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Incredible. Truly and whole-heartedly a work of YA genius! Across The Universe was above and beyond what I expected from it! Time and time again I continue to ask myself what will happen once the YA genre becomes too repetitive with the same story lines and situations, but this is a book that honestly gives me hope that no matter how many books are published that the wonderful and creative minds of the authors out there will not fail in bringing us truly amazing tales.
Across The Universe takes place many decades in the future on the spacecraft, Godspeed. After being frozen for the 300 year trip to a new planet with her parents, Amy is suddenly awoken 50 years early then scheduled and brought into a world that leaves her trapped in metal and stars. Elder is the Godspeed’s future leader. He is being trained by Eldest to be able to take over the ship and run it’s people but everything changes when he comes across a beautiful girl with flaming red hair frozen in a tube of ice.
And so that is how our story is started but we are far from the awesomeness being over. There is something not right going on on Godspeed and we are put through an epic adventure of uncovering it’s secrets layer by layer. There were so many shocking twisted and turned in the book I had whiplash! I loved Elder’s character. He was just like any rebellious teen who had too much responsibilities resting on his shoulders. With show more the points of views switching between Amy and Elder we were able to get insight on both of them and so I would like to applaud Ms. Revis for her writing of Elder’s mind. There are books that I read from a teen boy’s perspective where not even the slightest inappropriate thought would go in there mind about a girl or whatnot. I’m a high schooler and know that the boy’s minds are far from clean. I’m not saying that Elder thoughts were dirty but they were definitely suggestive ;) I also LOVED Harley! Nothing else needs to be said, read the book to found out his amazing, heart-breaking story.
Overall, I just loved this book! With the original plot and mystery and love all mixed together you could not have made me happier while reading it. Make sure to pick up this book, it’s a story dying to be told. show less
Incredible. Truly and whole-heartedly a work of YA genius! Across The Universe was above and beyond what I expected from it! Time and time again I continue to ask myself what will happen once the YA genre becomes too repetitive with the same story lines and situations, but this is a book that honestly gives me hope that no matter how many books are published that the wonderful and creative minds of the authors out there will not fail in bringing us truly amazing tales.
Across The Universe takes place many decades in the future on the spacecraft, Godspeed. After being frozen for the 300 year trip to a new planet with her parents, Amy is suddenly awoken 50 years early then scheduled and brought into a world that leaves her trapped in metal and stars. Elder is the Godspeed’s future leader. He is being trained by Eldest to be able to take over the ship and run it’s people but everything changes when he comes across a beautiful girl with flaming red hair frozen in a tube of ice.
And so that is how our story is started but we are far from the awesomeness being over. There is something not right going on on Godspeed and we are put through an epic adventure of uncovering it’s secrets layer by layer. There were so many shocking twisted and turned in the book I had whiplash! I loved Elder’s character. He was just like any rebellious teen who had too much responsibilities resting on his shoulders. With show more the points of views switching between Amy and Elder we were able to get insight on both of them and so I would like to applaud Ms. Revis for her writing of Elder’s mind. There are books that I read from a teen boy’s perspective where not even the slightest inappropriate thought would go in there mind about a girl or whatnot. I’m a high schooler and know that the boy’s minds are far from clean. I’m not saying that Elder thoughts were dirty but they were definitely suggestive ;) I also LOVED Harley! Nothing else needs to be said, read the book to found out his amazing, heart-breaking story.
Overall, I just loved this book! With the original plot and mystery and love all mixed together you could not have made me happier while reading it. Make sure to pick up this book, it’s a story dying to be told. show less
This review was written for LibraryThing Early Reviewers.
3.5 stars
First of all I’m going to say that Come Again No More is a book I would usually never pick up myself. I usually only read YA books because that’s what I enjoy, though I’d like to thanks GoodReads because I won this ARC from them.
With that said Come Again No More wasn’t really my cup of tea, though I did find that reading the story helped me understand a lot about the years of the Great Depression. This book features Eli Paint and his family and their struggles through this tough time in live and how they come together to help each other. It’s a story of gain and loss, discovering and losing, love and hate, family and friends. It shows just how hard people had to fight to make a living back then. People were poor, going broke and had to struggle to made a living. It’s a very touch story.
Though, something in this book that made me skip over some passages was the cussing and language used. I can understand people cussing when they are angry but there were times where I couldn’t even imagine hearing someone talking like that.
This book is the second in the Paint Family series, but I didn’t read the first one and it was easy to follow along the plotline of the story. The book was kind of slow for me at some points but there were exciting parts too. I’m positive that a person of great interest of the time era the book took place and a person who loves to read a story about a good family orientated book with really enjoy the the Paint’s story.
First of all I’m going to say that Come Again No More is a book I would usually never pick up myself. I usually only read YA books because that’s what I enjoy, though I’d like to thanks GoodReads because I won this ARC from them.
With that said Come Again No More wasn’t really my cup of tea, though I did find that reading the story helped me understand a lot about the years of the Great Depression. This book features Eli Paint and his family and their struggles through this tough time in live and how they come together to help each other. It’s a story of gain and loss, discovering and losing, love and hate, family and friends. It shows just how hard people had to fight to make a living back then. People were poor, going broke and had to struggle to made a living. It’s a very touch story.
