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Friday, 17 January 2014

"Mercy Snow" by Tiffany Baker~Author Interview!

Posted on 10:12 by batista
SUMMARY :


In the tiny town of Titan Falls, New Hampshire, the paper mill dictates a quiet, steady rhythm of life. But one day a tragic bus accident sets two families on a course toward destruction, irrevocably altering the lives of everyone in their wake.

June McAllister is the wife of the local mill owner and undisputed first lady in town. But the Snow family, a group of itinerant ne'er-do-wells who live on a decrepit and cursed property, have brought her—and the town—nothing but grief.

June will do anything to cover up a dark secret she discovers after the crash, one that threatens to upend her picture-perfect life, even if it means driving the Snow family out of town. But she has never gone up against a force as fierce as the young Mercy Snow. Mercy is determined to protect her rebellious brother, whom the town blames for the accident, despite his innocence. And she has a secret of her own. When an old skeleton is discovered not far from the crash, it beckons Mercy to solve a mystery buried deep within the town's past.



PARTICULARS OF THE BOOK :

Published by:  Grand Central Publishing/Hachette Book Group
Pages:  321
Genre:  Contemporary Fiction
Author:  Tiffany Baker
Website:  http://www.TiffanyBaker.com
Purchase this book:  Barnes & Noble    and  Amazon



ABOUT THE AUTHOR :


 

Tiffany Baker’s Recipe For A Writing Life

A handful of islands: Belvedere, Aquidneck, Balboa, Manhattan, Corsica, Maui, the UK
Three small children: Two girls and a boy, plump in the cheeks and knees. Strong-willed but sweet when kissed.
One husband
Indecent amounts of chocolate and coffee
A view of a grassy ridge and an old gum tree
Start with the islands. Move from one to another up through your twenties. Add a graduate degree in creative writing from UC Irvine and then a PhD in Victorian literature for extra flavor, plus a smattering of tragic relationships. Move to New York to teach humanities, drink expensive cocktails, and give up on men.
Go hiking on Corsica with your mother. Meet your future husband. Move to England to be with him.
Add the first child to the mix and marinate. Return to the US, to the town where you began. Wonder what you’re doing home again. Gradually, fold in one, additional child until life is thick and hard to stir.
Decide to write a novel. Get pregnant again in the meantime, but refuse to give up writing. Finish the novel and get rejected. Repeat as necessary until the mixture becomes glue-like and unappetizing.
Finally, find the world’s most perfect agent who performs a miracle and sells your novel to the world’s best editor. Revise the novel many times, until it congeals. Do a victory dance.
Begin Book 2, having forgotten how hard writing a book is. Eat obsessive amounts of chocolate and decide what you’re doing isn’t half-bad. Gain an undisclosed amount of weight and take up jogging.
Every day, take a long walk on the grassy ridge. Stop at the gum tree, breathing deeply. Stare across the hill at your house where your children and husband are. Hope your cypress tree isn’t really dying. Hope for enough rain in the coming season. Hope for world peace. Finally, really, really hope people enjoy your book. Hope they like the second one even more.
Bon Vivant!

 
AN INTERVIEW WITH TIFFANY!!

We are so happy to be able to bring this interview with Tiffany Baker to you today.  Tiffany is one of my favorite authors, and I'm so delighted to get to know her better.  Here's the interview:


 
1)      Tell us something about yourself, please.  How do most people describe you?

The person I am in my day-to-day life is different than my writing self, and I always find it startling when those two worlds collide. In “real” life, I’m messy, laissez-faire about too many things, a short-tempered driver, wildly affectionate with my children, and a little snarky. My writing self is more composed, somewhat melancholy, and very introverted. I always find it challenging when someone I know from one context—a neighbor, for instance—tells me he or she is reading my book. It’s a little like standing in front of people in your underwear.

 

2)      Briefly, from where did the idea for your novel germinate?

Mercy Snow is based on the Antigone myth, believe it or not, which is the story of a young girl whose brother has died in battle against Thebes going up against the corrupt king so she can bury her sibling. It’s a story about individual power versus the state, about private moral authority versus social convention. I transposed the story to a dying mill town on the Androscoggin river—a one-company town which doesn’t welcome outsiders, and which can’t survive the changes happening to it. In one version of the Antigone story, the king’s wife weaves throughout the play, and so I took that element and used it to create June’s sewing circle. It was interesting for me to realize that the core conflict of such an ancient story can still hold absolutely true, even when the setting and characters morph into modern times.

