I could go in any direction I wanted and make that world frightening, startling, wicked, and dangerous, so I threw in everything.”īaldacci is far from finished building new worlds for Vega Jane and Delph to survive. Whereas the residents of the village of Wormwood are “bound by some rules,” he explains, “in the Quag, the sky is the limit-anything goes. The author, who discovered when he wrote The Finisher how freeing fantasy can be, found that taking Vega Jane and Delph onto new and terrifying turf was “just as, and in some ways more, liberating” than his first foray into the genre. He notes that, even though he had already established the characters of his teenage protagonist and her best friend, Delph, “I had to create a brand-new world out of nothing as they escape from Wormwood and venture into the Quag and confront its evil inhabitants.” In a sequel, The Keeper (Scholastic Press, Sept.), which will have a 250,000-copy announced first printing, the heroine faces even more daunting challenges as she leaves Wormwood to discover the truth about her world-and navigates her way across the Quag, a terrifying land of bloodthirsty creatures and sinister magic.īaldacci tackled new challenges himself writing this follow-up story.
The Finisher, David Baldacci’s debut YA fantasy in March, introduced iron-willed Vega Jane, who takes a stand and fights to do what’s right after discovering that her village of Wormwood is built on dangerous lies.
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