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<blockquote data-quote="WayneLigon" data-source="post: 2466627" data-attributes="member: 3649">Indeed. My friend who is manager of a bookstore brought up the first book soon after it had been released in the US. He said 'this will be the next big thing; they can't keep it on the shelves and I'm seeing kids coming in with other kids and shoving the book into their hands'. For once, she was right <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />&nbsp;&nbsp;Yep. There's simply no saying why it's popular. It's not the first book with this concept by far. It's not the first young adult book with engaging characters and magic and fantasy, etc. This happened to catch on and, amazingly, stay around as long as it has. Fads usually die within a couple-three years, but this has proved amazingly resiliant.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="WayneLigon, post: 2466627, member: 3649"] Indeed. My friend who is manager of a bookstore brought up the first book soon after it had been released in the US. He said 'this will be the next big thing; they can't keep it on the shelves and I'm seeing kids coming in with other kids and shoving the book into their hands'. For once, she was right :) Yep. There's simply no saying [i]why[/i] it's popular. It's not the first book with this concept by far. It's not the first young adult book with engaging characters and magic and fantasy, etc. This happened to catch on and, amazingly, stay around as long as it has. Fads usually die within a couple-three years, but this has proved amazingly resiliant. [/QUOTE]

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