 

3)      Who first told you you could write well, and how did it affect you?

I suppose it must have been a teacher. I had so many wonderful grade school teachers—in particular my sixth-grade teacher, who was so kind and patient. I used to come home from school, and type stories on my electric typewriter, lost in my own world for hours. Then, in high school, I was lucky enough to be allowed to do a year-long independent study in creative writing. That teacher introduced me to contemporary poetry, and challenged me to raise the intellectual bar.  The most important thing all of these people did for me was to expose me to other writers, and to get me to see that writing is a continuum, a conversation I could join if I wanted.

 

4)      Which contemporary authors do you most admire?

There is this whole pack of contemporary women writers who are just killing it lately. People like Rachel Kushner, Ann Patchett, Curtis Sittenfeld, Zadie Smith, Elizabeth Gilbert, Donna Tartt, Hannah Kent, Claire Messud, Karen Russell. It’s very inspiring. There’s so much to read.

 

5)      Who are your favorite classical authors?

I love Emily Dickinson, and the Bronte sisters. I also really love Greek myths and the stories from the Old Testament because they are pure story—large in scale and character. And, finally, I’ve never outgrown fairy tales. I used to read Russian ones when I was little, and still love the real Grimm tales, the ones full of gore, and scary witches, and transformations.  They are brutal and magical at once.

 

6)      What was your first book as a child?  What’s your all time favorite book?

When I was tiny, I remember being obsessed with Go Dog, Go. Then, when I had children, I fell in love with it all over again—the zany drawings, the ridiculous hats the girl dog wears, the simple humor. It’s a fantastic kids’ book. But my all-time favorite book is Jane Eyre, which I read when I was nine years old and touring around England with my parents. Mr. Rochester still makes me weak in the knees, and is there any better sentence than, “Reader, I married him?” No, there is not.

 

7)      Read any good books in the past 6 months?

I loved A Constellation of Vital Phenomena by Anthony Marra, and Burial Rites by Hannah Kent. Such beautiful and interesting writing and such haunting stories that bring distant worlds close.

 

8)      What’s the worst job you’ve ever had?

I spent a summer scooping ice cream once. I developed a weird muscle bulge on my forearm and an aversion to sticky children and anything frozen. Oh, and I worked in a plastics factory on a kibbutz in Israel. I loved the kibbutz, but working in the factory made me grateful that I was going to go to college so I could lead a life of the mind.

 

9)      What’s your earliest memory?

When I was very small, I lived in West Berlin with my parents. I can remember walking along and running my hand against the wall, which had graffiti on it. It’s odd to me in a wonderful way that the city of that memory is gone.

 

10)   What’s your most treasured possession?

I’m very attached to some of the furniture I have, which I grew up with, and which has moved around with me. Wherever I go those pieces—creaky wooden chairs, lopsided armoires, Turkish rugs—make it feel like home.  I’m also rather fond of my wedding band—plain gold with an inscription I love—and my husband’s oar from Cambridge, which is hanging on the dining room wall.

 

11)   Are you working on a new novel?

Yup. It’s something I’ve been thinking about for years, and is a little different than the other things I’ve done, so I’m taking my time with it. The more books I write, the more I’m realizing that you save yourself a lot of headaches if you take your time with a first draft. I’m very excited about my new project, and right now it’s a luxury to have it all to myself.  In the meantime, I hope everyone enjoys Mercy Snow. Thank you!

 
How awesome to get to know something about you and your writing, Tiffany.  We have a lot in common...authors we love and treasured possessions, just to name a few.  I loved "Burial Rites," too.  Wish we were neighbors!
 
 
THE BOOKISH DAME REVIEWS :
I feel I've been on a very fortunate trip having just finished "Mercy Snow."  It's one of those books that puts the heart back into reading.  I felt such a loss of reading material that excited me over the  holidays...and since that time, "Burial Rites" and "Mercy Snow" have both resurrected my belief in good books and fantastic authors.  Tiffany Baker, in particular, is a gifted writer whose work is just captivating.  I fell in love with her as an author when she wrote "The Gilly Salt Sisters," but I have to say that this book really rivals that one!
 
