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Friday, June 22, 2012

Blog Tour: Caterpillar by Kate Oliver

Title: Caterpillar
Author: Kate Oliver
Publisher: MAB Books
Publishing Date: April 10th 2012
Pages: 338\

Genre: YA Sci/Fi
Series: The Metamorphosis Trilogy #1
Source: Kindle

Goodreads Summary:

In a small college town in northern California, a lonely young man is working himself to the bone to solve a sixty-year-old problem ... a stranger with a will of iron and eyes the color of ice is searching for someone he can't identify ... and a girl who loves plants is about to grow roots of her own.

When Cara Gallagher's parents are transferred overseas again, she's off to spend her senior year of high school living with her sister, a graduate student at the famed McNair University. Cara, a girl with a passion for science and an indifference to people, hopes this move will be her first step in claiming the independence she craves. Cara has her future planned down to the letter: her college, her major, her career.

Then she saves Will Mallory's life, and both of their futures are completely rewritten.

The last years of Will's life have been spent shifting from one identity to the next, dodging the FBI, and trying desperately to find a way home. But Will's home is forty-four light years away, and to reach it he'll have to outwit the man who's hunting him--and leave behind the only love he's ever known.

Review:

I wanted to read this book after seeing the cover and reading the summary. The cover is beautiful and the summary sounded mysterious. I wanted to give it a try and I was blown away.

I want to start this review by saying that the story was beautiful and the writing was amazing. It has been a very long time since I had a book make me smile, cry, laugh, and feel the way this one did. I could not put it down from the moment I picked it up. It's a love story between a girl and a boy. New town, new school, new faces for the girl and a lonely life for the boy. The two meet. The way they meet really sets the tone for the story and says so much about both characters. I love that when they meet, it's the girl saving the boy not the other way around.

The characters just took over my mind, heart, and soul. I fell in love with them from the start. Cara is a bit of a loner, she has been moved around her entire life and she has found it easier not to get close to anyone. The only person Cara has ever been close to was her sister, a sister who is 5 years older and eventually left her on her own. Now that she is a senior, Cara's life is starting a new chapter. She is given the choice to live with her sister instead of traveling with her parents. Cara's first full day in the new city she runs into Will. A lonely and very cute boy.

Will owns my heart. Will is different and a little strange at first. He is drawn to Cara right away. She saved him, she cared about his well being, she took the time to see he needed help. Will enters Cara life and changes it drastically. Cara's life will never be the same. Cara entered Will's life and gave it purpose, gave him a friend and love, and gave him hope.

Will loves Cara's heart, I love Will's heart. They are both very caring people and the chemistry between the two is amazing. I can't remember the last time I felt so much chemistry in words. I found myself getting chills often and yearning to be apart of Cara and Will's world. I found myself thinking about this book when I couldn't read it and I am still thinking about it long after I have finished.

When I finished the last page of this book I could not stop smiling, yet I wanted to cry. I have to wait a while before I can enter this world again. I will be raving about this book for a while and anticipating the next book in the series.

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Shelf Candy Saturday #16 Fallen Series by Lauren Kate

Shelf Candy Saturday is a weekly feature for a favorite cover or covers.

Shelf Candy Saturday is hosted by Five Alarm Book Reviews.

My Shelf Candy this Saturday is the Fallen Series by Lauren Kate

I love these covers. The mood, the colors, the dresses and the font. I think they are just gorgeous. I have read all but the last book and the covers really set a feel for the story.

What do you think of these covers?

Follow Friday #22 and TGIF #6

Follow Friday is a weekly meme hosted by Rachel of Parajunkee and Alison of Alison Can Read!

Q: If you could "unread" a book, which one would it be? Is it because you want to start over and experience it again for the first time? Or because it was THAT bad?

A: I will admit that I am a huge Twilight fan. It's the only book that has ever made me feel like a raging fan girl and act like a fool. It's the book that made me read more YA and realize I love YA books. It's the book that set me on my reading addiction all over again. I don't know what it is about this series, but they hooked me good. So I would love to unread and read again to get the feeling back that I first experienced when reading Twilight for the very first time. Another book I would add to the list that is one of my favorite series is the Wicked Lovely series. Even though this series did not turn me into a raging fan girl, I fell madly in love with every character and love the darkness of the story.

