You know those summer reading lists they give you at the end of the school year? Kafka and Orwell and so on? Well, throw it out. Because here’s the real summer must-read list for teens!
Now go to the library, the book store, your best friend and read!!!
The list was compiled this list with the help of four writing friends: Trish Doller, Suzanne Young, Courtney Summers and Mandy Morgan. And no, Courtney didn’t pick her own book for the list. I picked it! The list includes books published in 2008 and 2009.
Published June 24th, 2009 at 6:00 am in Uncategorized with 6 comments
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Blue Moon is the “Empire Strikes Back” in Alyson Noel’s “Immortals” series. It’s the moral center around which the other two books must pivot. And like the midway point in the original “Star Wars” trilogy, don’t expect “Blue Moon” to be about happily ever after. As Luke, Leia and Han did, the characters in this book will face heartbreaking truths and find themselves in mortal peril again and again. (That’s saying a lot for an immortal to be in mortal peril.)
After learning she had become immortal in “Evermore,” main character Ever begins flexing her newly acquired muscles and talents while being taught by the love of her many lives, Damen, in “Blue Moon,” which releases in July. The soulmates are finally together forever after 400 hundred tortured years of losing each other, but their happiness doesn’t last long. Because the new boy at the high school is clearly casting some sort of spell over all the other students, including Damen, whose powers quickly weaken. As his abilities fade, so does his memory and his interest in Ever. Heartbroken but determined to get to the root of the problem, Ever travels to Summerland to learn how to restore Damen. But when she discovers how to turn back time, she’s torn between saving her family and saving her love.
Oh and guess what? She’s totally a pariah at school and all the other kids hate her, so even though she could theoretically kick any other’s teenager’s butt her high school life is still filled with major suckitude.
But Ever deals and she deals in ways the reader doesn’t expect. Once you think you know what Ever will do next, she’s headfirst down a new path you never imagined. When Ever travels back in time, you’ll desperately wonder how the heck Ever will get out of her predicament. Then Ever winds up creating heaps more trouble for herself and Damen – trouble neither she, Damen nor any reader will ever have expected. And that’s all I will say.
Except, it is the mark of a daring writer to defy expectations and Alyson Noel does that to the power of ten in “Blue Moon.” I guarantee you will have no idea what’s coming in the second book of the series while Alyson Noel surprises you with a big, fat twist and leaves you wanting more, more, more.
Published May 31st, 2009 at 8:24 pm in Authors, Currently Reading, Recommended Reading, Young Adult Fiction with 5 comments
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There’s a reason Alyson Noel’s “Evermore” claimed the top spot on the New York Times bestseller list for several weeks. It’s a hypnotic read. It’s the kind of book where you say, “Just one more chapter, then I’ll put it down.” Only you say that over and over and over until it’s two a.m. and you’re still not tired in the least.
A teenage girl with psychic powers she’d jettison in a heartbeat if she could, all Ever wants is to quiet the noise in her head. The constant sound of other people’s thoughts has been there since her parents and sister died in a car crash. The only thing that makes the buzzing go away is Damen, the beautiful, mysterious, quite possibly immortal new boy at school. But soon Ever realizes the reason she’s reading people’s minds is because she’s more like Damen than she thought.
Evermore is cut from the same cloth as Twilight, but I think of Evermore as Facebook to Twilight’s MySpace. Evermore is more sophisticated, quirky, and unusual. Characters are fully developed and richly layered and Ever is as tough as she is soft. This book is worth all the praise it’s garnered and them some and I for one am counting the days until my advance copy of the second book in the series, “Blue Moon,” arrives in my mailbox this week. When it does, you can bet I’ll have devoured it in 24 hours and I’ll tell you all about it!
Blue Moon officially releases on July 7.
Published May 25th, 2009 at 8:45 am in Authors, Recommended Reading, Young Adult Fiction with 6 comments
Tagged with Alyson Noel, Blue Moon, Evermore, fantasy, teen fiction, young adult
