Hey! Sorry for the extended absence, but I've been reading a lot. And writing a lot, too. I have to do a ton of stuff for this Language Arts fair, and the deadline is in a month.
The news, of course, is about books. I looked at free teen ebooks on barnsandnoble.com and downloaded, like, fifteen free books.
So, here's some cool reviews and overviews from yours truly.
First up, Elemental: The First by Alexandra May.
I loved this book! And, to make it even better (and weirder to read) it was written by a British author! It takes place in England, in this small town that is notorious for the aliens that they believed lived there.
This girl, Rose Frost, is used to the constant moving. What is new about this next move is that she has to leave by herself. Her mother drops her off with her grandmother, Daisy, and leaves.
Rose has always been...different. She has a gift. She can heal people by great concentration and with the help of this silvery mist-like stuff that comes from her hands when she's doing it. But, along with healing, she can also kill things with that touch.
Now, she's having dreams of this warrior-like woman. Are they dreams...or visions?
That question is answered when they finally attack her, ready to destroy the last person with the gift.
And Aiden, is he good or evil? Is he with his grandfather or Rose?
If I had to rate the book, it would probably be a good, solid four stars. That's pretty good in my book.
Next...Dream Whispers by K.L. Bauman.
Kayde Harper is desperate for one thing, to make it to Canada; the place his grandpa lived once upon a time. Now that his grandpa is deceased, he wants nothing more than to escape Texas and see what was so great about Canada. That was before his motorcycle ran out of gas at the side of the road in the middle of a Montana snow-storm and he loses his wallet.
Becca just wanted to go into the city for just a minute, getting her friend a book he wanted at the library. But she neglected to check the weather. That was when she saw Kayde at the side of the road in all of his leather-jacket, bad-boy glory. She decides to help him out and take him into town.
Kayde is forced to stay in Montana for a month, his father's punishment for him losing his wallet.
That's what frightened Kayde the most, not getting to Canada and escaping the dark music constantly playing in his head, wanting to be released. He has the ability to make people do anything he wants when he sings, and these dark songs haunt him, but if he releases them, people will get seriously hurt and maybe even die.
He becomes acquainted with Becca a little more, and they soon fall for each other hard. That is, until Kayde loses it and releases a dark song, almost killing Becca accidentally. He ended up dying because of this stupid mistake, and Becca loses a few months of her life, in her memory. When she wakes up at the hospital a few days after the accident, she doesn't remember Kayde at all.
But he remembers her. He's now a ghost, an invisible ghost. One that can't be seen or heard at all.
What happens now? Will Rabecca ever remember Kayde? Who is sending her these strange clues of a Kayde Harper? What is a music mage?
Is Kayde really dead?
I give this a full five stars. I loved this book. It was practically impossible to put down! Being a music lover, I liked Kayde's power a lot. I also liked his determination; he wasn't going to let his dark gift overcome him and make him do something he'd regret.
Lastly, Eternal Eden by Nicole Williams.
Bryn Dawson recently transferred from Stanford to OSU (Oregon State University) for the middle of her sophomore year in college. That was when she met William Winters, a transfer student.
Being forced to give this new rich kid a tour of the campus on a Friday night, she is anything but happy. All she wanted to do was get through school without getting noticed. If she wasn't noticed, no one would find out about her past...about her parents and how it was her fault that they died.
Right when she sees him, she feels this attraction to him. She doesn't want to, but she does. The first time he touches her arm, she feels this electricity between their skin, like fate was entwining their destinies.
Mysterious, charming, and protective as William is, Bryn falls hard for him. Little did she know how long he'd searched for her, loving her, wanting to finally meet her.
After almost drowning and being saved by William, she's changed. She learns that there are two kinds of beings, Mortal and Immortal. She learns Williams hard Immortal life that he'd lived and how all of his sanity and hope came from a vision of one girl...her. She learns about all of the strange laws for the Immortals, and finds that she has to keep her relationship with William a secret, or else they could both pay a terrible price.
But things can only go on for so long before they're caught together.
Will Bryn and William both die for love? Or will just one of them die?
I think this was my favorite out of the three I've talked about today. This one is six stars out of five. I just LOVED this one! William is the perfect knight in shining armor, and I love Bryn's character. She's a fighter. She's determined not to let William get hurt, even if it means that they can't be together. She refuses to leave with him, knowing they'd kill him if they'd ever been found. I also like William, a lot. He does make some mistakes, but who doesn't? He's just worried about the girl he'd loved for over two hundred years.
Anyways, that's it for me. Sorry for the long post, I had a lot to catch up on. That wasn't even all of the one's I'd read. The other two were really short--less than thirty Nook pages each.
Thanks for reading.
Stay geeky.
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