tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-88193978986990313192024-02-29T02:26:45.315-05:00Flipping Pages for All AgesA blog about books mostly, with a little bit of music, movies and tv added in!Sherryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08478149489714597517noreply@blogger.comBlogger340125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8819397898699031319.post-50058978886732936502011-11-20T16:13:00.005-05:002011-11-20T16:27:21.866-05:00Tyger, Tyger E-book Special Promotion & Signed Paperback Giveaway!<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
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</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;">In 2010 at BEA I was lucky enough to get an ARC of Tyger, Tyger by Kersten Hamilton. It had an interesting summary and sounded like something I would enjoy. And I did enjoy it (Check out my review <a href="http://flippingpagesforallages.blogspot.com/2010/10/review-tyger-tyger-by-kersten-hamilton.html">here</a>!) It was unique compared to everything else I had ever read, and something like that sticks with you. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">In just two days, the sequel to Tyger, Tyger, In the Forests of the Night, will be released. In celebration of the upcoming release, Kersten's publisher is having an e-book promotion for Tyger, Tyger. You can get it at a special price of only $2.99. This special is available at <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Tyger-Goblin-Wars-Book-ebook/dp/B004GB1T6S/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1321823164&sr=8-2">Amazon</a>, Apple, <a href="http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/tyger-tyger-kersten-hamilton/1100375064?ean=9780547505985&itm=2&usri=tyger%2c+tyger">Barnes and Noble</a> and Google. Don't wait too long, this promotion is only going on for about another week!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Since In the Forests of the Night will be out so soon, Kersten has kindly offered up one signed paperback copy of Tyger, Tyger to one lucky winner.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">This is a US only contest! It will run from now until Sunday 11/27/11.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div>Sherryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08478149489714597517noreply@blogger.com17tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8819397898699031319.post-34127616321892929802011-11-08T19:19:00.002-05:002011-11-08T19:27:00.032-05:00Covers and trailers and EPICNESS! OH MY!<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Just because I've been absent from blogging lately, doesn't mean I still don't see the recently revealed covers of upcoming books, as well as the release of book trailers. If anything, I'm on the lookout more, so that I can keep track of what books are coming out and when, so I can snag myself a copy.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">It seems that this week has gifted us with many a book covers, and one magnificentally well made book trailer.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">First: As an inkpopper, I've known about Wendy Higgins' upcoming Sweet Evil ever since it was first announced (Coming May 1st, 2012). Well, yesterday Wendy tweeted the cover (you can follow her on twitter too @Wendy_Higgins) and I must say: WOW! It's incredibly beautiful, and elegant and it says so much without saying anything at all. It offers a contrast with not only the bright vs. dark side, but also the vibrant, rich red vs. the deep black. It shows that some type of romance is obviously involved, and I unsurprisingly, am okay with this (Duh). I want to stare at this book cover, and then I want to pet it. A little much? Probably... but I don't care. If I knew nothing about this book, I wouldn't care, I would still pick it up and buy it because of this cover alone. And while one should never judge a book by its cover, if you get this book and don't like it (I haven't read it so I can't tell you my feelings about it yet) at least you have a gorgeous book sitting on your shelf. Anyways... STARE AWAY!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Second: We got TWO cover reveals yesterday for two of Lauren Kate's books. One of which is Rapture: A Fallen Novel (June 12th, 2012 from Delacorte Books). This cover while being very similar to the other, a girl in a dress, is different because it feautures the girl in a white dress, rather than a black. And it is by far my favorite of them all. All of the covers are very beautiful but this offers a different tone. Each of the other covers shows a girl whose hanging her head. In this cover, at the very least she is looking straight ahead, maybe up a little. What are your thoughts? Do you have a favorite cover of the four Fallen novels?</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><strong><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">1) <em>Basics:</em></span></strong></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><strong><em>What is your birthday? Middle name? Favorite Color? Favorite Number?</em></strong></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"></span></div><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> Josh: </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><strong>Birthday:</strong> January 11</span><br />
<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><strong>Middle Name:</strong> Xavier (But please don’t tell anyone!)</span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Josh: Dude, I totally read! I have a subscription to MAD magazine, AND Sports Illustrated. Plus I’m, like, reading all the time for school. History text books, and Literature text books, and Math text books…</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Josh: Ugh, I know. It was a mistake. I admit it. But I’m only human, you know? I mean, Courtney was really hot. And totally hitting on me. It wasn’t right, but I had a moment of weakness.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Josh: It totally sucks! I mean, there’s a HUGE difference between cheating on your girlfriend, which I am totally sorry about, and being a murderer. Just because I made one little mistake did NOT mean I killed someone. Even now there are some people who still give me that stare at school. You know, the stare where I think they’re secretly thinking that maybe I really did do it? So not cool. All I can say is thank God for Hartley. At least she believed in me enough to investigate who really killed Courtney.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Josh: Oh, wow, wouldn’t that be sweet? Okay, um, I think I’d want to be able to be invisible. That way I could totally listen to any conversation at school and no one would know I’m there. I could even, like, be standing over the teacher’s shoulder as he writes down test answers. I mean, not that I’d ever cheat on a test, but it would be kinda cool, right? </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">*To learn more about Gemma Halliday or Deadly Cool check out her <a href="http://gemmahalliday.com/">webpage</a>.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Vanish by Sophie Jordan recently hit the shelves at the beginning of this month. As part of the blog tour for its release, my post features Cassian, who we get to see a different side of in Vanish.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A provided a list of This or Thats, and we get to hear from Cassian what he would choose, and why!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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<span style="color: black;"></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Spring or Fall:</strong> Spring … when everything is new again and full of hope.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
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<span style="color: black;"></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Day or Night:</strong> Night … when I can fly.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
<span style="color: black;"></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Chocolate or Vanilla:</strong> Favorite flavor is verdaberry … probably the same with all draki. Nothing new there. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
<span style="color: black;"></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Fight or Flight:</strong> I’m an onyx draki, born to fight, born to fly … one of the fastest of my kind. I’m a warrior to the core of me. I’ll do whatever necessary to protect my pride and species.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">One winner that leaves a comment (along with their email address) will win a Swag Pack. US only. This giveaway will run for five days only!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">2. Talk about Angry Birds. A legion of them keep crapping all over my car. I'm single-handedly putting the car wash owner's kids through college.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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<div align="center"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">*****</span> </div><div align="center"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span> </div><div align="center"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span> </div><div align="center"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Don't forget to get your copy of Witch Eyes which will be hitting shelves soon (Some have said Amazon is already shipping!)</span> </div><div align="center"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span> </div><div align="center"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span> </div><div align="center"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">*****</span> </div><div align="center"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span> </div><div align="center"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">To learn more about Scott Tracey, check out his </span><a href="http://scott-tracey.com/"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">webpage</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> or follow him on </span><a href="http://twitter.com/#!