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I got so frustrated with all the blatant mistakes in Hex Hall that I started editing my Kindle version :|Don't you hate when that happens for pubbed books?
I got so frustrated with all the blatant mistakes in Hex Hall that I started editing my Kindle version :|Don't you hate when that happens for pubbed books?
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I registered a while ago but never really got into it.
I wondered the same thing. I also enjoyed it (and recommended it to my dad, who loved it), but I don't know if teens would. And even though I enjoyed it, it was a slow read for me...although I read it in November, when NaNo steals my reading timePrior to this, and as a complete contrast, I read Louis Sachar The Cardturner, which I enjoyed but had me thinking: how many young readers would see this through to the end? I know nothing of the card game bridge and felt my ignorance being tested throughout. Daring, however, for a YA writer to attempt to construct a narrative against the backdrop of an old fashioned card game, especially in the age of the video game.
Been reading more adult fic lately because it seemed like every YA novel I picked up I ending up not finishing. (I'm not even gonna say what they are because I feel really bad about not finishing some of them... you know how it is... when you feel like you're the only person in the entire YA community who *isn't* liking a certain book...)
Then yesterday I bought GETTING CAUGHT by Mandy Hubbard and Cyn Balog (only 99 cents on Kindle) and my faith in YA has been restored. Really fun read so far.
Why, thank you so much, Lydia! And another few sales and I will be able to get that cup of coffee I had my eye on
I wondered the same thing. I also enjoyed it (and recommended it to my dad, who loved it), but I don't know if teens would. And even though I enjoyed it, it was a slow read for me...although I read it in November, when NaNo steals my reading time
Just finished GRACELING. (Man, I'm so behind the times!) I really enjoyed it - but then I went to Goodreads, and I was like, "Man, did I read the same book as these reviewers?" There were so many tirades on how Kristin Cashore was trying to promote a heartless soulless version of feminism. Honestly, I didn't even notice. XD I was so into the plot and Katsa's character that I automatically accepted Katsa's point of view on marriage - even though I disagree with it entirely - as her own, and not author self-insertion.
I devoured Lola and the Boy Next Door; Stephanie Perkins has quickly become my favorite YA contemp author.
Look at those shiny cover avs
I didn't think that one was being marketed as YA