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Fever ARC Giveaway!!

So, as i have mentioned in my previous review, i loved Lauren DeStefano's book Wither. And NOW guess WHAT!

Me—and you—have a chance to not ONLY win a personalized ARC of Wither, but, as soon as it's printed, an ARC of the SECOND BOOK IN THE TRILOGY, Fever!


Are you excited? I'm pretty excited. So go HERE to find the rules!:

http://www.laurendestefano.com/blog/

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"Across the Universe" by Beth Revis

[MINOR SPOILER ALERT (in the paragraph about the characters)]

Across the Universe was an amazing sci-fi book. Now, I've never read any sci-fi books besides Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams and Foundation by Isaac Asimov in a Sci-Fi Lit class two years ago. But AtU was very good. I loved it. It was sci-fi, romance, and mystery, but, there was absolutely no way that anyone could predict who-dun-it.

I admit, it took some time to get into it. It wasn't that it was bad, but for some reason it didn't pull me in enough. It might've been because at the time I was unfocused, but I'm not sure. Though after about half of the 400 pages, it was addicting and I couldn't put it down!

My favourite character was definitely Harley. I don't know why. So so so so sad. He was a very sweet character.
My least favourite character turned out to be Orion. I seem to hate the guy-with-good-intentions-but-fails-with-evil worse than the guy-who-was-always-evil-through-and-through, though I don't know why. I guess, the evil guys are expected to have evil ways of getting their evil things done. But the other guys have good goals, but then they think up stupid, evil ideas to make the goals work. So they're, like, good-posers.
But all the characters were very well-written and real.

The ending was ridiculously unpredictable. Not the conclusion of the who-dun-it, but when Elder shared his dark secret kept throughout the book. I found it really really shocking that a secret like what he had could be hidden from the reader when half the time he's the narrator.

I was very impressed with the POV changing through the book. For some reason, when I've seen this done in other stories (mostly read online), I think it seems a bit tacky when the author jumps from character to character. But the characters in AtU were so different and weren't together, so not only was it interesting to hear things from each characters' "voice", but it made a lot of sense. And, the fact that it was so consistent added a lot more elegance to the book.

All-in-all, it was a wonderful book. I'm going to try to read more YA sci-fi. And now let's hope all those books live up to the high expectation that has been set by Across the Universe by Beth Revis!

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"Wither" by Lauren DeStefano

Wither was a wonderful book with a strange concept and wonderful story plot. It's set in the near future. Female humans only live until they're 20 years old, and males only live until they're 25. To keep the population going, house Governors have girls kidnapped and brought to them. The governor chooses which ones they like best, and force them to marry him, and then they impregnate the girls so they have kids early. This is all while they're still teenagers.

So the concept is a little... sickening. But not because Lauren DesStafano wrote it in a bad fashion. On the contrary, it was very very good. The style in which she wrote the book was perfect for this dystopian novel.

I loved all the characters the most, out of any element of the book. Rhine, the MC, was a very real person with her mixed emotions. Even Linden, as clueless about everything as he was, was the perfect character for his role. He wasn't evil as every reader probably assumed he would be at first and almost became a truly lovable character. The events made the reader hate the right character throughout the book, and then easily made me, at least, swear at Cecily at the end. DeStefano got reaction.

The book was beautifully written and very very interesting. I can't wait until the next of the Chemical Gardens Trilogy comes out called Fever. You should definitely read this.

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The Upcoming "Forever"

Ahhh yes! The huge (as in very very popular) SHIVER series comes to a close with FOREVER, by Maggie Stiefvater!

http://www.fountainbookstore.com/autograph-maggie



FOREVER is out July 2011!

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