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Sunday, May 2, 2010

Jackson Pearce's Sisters Red Book Trailer

Jackson just tweeted her Sisters Red book trailer on Twitter.


What do you guys think? We LOVE Sisters Red and definitely recommend picking it up when it's released next month. Be sure to follow Jackson here: https://twitter.com/JacksonPearce

In My Mailbox

In My Mailbox is hosted by Kristi @TheStorySiren & inspired by Alea @PopCultureJunkie. It explores the contexts that we received for review, bought, checked out at the library or borrowed.

From Publishers/Authors For Review:
* Borderline by Allan Stratton (from HarperTeen)
* MagicKeepers, The Pyramid Of Souls, Book Two by Erica Kirov (from Source Books)

Bought:
* Guardian of The Dead by Karen Healey
* Touching Spirit Bear by Ben Mikaelsen
* The Boys Next Door by Jennifer Echols

Borrowed:
* The Iron Daughter (ARC) by Julie Kagawa (Thank you M!)
* The Mark by M.R. Bunderson (from Fire&Ice)
* Forget Her Nots by Amy Brecount White (from the library and not pictured)

To Giveaway:
* signed Maggie Stiefvater bookmarks
* Claire De Lune postcards
** Claire De Lune signed book plate and Holly Black White Cat post card are not for a giveaway** You can visit Holly's Live Journal site, via our post about Holly's White Cat tour a few posts down to receive your postcard.

What goodies did you receive this week?

The Marr Awards

Our affiliates, Wicked Lovely (Melissa Marr's fan site) are hosting the Marr Awards. What are the Marr Awards? The Marr Awards are fan awards for everyone in the Wicked Lovely fandom. They are awarded TO fans BY fans and recognize amazing art, writing, and other contributions to the Wicked Lovely fandom. (taken from www.wickedlovely.com)


To find out more about the Marr Awards, or nominate someone for this award please visit their site here http://www.wickedlovely.com/?q=marrawards. There are over 25 categories to choose from!!

If you're a Wickedly Lovely fan, be sure to visit http://www.wickedlovely.com/ to find the latest on Melissa's books, chat with other Wickedly Lovely fans and more.

Book Review- The Turning: What Curiosity Kills

By Helen Ellis
Published by Sourcebooks
Released May 1st, 2010
Source: From Sourcebooks
2.5 stars- It was an ok read. I wanted to like it, but I couldn't get into the book like I had hoped.

Plucked from foster care, May Richards hit the jackpot with a loving family, an apartment on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, and as pot in the elite Purser-Lilley Academy. But she might lose it all if people find out about The Turning.

Something not human is inside Mary. Her mind is reeling and her body is rebelling. She succumbs to urges and desires she never imagined. And then there's the bizarre physical transformation....

Struggling with her metamorphosis, May is sought out by two boys who share her secret. Will she reject the destiny they swear is hers? Or will she find out what curiosity kills?

You only get one chance to decide if you'll never turn again....

Helen has written a fascinating story set in New York City about 16 year old Mary Richards. Before being adopted as an older child, Mary grew up in Foster Care. She now lives with her friend and sister, Octavia, who's also adopted. Both girls have had their share of heartache and now live with a loving family in the Upper East Side in Manhattan, and attend a private school.

While the book starts off with Mary, her sister Octavia, and their twin sister friends, I felt the story took a strange turn shortly after it began. Out of no where Mary starts acting strange and starts having feline desires. During this time, her long time crush Nick, starts taking notice in her. It's not until the large deli cat appears outside of her bathroom window and she lets him in, does she start to realize what's happening to her. She's going through "The Turning". Something Nick knows all about and is there to help Mary through it. To Mary's surprise and Octavia's horror, Mary is turning into a cat. Not just any cat, Mary is something more, she's a very elite kind of cat, which causes the attraction of Country Club, King of the Strays. With a turf war looming on the horizon, Mary realizes there's a few things she needs to learn about her abilities and being apart of this secret society. Yoon, the cat she let in to her bathroom, Nick and Octavia are her only source of help.

While a few things were missing from the story for me, I did enjoy Nick and Mary's relationship, even though I felt it came out of nowhere and happened really quickly. They went from never talking to having an immediate connection to dating each other. Once I got further on in the story, I discovered why things happened so fast. Octavia and Mary's relationship is a raw sister/friend relationship that will either be shattered or strengthened through Mary's turning. Mary soon learns the horrors that Octavia endured for years, at the mercy of cats, and the reason why Octavia would never change in front of her. Cats aren't always the nice loving house pets we want them to be. I liked that during the course of Mary's "turning", Octavia and Mary's relationship grows, as they learn to trust the other with secrets no one else knows about.

I'm not sure if I was fascinated or had the hardest time getting into the scenes when Mary's a cat. While those scenes are brief, Helen wrote the scenes from Mary's point of view as a cat, and then when she's human, she describes her feline yearnings she has for Nick and Yoon, the fat deli cat who started "the Turning".

The Turning is the first book in this series, and I am looking forward to finding out what happens with Mary, Nick and Octavia in the next book. While Mary is worried about saving Nick and doing her best to keep her relationship with her sister, who's very freaked out by Mary being a cat, Mary has to save herself, but time is of the essence and Mary's time is running out.

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