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For my stop on the Deadly Cool Blog Tour, I got to interview Josh, Hartley's boyfriend. Enjoy! *** 1) Basics: What is your birthday? Middle name? Favorite Color? Favorite Number?                                                               Josh: Birthday: January 11 Middle Name: Xavier (But please don’t tell anyone!) Fav color: Blue (I’m a guy. We like blue.) Fav number: 10 (Because that’s how many days I spent in jail as an innocent man, and I will NEVER forget that experience!) 2) In Deadly Cool, Chase has an array of books on his bookshelf. Do you read, and if so, what type of books do you like? Josh: Dude, I totally read! I have a subscription to MAD magazine, ...

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. A provided a list of This or Thats, and we get to hear from Cassian what he would choose, and why! *** This or That List: Cassian Spring or Fall: Spring … when everything is new again and full of hope. Movies or Television : When I bother to watch anything at all … it’s usually movies. Day or Night: Night … when I can fly. Chocolate or Vanilla: Favorite flavor is verdaberry … probably the same with all draki. Nothing new there. Fight or Flight: 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. Shoes or Sandals: Barefoot Books or Music: Books Written Letter or Email: Letter … not much use for email in the pride. Blonde or Brunette: Red...

Welcome to today's stop on the blog tour for Scott Tracey's debut, Witch Eyes (which officially hits stores in two days!!). Today's stop consisst of a Character Tens List featuring character Trey Lansing. *** 10 Reasons why Trey Lansing's blood pressure is higher than it should be: 1. My sister's reckless endangerment of every vehicle she comes into contact with. Her driver's license has Murphy's Law printed on the back, I swear. 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. 3. My mother insists on throwing dinner parties at least twice a week. Attendance mandatory. There is only so much foie gras a man can eat. 4. English papers. Especially English papers on The Crucible or Macbeth. Find a new theme. 5. The woman at the gas station flinches every time I try and buy a coffee. Someone should switch to decaf. 6. There's a violent animal o...

Title: Vanish (Firelight #2) Author: Sophie Jordan Publication Date: September 6th, 2011 Published By: HarperTeen Hardcover, 304 Pages Source: ARC received from the Publisher for an honest review Summary: "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. Back home, Jacinda is greeted with hostility and must work to prove her loyalty for both her sake and her family’s. Among the few who will even talk to her are Cassian, the pride’s heir apparent who has always wanted her, and her sister, Tamra, who has been forever changed by a twist of fate. Jacinda knows that she should forget Will and move on—that if he managed to remember and keep his promise to find her, it would only endanger them b...

Title : Possess Author : Gretchen McNeil Publication Date : August 23rd, 2011 Published By : Balzer & Bray Hardcover, 384 Pages Source: ARC received for blog tour for an honest review Summary: "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. 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." Review: **** 1/2 = 4.5 Sta...

For my stop on the blog tour for Gretchen McNeil's debut, Possess, I got to interview the main character, Bridget. Interviewing a character from a book is much different than interivewing an author, but I asked some questions will hopefully give you all the opportunity to get to know Bridget's character better! *** Getting to know: Bridget Describe yourself using the letters of your name (example b for beautiful etc..)? Ballsty Resourceful Independent Disinterested Guarded Edgy Torn Who was the last person you sent a text message to and what does it say? 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. You are stuck on a deserted island, and have three of your personal possessions with you. What are they and what is their importance? My charm bracelet. I never take it off. My dad gave it to me for my first communion. It’s one of the few ...

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 here . 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! *** Top ten places you would like to sneak into: -The Vatican -The Globe Theater in Straford-on-Avon -Marvel Studios -Neil Gaiman's house (wait, would that be creepy?) -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) -Google Headquarters -The new Apple headquarters -The pyramids -A space station -An alternate reality Top ten songs from your teenage years: -Wave of Mutilation by The Pixies -Creep by Radiohead -Been Caught Stealing by Jane's Addiction -Pictures of You by The Cure -Just Like Honey by The Jesus and Mary Chain -Freak Scene by Dinosaur Jr. -Cannonball ...

Misfit by Jon Skovron Publication Date: August 1st, 2011 Published By: Amulet Books Hardcover, 384 Pages Source: ARC Tour- Blog Tour Summary: "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. Author Jon Skovron takes on the dark side of human nature with his signature funny, heartfelt prose." Review: **** = 4 Stars I believe this is going to be a book people either really like, ...

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. Please welcome Jennifer! *** Greetings and salutations! First of all, I want to thank Sherry for having me on the blog today. Thanks so much, Sherry! Flipping Pages for All Ages: Describe yourself in five words OR Use the letters of your first name to describe yourself. Jennifer Estep: Sassy, sarcastic, sugar-addict, bookaholic, geek FPfAA: How does writing for young adults differ from writing for adults? Jennifer: 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. 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....

Tempest Rising by Tracy Deebs Publication Date: May 10th, 2011 Published By: Walker Books for Young Readers Hardcover, 352 Pages Souce: ARC received from the author/ Teen Book Scene Blog Tour Summary: "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." My Review: **** = 4 Stars I was very eager to re...

 I'm so pleased to host Tracy Deebs today, author of the recently released Tempest Rising (Walker Books for Young Readers, May 10th, 2011). For Into the Past, the question is:  What books do you think your past self would recommend at ages 5, 12, 17 and 20? Please welcome Tracy! :) *** Thanks for having me, Sherry! I’ve been a huge reader my whole life, so your prompt made me very, very excited! At 5 , 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. At 12 , 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 th...

As part 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! ~~~~~~~ Character Tweets: If some of your characters had Twitter accounts, what would their tweet convos be like? (Character tweets between Jason (from Freeze Frame), Cappy (from Compromised) and Luc (from Compulsion) …) Jason: Hey, Cappy. Thought you couldn’t read and write. Cappy: 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. Jason: Mind over matter. Cappy: You’ve got neither, dead boy. Or do you have a mind? Do dead people keep their minds? Luc: Hijueputa. And I thought M&M was nuts. I’m tweeting with dead guy and illiterate. I’ll take OCD...