Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Drive-By | 1996 | Lynne Ewing | Buy |
| 2 | Party Girl | 1998 | Lynne Ewing | Buy |
| 3 | The Lure | 2014 | Lynne Ewing | Buy |
Before her fantasy series, Lynne Ewing wrote realistic YA fiction. Drive-By (1996) follows a young L.A. artist coping with gang violence, and Party Girl (1998) explores the dangers of the teen party scene. The Lure (2014) marked a return to paranormal fiction.
Drive-By was based on a real incident and was published by HarperCollins. The story follows a twelve-year-old boy in Los Angeles after his brother is killed in a drive-by shooting, and the boy channels his grief into art. Party Girl deals with a different kind of teen danger, as its protagonist gets pulled into the underground club scene.
The Lure came out sixteen years after Party Girl and shifted to paranormal territory. The gap between books reflects Ewing’s time spent writing the Daughters of the Moon series, which ran for thirteen volumes. These three standalone titles show the range of her interests, from street-level realism to supernatural fiction.