Come on, dude - I guarantee she already read about the vampires.

Still, the very nature of the YA market having morphed into the vehicle that allows these stories to be reprinted throws a pretty massive wrinkle (like, even worse than the fact she’s publishing under her white name) into Shari’s expectation that her mom will never read Remember Me. Since this was the magical bestseller that made Pike who he was in the first place, it shouldn’t be too surprising that not much is changed or updated in this edition. Remember MeĬompiles Remember Me, The Return, and The Last Story Is it worth rereading these new editions? How different are they from the originals? Lucky for you, I’ve decided to find out. Indeed, new audiences (the ones we in education call “digital natives”) might not even understand the characters’ rationales for action without being able to step back in time and forget what they take for granted. But a lot of these books were originally written twenty years ago or more, when the absence of technology and communications wasn’t something that needed to be addressed to explain why these bastards weren’t better informed. Fortunately, he’s written more than a couple continuations that will link together into a handy packaged bind-up. We need something big and beefy to show that we’re Serious About Literature even as we read about murderous insane girls.

It’s the twenty-first century now, and no self-respecting teen would be caught dead reading a pocket-sized paperback. So if Simon & Schuster is going back to the well for Pike’s vampire books, what’s stopping them from bringing back other stories from their one-time best-selling young adult author? Form factor, perhaps.

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