Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Release Date: 2013
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Tuesday, 9 October 2012
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Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Release Date: 2013
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Saturday, 6 October 2012
Poser Review
Publisher: TKA Distribution
Release Date:
June 26th/2012
Pages: 186
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What It's About!
I’m Chai Devareaux. By day, I’m your average senior at Miami’s South Beach High. I love hanging with my friends at the beach, and I work hard to keep up my grades so I can get in Columbia University in the fall. But every afternoon and night? I transform into the model in front of the camera with the smoky eyes, perfectly styled hair, and fitted designer clothes.
I’m the girl in all the hottest clubs where the beautiful people frequent and the fashion photographers gather. I’m the girl who everyone else wants to be. The problem is it’s not my dream. I want to be a doctor.
But try telling that to my mother, 80’s supermodel icon, Claire-Ann Devareaux, a hard-living, hard-loving plastic surgery addict who’s still chasing what’s left of the limelight. And it makes my life a living headache. Even hooking up with hot teen supermodel Ty Willingham hands me more challenges than ever.
Yeah, I might look like I have it made, but it’s just the role I play.
I’m such a poser.
Review
At
the beginning of the book, I really enjoyed it until I got maybe 3 or 4
chapters in, and then it just started annoying me to no end. I don't
know if the author was trying to write an actual novel, or a guide book
to modeling and how to handle being famous. The book was basically about
this 17 yr old girl, named Chai, and her mom is a famous model that's
had every face-lift and plastic surgery under the sun. Chai's mom wants
her to become a famous model just like her, only Chai wants to be a
doctor.
I was so intrigued by the description of the book, but after reading the book, I'm not very impressed. I found it so hard to follow the story with all the name brand names and things being dropped constantly. Every few pages the story was pretty much put on hold just to describe in great detail how hot this guy was, or to describe exactly what everyone was wearing (all big designer brands, of course) and it just put me off totally. In the end I don't even really remember what the actual story was, due to the fact that I got so many designer names and big brands shoved in my face I can't really remember anything past them.
All the characters in the book were so superficial, flat and unrelatable. Chai bugged me the most though. She "didn't want to be a model" or be involved in the famous end of things, she just wanted to be normal and a doctor, but she didn't seem to like that either. She was basically your typical rich kid, can't be grateful for what she has and complains about it and lets her mother control her constantly. She wanted to break out to be her own person and a doctor instead of her mother's little shadow, but she had no backbone to come into her own.
Poser would have been so much more enjoyable if there wasn't so much name dropping and the constant need from the author to impress the readers with their "knowledge" of designer brands and being famous. It was just so annoying.
I was so intrigued by the description of the book, but after reading the book, I'm not very impressed. I found it so hard to follow the story with all the name brand names and things being dropped constantly. Every few pages the story was pretty much put on hold just to describe in great detail how hot this guy was, or to describe exactly what everyone was wearing (all big designer brands, of course) and it just put me off totally. In the end I don't even really remember what the actual story was, due to the fact that I got so many designer names and big brands shoved in my face I can't really remember anything past them.
All the characters in the book were so superficial, flat and unrelatable. Chai bugged me the most though. She "didn't want to be a model" or be involved in the famous end of things, she just wanted to be normal and a doctor, but she didn't seem to like that either. She was basically your typical rich kid, can't be grateful for what she has and complains about it and lets her mother control her constantly. She wanted to break out to be her own person and a doctor instead of her mother's little shadow, but she had no backbone to come into her own.
Poser would have been so much more enjoyable if there wasn't so much name dropping and the constant need from the author to impress the readers with their "knowledge" of designer brands and being famous. It was just so annoying.
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Friday, 5 October 2012
Sheltered by Debra Chapoton
Sheltered
by
Debra Chapoton
Author: Debra Chapoton
Websites: www.edgeofescape.blogspot.com
Title: Sheltered
Purchase Links: Available in Paperback and
Digital Copies
What It's About!
Living together
unsupervised, five troubled teens confront demonic forces and are compelled to
deal with their problems in distinctly different ways. Paranormal meets psycho
meets Goth in this story of a supernatural haunting and budding love.
High school junior,
Ben, hacks into his step-father's real estate holdings and provides rooms in an
old two-story house to various outcasts: the schizophrenic kid, the angry Goth
girl, and the homeless girl who worships him. When Megan needs a place to live
she comes to the rooming house with a different set of problems and the ability
to confuse and attract Ben.
One by one strange and
mysterious occurrences stretch the teens’ beliefs in the supernatural. How they
deal with demons, real and imagined, has tragic as well as redeeming
consequences.
Sneak Peak!
Prologue
Next
Wednesday
Emily knew
the precise moment that Ben returned, she felt him in her scars. She watched
him carry some things to the house, heard the door close; she smiled when she
heard him call out that Santa was here. He did that once before, in early
December, insisting that she accept the gift he held out, not wanting her to
wait until Christmas to use the mittens he knew she needed.