/scott_tracey"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">twitter</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">.</span> </div><div align="center"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span> </div><div align="center"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span> </div><div align="center"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em>***Special thanks to Scott Tracey for this wonderful Tens List, and to Teen Book Scene for organizing the Witch Eyes blog tour!</em></span> </div><div align="center"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span> </div><div align="center"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"></span> </div><div align="center"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span> </div><div align="center"><strong><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Sherry<span style="color: red;"><3</span></span></strong></div>Sherryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08478149489714597517noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8819397898699031319.post-55244680569737222092011-08-31T10:14:00.000-04:002011-08-31T10:14:09.643-04:00Review: Vanish by Sophie Jordan<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1298940410l/9436632.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1298940410l/9436632.jpg" width="211" xaa="true" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em><span style="color: #073763;">Title:</span></em> Vanish (Firelight #2)</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em><span style="color: #073763;">Author:</span></em> Sophie Jordan</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em><span style="color: #073763;">Publication Date:</span></em> September 6th, 2011</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em><span style="color: #073763;">Published By:</span></em> HarperTeen</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Hardcover, 304 Pages</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #073763;">Source:</span> ARC received from the Publisher for an honest review</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"To save the life of the boy she loves, Jacinda did the unthinkable: She betrayed the most closely-guarded secret of her kind. Now she must return to the protection of her pride knowing she might never see Will again—and worse, that because his mind has been shaded, Will’s memories of that fateful night and why she had to flee are gone.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Last year when Firelight came out, I absolutely fell in love with the story of Jacinda and Will. It was intense and romantic, full of adventure and dragons (I love dragons). Vanish is full of everything I loved about the first book, and more. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">When Jacinda manifested to save Will's life, she not only showed her true self to humans, but hunters. She had no choice but to travel back to the Pride with Cassian, along with her mother and twin sister Tamra. Vanish picks up right where we left off in Firelight. It's not long after you start reading the book that you will find out exactly what is going on with the girl on the cover (I was glad that my guess was completely right hehe). </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Don't think the choice of Pride or Will is all Jacinda has to face in Vanish! There are twists and turns, some expected and some quite surprising. There isn't a dull moment, and each page you read will leave you wanting more. I don't know anything about Book #3 yet, except that I want it in my hands as soon as possible. Vanish doesn't necessarily end with a cliffhanger, but I have to know how this entire story, from page 1 of Firelight to the last page of the final book, ends. How the story comes to a close.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div align="center">"Fifteen-year-old Bridget Liu just wants to be left alone: by her mom, by the cute son of a local police sergeant, and by the eerie voices she can suddenly and inexplicably hear. Unfortunately for Bridget, it turns out the voices are demons – and Bridget has the rare ability to banish them back to whatever hell they came from.</div><div align="center"><br />
</div><div align="center">Terrified to tell people about her new power, Bridget confides in a local priest who enlists her help in increasingly dangerous cases of demonic possession. But just as she is starting to come to terms with her new power, Bridget receives a startling message from one of the demons. Now Bridget must unlock the secret to the demons' plan before someone close to her winds up dead – or worse, the human vessel of a demon king."</div><div align="center"><br />
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</div><div align="center">Possess was a stunning, page-turning debut from author Gretchen McNeil. Taking place in San Francisco, the main character Bridget, who wants nothing other than to be left alone, begins hearing the voices of Demons after the death of her father. There are many things I look for in a YA paranormal novel, and this had it all, plus some. Action, romance, horror/thrills/mystery, and Bridget's attitude made it able for us all to relax a bit (even with the creepiness). </div><div align="center"><br />
</div><div align="center">Bridget's ability to hear, and rid others of, Demons, was certainly a unique idea which allowed me as a reader to breathe a sigh of relief that not all books in similar genres have to share concepts/creatures etc. A breath of fresh air is the simpleist way to convey what this book is as a whole.</div><div align="center"><br />
</div><div align="center">Bridget was a wonderful character. My favorite part about her has to be that she is consistantly her own character. She never lets others influence who she is. We see it time and time again, a female character will cave to her mans wishes, or even a friends, and let's face it, it's kind of depressing. It's refreshing to have a character that stands up for themself. Another thing I love, she has three best friends, all males, and she doesn't have something going on with any of them. They are best friends, that's it. Oh if only it were always that simple in books. Why can't a girl just have guy best friends without it elevating to something more??</div><div align="center"><br />
</div><div align="center">Did I mention this book has a serious creep factor?? I've read YA books that can sometimes be creepy-ish... but this takes the cake. If you've read other reviews, I don't doubt that they mention the dolls. *chills* You'll have to read it for yourself, but let me tell you... read this during the day, or sleep with your light on... otherwise there is a high probability that nightmares will ensue.</div><div align="center"><br />
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</div><div align="center"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">"For Erin Blackwell, majoring in creative writing at the New York City college of her dreams is more than a chance to fulfill her ambitions--it's her ticket away from the tragic memories that shadow her family's racehorse farm in Kentucky. But when she refuses to major in business and take over the farm herself someday, her grandmother gives Erin's college tuition and promised inheritance to their maddeningly handsome stable boy, Hunter Allen. Now Erin has to win an internship and work late nights at a coffee shop to make her own dreams a reality. She should despise Hunter . . . so why does he sneak into her thoughts as the hero of her latest writing assignment?</span></div><div align="center"><br />
</div><div align="center"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Then, on the day she's sharing that assignment with her class, Hunter walks in. He's joining her class. And after he reads about himself in her story, her private fantasies about him must be painfully clear. She only hopes to persuade him not to reveal her secret to everyone else. But Hunter devises his own creative revenge, writing sexy stories that drive the whole class wild with curiosity and fill Erin's heart with longing. Now she's not just imagining what might have been. She's writing a whole new ending for her romance with Hunter . . . except this story could come true.</span></div><div align="center"><br />
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</div><div align="center"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">As a huge fan of both Going too far and Forget You, I have been anxiously awaiting the arrival of this book ever since I found out about it months ago. Let me tell you, it was well worth the wait. Just as with Going too far and Forget You, Jennifer created an amazing romantic contemporary novel with great characters, an interesting storyline and of course, a love story to swoon over.</span></div><div align="center"><br />
</div><div align="center"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">It seems that every book of Jennifer's I have read I have a connection too. With Going too far, one of the main characters is a cop, and I'm going for my Bachelors Degree in Criminal Justice so I can relate. In Forget You the main characters were swimmers, and I swam competitvely from the age 5 until the end of high school. Love Story was no exception. In this story, the characters are raised near a horse farm, and I could relate because my family has horses. I love being able to find those little things in novels that make it that much more relatable, and for me, more enjoyable. </span></div><div align="center"><br />
</div><div align="center"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">The main characters in Love Story, Erin and Hunter, are one of my favorite couples in romantic contemporary fiction. For one, the chemistry between them is off the charts. I think Erin was the only one unaware of this throughout the book. Everyone else seemed to pick up on it. The relationship throughout the book, even with the problems and situations where awkwardness should be present, runs smoothly (for the most part). They remain at civil with each other, even under the worst circumstances (ummm hello Erin's Stable Boy Essay??). I loved seeing the progression of their relationship, and I couldn't get enough of their back and forth essays. That made for quite an interesting read.</span></div><div align="center"><br />