This is a haunting and gorgeously written book.  There is much to be said about the workings of the characters.  Their psychology leaves their outward appearance secondary as we become absorbed in their thought processes and machinations.   As June, the mill owner's wife, spins her web catching herself up in it as well as the townswomen, we are reminded of how easy it is to fall in our own folly.  We become desperate and hungry with Mercy and Hannah.  And, we look with frustration at a situation that is both hateful and unfair from the goldfish bowl of the Gods...far above the action of the novel. 
 
This is a  magical and meaningful book.  Mystical and mythological bits and pieces dot the storyline reminding us that all that we see in the world may not be all there is to it.  It's a story that draws you in and keeps the pages turning.  There's more than one moral to this story.
 
The mystery at the center of the novel keeps dancing at the edges of every chapter, leaving us grasping at it like a willow-the-wisp.  While we are given a good deal of the actual mystery at the onset, the deeper ones are withheld from us, and we know it!  This gives depth and richness to the storyline.
 
I loved this book.  It was one of those I wished would never end.  I could happily have gone on reading about these characters...
 
This is one of those books you just have to read this winter.  It's a show-stopper of a novel.  I highly recommend it!
 
5 stars                   Deborah/TheBookishDame
 

 
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Tuesday, 14 January 2014

"The Hands of Time" by Irina Shapiro

Posted on 08:10 by batista
SUMMARY :


When a young American woman vanishes without a trace from a quaint fishing village on the coast of England only one person knows the truth, but he remains silent, allowing the authorities to search for her in vain, safe in the knowledge that she will never be found.  As Valerie’s bereft sister returns home alone, she struggles to understand what happened and come to terms with her terrible loss when she suddenly stumbles upon a clue that might finally shed some light on her sister’s disappearance.

Meanwhile, Valerie Crane finds herself transported to the year 1605. Terrified and confused she turns for help to the Whitfield brothers, who take her in and offer her a home despite their misgivings about her origins. Both Alexander and Finlay Whitfield fall in love with the mysterious woman who shows up on their doorstep, creating a love triangle that threatens to consume them all.  Valerie must make her choice, deciding between the brother who will lead her down the path of destruction or one who will give her the love she couldn’t find in her own time.



Purchase the Book

Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/The-Hands-Time-Book-ebook/dp/B006JRO9WS
 
 
 
 
PARTICULARS OF THE BOOK :
 
 Publication Date: December 7, 2011
Merlin Press
eBook
ASIN: B006JRO9WS


ABOUT THE AUTHOR :

 
Irina Shapiro was born in Moscow, Russia, where she lived until she was eleven.  In 1982 her family emigrated to the United States and settled in New York.  Due to her love of reading, Irina was able to pick up English very quickly, and was an honor student throughout her school career. 

After graduating from Bernard M. Baruch College in 1992 with a Bachelor’s degree in International Business, Irina worked in advertising for two years before shifting her focus to Import/Export.  She worked her way up to the position of Import Manager in a large textile house before leaving the work force in 2007 to focus on her autistic son. 

It wasn’t until Irina had been at home for some time that she began to write.  Eventually the characters began to take on a life of their own and have conversations in her head, and once she started writing her musings down the stories came easily enough.  Irina incorporated her love of history and travel into her writing to create a rich and detailed background for the characters.  Since then Irina has written eight novels.  She is currently working on book five of The Hands of Time Series.

Irina Shapiro lives in New Jersey with her husband and two children.

For more information, please visit
www.irinashapiro.com.  You can also follow her on Facebook and Twitter.


GUEST POST!!!

We are delighted to feature a guest post today from Ms Shapiro having to do with her book.  I want to thank you, Irina, for taking time to bring this to A Bookish Libraria....

Here it is!  I'm so glad you chose this subject for your post...




Choosing a historical period for a time travel romance

 

As a writer, one of the first questions I ask myself when planning a time travel romance is where exactly am I sending my heroine, and why.  Those might seem like fairly simple questions, but the time and place are of paramount importance since they function as the backdrop for everything that happens in the story, and the political and social elements shape the events and the relationships between the characters.   When writing The Hands of Time, I was sure that I wanted to send my American heroine to England, but it took some research to decide on a time period.  I’d already written about the Tudor era, as well as eighteenth-century Scotland, but this was going to be something different, and I didn’t want to write about events that many others have already explored in their work. 

