Neal: Jarrod came to visit me to brainstorm ideas for our next book together-and we were talking about unique storytelling perspectives. My partner, Sofi, urged me to work on something with the potential to heal. Jarrod: For me, there were some people close to me in my life who struggled with prescription medication, with doctors and treatments they trusted, and lost their lives in the end. YABC: What gave you the inspiration to write this book?

Rameys-Isaac, a soccer player thrown into Roxy’s orbit by a bad fall and a bad doctor and Ivy, his older sister, whose increasing frustration with her untreated ADHD leads her to renew her acquaintance with Addy. Drawn by what the drugs offer-tempted to take that step past helpful to harmful…and the troubled places that lie beyond.īut there are two I. And you are only human, dazzled by the lights and music. The wager-a contest to see who can bring their mark to “the Party” first-is a race to the bottom of a rave that has raged since the beginning of time. The victim of the bet between two manufactured gods: the seductive and lethal Roxy (Oxycontin), who is at the top of her game, and the smart, high-achieving Addison (Adderall), who is tired of being the helpful one, and longs for a more dangerous, less wholesome image. Yet there you are, in the fifth house on the left, fighting for your life. Construction has already started, pushing toward this corridor of condemned houses and cracked concrete with the momentum of the inevitable. They can be found on Instagram Roxyįrom the team that brought you the New York Times bestselling Dry comes a riveting new thriller that proves when gods play games, even love is a lie. Together they enjoy traveling the world and learning new languages, living between Los Angeles and Spain. Jarrod writes and directs with his partner Sofia, under their company Dos Lobos Entertainment. He has a passion for storytelling across many mediums, with love and multiculturalism as an ethos. Jarrod Shusterman is the New York Times bestselling coauthor of Dry. Neal is the father of four, all of whom are talented writers and artists themselves.

He also writes screenplays for motion pictures and television shows. Scythe, the first book in his latest series, Arc of a Scythe, is a Michael L. Neal Shusterman is the New York Times bestselling author of more than thirty award-winning books for children, teens, and adults, including the Unwind dystology, the Skinjacker trilogy, Downsiders, and Challenger Deep, which won the National Book Award. Read on for more about Neal and Jarrod and their book!

Today we are chatting with Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman, authors of

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