Showing posts with label Flashback Friday. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Flashback Friday. Show all posts

Friday, January 20, 2012

Flashback Friday: The Nine Lives of Chloe King: The Fallen by Celia Thomson

Genre: Young Adult/Fantasy/Paranormal

Review: Chloe is a typical girl... a bit boy crazy and acts like a teenager by fighting with her mom and cuts class once in a while. Around her 16th birthday she started noticing strange changes -- a bit cat-like really, including the claws. She feels alone with these changes and doesn't understand where they came from or if there is anyone else like her. She stops worrying so much about that once she finds out that someone is out to kill her because of what she is -- whatever that may be.

I started reading this book for the same reason many others did. I saw the television show on Netflix and thought it was really cute. Then, the show was cancelled after the first season, leaving the viewers with a terrible cliff hanger. My logical solution, "I'm going to read the book then." Like many books, it is very different from it's counterpart. That was a bit disappointing and in the first book my questions weren't answered. Also, the book is more sexual and has a moderate amount of cussing in it that I didn't enjoy. I was surprised that the TV series was cleaner than the book. That was a first. Overall, I did enjoy the story and want to read the next in the series to find out what happens.

Author: The first thing I learned about Celia Thomson while trying to find info on her is that Celia Thomson, J.B. Stephens, E.J. Braswell and Tracy Lynn are all pseudonym for Liz Braswell. Here is a little snippet of her bio from her webpage.She was born in England and has many interests, but I'll let you read more about this woman with so many names at her website.

Rating: *** Three Stars

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The Fallen (Nine Lives of Chloe King)

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Friday, December 16, 2011

Flashback Friday: Book of a Thousand Days by Shannon Hale

This is my chance to spotlight an older book. I love doing these because there are so many awesome older releases. So, today I am spotlighting Book of a Thousand Days by Shannon Hale that was released in 2007.

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Friday, December 9, 2011

Flashback Friday: First Test (Protector of the Small #1) by Tamora Pierce

Fridays are my day to review books that are not new releases. There are a bunch of fabulous older books out there so, here is today's, published in 1999.

Genre: Young Adult/Fantasy/Adventure

Review: In the realm of Tortall it was traditionally only males who became knights but after the Lioness had pretended to be a boy and became a knight, a decree was passed permitting females to become knights. Keladry of Mindelan becomes the first female knight in training. The boys give her a hard time and no one thinks she will make it through the training. Meanwhile, a war is brewing and Keladry must prove herself to help save Tortall.

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Friday, November 25, 2011

Flashback Friday: The Secret Journal of Brett Colton by Kay Lynn Mangum

Genre: LDS Young Adult Fiction

Review: Kathy's brother, Brett, died when she was two. All she knows is that her family talks about him all the time and it's something she wasn't part of and has no memory of. When Kathy turned sixteen (same age Brett was when he died), she was given a gift from Brett -- he left her a journal. Finally, she is able to learn about this young man and brother she never knew. She is able to realize the amazing example he was and why everyone loved him.
At the same time, she is asked to tutor the popular kid in school, the quarterback. On top of all these other strikes against him he was also a Mormon. The two stories are woven together for a wonderful coming of age story of a teenage girl.

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Friday, November 18, 2011

Flashback Friday: Mothering with Spiritual Power by Debra Woods

Genre: Self help/LDS

Review: This book bases it's inspiring advice off of twenty five scriptures from the Book of Mormon. It shows that the answers to parenting questions and challenges can be found in the scriptures.

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Friday, November 11, 2011

Flashback Friday: Evernight by Claudia Gray

Flashback Friday is the day that I get to review the older books that I want to read instead of the new releases that are given to me. There are some great older books out there that should get some attention, too. :) Today's Flashback Friday book was published in 2009. Enjoy!

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Friday, October 28, 2011

Flashback Friday: Evermore by Alyson Noel

This week's flashback Friday review is on one of my giveaways. I thought it was appropriate to publish it this week since it has the whole Halloween theme going... kinda. Well, paranormal anyways. Those of you who may be new to my blog, Flashback Fridays is when I get to review a book that is not a new release. There are so many great older books out there and I always receive new releases from publishers and authors so this is my chance to review some of those. :)

Genre: YA - Paranormal - Romance

Review: Ever has recently lost her entire family in a car accident and is moved from her home to live with her aunt in California. Not only is her home and family different but she has some new abilities after the accident that she hadn't counted on. She is suddenly able to hear people's thoughts, see dead people, and see aura's so she tunes them out the best she can -- with shades and ear-buds giving her the title of "freak" at school. Then all the voices go silent when she comes into contact with the "new guy", Damen. She needs to learn how to control all the stimuli around her and figure out who this Damen is and what he is and why everything stops when he's around.

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Friday, October 7, 2011

Flashback Friday: Christy by Catherine Marshall

Genre: Historical Fiction/ Women's

Review: This is the story of young Christy who leaves her home to teach school in the Smokey Mountains. She soon discovers a poverty greater than she has ever known and a group of people that she absolutely falls in love with. There are also two special men in her life that she must choose between-- the doctor or the man of God?

I loved this book. The first time I read it was back in 2008. I am not sure when the book was first published but the author died before I was born so I think it counts as a flashback. :) I fell in love with it and found out there were tv shows and movies. I still haven't been able to watch all the movies but the tv show was fun to get into. The book provided so much more info into the lives and emotions of the people though. This is a delightful clean read for one of those days that you just need a break from your life and delight in someone else's.



Author: Marshall was born in Sept of 1914. By the time she graduated high school the Depression had devastated the US and her dreams for going to college seemed just that, a dream. Somehow her family managed to save up the money to get her through Agnes Scott College in Atlanta. She married Peter Marshall in 1936 and they had their first and only child, Jon, in 1940. "Her most well-known writing, however, is the best-selling novel Christy, about her mother, Leonora Whitaker [Christy], who left her comfortable home in Asheville, North Carolina, to live and teach at the Presbyterian mission in Morgan Branch [Cutter Gap], Tennessee. Catherine Marshall died in 1983."

Rating: **** Four Stars
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