REVERIE

REVERIE

Say goodbye to the world as you know it.

An Amazon Best Book of the Month * B&N’s YA Book Club Pick * Walmart Buzz Pick * Indie Next Pick * Book of the Month Club YA Box

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ABOUT

There is something wrong with reality, and Kane Montgomery has to figure out what before a plague of living dream worlds swallow his suburb. Oh, and there’s a drag queen sorceress on the loose. So.

Who can Kane trust? A team of psychic teens who claim to be his friends? A drag queen sorceress determined to recruit him? Or the mysterious boy who just moved to town and hides a monstrous secret?

In a story that spans worlds, genres, and dimensions, a queer teen must navigate an unraveling reality, and make a terrible choice. Why save a reality that is so unkind to people like him? Why not destroy it all, for good?

Reverie is an intricate and compelling LGBT young adult book about the secret worlds we hide within ourselves and what happens when they become real.

GET IT

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HYPE

  • January 2020 YA Book Club Pick for Barnes & Noble
  • Kids' Indie Next pick for Winter 2020
  • Readerlink Teen Buzz pick
  • Amazon Best of the Month Editor's Pick
  • YA Book of the Month pick (BOTM)
  • Named a ‘Best Young Adult Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror of 2019’ pick by Tor.com

Ryan La Sala (and/or his writing) has been featured in WBUR, Tor.com,  NERD Daily, Write or Die, and the Barnes & Noble YA Podcast. A full list of REVERIE news and related media can be found here.

...Sometimes the things we believe in are the most dangerous things about us.

PRAISE

"Imaginative, bold, and full of queer representation, this is a must-purchase for YA collections."
-School Library Journal, Starred Review

"Joyously, riotously queer."
-Kirkus Review

"Page 198 was nice."
-Ryan's mom

"Queer, dream-bending mystery fantasy may well be the next big thing."
Caitlyn Paxson NPR.org
Smart, sensitive, and unabashedly queer, this atmospheric debut reshaped my heart. Reverie has the makings of a YA sensation.
Amy Rose Capetta
The Brilliant Death, Once & Future
Ryan La Sala’s debut novel is a fever nightmare of epically queer proportions
Mark Oshiro award-winning author of Anger is a Gift, In Each of Us a Desert
La Sala is an exquisite wordsmith...Reverie makes a strong, late-season case as one of the best young adult fantasies of the year.
Alex Brown TOR.com
"REVERIE is a dreamy escapist fantasy that will keep you entertained and on your toes. With beautiful prose, fantastic landscapes, and a drag queen sorceress who I’d let step on me any day, you won’t want to miss this debut.
Tara Sim
Scavenge the Stars, Timekeeper Trilogy
This outstanding debut novel will light readers’ imaginations on fire...Imaginative, bold, and full of queer representation, this is a must-purchase for YA collections.
School Library Journal
Readers will be guessing to the end of this wild and weird and crazy ride, and they’ll love every minute of it.”
Sam J. Miller
Nebula-Award-winning author of The Art of Starving
Effervescent. Unlike anything I've read.
Zoraida Córdova
Author of Brooklyn Brujas & Incendiary series
Reverie isn’t just an essential book but a wonderful one…Reverie is opening up [readers’] blind spots and giving them a chance to seek out places where they can go learn.
Novel Lives
Forget following your own dreams; follow Ryan La Sala’s into Reverie, a vivid, exciting, and profoundly original tale of identity, imagination, and, of course, villainous drag queen sorcery.”
Alex London
Best-selling author of Proxy and Black Wings Beating

 

For updates about Reverie, Ryan, and future projects, follow Ryan on Twitter.

@Ryality