elizabeth: Yes! The Stepford Wives vibe really freaked me out, and for me, as an adult, the less overt misogny was way scarier than the really in-your-face stuff.
dangermom: Ooo. I don't remember that one. I'll have to dig it up/out.
rockinlibrarian: It works that way for me a lot of times -- the closer something is to real life, the scarier it is, because it's harder to disassociate yourself from it.
Posted by: Leila | 15 October 2010 at 03:36 PM
Okay, I read that, but I didn't read waaaaay down to the bottom where they had your name. I was all like, "I know they just started these, where's Leila's!?"
You and the chick from SmartBitches. How cool is that???
Posted by: tanita | 15 October 2010 at 06:35 PM
I haven't read Daughters of Eve in an AGE. I didn't even remember what it was about. Down a Dark Hall, though--man, was that one scary. Oh, and did you read Lois Duncan's freaky memoir about her daughter?
Congrats on getting started with a bang at Kirkus. I'm still totally in awe.
Posted by: aquafortis | 16 October 2010 at 12:38 AM
!!!!!!!!!!!
That's about all I'm capable of saying right now.
Posted by: Chrissy | 17 October 2010 at 01:23 PM
Kirkus Reviews?! You rule! I'll be a regular there, now, too!
Posted by: Gillian Hall | 18 October 2010 at 08:40 AM