She went
toward her door now, wondered what he had brought, and then heard Megan’s voice
below. Oh no, he probably brought something for her. She scuttled back to her
nest by the window and stared outside, was still staring fifteen minutes later
when she saw them walk down the street, Ben shouldering a shovel, his other
hand knotted with Megan’s.
She touched
the skin on her arms, lightly at first, making it tingle. The image of Ben with
Megan multiplied across her mind in broken mirrors, a repugnant picture that
reflected her own self-loathing. She scratched at her scabs, felt the pricks of
pain force away the ticklish sensations. She closed her eyes.
When she
opened them she saw a figure standing at her door.
“Who–?” she
started, but the figment waned to less than a shadow. Still, though, there was
something at her door.
She rose
slowly and held her hand out.
Its face was
more womanly now, friendly, motherly. Yes, she knew this face. Its pearly white
skin so shocking against the ruby lips, the stringy hair a match to her own.
Her mother.
She stretched
her fingers toward the face. The hallucination faded then sharpened. The eyes
began to blaze. She drew her hands back to her own face. What’s wrong with
me? The delusion grieved Emily; all
around her fluttered a longing.
And a deadly
fear.
About The Author!
Debra Chapoton has taught kids of all
ages in her main career as a teacher. She has a BA in Spanish and a Master of
Arts degree in Teaching English. She started writing in 2002 and was surprised
to find out that the characters quickly take over the action and dialogue in
the stories.
Her first YA novel, Edge of
Escape, was self-published and
then discovered by Piper Verlag Publishing and translated into German. Stalking and obsession get a
sympathetic twist in this story of physical and psychological survival.
Her second YA novel, Sheltered, detours into a different
genre as she writes about five teens who confront supernatural forces. Two boys
and three girls all harbor secrets which make some of them susceptible to demon
possession. Embracing all things supernatural might protect them, but are they
ready for the consequences?
Chapoton has also written eleven chapter books for middle grade kids
and a non-fiction work for adults, Crossing
the Scriptures.
When she’s not writing Chapoton enjoys the quiet of the full log
home she designed and built with her husband. They live in the middle of 62
acres of beautiful woods in northern Michigan.
Thursday, 4 October 2012
Endlessly Review
Publisher: HarperTeen
Release Date: July 24th/2012
Pages: 385
What It's About!
Evie's paranormal past
keeps coming back to haunt her. A new director at the International
Paranormal Containment Agency wants to drag her back to headquarters.
The Dark Faerie Queen is torturing humans in her poisonous realm. And
supernatural creatures keep insisting that Evie is the only one who can
save them from a mysterious, perilous fate.
The clock is ticking on the entire paranormal world. And its fate rests solely in Evie's hands.
So much for normal.
The clock is ticking on the entire paranormal world. And its fate rests solely in Evie's hands.
So much for normal.
Review
As
much as I loved and enjoyed the first 2 books, I have to say I enjoyed
this one the most. It was funnier, wittier, and had a lot more action
and events. It was so bittersweet, this book. It was so good, but at the
same time, it was the end of Evie and the gang's adventures. Evie
really grew a lot since book one, and it was even more noticeable in
this one. Even Reth came to be a whole different faerie from where he
first started out.
Endlessly wasn't so much revolved around the center as much as the other books, which I really enjoyed. I got to see more of the world outside of it and see how Evie adapted to living away from the center and not having to really have anything to do with it other than the fact that some of the people that worked there were after her. I was hoping for more Lend and Evie together, but with so much happening there really wasn't any time for them to just hang out.
One of the things I was really not expecting, was when Reth turned out to be the one who put the "curse" on Lend and not the Dark Queen. I actually thought the curse was pretty funny, especially at first. It just put an even better spin on the story, and was definitely something different. So many of the events had me laughing to myself, sometimes even out loud.
I really loved the ending, just the way everything happened and worked out, it was such a good way to end the series, but left out just enough that it ended, but you can still have your own idea of where the characters could be after the book ends. It was so bittersweet, I loved it yet at the same time it was THE END, so I was sad that it ended but happy with HOW it ended. I'm sad that there won't be anymore new Evie adventures, but I am really excited to see what Kiersten White comes up with next.
Endlessly wasn't so much revolved around the center as much as the other books, which I really enjoyed. I got to see more of the world outside of it and see how Evie adapted to living away from the center and not having to really have anything to do with it other than the fact that some of the people that worked there were after her. I was hoping for more Lend and Evie together, but with so much happening there really wasn't any time for them to just hang out.
One of the things I was really not expecting, was when Reth turned out to be the one who put the "curse" on Lend and not the Dark Queen. I actually thought the curse was pretty funny, especially at first. It just put an even better spin on the story, and was definitely something different. So many of the events had me laughing to myself, sometimes even out loud.
I really loved the ending, just the way everything happened and worked out, it was such a good way to end the series, but left out just enough that it ended, but you can still have your own idea of where the characters could be after the book ends. It was so bittersweet, I loved it yet at the same time it was THE END, so I was sad that it ended but happy with HOW it ended. I'm sad that there won't be anymore new Evie adventures, but I am really excited to see what Kiersten White comes up with next.
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