</div><div align="center"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">But the main characters aren't the only ones who made an impact on me. This book wouldn't have worked as well as it did without all of the side characters. Erin's grandmother and her schemes, Hunter's dad, the other students in the Creative Writing class, the english teacher. All of them added something to the story. </span></div><div align="center"><br />
</div><div align="center"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">As for the setting of a Kentucky horse farm and NYC, I really enjoyed the differences in the areas. The mellow, relaxed country, and the busy, hustling city. And of course I love horses so having them be a big part of the story was wonderful.</span></div><div align="center"><br />
</div><div align="center"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Overall, I love, love, LOVE this book. I will forever and always be a fan of Jennifer's work, and I look forward to everything she writes. </span></div><div align="center"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I texted my best friend Hector. He sent me a photo of this barista he’s crushing on, and asked my opinion. I told him it looked suspiciously like our friend Brad.</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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<li><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My steel-toed boots because, well let’s face it, you never know when you’re going to need to kick a little ass.</span></div></li>
<li><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My copy of Dostoyevsky’s NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND. Hey, I don’t want to be bored.</span></div></li>
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span id="internal-source-marker_0.41010189450311535" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong>Gretchen McNeil</strong> is an opera singer, writer and clown. Her YA horror/paranormal POSSESS debut with Balzer + Bray for HarperCollins, August 23, 2011. Her second novel, TEN – YA horror/suspense about ten teens trapped on a remote island with a serial killer – is tentatively scheduled for a Fall 2012 release. Gretchen is a former coloratura soprano, the voice of Mary on G4's </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Code Monkeys</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> and she currently sings with the LA-based circus troupe Cirque Berzerk (</span></span><a href="http://www.cirqueberzerk.com/"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">http://www.cirqueberzerk.com</span></span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"> ). Gretchen is also a founding member of the vlog group YARebels (</span></span><a href="http://www.youtube.com/yarebels"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">http://www.youtube.com/yarebels</span></span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">) where she can be seen as "Monday."</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Touch of Frost by Jennifer Estep</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Publication Date: July 26th, 2011</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Published By: Kensington Publishing Corporation</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Paperback, 350 Pages</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Source: Received from publishing company for honest review for blog tour</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But lately, things have been weird, even for Mythos. First, mean girl Jasmine Ashton was murdered in the Library of Antiquities. Then, someone stole the Bowl of Tears, a magical artifact that can be used to bring about the second Chaos War. You know, death, destruction and lots of other bad, bad things. Freaky stuff like this goes on all the time at Mythos, but I'm determined to find out who killed Jasmine and why—especially since I should have been the one who died. . ."</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Before I started reading this I was a bit worried it would be too similar to all of the other god/goddesses/mythology books that have come out lately. I was thrilled that that wasn't the case.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Gwen Frost is a gypsy and is enrolled in Mythos Academy. Shortly after she starts, the most popular girl in school is murdered. I really enjoyed how this book wasn't just mythology, but that it also involved some mystery and Gwen is able to use her powers to investigate what happened. I loved Gwen's very original ability/power. It was great seeing something different, rather than the same paranormal type character.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It's definitely always interesting to see the different twists and directions authors take when it comes to the same genre. When it comes to Gods/Goddessess some things will always be similar, but it is also such a wide category that things can be tweaked and changed depending on which way the author chooses to write the story. You can see that in this novel. Jennifer was able to make Touch of Frost very unique and enjoyable.</span></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span><br />
<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As for enjoyable, let's not forget about Logan Quinn. First off, I love that name! Second, this bad boy fit right into the story. Him and Gwen had great chemistry and interactions throughout the book. The other side characters were memorable as well, especially Daphne. Jasmine's one time friend who eventually becomes Gwen's friend.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I'm thrilled to welcome author Jon Skovron to my blog today. His novel Misfit was just released August 1st from Amulet Books. You can check out my review </span><a href="http://flippingpagesforallages.blogspot.com/2011/07/review-misfit-by-jon-skovron.html"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">here</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">For this stop on the blog tour, I got to send some different topics to Jon and he picked ten for each. Check out Jon's Tens Lists below!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em><strong><u>Top ten places you would like to sneak into:</u></strong></em></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-The Vatican</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-The Globe Theater in Straford-on-Avon</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-Marvel Studios</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-Neil Gaiman's house (wait, would that be creepy?)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-Back stage at a 9:30 Club Show (preferably someone cool like tUnE-yArDs or Wye Oak, but the experience itself would be interesting, regardless of the band)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-Google Headquarters</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-The new Apple headquarters</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-The pyramids</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-A space station</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-An alternate reality</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em><strong><u>Top ten songs from your teenage years:</u></strong></em></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-Wave of Mutilation by The Pixies</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-Creep by Radiohead</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-Been Caught Stealing by Jane's Addiction</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-Pictures of You by The Cure</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-Just Like Honey by The Jesus and Mary Chain</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-Freak Scene by Dinosaur Jr.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-Cannonball by The Breeder</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-Something In the Way by Nirvana</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-If You Have to Ask by Red Hot Chili Peppers</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-Only Shallow by My Bloody Valentine </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-Great Dane</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-Black Lab</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-Cane Corso</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-German Shepard</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-Golden Retriever</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-Coonhound</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-Husky</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-Weimaraner</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-Standard Poodle (for my brother, Chris)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-and...uh... oh, what the hell...Skipper Key </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Not sure about vacation spots, but these are the places I'd like to go sometime soon:</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-Scotland</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-Iceland</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-South of France</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-Greece</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-Rome</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-Moscow</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-Japan</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-Egypt</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-Alaska</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-Berlin </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Ok I loved all of these lists! Espeically the places to sneak into and the songs list!