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Review: Carter Finally Gets It

Carter Finally Gets It by Brent Crawford My rating: 4 of 5 stars I listened to this on audiobook and holy awesome narrator!! (One of the best I've ever heard.) He totally brought the character of Carter to life and the voices he used for the other characters were great. With that said, this story is hilarious! I even shed a few tears in a couple spots. Carter is a character you just have to cheer for and although he is 14 year old hormonally charged teen, he's totally relatable and most of all,

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Teen Book Review–Daughter of Smoke & Bone by Laini Taylor

I’m going to make two confessions. First, I have a thing for audiobooks. I can listen while I’m driving, which is a good and bad thing. Bad only that I still have to pay attention to the driving and sometimes books are very engrossing. Second, my TBL (To Be Listened) stash is ridiculous, so it takes me awhile to get to some of the books. Hence the reason I just finished the young adult novel, Daughter of Smoke & Bone by Laini Taylor and read by Khristine Hvam. Sadly two years after the book was

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Author Interview: B. L. Bates

I’m pleased to welcome author B. L. Bates to TL’s DreamWorld. Growing up reading speculative fiction, B. L. Bates received a BS in electrical engineering and worked for several years in the computer industry. When a head injury left her totally blind, she turned to writing speculative fiction to stay sane. With her youngest child in college, she lives with her husband in Massachusetts and plots ways to spend more time with her grandchildren. She's had short stories published online, and some

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A Book to Get Lost in: Wilde’s Fire by Krystal Wade

I have a confession… this book is the very first YA digital book I’ve ever purchased. Sure I’ve downloaded many a free book on the craft of writing and a few free romances that I have yet to ever open, but this is the first I’ve actually paid cold hard cash, errr charged to my credit card via my Amazon Prime account. I love books. I want to hold the book in my hand and feel the pages between my fingers. But I’m learning to embrace eBooks as well and now I have two young adult books on my Kindle

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A Book I Just Can’t Stop Thinking About

My current WIP is a contemporary YA. That said, I’m reading a lot of contemporary stuff of late. I went to the library to pick up a couple books and stumbled across this amazingly brilliant book… Stay With Me by Paul Griffin. The cover probably caught my eye or perhaps it was the title. I flipped it over to read the book blurb and loved the tag line… “Their lives weren’t easy. Neither was their love.” And yes – that about sums up the story. It’s a heart aching, bittersweet story of first love

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Book Review: PERFECT CHEMISTRY by Simone Elkeles

Perfect Chemistry by Simone Elkeles will make you fall in love with contemporary YA. The story, told in alternating POV of Alex, a Latino member of a gang in the suburbs of Chicago and Brittany, the All-American girl who appears to have it all. For the first few chapters, I didn’t like Alex. He was arrogant and spiteful and don’t get me started on “the bet.” I liked how Brittany dished it right back to Alex and was compelled to keep reading to find out how everything would turn out. The book is

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Book Review: THE DEATHDAY LETTER by Shaun David Hutchinson

Imagine a world where impending death was announced by a Deathday Letter. When it was your time to go, you’d receive a letter telling you that within twenty-four hours, you’d be dead. What would you do with that time? This book is about fifteen year old Ollie Travers and what he does with his last day. It’s morbidly hilarious with wonderful insight into an adolescent male mind. Which by the way is why it was on my To Read Pile. Remember how I need to work on “manning up” my male characters?

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My Thoughts on LINGER by Maggie Stiefvater

I hate to admit it took me longer to finish LINGER than I wanted. Life just got in the way… It was one of my most anticipated reads of the summer, since SHIVER, the first book in the Wolves of Mercy Falls series, is one of my favorite books. EVER. Maggie Stiefvater didn’t disappoint. The book was a slower read than SHIVER, but it was me. Not her. She alternated POV between four characters and I found myself wanting to analyze the novel as I read it. Which slowed me down. Aside from that – her