On My Wishlist is a weekly event highlighting a book that I really want to read. The book may be 20 years old, or the pub date may not be until next year, but either way I'm excited about it, and hopefully you will be too!
On My Wishlist: May 24, 2014
On My Wishlist is a weekly event highlighting a book that I really want to read. The book may be 20 years old, or the pub date may not be until next year, but either way I'm excited about it, and hopefully you will be too!
That time the blog turned one...
On May 21st 2013, Confessions of an Adult Teen Reader went live with its very first review. On the one year anniversary I thought I'd take a look back at the year, share a few of the millions of amazing things that have happened, and a few of the things I've learned trying out this reviewing thing.
Amazing Thing #1 - Some authors actually read your review!
The first time I had an author interact with me I literally started to cry and jumped up and down. I can't say I've gotten used to hearing from authors, but I have come to more of a realization that they are real people who legitimately get excited when someone loves their book.
Lesson #1 - Some authors actually read your review! (even when you really didn't like their book)
Twitter is an interesting beast. I had an author 'follow' me within about a minute of tweeting out a link to my review of their book. I did not tweet the link to them, and I did not try to make them aware of the review in anyway, but they found it anyway. About five minutes later the author not surprisingly unfollowed me. I did not like their book, and while I tried to respectfully explain why I didn't like the book, I still felt bad they'd read a negative review.
Amazing Thing #2 - Having my review of The First Lie by Diane Chamberlain highlighted on her Facebook page
Amazing Thing #1 - Some authors actually read your review!
The first time I had an author interact with me I literally started to cry and jumped up and down. I can't say I've gotten used to hearing from authors, but I have come to more of a realization that they are real people who legitimately get excited when someone loves their book.
Lesson #1 - Some authors actually read your review! (even when you really didn't like their book)
Twitter is an interesting beast. I had an author 'follow' me within about a minute of tweeting out a link to my review of their book. I did not tweet the link to them, and I did not try to make them aware of the review in anyway, but they found it anyway. About five minutes later the author not surprisingly unfollowed me. I did not like their book, and while I tried to respectfully explain why I didn't like the book, I still felt bad they'd read a negative review.
Amazing Thing #2 - Having my review of The First Lie by Diane Chamberlain highlighted on her Facebook page
On My Wishlist: May 17, 2014
On My Wishlist is a weekly event highlighting a book that I really want to read. The book may be 20 years old, or the pub date may not be until next year, but either way I'm excited about it, and hopefully you will be too!
ARC Review: All Lined Up (Rusk University #1) by Cora Carmack
Pub. Date: May 13th,
2014
Publisher: William Morrow
& Company
Paperback
320 pages
Synopsis from Goodreads:
New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Cora Carmack follows up her trio of hits—Losing It, Faking It, and Finding It—with this thrilling first novel in an explosive series bursting with the Texas flavor, edge, and steamy romance of Friday Night Lights.
New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Cora Carmack follows up her trio of hits—Losing It, Faking It, and Finding It—with this thrilling first novel in an explosive series bursting with the Texas flavor, edge, and steamy romance of Friday Night Lights.
In Texas, two things are cherished
above all else—football and gossip. My life has always been ruled by both.
Dallas Cole loathes football.
That's what happens when you spend your whole childhood coming in second to a
sport. College is her time to step out of the bleachers, and put the playing
field (and the players) in her past.
But life doesn't always go as
planned. As if going to the same college as her football star ex wasn’t bad
enough, her father, a Texas high school coaching phenom, has decided to make
the jump to college ball… as the new head coach at Rusk University. Dallas
finds herself in the shadows of her father and football all over again.
Carson McClain is determined to go
from second-string quarterback to the starting line-up. He needs the
scholarship and the future that football provides. But when a beautiful redhead
literally falls into his life, his focus is more than tested. It's obliterated.
Dallas doesn't know Carson is on
the team. Carson doesn't know that Dallas is his new coach's daughter.
And neither of them know how to
walk away from the attraction they feel.
The thing at the top of my ‘what I
have love the most about Cora Carmack books list’ is her insanely witty,
entertaining dialogue. I’m always a little worried when an author I adore
starts a new series. There’s a little bit of fear that the new won’t live up to
the old. But within the first pages of All
Lined Up, I knew there was nothing to worry about. All Lined Up lives up
to high wit and character bar that Cora’s Losing
It series set. The first page introduces us readers to Dallas and her best
friend Stella, and I couldn’t help but compare them to Bliss and Kelsey from Losing It. Like Kelsey, Stella’s
character shows that while you may not currently be the star of the show (or I
guess more accurately, the star of your own book!), if Cora created you, you’re
bound to make a lasting impression. I hate finishing one of Cora’s books
because I know I’ll have a wait for the next, but All Lined Up only reinforced how worth the wait Cora’s books
are.
All Lined Up has one of the most
adorably hilarious ‘meet-cutes’ ever. I found it so refreshing that from the
first meeting, Carson (who quite literally has the girl of his dream fall into
his lap) and Dallas are honest and vocal about seeing something in the other
person that they like. There is so little of romance’s typical will they won’t they drama, and when it
is there, there’s an actual reason behind it.
On My Wishlist: May 10, 2014
On My Wishlist is a weekly event highlighting a book that I really want to read. The book may be 20 years old, or the pub date may not be until next year, but either way I'm excited about it, and hopefully you will be too!
ARC Review: Never Fade (The Darkest Minds #2) by Alexandra Bracken
Pub. Date: October 15th, 2013
Publisher: Disney-Hyperion
Hardcover
507 pages
Synopsis from Goodreads:
Ruby never asked for the abilities
that almost cost her her life. Now she must call upon them on a daily basis,
leading dangerous missions to bring down a corrupt government and breaking into
the minds of her enemies. Other kids in the Children’s League call Ruby
“Leader”, but she knows what she really is: a monster.
When Ruby is entrusted with an
explosive secret, she must embark on her most dangerous mission yet: leaving
the Children’s League behind. Crucial information about the disease that killed
most of America’s children—and turned Ruby and the others who lived into feared
and hated outcasts—has survived every attempt to destroy it. But the truth is
only saved in one place: a flashdrive in the hands of Liam Stewart, the boy
Ruby once believed was her future—and who now wouldn’t recognize her.
As Ruby sets out across a
desperate, lawless country to find Liam—and answers about the catastrophe that
has ripped both her life and America apart—she is torn between old friends and
the promise she made to serve the League. Ruby will do anything to protect the
people she loves. But what if winning the war means losing herself?
Within the first few chapters of Never Fade I began to realize how many significant details from The Darkest Minds I completely forgot.
When I say significant, I’m talking major plot points, primary characters, and
the ending of the novel. I literally forgot about 90% of the book. What I think
affected my memory the most was how Never
Fade in no way picks up where The
Darkest Minds left off. All of those little memory light bulbs that go off
as characters, setting, and plot details become important again, weren’t lit as
early into Never Fade as I would have
liked, because the story begins in a completely new location, with an almost
entirely new set of characters. I really liked Bracken’s style of jumping right
into the action, and I would typically applaud the lack of blatant recapping. But,
for one of the first times EVER, I actually really needed a recap to orient
myself within the story.
On My Wishlist: May 3, 2014
On My Wishlist is a weekly event highlighting a book that I really want to read. The book may be 20 years old, or the pub date may not be until next year, but either way I'm excited about it, and hopefully you will be too!
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