While contest results will not be announced until September, Urbantasm, Book One: The Dying City has won high marks from the critics at the prestigious Publishers Weekly’s BookLife Prize. According to the critic’s report:
“[Urbantasm] features a well-constructed plot with a bit of mystery, drama, death, and teen romance. The author manages to keep all of the balls in the air and consider all of the problems that come with a city on the decline and trying to grow up there… the images created by the words will stick with the reader… The trials of being thirteen are truly captured. These characters are growing up fast and not perfect by any means.”
You can read the complete report here.