When I read Cinder in 2012 I came out of it feeling like we had a rocky love/hate relationship. In the end I rated it 3 stars and then bumped it up to 4 stars a few weeks later. Then Meyer put out Scarlet and the novel came into my life like a wrecking ball (cue Miley singalong here) and tore me apart. Scarlet completely immersed me in the character’s lives and it literally had me on the edge of my seat the entire time. I believe I ended up rating that one 5 stars x1000 on my blog. Now that I have read Cress I am sad to say that the reading experience was much more like the one I had with Cinder rather than the completely perfect one…
Giveaway: A Midsummer’s Nightmare by Kody Keplinger
Posted by Giselle • 11 Comments
A Midsummer's Nightmare by Kody Keplinger Published by Hodder Children's Books on February 6th 2014
Genres: Contemporary, YA
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Sun, sex, and ... step-brothers.
Another sizzling story from Hamilton High.
Whitley Johnson's dream summer of shopping, partying and tanning on the beach has just turned into a nightmare. Because Dad didn't tell her he doesn't live by the beach anymore, or that he's no longer a bachelor. He's picked up and moved to a tiny, lame town called Hamilton and gotten himself a fiance. A fiance whose son just happens to be what's-his-name from last week's drunken graduation party one night stand. Just freakin' great.
As if the summer couldn't get worse, Dad seems to forget Whitley's even there. She doesn't fit in with his perfect new country club family, and Whitley does what any kid lucky enough to go all summer unsupervised does: she parties. Hard.
So hard that she doesn't even notice the good things right under her nose: a younger future step-sister who is just about the only person she's ever liked, a best friend (even though Whitley swears she doesn't 'do friends') and a smoking hot, sweet guy who isn't her step brother (yet) and who actually seems to care for her. It will take all three of them to convince her that they're not phoneys, and to get Whitley to get through her anger and begin to put the pieces of her family together.
From the author of The Duff comes another Hamilton High story
We both really enjoyed this book when we read it back in 2012, so we’re happy to have a chance to share the awesome with our fellow book lovers! The wonderful people at Hachette Children’s UK is offering a pretty finished copy of the UK release of A Midsummer’s Nightmare to one of our lucky blog readers!
What did we think of A Midsummer’s Nightmare?
-Find Giselle’s review here!
-Find Jenni’s review here!
Giveaway
Hachette Children’s Books UK has generously offered a finished copy of A Midsummer’s Nightmare (UK Edition) for giveaway.
- Open internationally
- Giveaway ends February 18th, 2014
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