Though, something in this book that made me skip over some passages was the cussing and language used. I can understand people cussing when they are angry but there were times where I couldn’t even imagine hearing someone talking like that.
This book is the second in the Paint Family series, but I didn’t read the first one and it was easy to follow along the plotline of the story. The book was kind of slow for me at some points but there were exciting parts too. I’m positive that a person of great interest of the time era the book took place and a person who loves to read a story about a good family orientated book with really enjoy the the Paint’s story.
13 To Life is an awesome addiction to the world of werewolves. We have our dark secrets, forbidden love, and a hot Russian guy! Yum!
Our main character is Jessie, a small town girl that has been haunted by the troubles of her past and is trying to fight to keep a friendship with someone who may not even be her friend in the first place. When Pietr (pronounced Peter) comes into town with his family and a Russian heritage things begin to change for Jessie.
I really enjoyed the voice of Jessie. She was sarcastic and witty in her thoughts as in her words. I found myself laughing many times at her comments and dry sense of humor. I really loved Pietr and greatly enjoyed the Russian heritage that was brought into the book. He’s that mysterious guy that you just want to know what in hiding in his mind.
I was kind of annoyed that Jessie continuously pushed Pietr away at first, but I could understand her loyalty to her friend, even if it was her fault they were together.
The ending is filled with surprises and twist that I never saw coming! I’m so looking forward to the next installment of the series , Secrets and Shadows.
Overall, this is a great read. It doesn’t change much of what we’ve seen before in the werewolf books out there but it is a great take on the subject and can’t wait for more!
Our main character is Jessie, a small town girl that has been haunted by the troubles of her past and is trying to fight to keep a friendship with someone who may not even be her friend in the first place. When Pietr (pronounced Peter) comes into town with his family and a Russian heritage things begin to change for Jessie.
I really enjoyed the voice of Jessie. She was sarcastic and witty in her thoughts as in her words. I found myself laughing many times at her comments and dry sense of humor. I really loved Pietr and greatly enjoyed the Russian heritage that was brought into the book. He’s that mysterious guy that you just want to know what in hiding in his mind.
I was kind of annoyed that Jessie continuously pushed Pietr away at first, but I could understand her loyalty to her friend, even if it was her fault they were together.
The ending is filled with surprises and twist that I never saw coming! I’m so looking forward to the next installment of the series , Secrets and Shadows.
Overall, this is a great read. It doesn’t change much of what we’ve seen before in the werewolf books out there but it is a great take on the subject and can’t wait for more!
4.5 of 5 stars!
Linger is a great installment to the Wolves of Mercy Falls series! Where we were left off in Shiver was quite the cliffhanger and Linger definitely lefts us off with that same feeling of mystery.
In Linger we alter from the pointed of view of Grace, Sam, Cole, and Isabel. I really enjoyed reading the book from different views because we got to see more of the story unfold instead of discovering out everything that’s been done behind the scenes. I sometimes found Isabel’s voice to be a little annoying at times, but I felt that having her say of things help develop her character.
It is now turning to spring and Sam is expecting his friends to be changing back to humans with the warm weather but he knows that the time for most of them is up and they won’t be turning back anymore. Cole, one of the new wolfs, is trying to get away from his old life and start a new one; one where it doesn’t require to think about a thing and to let yourself go. Grace is fighting with a terrible illness that may be more than it seems and Isabel is still getting over the hurt of losing jack and creating a friendship with Cole.
I enjoyed Linger more than I did Shiver and felt that I got to know the characters more. I loved the romance and feelings shared between Grace and Sam. And I really just loved Sam as a person so much! He’s so gentle at times and sensitive but that’s what makes him Sam and a likable character.
Over all, wonderful job! The writing was absolutely show more beautiful and flowed so nicely. The mystery continues and we are left to wonder if Sam and Grace will ever be together. Can’t wait for the Last and final installment of the series, Forever! show less
Linger is a great installment to the Wolves of Mercy Falls series! Where we were left off in Shiver was quite the cliffhanger and Linger definitely lefts us off with that same feeling of mystery.
In Linger we alter from the pointed of view of Grace, Sam, Cole, and Isabel. I really enjoyed reading the book from different views because we got to see more of the story unfold instead of discovering out everything that’s been done behind the scenes. I sometimes found Isabel’s voice to be a little annoying at times, but I felt that having her say of things help develop her character.
It is now turning to spring and Sam is expecting his friends to be changing back to humans with the warm weather but he knows that the time for most of them is up and they won’t be turning back anymore. Cole, one of the new wolfs, is trying to get away from his old life and start a new one; one where it doesn’t require to think about a thing and to let yourself go. Grace is fighting with a terrible illness that may be more than it seems and Isabel is still getting over the hurt of losing jack and creating a friendship with Cole.
I enjoyed Linger more than I did Shiver and felt that I got to know the characters more. I loved the romance and feelings shared between Grace and Sam. And I really just loved Sam as a person so much! He’s so gentle at times and sensitive but that’s what makes him Sam and a likable character.
Over all, wonderful job! The writing was absolutely show more beautiful and flowed so nicely. The mystery continues and we are left to wonder if Sam and Grace will ever be together. Can’t wait for the Last and final installment of the series, Forever! show less