Don't Even Think About It by Sarah Mlynowski, YA Fiction, Published 3/11/14, $9.78 Amazon.com Kindle edition
Your typical high school setting, but not so typical students. After the voluntary flu vaccines were given to each homeroom, one class finds they had a reaction. Not your typical reaction - they gain telepathy powers from a botched batch of the flu shot. The story is told from multiple POVs on how they handle learning they can hear others thoughts and what they do with this info. It effects friendships, relationships, and how they interact with their parents and teachers.
I really enjoyed this story. Sarah Mlynowski wrote the interactions well and thought that you could gain a super power, so to speak, from such a normal thing was a great angle to take. I look forward to reading her other stories in the future.
Saturday, March 29, 2014
Review - Glitter and Glue by Kelly Corrigan
Glitter and Glue by Kelly Corrigan, Published 2/4/14, $10.99 Amazon.com Kindle
Kelly tells her life story after being diagnosed with cancer and having surgery. Her reflections on her past show the relationship between her and her parents. Especially her mother, and how it shapes not only her life but how she will be as a mother.
Kelly tells us of her travels right after graduation and how she ends up being a nanny for a widower in Australia. The children, step-son, the husband, and the grandfather (mother's dad) all live in the same house. Kelly's stay with them shows how the loss of the mother effects their lives and Kelly tried to help as best as possible. Later in life when Kelly is diagnosed with cancer all she can focus on is that she doesn't want to be like that mother - the one the Tanners lost to cancer. She doesn't want to have her family end up like the Tanners did.
While the memoir was well written, I struggled with reading it and the story kept losing my attention. I am glad to have read the ARC but I don't see myself buying this book to read again.
Kelly tells her life story after being diagnosed with cancer and having surgery. Her reflections on her past show the relationship between her and her parents. Especially her mother, and how it shapes not only her life but how she will be as a mother.
Kelly tells us of her travels right after graduation and how she ends up being a nanny for a widower in Australia. The children, step-son, the husband, and the grandfather (mother's dad) all live in the same house. Kelly's stay with them shows how the loss of the mother effects their lives and Kelly tried to help as best as possible. Later in life when Kelly is diagnosed with cancer all she can focus on is that she doesn't want to be like that mother - the one the Tanners lost to cancer. She doesn't want to have her family end up like the Tanners did.
While the memoir was well written, I struggled with reading it and the story kept losing my attention. I am glad to have read the ARC but I don't see myself buying this book to read again.
Review - Viking Fire by Andrea R. Cooper
Viking Fire by Andrea R. Cooper, Historical romance, Published 1/15/14, $3.82 Amazon.com Kindle price
Kaireen Lionnon - daughter of the Lord is used to some privileges. But having an arranged marriage thrust upon her has shown her that she won't always get what she wants. Especially when she finds out she is to marry a Viking.
Bram proves over and over that he can be trusted and would be a good husband. It takes a fire in the village to draw Kareen closer to him finally. But there is an outside force that is plotting against them. Will they make it to the alter before the threat closes in on them.
Kareen is written as a very spirited woman and is perfect for her Viking. Despite how she fights Bram, they were made for each other. Andrea R. Cooper gives these characters wonderful voice and the historical aspect was very enticing. I look forward to more stories written in this setting by Andrea R. Cooper. I plan to buy her other book - The Garnet Dagger to read as well.
Kaireen Lionnon - daughter of the Lord is used to some privileges. But having an arranged marriage thrust upon her has shown her that she won't always get what she wants. Especially when she finds out she is to marry a Viking.
Bram proves over and over that he can be trusted and would be a good husband. It takes a fire in the village to draw Kareen closer to him finally. But there is an outside force that is plotting against them. Will they make it to the alter before the threat closes in on them.
Kareen is written as a very spirited woman and is perfect for her Viking. Despite how she fights Bram, they were made for each other. Andrea R. Cooper gives these characters wonderful voice and the historical aspect was very enticing. I look forward to more stories written in this setting by Andrea R. Cooper. I plan to buy her other book - The Garnet Dagger to read as well.
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