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">*To learn more about Jon, you can check out his </span><a href="http://jonskovron.com/"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">webpage</span></a><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> or follow him on </span><a href="http://twitter.com/jonnyskov"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Twitter</span></a><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><strong>Sherry<span style="color: red;"><3</span></strong></span></div>Sherryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08478149489714597517noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8819397898699031319.post-72091098563348081202011-07-27T13:57:00.000-04:002011-07-27T13:57:11.063-04:00Review: Misfit by Jon Skovron<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.abramsbooks.com/uploadedImages/Books/9781419700217.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://www.abramsbooks.com/uploadedImages/Books/9781419700217.jpg" t$="true" width="214" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Misfit by Jon Skovron</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Publication Date: August 1st, 2011</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Published By: Amulet Books</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Hardcover, 384 Pages</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Source: ARC Tour- Blog Tour</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">"Jael has always felt like a freak. She’s never kissed a boy, she never knew her mom, and her dad’s always been superstrict—but that’s probably because her mom was a demon, which makes Jael half demon and most definitely not a normal sophomore girl. On her sixteenth birthday, a mysterious present unlocks her family’s dangerous history and Jael’s untapped potential. What was merely an embarrassing secret before becomes a terrifying reality. Jael must learn to master her demon side in order to take on a vindictive Duke of Hell while also dealing with a twisted priest, best-friend drama, and a spacey blond skater boy who may have hidden depths.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Author Jon Skovron takes on the dark side of human nature with his signature funny, heartfelt prose."</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">I believe this is going to be a book people either really like, or just don't care for. Lucky for me, I thouroughly enjoyed it. Jael is the main character and I both love and hate certain things about her. Overall, she is pretty badass(I mean, come on she IS half-demon), but she's also pretty reckless(doesn't think about consequences before she acts). Then again a lot of teenagers act before they think so I guess I can't really dislike her for that reason. Rob is introduced and becomes the love interest. He's one of my favorite characters from the book. 1) He's a skateboarder(I wish I could skateboard) and 2)He likes math/science(ME TOO!). </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">One thing that I could have gone without is all the religion stuff. I'm not religious in any way so it didn't offend me, but I don't care to read about it either. I can see how it was essential for the story though so I just read through it.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">I really enjoyed how the author was able to add so much comedic relief into the story. It really made the whole novel much more rounded. It pretty much had it all, comedy, romance, action. It was light and dark and it also makes the reader think(always a plus)!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia;">Another major plus for me was the parent's backstory. I'm a huge fan of backstories, and Skovron does not dissappoint. I love reading a story and going back in that story to see how things were or what happened. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia;">Overall, this was a great story that will have readers engaged from the beginning to the end. A definite recommend for any YA fans out there!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Today I bring you Elise Benton's playlist. Elise is the main character from the upcoming Epic Fail by Claire LaZebnik, which is to be released on August 2nd from HarperTeen. This story is a retelling of Pride & Prejudice and I absolutely LOVED it! Take a look at the songs Elise listed below (the choices make me love this this character even more!).</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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<span style="color: #e06666;"></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">These are the songs I like to crank up when I actually get the house or the car to myself—which doesn’t happen nearly often enough, as far as I’m concerned. They all make me happy, even the sad songs, which I know sounds weird but there’s just something about every one of these songs that gets to me in a good way. I’ve added a note to each one to explain why I love it. -- Elise.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">1. <em><strong>Adele</strong></em>, Rolling in the Deep (Adele’s a goddess. Period.)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">2. <strong><em>Mumford and Sons,</em></strong> After the Storm (Spare, quiet, moving.)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">3. <em><strong>Simon and Garfunkel,</strong></em> Scarborough Fair (Yes, it’s old. But sometimes you want to listen to a classic. Especially one that gives you chills like this one.)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">4. <strong><em>Arctic Monkeys,</em></strong> I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor (I was torn between this and Fluorescent Adolescent but this edged out for the win.)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">5. <strong><em>Amy Winehouse,</em></strong> Valerie (Makes me happy.)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">6. <em><strong>Weezer,</strong></em> Island in the Sun (Ditto.)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">7. <strong><em>Vampire Weekend,</em></strong> Oxford Comma (Not to be played if Mom, Dad, or Kayla is within earshot—liberal use of the F-word—but smart and funny, and come on, a rock song about an obscure punctuation rule? It’s so nerdy it’s cool.)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong><em>8. Regina Spektor,</em></strong> Hero (“I’m the hero of this story, I don’t need to be saved”—every girl needs to repeat that to herself about ten million times, especially one of my sisters who shall go nameless)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">9. <strong><em>Florence and the Machine,</em></strong> Between Two Lungs (Flo rocks it out like no one else.)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">10. <strong><em>The Shins,</em></strong> Australia (Fun, bouncy, virtually impossible to sing along to.)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Also, fell free to check out Elise Benton's Playlist on Itunes! Just click the link below:</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia;">*****</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Georgia;"><strong>GIVEAWAY!</strong></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia;">As part of the blog tour, there is also a giveaway for a copy of Epic Fail & a stress ball!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia;">This is a US ONLY contest and you have 7 days to enter. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia;">All you have to do to enter is leave a comment in the comment section (there are no requirements other than the winner must have a US mailing address!)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia;">Thanks to Teen Book Scene for organizing this blog tour and to Claire for supplying Elise's Playlist!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia;"><strong>Sherry<span style="color: red;"><3</span></strong></span></div>Sherryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08478149489714597517noreply@blogger.com20tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8819397898699031319.post-89029898012641266032011-07-25T15:43:00.000-04:002011-07-25T15:43:04.106-04:00Author Interview: Jennifer Estep (Touch of Frost)<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">As part of the blog tour for the upcoming Touch of Frost by Jennifer Estep, I got to ask Jennifer a few questions for the blog.</span></div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Greetings and salutations! First of all, I want to thank Sherry for having me on the blog today. Thanks so much, Sherry!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="color: #0b5394;"><strong>Jennifer Estep:</strong> Sassy, sarcastic, sugar-addict, bookaholic, geek</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><em><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>FPfAA:</strong> How does writing for young adults differ from writing for adults?</span></em></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="color: #0b5394;"><strong>Jennifer:</strong> It’s definitely been a fun challenge for me to write a young adult series with my Mythos Academy books. My adult books are pretty dark and gritty so it was nice to write something a little lighter, but that still has a lot of action, magic, and danger in it.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Plus, there are so many elements that go into writing YA – capturing your heroine’s journey, finding her voice, showing her growing up, world building, even developing a romance. It’s a tough balancing act to juggle all of those things, but you always want to stretch and grow as a writer, and I thought writing a YA series would be one way to do that. So far, I’m having a blast writing YA.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Hopefully, folks will have as much fun reading Touch of Frost and the other books in the series as I did writing them.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><em><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>FPfAA:</strong> Favorite social network(or the one you spend the most time on)?