Tristina Wright is a popular science fiction and fantasy author who writes for young adult readers. She stands out online for her blue hair her views on bisexuality and struggles with anxiety. She writes young adult novels lead characters are queer teens engage in what would be deemed not too conventional behavior. Her husband is a nerd who is an expert computer builder though his most endearing attribute is his ability to make the sun shine with a simple mile. She has a degree in creative writing though she does not believe that she needs it to be a good writer. For Wright who took the course because it was the one most interesting to her, the most important thing for a writer is having a message to pass across. Tristina was diagnosed with …show more content…
Being an author interested in issues of minorities, the characters in her novels are special persons that find themselves in something bigger than themselves. These characters are then wrapped up in the desperation of passion with another character that shares the same values and desires in a fantasy setting that looks out to a hopeful future. The novels and short stories are intimate stories full of descriptive details that slip into myth and legend rather than telling broad based historical perspectives in the mold of Lord of the Rings. The novels for the most part explore the natur of self and difference through characters mixed racial heritage and same sex relationships between characters such as Killian and Neal or Rumor Mora and Jude Welton. The author blends fantasy and science fiction in a manner similar to that of Pern books by Anne McCafferey where the magic of the present is the science of the past. The writing that Tristina describes on her website as “Right now, Young Adult science fiction and fantasy” is exceptional in its innovation and creativity. The descriptions of the settings, characters, and action scenes are highly vivid that it is easy to picture the world that Wright paints as if one were …show more content…
Rumor Mora lives in terror of two things failure, and hellhounds that may prove impossible for him to kill. Meanwhile Jude Welton has two wishes, that he may lose his strange abilities and that humans would put an end to the killing of monsters. Things come to a head when the two boys – one raised to kill monsters and one raised to love the fall in love. Meanwhile Nyx Llorca is keeping two secrets: she is in love with her best friend Dahlia and she speaks to the moon. For Braeden Tennant all he wants to do is unlearn Epsilon’s dark secret and get out from under his mother’s control. The only way that the truth will come out is if they both commit treason. If they cannot stop the war between the monsters and the colonies, they may never see the things they desire become