And he became a reader favorite character, mainly because he’s just so bizarre. So there was a very interesting world to dive back into.īut also in the main series, Luc was like 14 years old then. And then the survivors, having to live among them, and not knowing if they can be trusted. I think when Opposition ended, it left it open for me to do anything with the series, because now we’re going to see a very different contemporary world setting, going from not knowing aliens exist, to them invading, and millions and millions of people dying. Well I think it was twofold-it was Luc and the world. Was the spinoff driven by him? What was it about the Lux world that made you feel that this needed further exploration? Talking about Evie and the people around her, Luc as a character is so interesting, and I know he is one of the characters that is from the Lux series. Yeah-Micah drops some foreshadowing in his last scene about what’s coming. I was already wondering, oh, what else might that treatment have done to her? There’s definitely some big changes with Evie coming. But it was tough, because I didn’t want her to be a damsel in distress the entire book, so anytime that I wanted to make sure I showed that even though she couldn’t fight like Luc or any of them, she could hold her own, or at least she helped.īut you’re going to see some changes with that in the second book. Sometimes the most important strength is being able to survive some really tough stuff and be able to pick yourself back up, dust yourself off.Īnd Evie’s dealt some huge psychological blows-learning who she really is, and that her mother isn’t her mother, and then having no recollection of that past. It doesn’t mean you’re a trained fighter.

It doesn’t always mean that you can handle a gun or a bow and arrow, or a sword. It’s one of my soapboxes, that strength does not always mean physical. That was actually one of the hardest things, because I feel that, in YA, if your character is not physically strong and able to get out there and kick ass, your character is seen as weak, even if they’re mentally and emotionally strong. When everyone around her is so powerful, how do you keep a teen girl protagonist strong?

She was a really interesting character, just her voice, how sarcastic she was. And she begins to discover that there’s a lot of things the government has kept quiet from the humans after the invasion. But you quickly begin to realize that there is something going on, and that’s where our main character Evie comes into play.

My teacher is an alien by bruce coville