Saturday, April 26, 2014

Release Day Book Blitz

DEAD GIRL WALKING by Ruth Silver
a Young Adult Paranormal Adventure
published by Patchwork Press


Forget everything you know about grim reapers.
Princess Ophelia Dacre sneaks out of the castle to visit her boyfriend in secret. A perfect night cut short when she’s brutally murdered.
Ophelia is given the rare chance to become a grim reaper. She must become Leila Bele, cut ties with her old life, and follow the rules of the reapers. Her greatest adventure begins with death.
Excerpt
“Forget everything you know about grim reapers, Ophelia. Humans have it wrong. It’s easier to believe in angels and demons, than to see what’s right in front of you. Who wants to believe the undead walk among us with beating hearts? It would frighten humans. It would probably send many to their graves faster,” Edon said.

About the Author: Ruth Silver is the best-selling author of ABERRANT, a young adult dystopian adventure series published by Patchwork Press and Lazy Day Publishing. Silver attended Northern Illinois University and graduated with a Bachelor's in Communication in the spring of 2005. While in college, she spent much of her free time writing with friends she met online and penning her first novel, Deuces are Wild, which she self-published in 2004. Her love of writing led her on an adventure in 2007 to Melbourne, Australia. Silver enjoys reading, photography, traveling and most of all writing. She loves dystopian, paranormal, and fantasy young adult stories. Ruth has been actively writing since she was a teenager. She currently resides in Plainfield, Illinois.
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Student Saturday: What Happened to Goodbye - Sarah Dessen

Student Reviewer: Kamryn

The book that I recently read was called What Happened to Goodbye by Sarah Dessen This book has been one of the best books that I have ever read in my entire life! On a rating from 1 to 10 I would of course give this book a 10! I have always loved Sarah Dessen's books but this one has been my favorite book of hers so far!

Mclean moves to many different towns being someone different each time. Right now she is with her father in a small town that needs a lot of improvement. Her dad being in the food business always needing to travel when that particular restaurant gets shut down.l Mclean never likes getting close with anybody when she stays at a different town because she is just going to be pulled away from them in 3 weeks. Why not just stay lonely and invisible. It's better that way right?

When she moves into this town, she stays longer than expected. Her parents go divorced and her dad took custody, Mclean's mom is the last thing Mclean wants to hear at any time of the day. She just gets in between her life and ruins it. She is the one who cheated on her father, In fact, it was her fault, Mclean meets friends while almost getting busted for under aged drinking. The adorable guy next door might just help her get her life back on the right track.

I would recommend this book to my older cousin who is in 9th grade because she is very much like Mclean and I think that she would very much enjoy a book that she can connect to, Sometimes we all wish someone would come up and give us hugs and be sweet and kind until we re tired but sometimes that doesn't happen. We all want to have a perfectly good normal life but that never happens either, We all have problems, we all make mmistakes, and we all get sand and angry. Don't worry about it. Just enjoy the roller coaster that is life and everything will go just as planned...........hopefully.

Friday, April 25, 2014

Fantasyland - D.J. Starling

Genre: Adult, Romance
Source: I received a copy for review in exchange for my honest review. The opinions expressed here are my own.

 This was a wonderful love story. From the minute Rick and Sandi meet the love story blossoms.  Not always the way you think it should or will.  Sandi first falls for Rick when she is eleven years old. Rick was the teen idol hanging on so many bedroom walls.  Remember those days? Sandi is so obsessed she dreams of going to college in California in hopes of one day meeting him. Her father raised her and her brother after her mom died. They always played a game using song lyrics.  This kind of made me think of the show my mom watches NCIS where one of the characters is always spouting movie lines from old movies.  Sandi’s father always encouraged her to follow her dreams.  After he passes away she does just that. She moves to California to go to college. Once there she meets a gorgeous guy named Paul and falls for him.  Imagine her surprise when she learns that he is actually her teen idol all grown up. Their relationship in the beginning is complicated yet moves along at a realistic pace. As we get further into the book we find there is also heartache.  This is not unrealistic, yet borders on it.  It is a great book for those of us who want to believe in our romantic dreams.