For some reason, my mind kept turning to Guy Fawkes Night.  I found it intriguing that it’s still celebrated in England on November 5th, and effigies of the unfortunate Guy Fawkes are burned throughout the country, commemorating the events of that day.  I didn’t know much of what transpired, but took it upon myself to learn.  The more I read, the more it seemed to fit with my story.  Religious strife between Catholics and Protestants in England was nothing new, but this wasn’t the religious revolution started by Henry VIII, and perpetuated by his devoutly Catholic daughter Mary and her Protestant half-sister, Elizabeth.  This was an equally volatile, but later time in British history, when a Catholic monarch was on the throne after years of Protestant rule, yet the Catholics were still oppressed and discriminated against as much, or even more, than they had been during the reign of Elizabeth I.   Their discontent was such, that it prompted a plot that nearly succeeded in blowing up the entire Parliament with the King in attendance, an act that could have changed the entire landscape of British politics had it not been foiled in the nick of time. 

Now, this sounded like something my characters could really sink their teeth into, and a fascinating situation to explore through the eyes of my American heroine who came from an era of religious freedom and equality for all.  I had chosen the time and place, and now all I had to do was write a great story incorporating the religious, political, and social climate into the lives of my characters while they tried to navigate the treacherous waters of sixteenth-century England, and still manage to find happiness and love, and a carve out a future for themselves.  
 
 
 
This tour was brought in cooperation with Historical Fiction Virtual Book Tours.  I highly recommend this book!  You can read more about it, some interviews and more guest posts by clicking onto this link:  http://www.hfvirtualbooktours.com
 
 

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Monday, 13 January 2014

"Burial Rites" by Hannah Kent~ Mesmerizing

Posted on 08:41 by batista
SUMMARY :


A brilliant literary debut, inspired by a true story: the final days of a young woman accused of murder in Iceland in 1829.

Set against Iceland's stark landscape, Hannah Kent brings to vivid life the story of Agnes, who, charged with the brutal murder of her former master, is sent to an isolated farm to await execution.
Horrified at the prospect of housing a convicted murderer, the family at first avoids Agnes. Only Tóti, a priest Agnes has mysteriously chosen to be her spiritual guardian, seeks to understand her. But as Agnes's death looms, the farmer's wife and their daughters learn there is another side to the sensational story they've heard.

Riveting and rich with lyricism, BURIAL RITES evokes a dramatic existence in a distant time and place, and asks the question: How can one woman hope to endure when her life depends upon the stories told by others?


PARTICULARS OF THE BOOK :

Published by:  Little, Brown & Co.
Pages:  330
Genre:  Historical Fiction
Author:  Hannah Kent
Website: http://www.hannahkentauthor.com


MORE ABOUT THE AUTHOR :


 
Hannah Kent was born in Adelaide in 1985. As a teenager she travelled to Iceland on a Rotary Exchange, where she first heard the story of Agnes Magnúsdóttir.

Hannah is the co-founder and publishing director of Australian literary journal Kill Your Darlings, and is completing her PhD at Flinders University. In 2011 she won the inaugural Writing Australia Unpublished Manuscript Award.

Burial Rites is her first novel. It has been translated into twenty languages.



 
 
 
 

THE BOOKISH DAME REVIEWS :

I don't know what took me such a long time to get through my book stacks to finally reach "Burial Rites," except the stacks were daunting and I was fighting my way there!  I am pleased to have gotten there because this is one of the books I would have named one of the best of 2013.

It is an astonishingly beautiful story.  Lyrically written.  With the poetic hand of Hannah Kent, the characters, landscape and even the barren and filthy hovels of the farming people are gorgeous in their own way.  She is a master writer of the first quality.  Her wording is simply intoxicating, and makes the story feel very ancient and very important at the same time.  I fell into it and couldn't put it down.

Not having the best experience with Iceland or the Icelandic language, I was at first worried about reading the book, but soon found that the names and places flowed very easily.  Kent has given us a small pronunciation guide and map at the beginning to guide us through.  It led me along quite well.
And, I learned to love this exotic element about the story.