</span></em></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="color: #0b5394;"><strong>Jennifer:</strong> I probably spend the most time seeing what folks are buzzing about on Twitter, but I also really like Goodreads. It’s great for finding new authors and books, and it’s a cool way to keep up with the books that I’ve read. Plus, I’m always surfing book blogs to see what new books are coming out and to find new authors to read. Can you tell that I spend way too much time online? LOL.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><em><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>FPfAA:</strong> You have a time machine. Do you travel to the past or future (why)?</span></em></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Jennifer Estep writes the Mythos Acad¬emy young adult urban fan¬tasy series for Kens¬ing¬ton. The books focus on Gwen Frost, a 17-year-old Gypsy girl who has the gift of psy¬chom¬e¬try, or the abil¬ity to know an object’s his¬tory just by touch¬ing it. After a seri¬ous freak-out with her magic, Gwen is shipped off to Mythos Acad¬emy, a school for the descen¬dants of ancient war-riors like Spar¬tans, Valkyries, Ama¬zons, and more.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Touch of Frost, the first book in the series, will be published on July 26. First Frost, a prequel e-story to the series, is available now as a 99-cent download. Kiss of Frost, the second book, will hit shelves on Nov. 29. Visit www.jenniferestep.com for excerpts and more information.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">For contests, extra content and more information about Kensington’s Kteen Academy, please visit: </span><a href="http://www.facebook.com/kteenbooks"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">www.facebook.com/kteenbooks</span></a><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Thanks to Teen Book Scene for the blog tour and to Jennifer for answering my questions!!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Look out for my review on August 10th!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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<strong><em></em></strong></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"Juliette hasn't touched anyone in exactly 264 days. The last time she did, it was an accident, but The Reestablishment locked her up for murder. No one knows why Juliette's touch is fatal. As long as she doesn't hurt anyone else, no one really cares. The world is too busy crumbling to pieces to pay attention to a 17-year-old-girl. Diseases are destroying the population, food is hard to find, birds don't fly anymore, and the clouds are the wrong color.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Reestablishment said their way was the only way to fix things, so they threw Juliette in a cell. Now so many people are dead that the survivors are whispering war- and The Reestablishment has changed its mind. Maybe Juliette is more than a tortured soul stuffed into a poisonous body. Maybe she's exactly what they need right now.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Juliette has to make a choice: Be a weapon. Or be a warrior.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In this electrifying debut, Tahereh Mafi presents a world as riveting as The Hunger Games and a superhero story as thrilling as The X-Men. Full of pulse-pounding romance, intoxicating villainy, and high-stakes choices, Shatter Me is a fresh and original dystopian novel—with a paranormal twist—that will leave readers anxiously awaiting its sequel."</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This has to be one of the <em><strong>toughest</strong></em> reviews I have ever written. Whether I write it now, a month before it comes out, or a month after, there is so much I cannot include if I don't want to spoil all of you out there that have not had the pleasure of reading it yet, and I <u>REALLY</u> don't want to spoil it for you. I will do my best to get my feelings across, and I will certainly not spoil anything for you.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I'll start with how I feel about the book overall. <em><span style="color: #990000;">This truly is a beautiful book</span></em>. With beautiful writing and characterization and words that will make you fall in love<strong><span style="color: red;"><3</span></strong>. It is so well written.. I couldn't have been happier with what I was reading, and how it was written, and that it was living up to my expections, even exceeding them. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Juliette is a complicated character. She is not the weakling girl that everyone has to take care of, nor is she the strong amazing never fail girl that can do it all. She has flaws, but she handles them with grace. Her main flaw or gift (to be deterimined while you read the book), is the power to kill with her touch, and this is very much what makes her so complicated. Her story is very much a heartbreaking one, but she grows and allows her heartbreak to also heal her. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The introduction of Adam, who you will learn all about when you read the book, is quite genius. The chemistry between Juliette and Adam is off the charts. Unfortunately, that is all I will say on this subject. ;)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Throughout the novel, there are plenty of twists and turns that will keep you turning the pages until the very end. The character relationships and backstories were some of my very favorite parts of this novel. Probably some of my favorites from any novel (especially the backstories, Tahereh Mafi YOU'RE BRILLIANT!)...</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Now I'll talk about what I <em>didn't</em> like. It's not enough to change my overall feelings, which is that this book is stunning and amazing, but I did feel that there were some things that if done differently could have made this book a masterpiece and not just close to perfect. The first half of the book, and the second half, had a very different feel to them. In the first half, the focus is on Juliette. Her story, backstory, how she has changed, what is going on with her internally etc. I really loved her internal stuggle, and how Mafi conveys that to us in the writing. It was definitely the most interesting and intriguing writing in the entire book. Near the halfway point though, the internal thoughts kind of fade away. Juliette's side thoughts are taken out. I know the book is moving forward and as the character changes, so must the story, but I really wish that part of Juliette stayed throughout the entire novel. Also, near the end of the book there is a huge twist. It definitely isn't bad so don't get all worried. But part of me feels that with this twist, it took Shatter Me and turned it from an amazingly unique one of a kind novel, into something we have seen before. It's very hard to explain without being able to tell you why I feel that way, but there you have it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> Now please don't let this deduct from all of what I have previously said.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> <span style="color: #4c1130;">THIS IS STILL AN AMAZING BOOK</span>! I love it, and I have no doubts that most everybody will too.</span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em>One of the best of the year by far and without a doubt.</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I definitely recommend this to any fan of anything. This isn't something you want to miss. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">On a side note... let's talk about the cover^^^! I have waited to post this review until the cover was released, which was earlier today. This cover is just as stunning as the book itself, and it fits it perfectly. Mad props to HarperTeen on an outstanding job with this one!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Shatter Me is now available for Pre-Order. Check out Amazon, Barnes and Noble or Borders to pre-order yours now!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Want to learn more about debut author Tahereh Mafi? Check out her </span><a href="http://stiryourtea.blogspot.com/"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">blog</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">, </span><a href="http://taherehmafi.tumblr.com/"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">tumblr</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> or </span><a href="http://twitter.com/#!/TaherehMafi"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">twitter page</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">! </span><br />
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</div>Sherryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08478149489714597517noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8819397898699031319.post-88479629409169899962011-07-12T19:53:00.000-04:002011-07-12T19:53:07.013-04:00Review: Forgotten by Cat Patrick<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWCix2QB7OQ5LYpvdIrZYWTdxA8frfxYA7QkXqDdEcCdREvU-ZRuu_XhxOKgaCQtkjd9z1xPuhqQpoEJLH-hIve4EVsG1V29gGNy4usxabm3urY-YEzmN6JnPdnx7g2hfQ71clBwxWmW4e/s1600/FORGOTTEN_Cover-Final.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><img border="0" height="320" m$="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWCix2QB7OQ5LYpvdIrZYWTdxA8frfxYA7QkXqDdEcCdREvU-ZRuu_XhxOKgaCQtkjd9z1xPuhqQpoEJLH-hIve4EVsG1V29gGNy4usxabm3urY-YEzmN6JnPdnx7g2hfQ71clBwxWmW4e/s320/FORGOTTEN_Cover-Final.jpg" width="213" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Forgotten by Cat Patrick</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Publication Date: June 7th, 2011</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Published By: Little Brown Books for Young Readers</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Hardcover, 288 Pages</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Source: Review Copy received from Big Honcho Media for honest review</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Each night when 16 year-old London Lane goes to sleep, her whole world disappears. In the morning, all that's left is a note telling her about a day she can't remember. The whole scenario doesn't exactly make high school or dating that hot guy whose name she can't seem to recall any easier. But when London starts experiencing disturbing visions she can't make sense of, she realizes it's time to learn a little more about the past she keeps forgetting-before it destroys her future.