"Act like this means something to you - because it does."

I shared this elevator pitch* for the Hypnotists trilogy with an acquaintance on Discord, and now I'm sharing it with you.

The first book is about a Plucky Youth who ends up attending an After-School Club for Teens With Mind Control Powers and consequently becomes caught up in a political conspiracy, and the two sequels are about the fallout from his involvement. Some aspects of the plot and world-building make me very grumpy, but the interpersonal story beats are really well done, and the villain is one of my very favorites that I've ever encountered in any children's book, ever. I love stories about mind control and this series gives me so much of what I want.

If anybody wants to know what I've said about my latest obsession over on Tumblr, I've written about (among other things) my shipping preferences, ideas for an epistolary fic that follows the events of all three books, and what I'd like to see from a hypothetical screen adaptation.

*I told anysin that "pitch" made it sound like I was claiming some kind of ownership over this series, which I most certainly am not, and that led us into a tangent about old-school fic disclaimers: "These characters belong to Gordon Korman, please don't sue me, LOL!"