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Friday, August 2, 2013
Saturday Situation- Link Up Your Reviews & Giveaway's!
Also, just a reminder folks, don't forget to sign up to host a stop on The Last Hurrah Giveaway Hop! The sign up page is HERE. {The button is right over there --> to the right -->)
New Tour Sign Up: Rook by Monica MacDonald (November 1st-15th)
You can find the official tour page HERE with the schedule and giveaway.
Rook by Monica MacDonald
Genre: Fantasy
Age: Young Adult
Published: November 1st
Available: digital formats
Dates: Nov. 1st-15th
Page Count: Approx. 310
Wanted: Reviews, Guest Posts, author interviews, character interviews, etc
Open: Worldwide
Giveaway's: Yes
Requirement: Review on blog, Amazon and GoodReads
Find the book: Goodreads
Find the author: Website/Blog | Facebook | Twitter | GoodReads Could you be the monster to save who you love?
Two women, separated by generations, must leave what they know to start a new life. Seventeen-year-old Kate's senior year is ruined when she's moved from the only home she's ever known. After an isolating month alone in her apartment, school starts, but neither her classmates nor her teacher are who they seem. Kali, a single mother living in the nineteenth century wilds of Montana, is stalked by a malicious past. She fights to keep her daughter safe while her freedom is threatened by her less than benevolent benefactor. Both find love, and with it hope, but that is quickly ripped away as one woman must learn the lessons of the other -- before it's too late to save either.
Monica is a married graduate student with three boys. Utah is home right now, but the need to wander has extended beyond the fantasy world of writing and into real life. She's lived all around the US and even into the Middle East. The world is really a small place, only made bigger through imagination.
Tour sign ups are now closed for this title. If you are interested in reviewing it during or after the tour please email me at candacesbookblog(at)yahoo(dot)com
Young Adult Review: Bubble World by Carol Snow
Bubble World by Carol Snow
Hardcover, 352 pages
Expected publication: July 30th, 2013 by Henry Holt
Source: ALAMW
Freesia’s life is perfect. She lives on the beautiful tropical island of Agalinas, surrounded by idyllic weather, fancy dress shops, and peacocks who sing her favorite song to wake her up in the morning. She has so many outfits she could wear a different one every day for a year and not run out.
Lately things on the island may have been a bit flippy: sudden blackouts, students disappearing, even Freesia’s reflection looking slightly . . . off. But in Freesia’s experience, it’s better not to think about things like that too much.
Unfortunately for her, these signs are more than random blips in the universe. Freesia’s perfect bubble is about to pop.
I'm all for different, unique and even strange, but I need to connect with a book for it to work for me. This one kind of fell in the middle, I didn't connect with it all, but some aspects were pretty good and it ended up being an entertaining read.
The first half of the book wasn't nearly as good as the second half. But it couldn't have really been any other way. For me I wish I had known more about the story, if this world of hers is like a movie set (like The Truman Show) and maybe she's on this show and doesn't know it. That was what I thought it was at first but as I read on the pieces started coming together so when I realized the truth it made much more sense. I actually think I would have liked knowing that going in though. I'll be nice and not spoil it for you in case you don't already know. But what you do need to know is that the first half focuses more on the this world and we see how perfect things are, too perfect. We get to know Freesia at her worst, spoiled and totally clueless to the real world. For some reason I didn't care for Agalinas island straight away and didn't much like the parts of the book that happen there.
Once we get to the real world, and Freesia gets a reality check, is when things get more interesting. This brought up lots of things to really ponder. It makes you think, and I appreciated that. Reality vs. the reality we may *think* we want. Which would we really want? It also made me think of things more as a parent and what I would want for my children in a situation like this.
I mentioned that Freesia isn't terribly likable at first, but she does grow. I think she's growing through much of the book even though some things she doesn't realize immediately. She felt a tad blah to me, she didn't really stand out in any way, but she was still a good character to read about, I'm just not sure she'll be very memorable.
I wish that the family issues had been more delved into, but it's a light read and more on the fun side instead of overly serious, so that can be excused. I would have liked to see a little more sister time and their stuff figured out and explored more especially. But overall it was a pretty fun read and it was quick. I especially appreciated the unique factor of it.
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