Hannah Kent's characters are visceral and alive, carrying so many strong emotions you can't help being moved by them.  Agnes, of course, will tear your heart out with her story and her current situation which seems inevitable and hopeless.  The young Reverend carried frustration with him for me...and each character gave off this sort of strong feeling, touching me as I read about them.  This isn't a book that asks nothing of you as a reader.  It draws you in and challenges you to become a part of it!

"Burial Rites" is one of the best of the new authors I've read in 2013, and it's also one of the best all around I read.  I highly recommend it to everyone.  The book promises to touch you, and change your way of looking at women in the 1800's.

I loved it!

5 stars                             Deborah/TheBookishDame

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Saturday, 4 January 2014

"Forgotten Tales of China" by Lisa April Smith ~ Epic

Posted on 08:22 by batista
SUMMARY :

If you’re interested in China, if good historic fiction is among the genres you prefer, 
Lisa wrote Forgotten Tales of China for you! 

If you’re a fan of Clan of the Cave Bear, 

You have to read Forgotten Tales of China!  
 
If you appreciate attention to details and insist on accuracy in your fiction, 
You'll want to read Forgotten Tales of China! 


And if you want to be swept away 
to a distant time and place 
this epic novel, is the one you want to read! 


Go to these links to find out more:


http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/forgotten-tales-of-china-lisa-april-smith/1117919840?ean=2940148956600

and

 http://www.amazon.com/Forgotten-Tales-China-April-Smith-ebook/dp/B00HMS045E/ref=sr_1_1_title_0_main?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1388841741&sr=1-1&keywords=forgotten+tales+of+china



ABOUT THE AUTHOR :


Lisa April Smith is the highly praised author of Dangerous Lies, Exceeding Expectations and Paradise Misplaced, all in the genre she playfully calls “Suspense with Sizzle for Discerning Readers.” Reviews for all three are consistently amazing. But perhaps one reviewer succinctly said it best: “Lisa April Smith’s books have the pace and heat of Jacqueline Susann and the style and sophistication of Dominick Dunne.” 

Like other literary late bloomers, Smith grew up in a family of readers and dreamed of becoming an author. But necessity intervened and her formal education came in bits and pieces.  Paying her own way college at 17, she chose to leave two years later when she moved to Boston to put her new husband through graduate school. Later, when she could steal time from raising a family, she enrolled in any class that appealed to her wide range of interests, attending any college within an hour’s drive. Eventually, she received a BA in anthropology/sociology. A few years later, after attaining a degree in computer science she was hired by IBM. Ten years after that, she reluctantly left the company when she and her husband moved to Jupiter, Florida. Too young to retire, the yearning to write awakened and life for Smith forever changed. Combining corporate discipline, life experience and long suppressed creativity, characters and stories poured out. 

Find out more about this exciting and interesting author by visiting her website at:
http://www.lisaaprilsmith.com


THE BOOKISH DAME REVIEWS :
"Forgotten Tales of China" is a novel that will absolutely catch you up from the first chapter forward.  It completely drew me in as I walked the plains with the leader of a pre-historic clan, hovered in a cave with a young girl who was learning her way to survival, and as other parts of the story of early China grew vivid and real before my inner eyes.

Lisa April Smith is not only an anthropologist by education, but she is one by nature and imagination.  Her characters leap from the pages, coming alive with their thoughts and actions.  I was particularly captivated and had an early allegiance to Berry, whose life depended upon her learning the art and craft of medicinal plants and herbs. And leaders such as Watchful Eye and other primary characters are most interesting and will grab your attention, too.  Lisa is a master at characterization.

Yes, this book is very reminiscent of "Clan of the Cave Bear," but it stands alone in its own category and with its own laurels.  The research behind the novel is more exact.  The obvious work in reality scaffolds the story, creating a more believable world with more believable characters.  And while this scholarship is quite evident, it is never boring or unreachable.  Ms Smith's novel has an easy flow with a completely accessible, readable storyline.

I highly recommend this book to all those who love the exotic and the Orient, but also to those who are looking for a story that is unusual and absorbing.  This is a book that will keep you transfixed for hours!

5 stars                   Deborah/TheBookishDame
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Thursday, 2 January 2014

"Uglies" by Scott Westerfeld~YA Dystopian

Posted on 07:50 by batista
SUMMARY :

Tally is about to turn sixteen, and she can't wait. Not for her license -- for turning pretty. In Tally's world, your sixteenth birthday brings an operation that turns you from a repellent ugly into a stunningly attractive pretty and catapults you into a high-tech paradise where your only job is to have a really great time. In just a few weeks Tally will be there.

