BookChick Recommends Elizabeth Scott’s “Stealing Heaven”

I feel like I could write a recommendation every day for a different Elizabeth Scott novel. She is that prolific and that good. Scott is the author of six young adult novels and has three more coming out next year. Her output is a tremendous feat, because her books are wonderful, including the recent ”Stealing Heaven.”

It’s the story of reluctant 18-year-old thief Dani, who’s been trained by her mom from a very early age for a life of crime. Dani’s had enough silver for a lifetime though and doesn’t want to spend any more time pretending to be a maid, or breaking in through a dog door, or plotting how to nick the silver in the fancy house down the street. But her mom can’t resist. Silver is a siren song to her, so she continues to live a life on the road, taking Dani from town to town, never settling down, always plotting where to steal. Then they land in the beach town of Heaven for a few weeks, where Dani makes friends for the first time and also meets a guy.

Ah, but the path to young love is never easy. Because guess what? He’s a man in blue. Talk about conflict — the thief falls for the cop.

Read this book!!!

Which authors do you always buy?

I’ve read all the Harry Potter books, I’ve read the Twilight series, but I don’t know that I’d buy every single book written by J.K. Rowling or Stephenie Meyer. I haven’t read Meyer’s “The Host” and I haven’t read Rowling’s “Tales of Beedle the Bard.” But I do buy and read every single book Emily Giffin writes. I fell in love with her debut novel “Something Borrowed” back in 2004 when it was released and since then I’ve known the release date of each of her next three books and have bought them all and starting reading them all the day they went on sale. Her next novel “Heart of the Matter” releases next spring and that’s not soon enough for me.

Emily Giffin would be tops on my list of authors whose books I will always buy and buy right away. On that list I would also include Khaled Hosseini, Courtney Summers, Julie Buxbaum, Allison Winn Scotch, and, increasingly, Elizabeth Scott.

Julie Buxbaum’s second novel, After You, releases this summer and I am anxiously awaiting the arrival of my advance copy because I happen to think Julie is a phenomenal author and her debut “The Opposite of Love” is one of my favorites.

Whose books will you always buy? Which authors do you track? Whose tales do you make sure to purchase or check out from the library the day they release?

Perfect Kissing Book: Perfect You by Elizabeth Scott

Oh, the kissing. Yes, the kissing. My God, the kissing.

Perfect You” by Elizabeth Scott is the perfect kissing book. If you want a hefty dose of YA butterflies, buy this book. You’ll fall in love with the guy, with the girl, and with the endless kisses they share. OK, “Perfect You” is about much more than kissing. Because as wonderful as kissing is, smooches alone cannot sustain a storyline. Characters and conflict do and “Perfect You” has plenty of that because the main character Kate is faced with quadruple teen dilemmas – best friend has ditched her, Dad is making her crazy with his crazy new job, parents have mucho money trouble, and, oh yeah, the boy she has a mega crush on likes her too but she can’t accept that he does so they just kiss instead.

“Perfect You” doesn’t take the easy road and just ride along on the lip-locked high. Kate has to face up to everything she lost, everything she is losing and everything she is preventing herself from having. What she winds up with will be worth it.

This book is why I love YA.