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OCTOBER 2014 YA Challenge

PostPosted: October 9th, 2014, 8:51 pm
by laila_6045
HELLO HELLO AGAIN MY FELLOW RPERRRSSSS!!!

I can't believe how fast time flies. Sorry it took me a long while to post my latest YA challenge coz I got sort of busy with other stuff. And my wifi at home kept going down and I had to use my mobile most of the time and I can't do much and even tedious doing online stuff with my mobile. So anyways, I want to feature the two YA authors that will be visiting the Philippines for their book signing event this October 18-19. They are the following :

Claudia Gray :
1. A Thousand Pieces of You
2. Fateful

Madeleine Roux:
1. Asylum
2. Sanctum


Guidelines :
** You can choose to read any two books from either author. So that means you can either read two books from the same author or one book from each author, but you must complete two books.
** You must post your review of at least two books from the author/s featured above. Each review must be posted separately under this thread.
** This challenge will officially start from October 10, 2014 - October 31, 2014. So only reviews posted within these dates will be validated.
** This challenge will end officially on October 31, 2014 12:00 AM and the winner will be notified on November 1, 2014 (if i don't get busy) and must reply within 48 hours from notification.
** Participants must have valid Philippine mailing address.


The winner will be chosen randomly thru my tried and tested "blind raffle draw" hehehe. Said winner will get this hard copy of this book GIRL MEETS BOY which contains a collection of short stories written by some of the most dynamic YA authors today, this book is edited by Kelly Milner Halls.

Synopsis: What do guys and girls really think? Twelve of the most dynamic and engaging YA authors writing today team up for this one-of-a-kind collection of "he said/she said" stories-he tells it from the guy's point of view, she tells it from the girl's. These are stories of love and heartbreak. There's the good-looking jock who falls for a dangerous girl, and the flipside, the toxic girl who never learned to be loved; the basketball star and the artistic (and shorter) boy she never knew she wanted; the gay boy looking for love online and the girl who could help make it happen. Each story in this unforgettable collection teaches us that relationships are complicated-because there are two sides to every story

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HAPPY READING AS ALWAYSSSS!!!!

Re: OCTOBER 2014 YA Challenge

PostPosted: October 10th, 2014, 2:02 pm
by arjaye
oh my laila... ure gonna make me fall under the roof of my tbr's list! heehee

Re: OCTOBER 2014 YA Challenge

PostPosted: October 10th, 2014, 3:47 pm
by laila_6045
arjaye wrote:oh my laila... ure gonna make me fall under the roof of my tbr's list! heehee


well then you just have to bump up my reading challenge in your TBR...hehehe!

Re: OCTOBER 2014 YA Challenge

PostPosted: October 10th, 2014, 4:39 pm
by ladybirdinblue
cant have the any copy of those 4 books. sigh**

Re: OCTOBER 2014 YA Challenge

PostPosted: October 11th, 2014, 1:15 pm
by arjaye
ladybirdinblue wrote:cant have the any copy of those 4 books. sigh**


i got here a copy of asylum and sanctum, i would love to send it to u. :)

Re: OCTOBER 2014 YA Challenge

PostPosted: October 11th, 2014, 2:27 pm
by joesel
i love the prize!! :)
do you have a copy of A thousand pieces of you and Fateful by Claudia Gray?
Please. Please. Thank you. Thank you.

Re: OCTOBER 2014 YA Challenge

PostPosted: October 11th, 2014, 9:57 pm
by MissRed
Lai, you gave me a reason to read a thousand pieces of you much earlier.
Oh goodness, the cover is GORGEOUS!!

Re: OCTOBER 2014 YA Challenge

PostPosted: October 14th, 2014, 9:45 pm
by laila_6045
MissRed wrote:Lai, you gave me a reason to read a thousand pieces of you much earlier.
Oh goodness, the cover is GORGEOUS!!


yes! the cover is indeed very preteeehhh! i just got my physical copy today. i'm sorry i can't seem to obtain the ebook version yet. it's' actually that hard. i'm waiting for my ingenious cousin to send me an ebook. don't worry once i get it i will email it to you guys!

Re: OCTOBER 2014 YA Challenge

PostPosted: October 24th, 2014, 6:18 pm
by arjaye
FATEFUL by Claudia Gray
3/5

TITANIC. That setting, i cannot help but to think about only Leo and Kate. Only Jack and Rose. The most popular tragic love affair in the entire movie-dom.
But would you happen to know that there is another romantic tale, budding inside that ill-fated ship on that ill-fated night? Yes, there was. Alec and Tess. A distinguished gentleman and a maid-servant. Kind of an overturned situation but nevertheless a forbidden affair between rich and poor people. But what it sets differently with the infamous love story was the paranormal side of it. You see, the characters were not just human but supernatural ones. No spoiling here incase you want to leave the mystery unravelled by yourself. :)

In a quick note, and all honestly, the story somehow was not able to grasp my full attention. I find it out a little bit weak. Alex and Tess and their one-week love affair did not pull me in. Even the actual sinking was not enough to put me at the edges of my seat. What i kept on picturing was the movie and leo and leo and leo. haha But in fairness, i can easily imagine the plot and the setting and the props and the characters and the mood and physical aspects of the story. Thanks to the movie, again.

There was one quite funny moment that i had thought of while reading a particular scene. The scene where the villain Mikhail was confronting Tess at the squash room, the same time Jack and Rose was doing their rendezvous at the cargo room inside a a carriage of some sort. Just after Titanic hit an iceberg, before the chaos began. The irony of it all. Violent, steamy and wild.

The premise had quite less enigma on me, though it piqued my interest on the first chapter, on their first encounter.
The love between Tess and Alec though their secrets spilled, hardships faced together, undying care and protection for each other did not give me the feels.
Mikhail was not effective villain for me, not that scared, not that angry at him, just annoyed because he was weak and ineffective, which the story needed badly.
I liked Alex, Tess not so much.

Overall, the story is just okay. Not gripping, not heart-pumping or not world-crushing. Just a plain and simple paranormal story in my bookshelf.

Re: OCTOBER 2014 YA Challenge

PostPosted: October 25th, 2014, 3:08 pm
by joesel
Asylum by Madeleine Roux

It was a typical horror story for me - a school in an old asylum where vibes of ghosts and other supernatural thingies are present.
Asylum was a disappointment for me, mainly because I was expecting a hardcore, maybe an almost Stephen Kingish horror story but it was definitely not. I felt that author Madeleine Roux keeps on pulling back just as when the story gets scary.

But Asylum was creepy and eerie with all those grotesque experiments and the like which often happened in older asylums but I didn’t feel terrified at all. I would have wanted moments with the book that I just have to stop reading it because of so much terror, but I did not have.

There were also pictures that helped narrate the story, just like those in the novel Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs. However, they did not resonate any disturbing or haunting feeling for me.

I would recommend this for those who want a little bit of horror and fans of Ransom Riggs.