But Tally's new friend Shay isn't sure she wants to be pretty. She'd rather risk life on the outside. When Shay runs away, Tally learns about a whole new side of the pretty world -- and it isn't very pretty. The authorities offer Tally the worst choice she can imagine: find her friend and turn her in, or never turn pretty at all. The choice Tally makes changes her world forever.


PARTICULARS OF THE BOOK :

Published by:  Simon & Schuster/Simon Pulse
Pages:  406
Genre:  YA SyFy/Dystopian
Series:  1 of 3 and Companion Novel
Author:  Scott Westerfeld
Website:  Scott Westerfeld


ABOUT THE AUTHOR :


Scott Westerfeld is me. I’m the author of eighteen novels. Five are for adults, and the other thirteen for young adults.

I’ve also been an occasional ghost writer, which is like driving someone else’s car really, really fast for lots of money. (I could tell you what famous authors I ghost-wrote for, but then I’d have to kill you. My name can be found on three Powerpuff Girl choose your own adventures, however.) In my artsy days, I wrote music for artsy downtown New York dancers, some of which can be found at the bottom of my video page.

For my early adult books, check out the bottom of this page. Note that they aren’t particularly suitable for children.

I’m best known for my four sets of books for young adults. The most recent is the Leviathan trilogy. It’s a steampunk retelling of World War I, illustrated by the incomparable Keith Thompson. It features adventure, walking machines, and living airships! Read more about it here.

My most famous works are those of the Uglies series, set in a future where cosmetic surgery is compulsory when you turn 16, making everyone beautiful. Of course, there are some people who want to keep their own faces . . . and that’s not okay with the government. The series consists of a trilogy—Uglies, Pretties and Specials—as well as a companion novel, Extras.

I’ve written another YA trilogy called Midnighters, a tale of five teenagers born on the stroke of midnight, for whom time freezes every night, revealing a dark and terrible hidden world. My ancient, dorky website for the series is here.

I also have a set of books which is often called “The New York Trilogy,” three novels all set in contemporary New York, but not a real trilogy. The first is So Yesterday, about a cool hunter who runs afoul of a plot to end consumerism. The second is called Peeps, a “vampire” novel. The third is The Last Days, set in the same world as Peeps.

I was born in Texas, and split my time between New York City and Sydney, Australia. (I have more frequent flyer miles than you do.) You can read many personal details of my life on my blog. And consult the Scott fact sheet here


FABULOUS STUDENT VIDEO OF "UGLIES!"






THE BOOKISH DAME REVIEWS :

Right out of the chute, the first YA fiction of the year I've read..."The Uglies"...and it's high time I did!  This is a dystopian series that the YAs have been raving about for years, and I have been putting on the back burner hoping to get to "someday."  I'm so glad I had a listless day this week and decided to pick up something unexpected, my hand landing on this one.  I can now see what all the hype has been about.

Scott Westerfeld is an interesting author.  He keeps the book right on the edge of gripping.  It took me nearly 80 pages before I found anything that really grabbed me and made me interested enough to keep reading to the end of this one. (Honestly, if it weren't for my readers, I would have tanked!)   I think his purpose was to pull in the pre- and teen group around that 16 year old target, and it was a bit difficult for someone my age to tag along. Or, maybe it was just slow...you know?

Once he got midway into the novel, however, I felt a shift in his writing and it became more "ageless," more befitting of a dystopian that any of us could relate to.  His main character, Tally, seemed not only to come of age in the story, but in the writing of his novel, itself.

This book is, of course, fraught with many questions about the angst of teens and adults, alike, having to do with our physical beauty.  But, it also touches upon our treatment of genetics, the environment and the raising of children, among other things.  There are a good deal of questions posed in the story, and the book would be a great one for a book group of adults regardless of its slow up-take.

While I can't wholeheartedly recommend this for all adult readers, I would say this is one YAs will probably love, and the adventurous adult should take a look at.  "Uglies" is the first in a trilogy which is a huge come-on for YAs who love to "marathon" read and collect books like this.

Will I be reading the next book in the series?  No, thank you.  But, I did enjoy the first one...  :]


3.5 stars                    Deborah/TheBookishDame
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