Laura A. H. Elliott

I received a free copy of this novel for my honest review. Shadow Slayer is book two of the Shadow series. The story opens on Roxie’s first day of High School, reminiscing about Hayden and their last few days before school starts. You can tell by the memory that she’s hoping they will get back to how they were on “Planet Popular”. She loses interest when she meets sixteen year old Drew, “a perfect ten”. Drew then asks her to the homecoming dance and she excitedly accepts. Hayden implies that Drew isn’t what he seems, which adds to the mystery of the entire story. I loved the way this story was written, you can tell that Roxie has matured a bit since book one. This was a action filled entertaining novel, I can’t wait to see what happens next!… (more)

A fast fun very enjoyable read. Roxie is a 12 year old girl on the night of her 13th birthday. She wants has an OK life a family and a best friend but wants to be popular. What she calls "a peacock".

During her 13th birthday party her wish in a way is granted by a special birthday present. But all us not as it seems.

Lots of fun and Roxie us a unique quirky character who is very easy to identify with. During the book she learns some truths about growing up and has to come to terms with something about life in the popular crowd. There's a fun paranormal element too.

A delightful read.

Also crossing off another square for Book Bingo - a child narrator. In my eyes a just turned 13 year old is still a child… (more)

If I were to describe Transfer Student using only three adjectives, I'd say that it was- captivating, interesting and impressive.
From the moment the author,Laura A.H. Elliott wrote about the book on Twitter (@Laurawriting) or in her blog newsletters (Laurasmagicday- http://laurasmagicday.wordpress.com/- a great blog with great stuff ), I was already in. The Blog Tour was fun! I wanted to read this one and was lucky enough to have won a giveaway hosted by the author herself for which I would like to thank Laura Elliot once again. The Blog Tour was also a lot of fun and the best part was that it was all over the net, making it easier for readers all over the world to participate, join, see and be a part of. I must also add that spreading the word about the book online also made me feel like a part of the Transfer Student Team, which is such an honour for me, as a reader.
Transfer Student is the story of two teenagers- one living on Planet Earth (Ashley) and the other from Planet Retha (Rhoe). A task as simple as star- gazing through a telescope makes these two switch planets and even their bodies. So we have Rhoe as and in Ashley on Earth and Ashely as and in Rhoe on Retha. Without getting much into the plot, I would just like to say that, from there on, the book is a complete page- turner.
The experience of reading the book was a journey in itself.
In the initial chapters, Ashley's life on Earth seemed liked that of any 'perfect' American blond girl. However, after the Transfer, reading about Earth from Rhoe's point of view was absolutely hilarious and giving a broader sense of awareness at the same time.
Reading about Planet Retha from both, Ashley's and Rhoe's POV was an intelligential experience. Live on Retha, it's people, how things work there, even simple things like how they use wheatgrass in place of water was all put down very meticulously.
Other characters like Ashley's and Rhoe's best friends, Tiffany (who is actually Ashley's frenemy) and Yuke and even Xanny respectively, were also great characters. They each fall for their best friends after the Transfer. It was so funny to read about a girl in a guy's body falling for his best friend or a guy in a girl's body falling for her best friend! But as Ashley says, all over the galaxy, boys are falling for girls and girls are falling for boys. Rhoe's brother Ziggy seemed nice and it would be really cool to see more of him in the series as also Ashley's boyfriend on Earth, Sean. The mothers of both the protagonists made the reading experience a bit more interesting. No need to say that, since the book was already interesting in the first place. Two other characters who caught my eyes were Rhoe's professor, Mr. Z and Ashley's drama class teacher. They seemed really helpful and entertaining.
I am looking forward to reading the Starjump Series. I'm sure all the books in the series will be as super cool as this one. Personally, I really loved Transfer Student as it was completely different read and at the same time, being a Sci- Fi book, it appeared contemporary and extremely un-put-downable! A nice, funny and different read when it comes to Science- Fiction, Laura Elliot has done a magnificent job with this one and I would definitely recommend Transfer Student. So put in on your to- be- read shelf ASAP and follow the link for your Kindle copy-
http://www.amazon.com/Transfer-Studen...… (more)

If I were to describe Transfer Student using only three adjectives, I'd say that it was- captivating, interesting and impressive.
From the moment the author, Laura Elliot wrote about the book on Twitter (@Laurawriting) or in her blog newsletters (Laurasmagicday- http://laurasmagicday.wordpress.com/- a great blog with great stuff ), I was already in. The Blog Tour was fun! I wanted to read this one and was lucky enough to have won a giveaway hosted by the author herself for which I would like to thank Laura Elliot once again. The Blog Tour was also a lot of fun and the best part was that it was all over the net, making it easier for readers all over the world to participate, join, see and be a part of. I must also add that spreading the word about the book online also made me feel like a part of the Transfer Student Team, which is such an honour for me, as a reader.
Transfer Student is the story of two teenagers- one living on Planet Earth (Ashley) and the other from Planet Retha (Rhoe). A task as simple as star- gazing through a telescope makes these two switch planets and even their bodies. So we have Rhoe as and in Ashley on Earth and Ashely as and in Rhoe on Retha. Without getting much into the plot, I would just like to say that, from there on, the book is a complete page- turner.
The experience of reading the book was a journey in itself.
In the initial chapters, Ashley's life on Earth seemed liked that of any 'perfect' American blond girl. However, after the Transfer, reading about Earth from Rhoe's point of view was absolutely hilarious and giving a broader sense of awareness at the same time.
Reading about Planet Retha from both, Ashley's and Rhoe's POV was an intelligential experience. Live on Retha, it's people, how things work there, even simple things like how they use wheatgrass in place of water was all put down very meticulously.
Other characters like Ashley's and Rhoe's best friends, Tiffany (who is actually Ashley's frenemy) and Yuke and even Xanny respectively, were also great characters. They each fall for their best friends after the Transfer. It was so funny to read about a girl in a guy's body falling for his best friend or a guy in a girl's body falling for her best friend! But as Ashley says, all over the galaxy, boys are falling for girls and girls are falling for boys. Rhoe's brother Ziggy seemed nice and it would be really cool to see more of him in the series as also Ashley's boyfriend on Earth, Sean. The mothers of both the protagonists made the reading experience a bit more interesting. No need to say that, since the book was already interesting in the first place. Two other characters who caught my eyes were Rhoe's professor, Mr. Z and Ashley's drama class teacher. They seemed really helpful and entertaining.
I am looking forward to reading the Starjump Series. I'm sure all the books in the series will be as super cool as this one. Personally, I really loved Transfer Student as it was completely different read and at the same time, being a Sci- Fi book, it appeared contemporary and extremely un-put-downable! A nice, funny and different read when it comes to Science- Fiction, Laura Elliot has done a magnificent job with this one and I would definitely recommend Transfer Student. So put in on your to- be- read shelf ASAP and follow the link for your Kindle copy-http://www.amazon.com/Transfer-Student-Starjump-Series-ebook/dp/B007L9V58Y/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1332577301&sr=1-1… (more)