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So Much #LoveInBooks!
Hello lovely reader,
My Valentine special #LoveInBooks, featuring six other YA authors, has ended and a winner has been drawn for the giveaway. Thanks and a kiss to all who entered! I hope you enjoyed the series.
In case you missed them, here are the photos for Sword and Verse:
And here are the favorites from participating authors (alphabetically, by book). Enjoy!
ARROWS by Melissa Gorzelanczyk ~ Follow Melissa on Twitter
ASSASSIN’S HEART by Sarah Ahiers ~ Follow Sarah on Twitter
BOOKISHLY EVER AFTER by Isabel Bandeira ~ Follow Isabel on Twitter
CURIO by Evangeline Denmark ~ Follow Evangeline on Twitter
THE MYSTERY OF HOLLOW PLACES by Rebecca Podos ~ Follow Rebecca on Twitter
THIS IS WHERE IT ENDS by Marieke Nijkamp ~ Follow Marieke on Twitter
Read This!: WHERE FUTURES END by Parker Peevyhouse
Where Futures End by Parker Peevyhouse
Summary: Five teens. Five futures. Two worlds. One ending.
One year from now, Dylan develops a sixth sense that allows him to glimpse another world. Ten years from now, Brixney must get more hits on her social media feed or risk being stuck in a debtors’ colony. Thirty years from now, Epony scrubs her entire online profile from the web and goes “High Concept.” Sixty years from now, Reef struggles to survive in a city turned virtual gameboard. And more than a hundred years from now, Quinn uncovers the alarming secret that links them all. Five people, divided by time, will determine the fate of us all. These are stories of a world bent on destroying itself, and of the alternate world that might be its savior–unless it’s too late.
In this twisty mindbender of a book, Parker Peevyhouse gives us five interconnected stories, each set a little further in the future – a future where our world has become intertwined with an alternate one that brushes up against it. The choices of these five teens uncover the mystery of the Other Place more and more, until a choice is made that changes the fate of one world forever. As in any good sci-fi projection of the future, the parts of the book that are most chilling are those that are the most realistic: the way that Brixney, ten years from now, moves into a debtors’ colony with her brother after their parents die in an accident. The way that Epony, thirty years from now, has to remake herself online in order to survive. The way that Reef’s livelihood is pursuing credits in a virtual reality game that overlays the city of Seattle. The way that conglomerates like Microsoft-Verizon casually take over the world and push people out of their homes as the oceans rise due to global warming.
A sobering commentary on society, technology, and humanity’s penchant for making destructive choices.
WHERE FUTURES END is out now.
Read This!: BLACKHEARTS by Nicole Castroman
Blackhearts by Nicole Castroman
Summary: Edward “Teach” Drummond, son of one of Bristol’s richest merchants, has just returned from a year-long journey on the high seas to find his life in shambles. Betrothed to a girl he doesn’t love and sick of the high society he was born into, Teach dreams only of returning to the vast ocean he’d begun to call home. There’s just one problem: convincing his father to let him leave and never come back. Following her parents’ deaths, Anne Barrett is left penniless and soon to be homeless. Though she’s barely worked a day in her life, Anne is forced to take a job as a maid in the home of Master Drummond. Lonely days stretch into weeks, and Anne longs for escape. How will she ever realize her dream of sailing to Curaçao—where her mother was born—when she’s stuck in England? From the moment Teach and Anne meet, they set the world ablaze. Drawn to each other, they’re trapped by society and their own circumstances. Faced with an impossible choice, they must decide to chase their dreams and go, or follow their hearts and stay.
Before he was known as Blackbeard, the pirate who could strike fear into hearts of men without striking a physical blow, he was Edward, nicknamed Teach, a boy who wanted nothing more than freedom. Before there was Blackbeard’s ship, Queen Anne’s Revenge, there was Anne, the girl who became the queen of his heart. This is the story of their unlikely yet inevitable romance. Prepare to be swept away.
BLACKHEARTS is out now.
Read This!: FENWAY AND HATTIE by Victoria J. Coe
Fenway and Hattie by Victoria J. Coe
Summary: Fenway is an excitable and endlessly energetic Jack Russell terrier. He lives in the city with Food Lady, Fetch Man, and—of course—his beloved short human and best-friend-in-the-world, Hattie. But when his family moves to the suburbs, Fenway faces a world of changes. He’s pretty pleased with the huge Dog Park behind his new home, but he’s not so happy about the Evil Squirrels that taunt him from the trees, the super-slippery Wicked Floor in the Eating Room, and the changes that have come over Hattie lately. Rather than playing with Fenway, she seems more interested in her new short human friend, Angel, and learning to play baseball. His friends in the Dog Park next door say Hattie is outgrowing him, but that can’t be right. And he’s going to prove it!
This book could not be more adorable or engaging. We get to see the world through the eyes of Fenway, the super excitable Jack Russell Terrier, and he focuses on the important things: avoiding the Wicked Floor that is too slippery for him to walk on, making sure Food Lady and Fetch Man know he’s got everything under control, and, most of all, keeping Hattie, his beloved short human, safe from marauding squirrels. Readers will be so ready to join Fenway for another adventure as soon as possible.
Fenway and Hattie is available now.
Stories By Hand with Kathy MacMillan 