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Forgotten was a great debut from author Cat Patrick. It deals with a girl named London that has a unique problem. She can't remember anything from her past, but she can remember things from her future. It makes for an interesting storyline, albeit a confusing one. Until you really understand what is going on, you have to think about what it means to forget your past, and remember your future (see are you confused yet??).</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Anywho, I haven't had access to posting reviews or anything. I have some stuff planned to go up pronto, that should have been posted in the past two weeks, and I apologize to the those that were supposed to have reviews go up (certain blog tours and special giveaways and such). I will be getting the up asap and I won't have to worry about lack of a computer anymore because I just got a new laptop (thank the lord!!!).</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">I am super thrilled to be hosting author Jennifer Jabaley today as part of the blog tour for her recently released novel Crush Control (June 9th from Razorbill Penguin). A YA novel about hypnosis (It's pretty great, make sure you stop back by tomorrow to check out my review!).</span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Since Crush Control is about hypnosis, I asked her who she would hypnotize and why if she had the ability to. </span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #741b47; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">This kind of hypnosis that would be so helpful to me, as a mother, if I could hypnotize my kids and make them perfect angels :) "Why yes, Mom, I would love to clean my room and clean the bathroom and do my homework and by the way, you are such a great Mom..." Ahhhh, life could be so much easier. And while I'm at it, why not make my husband be a little more doting. "Have you lost weight, Jen? You're looking so tone and taught. And by the way, this dinner is amazing. You just sit back and relax and let me clean the dishes..." Yes, this hypnosis thing is looking more tempting all the time :) Ahh, but as I know, from poor Willow's story, trying to change a person's heart and mind is a tricky thing.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #741b47; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Rather, there is another type of hypnosis and that is called hypno-therapy. It's when the same priciples of hypnosis are used to try and help a person change a habit. This type of hypnosis can be successful in helping someone with insomnia, weight loss, fear of flying....so many things. So to answer your question, if I had the ability to hypnotize someone, I think I would use hypno-therapy to help a guy I know fight a twenty year smoking habit that he's been unable to kick.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia;">To learn more about Jennifer you can check out her <a href="http://www.jenniferjabaley.com/">webpage here,</a> or follow her on <a href="http://twitter.com/JenniferJabaley">Twitter</a>.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div>Sherryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08478149489714597517noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8819397898699031319.post-50772001140889226132011-06-14T18:14:00.000-04:002011-06-14T18:14:18.671-04:00The Nine Lives of Chloe KingAs today is (finally) June 14th, ABC Family's new show, The Nine Lives of Chloe King will be premiering at 9pm(8c).<br />
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Even before the Nine Paths game I was looking forward to this! And since the show is based on a book series, that increases my intrigue ten fold.<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Die for Me by Amy Plum</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Publication Date: May 10th, 2011</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Published By: HarperTeen</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Hardcover, 352 Pages</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Source: ARC received from Inkpop/Publisher for Honest Review</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">"In the City of Lights, two star-crossed lovers battle a fate that is destined to tear them apart again and again for eternity.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">When Kate Mercier's parents die in a tragic car accident, she leaves her life--and memories--behind to live with her grandparents in Paris. For Kate, the only way to survive her pain is escaping into the world of books and Parisian art. Until she meets Vincent.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Mysterious, charming, and devastatingly handsome, Vincent threatens to melt the ice around Kate's guarded heart with just his smile. As she begins to fall in love with Vincent, Kate discovers that he's a revenant--an undead being whose fate forces him to sacrifice himself over and over again to save the lives of others. Vincent and those like him are bound in a centuries-old war against a group of evil revenants who exist only to murder and betray. Kate soon realizes that if she follows her heart, she may never be safe again."</span></div><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">I saw the (original) cover for this book before I heard anything about it, and that is what initially got me interested (Don't get my wrong I love the final cover too!). After I read the summary, it definitely sounded like something I would enjoy. And it was. Die for Me has everything we readers look for in a novel. Characters that come to life(which is ironic if you've read the book), a great and unique storyline, action, mystery and of course, romance. Not once throughout reading this did I ever think it needed something more, or something different. I was thrilled at reading something with such a different concept than most books out there, but one that was still able to give us what us YA lovers crave, some good romance!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Kate, the main character, travels with her sister to Paris after the death of their parents. They settle in with their grandparents and go about exploring all of the things they once knew (from previous visits). I have to say, the setting in Die for Me is amazing. As someone who has never been to Paris, I loved the descriptions this book offered. I didn't have to worry about coming up with any ideas about how things might be over there, Amy did a pretty amazing job of making certain us readers KNEW and were able to see just how everything is, the food, the city, and the museums. It was like I was exploring the city on my own.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Along the way Kate meets Vincent. A (gorgeous) guy for the most part, but also somewhat of a mystery. Since the majority of this book deals with Vincent and his friends, I won't go into detail about The Revenants. It's just not the same reading a book when you know everything ahead of time. But I will say that I loved the characters in Die for Me, and the relationships they all had. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">I was lucky enough to participate in last years Pretty Little Liars challenge and that was a lot of fun, so of course I said yes.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">While I was away at BEA, the "game box" showed up at my house. I wasn't able to see it until I came home on Friday, but what was inside was definitely exciting.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Just go here and enter the code below.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://abcfamily.go.com/shows/nine-lives-chloe-king/nine-paths"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">http://abcfamily.go.com/shows/nine-lives-chloe-king/nine-paths</span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">The code for the circle charm is "Circle"</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div>Sherryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08478149489714597517noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8819397898699031319.post-24093974097398375642011-05-25T09:00:00.025-04:002011-05-25T09:00:11.362-04:00Tempest Rising by Tracy Deebs<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFMmy4Dp-SjzU23Zk_rrp-MqpPO-zRN8UUkKqxBrgqDn5CcoT7d49C2J3OEJZAA-9Kcc7YpkTqFkpmcEry-Vg4pABGaxn-ExMbHI8XNaCbgZesty1t29bpzSSrh0__10vqCOA_EMge/s320/tempest+rising.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><img border="0" j8="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFMmy4Dp-SjzU23Zk_rrp-MqpPO-zRN8UUkKqxBrgqDn5CcoT7d49C2J3OEJZAA-9Kcc7YpkTqFkpmcEry-Vg4pABGaxn-ExMbHI8XNaCbgZesty1t29bpzSSrh0__10vqCOA_EMge/s320/tempest+rising.jpg" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Tempest Rising by Tracy Deebs</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Publication Date: May 10th, 2011</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Published By: Walker Books for Young Readers</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Hardcover, 352 Pages</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Souce: ARC received from the author/ Teen Book Scene Blog Tour</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">"Tempest Maguire wants nothing more than to surf the killer waves near her California home; continue her steady relationship with her boyfriend, Mark; and take care of her brothers and surfer dad. But Tempest is half mermaid, and as her seventeenth birthday approaches, she will have to decide whether to remain on land or give herself to the ocean like her mother. The pull of the water becomes as insistent as her attraction to Kai, a gorgeous surfer whose uncanny abilities hint at an otherworldly identity as well. And when Tempest does finally give in to the water's temptation and enters a fantastical underwater world, she finds that a larger destiny awaits her—and that the entire ocean's future hangs in the balance."