CYBILS Award Winner:
The Walls Around Us by Nova Ren Suma
I’m so ding dong excited to share this book with you! I’m not sure what’s going on with the book cover, but yeah this is THE book to read this year! The Walls Around Us is a speculative fiction YA book that will have you scratching your head early on. Scratching and and really using your lil ol noggin to figure out what the author is getting at. The book seems to be about ballerinas. But oh wait, then it’s about these young women in a juvenile detention facility. But then, the weird stuff starts happening.
And you’re like WHOA. Did I read this right? She did what? Where? Who’s story do I believe? What is REALLY going on at the juvenile detention facility? Are ballerinas really that cruel? I’ve heard rumors that they are so, there’s another person I’ll want on my zombie apocalypse team. Think Mean Girls meets Orange is the New Black.
Here’s our commentary on the winner and the other contenders for the Speculative Fiction YA judging portion of Cybils.
And remind me to stay out of prison.