I really, really wanted to like Final Draft. Review: What’d I think? Also minor spoilers Nazarenko is not nearly as easy-to-please as her predecessor, and Laila finds herself working to distraction to impress her impossible-to-impress new mentor.
Madison gets unexpectedly hit by a car and takes an extended leave of absence from school, he is replaced by Nadiya Nazarenko, an award-winning novelist. She spends most of her time working on her stories, but she’s too self-conscious to share her writing with anyone but her creative writing teacher, Mr. High school senior Laila is eats, breathes, and sleeps sci-fi. It’s not nearly as good as her earlier books and ultimately I’m glad I found it at a library instead of a bookstore. Unfortunately, I didn’t like it all that much.
I finally found it at my new library, and by that point the anticipation was high. I checked multiple bookstores and multiple libraries (across multiple states!) and even failed to find it at the Kenyon bookstore. Weirdly, I had a really hard time finding it.
I have extra fondness for Redgate because she graduated from Kenyon College, which has produced everyone from John Green to Ransom Riggs to Allison Janney to my sister.įinal Draft has been on my to-read list since before it came out. I sought out her other book, Seven Ways We Lie, and liked that one even more. Whiplash meets Fangirl when one aspiring writer's desire to excel spirals between obsession and self-discovery Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.A couple years ago, I randomly picked up Riley Redgate’s novel Noteworthyand loved it. Nazarenko has led Laila to believe that she must choose between perfection and sanity - but rejecting her all-powerful mentor may be the only way for Laila to thrive. Soon Laila is hiking through the Catskills during a thunderstorm in March and discovering the psychedelic highs and perilous lows of nightlife, temporary flings, and instability. But before long, Laila grows obsessed with gaining the woman's approval. At first, Nazarenko's eccentric assignments seem absurd. But three months before her graduation, he dies suddenly - and is replaced by Nadiya Nazarenko, a Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist who is sadistically critical and perpetually unimpressed.
Her creative writing teacher has always told her she has a special talent. The only sort of risk 18-year-old Laila Piedra enjoys is the peril she writes for the characters in her stories: epic sci-fi worlds full of quests, forbidden love, and robots.
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