TGIF is a weekly meme hosted by Ginger at GReads

Authors Are Our Celebrities: Have you ever contacted

an author you admired? How did that experience go? If not, which author would you love to have a chat with?

A: I have met many authors and book conventions, signings, and at my book club. There is never enough time at conventions and signings to really talk to them but at the book club I attend (volunteer at) have been fun experiences. I always get a giggle about meeting authors. We book lovers do see them as celebrities and when I have sat down and talked with them, they are just as nice and crazy as all their readers. I think the most memorable time was when Tracy Deebs came too our local library teen book club where I volunteer.

She is absolutely hilarious and fun to be around. she lets off an energy that is so amazing and contagious. She is really down to earth and so patient. The book club I am apart of is for teens at the library and some of the younger ones can get a little out of hand. She always handled it with style. She had a new book she was working on and wanted some ideas for a title, she was really stuck. She asked around and listened to everyone's ideas. She later told the teen librarian that she used one of the ideas, but wouldn't tell us which. It would remain a mystery for now. I thought that was really cool to involve the teens. She was way cool.

Wednesday, June 20, 2012

Waiting on Wednesday #21 and W.W.W. #7

Waiting On" Wednesday is a weekly event, hosted by Breaking the Spine,

that spotlights upcoming releases that we're eagerly anticipating.

This week I am waiting on....

Perfect Escape by Jennifer Brown

July 10, 2012

Kendra has always felt overshadowed by her older brother, Grayson, whose OCD forces him to live a life of carefully coordinated routines. The only way Kendra can stand out next to Grayson is to be perfect, and she has perfection down to an art -- until a cheating scandal threatens her flawless reputation.

Behind the wheel of her car, with Grayson asleep beside her, Kendra decides to drive away from it all -- with enough distance, maybe she'll be able to figure everything out. But eventually, Kendra must stop running and come to terms with herself, her brother, and her past.

With undeniable grace and humor, acclaimed author Jennifer Brown explores OCD, the pressure for perfection, and the emotional highs and lows of a complex sibling relationship.

and and humor, acclaimed author Jennifer Brown explores OCD, the pressure for perfection, and the emotional highs and lows of a complex sibling relationship.

Between the Lines by Jodi Picoult, Samantha van Leer

July 1, 2010

What happens when happily ever after…isn’t?

Delilah is a bit of a loner who prefers spending her time in the school library with her head in a book—one book in particular. Between the Lines may be a fairy tale, but it feels real. Prince Oliver is brave, adventurous, and loving. He really speaks to Delilah.

And then one day Oliver actually speaks to her. Turns out, Oliver is more than a one-dimensional storybook prince. He’s a restless teen who feels trapped by his literary existence and hates that his entire life is predetermined. He’s sure there’s more for him out there in the real world, and Delilah might just be his key to freedom.

Delilah and Oliver work together to attempt to get Oliver out of his book, a challenging task that forces them to examine their perceptions of fate, the world, and their places in it. And as their attraction to each other grows along the way, a romance blossoms that is anything but a fairy tale.

W...W...W.. Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted by should Be Reading....

What are you currently reading?

Caterpillar (The Metamorphosis Trilogy, #1)

Rules of Attraction (Perfect Chemistry, #2)

What did you recently finish reading?

13 Little Blue Envelopes (Little Blue Envelope, #1)

What do you think you’ll read next?

Tuesday, June 19, 2012

Teaser Tuesday #14Top Ten #4

Teaser Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by Should Be Reading. Bloggers choose two sentences

out our current read to peak others' curiosity.

"How did you get through it?" I asked her.

"What high school? I didn't have much of a choice. You just get through it. Don't worry, though, in a few years you won't even remember how much it sucked," she said.

Caterpillar by Kate Oliver

Cannon threw his phone on the bed.

Before putting on some clothes, Cannon marched around in a circle with his hands on his head, cutting me off every time I tried to get out of his way, making it almost impossible for me not to look at him.

Amateur Angel by Karri Thompson