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Showing posts with label Brenna Yovanoff. Show all posts
Book Review: Places No One Knows by Brenna Yovanoff
Places No One Knows
Author: Brenna Yovanoff
Reading Level: Young Adult
Genre: Contemporary
Released: May 17, 2016
Review Source: Delacorte
In love. I am in love with this book and these characters and this story. Places No One Knows follows both Waverly, top ranked student and cross country athlete who runs with the popular crown, and Marshall, stoner and drunk. Their paths cross and then everything goes *dreamy.* The real Waverly that no one sees can't sleep, like, at all. One night she lights a candle and chants some numbers then by some force of the universe she ends up where Marshall is. No one can see her but him, so is it real? Is she dreaming?
These characters were everything that drove this story to near perfection. I just wanted to be Waverly because she was with Marshall and I couldn't get enough of him. Places No One Knows shows you a real side of high school, heck it shows you a real side of life! Not everyone is who they seem on the outside. And sometimes you want something that you have to risk losing everything you've built. Waverly wants Marshall but what about the shiny shell she's built around herself? And, Marshall wants more in life but what's the point?
These two balance each other out and bring out each others real selves. You'll fall in love with them and their story and you'll even really like the secondary characters. The real world and the dream world will collide and you'll find yourself blissfully lost in between.
The only thing I will say is this might not be totally contemporary. Waverly slips into sleep and ends up where Marshall is and he can see her, feel her etc. How it's possible is never explained but you won't even care because Brenna Yovanoff makes it about the characters and their truth and you won't bat an eye. Please pick up a copy of Places No One Knows and love it as much as I do!
Reading Level: Young Adult
Genre: Contemporary
Released: May 17, 2016
Review Source: Delacorte
Waverly Camdenmar spends her nights running until she can’t even think. Then the sun comes up, life goes on, and Waverly goes back to her perfectly hateful best friend, her perfectly dull classes, and the tiny, nagging suspicion that there’s more to life than student council and GPAs.
Marshall Holt is a loser. He drinks on school nights and gets stoned in the park. He is at risk of not graduating, he does not care, he is no one. He is not even close to being in Waverly’s world.
But then one night Waverly falls asleep and dreams herself into Marshall’s bedroom—and when the sun comes up, nothing in her life can ever be the same. In Waverly’s dreams, the rules have changed. But in her days, she’ll have to decide if it’s worth losing everything for a boy who barely exists.
In love. I am in love with this book and these characters and this story. Places No One Knows follows both Waverly, top ranked student and cross country athlete who runs with the popular crown, and Marshall, stoner and drunk. Their paths cross and then everything goes *dreamy.* The real Waverly that no one sees can't sleep, like, at all. One night she lights a candle and chants some numbers then by some force of the universe she ends up where Marshall is. No one can see her but him, so is it real? Is she dreaming?
These characters were everything that drove this story to near perfection. I just wanted to be Waverly because she was with Marshall and I couldn't get enough of him. Places No One Knows shows you a real side of high school, heck it shows you a real side of life! Not everyone is who they seem on the outside. And sometimes you want something that you have to risk losing everything you've built. Waverly wants Marshall but what about the shiny shell she's built around herself? And, Marshall wants more in life but what's the point?
These two balance each other out and bring out each others real selves. You'll fall in love with them and their story and you'll even really like the secondary characters. The real world and the dream world will collide and you'll find yourself blissfully lost in between.
The only thing I will say is this might not be totally contemporary. Waverly slips into sleep and ends up where Marshall is and he can see her, feel her etc. How it's possible is never explained but you won't even care because Brenna Yovanoff makes it about the characters and their truth and you won't bat an eye. Please pick up a copy of Places No One Knows and love it as much as I do!
Andrew Smith's Keep YA Weird Twitter Chat + Giveaway!
We are so excited to be part of Andrew Smith's Keep YA WEIRD tour! Today we have great news and an amazing giveaway brought to you by Penguin Teen!