</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">I was very eager to read this book as it pertains to mermaids and I haven't read any mermaids books(at least none that I can think of at this time). It is a relatively less written about paranormal type of book than say vampires or werewolves, so it was unique in that aspect alone.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Tempest Maguire's mother left home for the ocean when she was eleven years old. When Tempest's 17th birthday approaches, and the time following, she will have to make the choice of whether to stay human, or to embrace the life her mother passed on to her, that of a mermaid.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">I really enjoyed the character relationships throughout the book. Tempest has her on-again off-again boyfriend Mark, and her best guy friends, as well as her best girl friends. She also meets Kai, a fellow water creature, with whom a relationship blossoms. When it comes down to it she is very close to her family, thanks to her mother for abandoning them six years prior. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">The whole mermaid ordeal was quite interesting to read about. Especially everything that happens to Tempest along the way, and the ultimate decision she has to make. I really loved the direction it took and I was very pleased with the outcome.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">The general idea has definitely opened up my eyes to other books that fall in this category and I hope I can find other books portraying such creatures as mermaids. Definitely recommend for any fans of magic/paranormal and the likes.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>Sherry<span style="color: red;"><3</span></strong></span></div>Sherryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08478149489714597517noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8819397898699031319.post-20805717803612558462011-05-12T13:30:00.000-04:002011-05-13T16:24:53.088-04:00Into the Past w/ Tracy Deebs + Giveaway (Tempest Rising Blog Tour)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlXNednuWNNQ0y9F51yZeuIkw7wJJOnI6vFuKbQHloEpGE9ieSndfoKNZnXmbFWjjAvTkomNcT6MqXX8JDFHYLKhw84VJWa9MEjvapbRoPiL_0XeXbCmgU5WC6jPoibxBEb-oWXSCFVewX/s1600/Tempest+Rising.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: #0b5394;"><img border="0" height="320" j8="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlXNednuWNNQ0y9F51yZeuIkw7wJJOnI6vFuKbQHloEpGE9ieSndfoKNZnXmbFWjjAvTkomNcT6MqXX8JDFHYLKhw84VJWa9MEjvapbRoPiL_0XeXbCmgU5WC6jPoibxBEb-oWXSCFVewX/s320/Tempest+Rising.jpg" width="211" /></span></a></div><div align="center"><span style="color: #0b5394;"></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">I'm so pleased to host Tracy Deebs today, author of the recently released Tempest Rising (Walker Books for Young Readers, May 10th, 2011).</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">For Into the Past, the question is:</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><br />
<span style="color: #0b5394;"></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><em><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"> What books do you think your past self would recommend at ages 5, 12, 17 and 20?</span></em></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>Please welcome Tracy! :)</strong></span></div><div style="text-align: center;">***</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Thanks for having me, Sherry! I’ve been a huge reader my whole life, so your prompt made me very, very excited!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">At <strong>5</strong>, I would have recommended the Hans Christian Anderson fairy tale, The Little Mermaid, and any book that had Wonder Woman in it (I’m still a huge fan of both to this day) Oh, and If I Ran the Circus by Dr. Seuss.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">At <strong>12</strong>, I probably would have recommended the Sweet Valley High series and Forever by Judy Blume. I also loved the Sunfire Historical YA series, where each book was a girl’s name and she lived in a different time in history (the gold rush, New Orleans during pirating times, the American Revolution). A new one came out each month and I devoured them. This was also the time I feel in love with romance novels—especially ones by Jude Deveraux, Nora Roberts and Linda Lael Miller.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">At <strong>17</strong>, I was obsessed with Anthem by Ayn Rand, Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger, The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath and The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe</span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">At <strong>20</strong>, the Awakening by Kate Chopin changed my life. I also loved the Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir, The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros and the poetry of Anne Sexton and Pablo Neruda.</span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">How about you? What is one of your favorite books? Leave a comment and be entered to win a copy of Tempest Rising.</span> </div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"> </div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;">******* </div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"> </div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">There you have it! </span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"></span> </div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Go ahead and leave a comment telling us one of your favorite books and be enetered to win a copy of Tempest Rising! US Only! Will run for 7 days: 5/12/11 - 5/19/11 and the winner will be announced on Friday 5/20/11.</span> </div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"></span> </div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"></span> </div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">*Special thanks to </span><a href="http://theteenbookscene.weebly.com/"><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Teen Book Scene</span></a><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"> for hosting this Blog Tour and to Tracy Deebs on taking the time to stop by!</span> </div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"></span> </div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"></span> </div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia;"></span> </div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"><strong><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Sherry<span style="color: red;"><3</span></span></strong></div>Sherryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08478149489714597517noreply@blogger.com23tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8819397898699031319.post-35130225315906662342011-05-05T12:30:00.000-04:002011-05-05T12:30:30.857-04:00Character Tweets: Compulsion by Heidi Ayarbe Blog Tour + Swag Giveaway!<div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #660000;">As part</span><span style="color: #660000;"> of the blog tour for Heidi Ayarbe's Compulsion(which was just released from Balzer & bray/HarperCollins on May 3rd!), she's allowed us to see what the twitter feed of some of the characters from her books might look like. Featured in this feed is Luc from Compulsion, Cappy from Compromised, and Jason from Freeze Frame!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><strong><em><span style="color: #073763;">Character Tweets: If some of your characters had Twitter accounts, what would their tweet convos be like?</span></em></strong></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><strong><span style="color: #073763;">(Character tweets between Jason (from Freeze Frame), Cappy (from Compromised) and Luc (from Compulsion) …)</span></strong></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>Jason:</strong> Hey, Cappy. Thought you couldn’t read and write.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>Cappy:</strong> Listen, Dead Boy, if you can do some other-world tweeting, I’ll take care on my end. At least I can touch the fuckin’ keyboard.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>Jason:</strong> Mind over matter.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>Cappy:</strong> You’ve got neither, dead boy. Or do you have a mind? Do dead people keep their minds?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>Luc:</strong> Hijueputa. And I thought M&M was nuts. I’m tweeting with dead guy and illiterate. I’ll take OCD boy, any day.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>Cappy:</strong> Watch what you say, Pablo. Dude, are you really Colombian? Did you know Escobar? Orejuela?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>Luc:</strong> Did you know Al Capone? There are like 40 million Colombians. I know about fifty. Escobar isn’t one. And he’s dead.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>Cappy:</strong> Hey, Dead Boy, can you get Escobar on the line?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>Jason:</strong> I have a name. It’s Jason. And you could show a little respect for the dead.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>Cappy:</strong> Whatever.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>Luc:</strong> Mierda, a sensitive dead guy. That’s all I need.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>Jason:</strong> You’d think you could appreciate the effort I’m making to contact the living world.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>Cappy:</strong> You need a ghost whisperer or something? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>Luc:</strong> Or an exorcist?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>Cappy:</strong> Or a séance? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>Luc:</strong> Did you hack into someone’s twitter account. Hey. Can you do that? Like an FBI Ouija board.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>Jason:</strong> Thanks guys.