And we are back.  Well, I am.  As I’m writing this Kate is on a plane on her way home.  New Orleans was great!  We both had a lot of fun.  It’s such a chill city.  It was a lot of fun walking around and seeing the sights. I do hope we get to go back again some day.

But back to business. The movie adaption of Insurgent by Veronica Roth comes out tomorrow.  I have mixed feelings about the movie of Divergent, I overall liked it but I have reservations about this one.  First the trailer makes it pretty clear they did some major changes and I’m not sure if that’s going to be good or bad.  Insurgent was a hard book to read because Tris suffers from PTSD and no one tries to help her and it was beyond frustrating.  I’m not sure how that will play on screen or if they will sort of gloss over it kinda like they did with Katniss in Mockingay Part 1.  I guess I’ll find out when I see it later this or next week.

There are other YA movie adaptations coming soon that I’m pretty excited.  Of course Mockingjay Part 2. That’s definitely going to be brutal.  Moviefone highlighted a few that are in the works.  Some that I knew of like The 5th Wave and Mrs. Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children. The former should make a good movie and the latter, well hopefully with Tim Burton at the helm it will be better then the book. I didn’t know that Daughter of Smoke and Bone, Grasshopper Jungle, Immortal Rules and Shadow and Bone have all been optioned.  That’s awesome!  I think both Kate and I have said how much we loved Daughter of Smoke and Bone by Laini Taylor.  That will be really interesting to see how that plays out on the big screen.  Immortal Rules by Julie Kagawa is excellent Vampire Dystopian novel.  I also think that Smoke and Bone by Leigh Bardugo is being produced by David Heyman of Harry Potter fame. So I have a lot faith that will be well done.  And Edgar Wright is attached to direct Grasshopper Jungle?  Yes please! I know we have talked a lot about this book lately and it’s flaws but it was an entertaining book and I actually think if done right will make a better movie.

So book fans, we have a lot of good books being made into movies in the upcoming years.  Let’s hope that they are all more like Harry Potter and Hunger Games and less like The Giver or Percy Jackson.

P.S. Not mentioned in the article but Maggie Stiefvater’s Scorpio Races and Rainbow Rowell’s Eleanor and Park have also been optioned.  I’m not sure where Scorpio Races is in development but I do know that Miss Rowell was asked to write the screenplay for Eleanor and Park and well I can’t wait for both of these!