Further, Rachel Cohn, herself a fiction writer, gives insight to adolescent reader’s responses to controversial books. Her article, “Teen, Teachers and Controversial Texts,” demonstrates how controversial books can be used to enhance young adults in the area of reading, writing, and thinking, especially reluctant readers (Cohn 18). She states that “a common thread I find among kids’ responses to controversial YA literature is the sense of recognition and affinity they feel with the protagonists” (17) and how controversial texts can be used to change “reluctant readers into passionate readers” (18) and by doing so, the passionate readers can be “happily” (18) introduced to the classics. The bottom-line regarding Blood and Chocolate is that