Melissa Keil crea narrativas cautivadoras para jóvenes lectores adultos, explorando temas de identidad y crecimiento personal con una mezcla distintiva de humor y realismo. Su obra a menudo entrelaza elementos de ciencia ficción y realismo mágico para construir mundos inmersivos que reflejan las complejidades de crecer. Keil se basa en su experiencia en cine y antropología para construir personajes y tramas que son profundamente humanas y a la vez refrescantemente originales. Su prosa es vibrante y accesible, invitando a los lectores a conectar fácilmente con sus historias.
Sam Kinnison embraces his geeky life filled with horror movies and gaming, until beautiful Camilla Carter disrupts his plans. Despite his determination to ignore her, she has her own agenda involving him. Sam realizes he may need to rethink his movie-inspired approach to life and relationships.
Rockabilly chick and comic-book lover Alba is facing one of the most important summers of her life. School is over - what next? Then a viral YouTube video about the end of the world announces that Eden Valley is the only safe place to be. Hundreds of people descend on the town and Alba feels like her world has turned upside down.
Seventeen-year-old Sophia is a math genius, so surely she'll be on easy street after graduation. Except she's just learned child prodigies become either smash hits or total meltdowns after high school. Now with her BFF sending off college applications, Sophia's feeling the pressure to lock down her own future before she's left in the dust. But when mysterious playing cards keep turning up inside her textbooks, she's really thrown off course. Joshua is Sophia's classmate: adorkable, charmingly carefree, and an amateur magician. He's crushed on Sophia for as long as he can remember. With a ton of romantic gestures up his sleeve, Joshua thinks now is the perfect time to tell Sophia how he feels. He doesn't know how very wrong he is. Told in a dual narrative, this opposites-attract, young adult rom-com offers plenty of laughs as Joshua stumbles again and again to impress the most skeptical audience that magic has ever met: Sophia. But if Joshua truly cares for her, first he'll have to work on his timing and meet Sophia halfway. It'll take a scientific feat of magic to dazzle and bewilder the smartest girl at school.
Sam Kinnison je geek, no vôbec mu to neprekáža. Má svoje horory, zopár svojských kamošov a World of Warcraft. Pokiaľ sa v jeho izbe nezjaví samotná princezná Leia, nepovažuje za nutné akokoľvek riešiť existenciu ženského pohlavia. Keď sa Sam stretne s Camillou, je odhodlaný ju ignorovať. Je síce krásna a priateľská, ale do jeho sveta vôbec nezapadá. Lenže aj Camilla je svojím spôsobom zvláštna a rozhodne sa, že Sam sa stane súčasťou jej života, či už on chce, alebo nechce. Sam vždy veril, že všetko, čo potrebuje vedieť, sa naučí z filmov... teraz však zisťuje, že sa zrejme nedíval na tie správne.