"One of my favorite authors." Orson Scott Card, author of Ender's GamePraise for Tris and Izzie, another contemporary romance fantasy for YA by Mette Ivie Harrison:"Harrison jumps from her deep-and-dark stories into a completely different mood. Comedy. Truthful comedy, because it is Harrison writing it, but this story is funny all the way through. It's also great adventure. Think of it as a funny antidote to Twilight-mania. And this time the hero is actually a hero, and not a blood-sucking impossibility." About An Ideal Boyfriend:Based on the Oscar Wilde play and movie: An Ideal HusbandTrudy comes from a family without luck, but when she tests lucky, she leaves her home and enrolls in St. James Academy for Luck, an exclusive school largely for children of old luck families. Out of place, she nonetheless becomes the girlfriend of Rob Chiltern, Student Body President. Everything should be great in her life until Rob's ex Laura appears and tries to blackmail him.Praise for other books by Mette Ivie Harrison:"[P]owerful, surprising, moving, and deep. . . The Princess and the Hound is a classic. It defies rules and formulas. It does nothing in the way that other fantasies have taught us to expect. Yet every rule-defying decision by Harrison is exactly right, leading to a breathtakingly right ending." Orson Scott Card"Harrison's writing style is most evocative of Robin McKinley but still all her own. Readers of fantasy, animal stories and subtle romances will enjoy this novel and hope for more from this skilled author. Fans of Robin McKinley, Patricia McKillip, Franny Billingsley, Cornelia Funke and Sherwood Smith should add this to their "must" be read list. Heidi Anne Heiner, SurlaLune Fairy Tales"Not since Tale of Desperaux have I opened a book and wanted to read aloud so much. In her prologue Mette Ivie Harrison evoked exactly the tone and voice of a classic fairy tale in the oral tradition. . ." interactivereader.com"Grips you from the very first page all the way to the surprising conclusion." Holly Black, author of The Spiderwick Chronicles "What I loved about the book was . . .the idea of the secrets we keep, and when it is necessary to disclose them. . . . [T]he world of Harrison's novel is one where such secrets may bring about persecution and death. . . I think a lot of teens will relate it to high school."Alex Flinn, author of Beastly, now a major motion picture
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