Join Keep YA WEIRD Twitter chat on March 17th at 7:00pm EST with some of our favorite weird YA writers:
Andrew Smith (The Alex Crow)
Jon Skovron (Man Made Boy)
April Genevieve Tucholke (Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea)
Kat Rosenfield (Inland, Amelia Anne is Dead and Gone)
Brenna Yovanoff (Paper Valentine)
It’s a movement. And it’s totally weird. #KeepYAWeird is all about celebrating literary experimentalism and extreme imagination in YA literature. We’re not going to tell you what’s weird and what’s not—that’s up to you! But we have put together a sampler of some of our favorite weird books, which you can read by entering this amazing pack! Go and enter!
Book Review: Fiendish by Brenna Yovanoff
FiendishAuthor: Brenna Yovanoff
Reading Level: Young Adult
Genre: Fantasy
Released: August 14, 2014
Review Source: Razorbill
Clementine DeVore spent ten years trapped in a cellar, pinned down by willow roots, silenced and forgotten.
Now she’s out and determined to uncover who put her in that cellar and why.
When Clementine was a child, dangerous and inexplicable things started happening in New South Bend. The townsfolk blamed the fiendish people out in the Willows and burned their homes to the ground. But magic kept Clementine alive, walled up in the cellar for ten years, until a boy named Fisher sets her free. Back in the world, Clementine sets out to discover what happened all those years ago. But the truth gets muddled in her dangerous attraction to Fisher, the politics of New South Bend, and the Hollow, a fickle and terrifying place that seems increasingly temperamental ever since Clementine reemerged.
I am always surprised by how much I truly enjoy fantasy paranormal reads. I'm not going to lie, when it comes to it, I almost always shy away from the fantasy genre. Mostly because, well, it's weird stuff. Am I right? But, when I do get a chance to read one I remind myself why this specific genre is so good. And, heck I. Love. Weird.
Brenna Yovanoff is the epitome of a fantasy writer. Fiendish had the perfect amount of horror, mystery, and peculiar. Clementine was an easy character to like. Fisher is a great supporting character as well. Their "romance" is built at the perfect pace. Which I appreciate so very much in YA now. The "love at first sight" thing is totally overdone. So, to have the story be the main focus, rather than the love portion, is such a great thing.
Fiendish was a good solid read! I am giving it four trees versus five because the ending was a tiny bit disappointing. But, overall I did enjoy this book and would definitely recommend it!
Top Ten Tuesday: The Creepiest Covers Out There!
Top Ten Tuesday is an original feature/weekly meme created at The Broke and the Bookish.
Top Ten Creepiest Book Covers Out There
• Cryer's Cross by Lisa McMann : This original cover drew me in so quickly and didn't let me down. One of my top favorite creep-tastic stories written. The new cover doesn't do it for me, I feel it takes away from the creepy factor inside its pages.
• Frost by Marianna Baer : Yes its as creepy as its looks, another great scary story that will have you thinking.
• Ashes by Ilsa J. Bick
• Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Seth Grahame-Smith
• The Replacement by Brenna Yovanoff
• Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Seth Grahame-Smith
• The Replacement by Brenna Yovanoff
• Asylum by Madeleine Roux
• Bad Girls Don't Die by Katie Alender
• It by Stephen King
• Flowers In The Attic by V. C. Andrews
* On these last two covers, They are super creepy! I just can't handle clowns, if you saw the Stephen King's It TV mini-series, then you had to be affected like I was when it came to clowns. I now can't go near them without getting freaked out.
And your probably wondering why did I pick the Flowers in the Attic redesigned cover as creepy? HELLO! If you read this book back in the day, then you know this cover is just wrong, like I said CREEPY! EWWWWWW! The cover is pretty if this was a normal contemporary romance but inside the pages is anything but normal. Below you will see older cover designs for Flowers in the Attic that are definitely more fitting tot he story. Again creepy!!!!!
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