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>Cappy:</strong> Dude, take an upper or something. Or were you on the life’s a picnic train? What’s it like up there, anyway? Do you get to hang out with … I dunno. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>Jason:</strong> Why does everyone always assume it’s up?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>Luc:</strong> And he’s a pendejo, too. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>Jason:</strong> I’m just saying that the notion of heaven and hell being up and down is pretty elementary.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>Luc:</strong> Did you even have friends when you were alive? You seem like a total tool.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>Cappy:</strong> No kidding “notion of heaven and hell” hoity-toity. So. Do you know anybody up there?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>Luc:</strong> Here we go with the Escobar cliché. Christ. I don’t know who’s worse, you with Escobar obsession or … never mind.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>Cappy:</strong> I’m not thinking of Escobar. I’m just wondering if he knows kids up there.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>Luc:</strong> Yeah. It’s probably like one big happy Facebook page, poking, and farm animal collecting.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>Jason:</strong> It’s not up.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>Cappy:</strong> You can’t tweet with this dude. At all. Like total asswipe.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>Luc:</strong> Agreed. We’re not trying to get all transcendental and shit. Just answer the gd question.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>Jason:</strong> I’ve been out of touch for a while. What’s Facebook? This Twitter thing is weird enough.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>Luc:</strong> What are you, pre-historic?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>Jason:</strong> I died in 2008.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>Cappy: Luc:</strong> PREHISTORIC !</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>Luc:</strong> Jurassic Dead Guy!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>Cappy:</strong> He probably was there for the Big Bang.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>Luc:</strong> The Ten Commandments. Dude, @Jason chiseled on stone? Paint some caves?</span><br />
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<strong><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Jason: </span></strong><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>Luc:</strong> @Cappy I think we pissed him off. C’mon, man. We’re just messin’ with you @Jason. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>Cappy:</strong> @Jason Hello? Hello?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>Cappy:</strong> @Luc, did you hear an echo?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>Luc:</strong> Maybe he got disconnected. Imagine WiFi with that kind of range. Crazy unstable.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>Jason:</strong> I’m here. I think this must be hell.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>Luc:</strong> What? Twitter? Nah. Learn to use the hashtags, and you’ll be all over that #chatwithdeadboy</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>Cappy:</strong> Nice #chatwithdeadboy</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>Jason:</strong> Can you at least give someone a message?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>Luc:</strong> Don’t forget #chatwithdeadboy hashtag, tool.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>Cappy:</strong> I knew this was coming. Some dead guy always has to leave a message. #chatwithdeadboy. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>Luc:</strong> Very Hollywood. #chatwithdeadboy</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>Cappy:</strong> Why don’t you just tweet your message? #chatwithdeadboy</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>Jason:</strong> Nevermind. I’ll find this Facebook thing. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>Luc:</strong> @Jason DON’T FORGET THE FREAKING HASHTAG #chatwithdeadboy This is pointless. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>Jason:</strong> That’s it? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>Luc:</strong> You can follow me, dude, but I’ve got shit to do. In the real world. Have fun with the angels. Oh. BTW. Are they mad hot? Like sizzling?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>Jason:</strong> You want to know about hot angels? Really? You forgot #chatwithdeadboy</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>Luc:</strong> Ran out of characters.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>Cappy:</strong> Hey @Jason I’ll send your message if you send mine.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>Jason</strong>: I’m going to regret this.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>Luc:</strong> Making deals with the dead. Pass. Just watch out for my old man. He’s a mean hijueputa.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>Jason:</strong> @Luc Thanks for the tip.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>Cappy:</strong> @Jason Waiting. Message?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>Jason:</strong> I’ll DM you.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>Luc:</strong> Catching on.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>Cappy:</strong> Fine. DM. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>Luc: Jason: Cappy:</strong> Bye.</span> <br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Future Imperfect by K. Ryer Breese</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Publication Date: April 26th, 2011</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Published By: St. Martin's Griffin</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Paperback, 320 Pages</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Source: ARC received from published, Teen Book Scene Blog Tour</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong><em>Summary:</em></strong></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">"Ade Patience can see the future and it's destroying his life. When the seventeen-year-old Mantlo High School student knocks himself unconscious, he can see days and decades into his own future. Ade's the best of Denver's "divination" underground and eager to join the heralded Mantlo Diviners, a group of similarly enabled teens. Yet, unlike the Diviners, Ade Patience doesn't see the future out of curiosity or good will; Ade gives himself concussions because he's addicted to the high, the Buzz, he gets when he breaks the laws of physics. And while there have been visions he's wanted to change, Ade knows the Rule: You can't change the future, no matter how hard you try.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">His memory is failing, his grades are in a death spiral, and both Ade's best friend and his shrink are begging him to stop before he kills himself. Ade knows he needs to straighten-out. Luckily, the stunning Vauxhall Rodolfo has just transferred to Mantlo and, as Ade has seen her in a vision two years previously, they're going to fall in love. It's just the motivation Ade needs to kick his habit. Only things are a bit more complicated. Vauxhall has an addiction of her own, and, after a a vision in which he sees Vauxhall's close friend, Jimmy, drown while he looks on seemingly too wasted to move, Ade realizes that he must break the one rule he's been told he can't.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">The pair must overcome their addictions and embrace their love for each other in order to do the impossible: change the future."</span></div><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">The idea behind Future Imperfect is quite creative and interesting. Ade Patience is a teen in high school that can see the future by giving himself concussions. How far in the future can differ, sometime weeks, and other times decades. The after effect of seeing the future leaves Ade with a Buzz, his type of high. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">The beginning focuses on Ade's ability, and what he has done to himself in the past to look into his future, as well as the love of his life, a girl he has seen in his visions. The story is fast paced and I'm glad for Ade's constant thought processes and repeated concussion attempts. It keeps the story moving at a swift pace and also kept me interested. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">I will admit that some aspects of the story are kinda crazy. What Ade does himself in some situations is just messed up(diving off a skate ramp head first??). But then I think, what about some users out there that do absolutely rediculous stuff to get more of the drug they need a fix on? It's the same thing, and while it works, its still out there. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Vauxhall, Ade's true love, has an addiction of her own. His friend(not really friend) Jimi, is just messed up, and his best friend Paige is just kind of there. She's mostly seen throughout the novel telling Ade he's selfish. I was there was more to their relationship. Other than that he doesn't really have any relationships throughout the novel, besides the one with his mother, and shes a total church nut who thinks Ade's visions have significant religious meaning.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">A lot of connections come together at the end, and there was a lot more meat to the story in the second half. </div><div style="text-align: center;">Overall, I enjoyed the story, but I wanted more from it. It was worth the read though for the concept alone.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">**Special thanks to <a href="http://teenbookscene.weebly.com/">Teen Book Scene</a> for hosting the Future Imperfect Blog Tour.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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