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Wednesday, August 10, 2011

YA Tourney: The BIG GUNS are out!


Want to win one of a few select CP ARCs? Well now's your chance! Cassie will be giving one away! All you have to do is spread the Jace love. Not hard right? Go HERE to read Cassie's posts & to leave her comment along with your links to enter to win.

I'm also going to include Cassie's post here, but remember, to ENTER you have to go to Cassie's site & leave her a comment w/ your links. While we love seeing your comments and links left on our blog, they will not enter you to win the ARC. This is Cassie's giveaway, so please be sure to go to her site linked above & leave her your links. :) #TEAMJACE!

Here's what Cassie posted:
Whoa! So the "YA" Crush Tourney" is still going on" and Jace has 13,090 votes which is insane. I don't know how to thank you all for voting for him.

The clock is ticking down on the contest — we've got ten more hours to go and the overnight hours are always the toughest! So to keep people going during the night (and the day in Australia and NZ - shoutout to Down Under cause I'm counting on you!) I want you to vote and then post about the contest, with a note that you voted, somewhere — twitter, facebook, tumblr, I don't care — between 8 pm and 8am Central Standard Time! As long as you can link to it. Because once you do it, I'd like you to come back here and drop a link to your post into the comments. Anonymous, with an ID, it doesn't matter — as long as the link works, is time-stamped, and you tell me you voted (that part is an honor system cos I can't check) I'll enter you into a giveaway to win an ARC of Clockwork Prince. *

The ARCs should be out in 3 weeks or so, and they are making only a limited amount — maybe a hundred — and this is the last time I'll have ARCs for a book, so this is a collector's item. :) All you have to do is

1) vote for Jace http://ya-sisterhood.blogspot.com/2011/08/grande-finale-jace-vs-zachary-match-24.html

2) post somewheres during *my* overnight about the contest in a manner you can link to and that is time-stamped between 8pm and 8am American Central Standard Time) (11am to 10 Aussie time, etc, I'll figure it out)

3) post the link here — if you post anonymously, give me some handle by which I can
identify you in case you win, even if it's Goldidoodle Thisteldean

4) Profit! Well, more like "Maybe win an ARC and be one of the few people in the world who get to read this book early!"

Cool, right? Now go spread the news. And the link.

http://ya-sisterhood.blogspot.com/2011/08/grande-finale-jace-vs-zachary-match-24.html


Book Review: I'd Tell You That I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You


Written by: Ally Carter
Published by: Disney Hyperion
Release Date: March 2007
Source: Bought
4 out of 5 stars - I really, really liked it.

Synopsis: The Gallagher Academy for Exceptional Young Women is a fairly typical all-girls school—that is, if every school teaches advanced martial arts in PE, chemistry always consists of the latest in chemical warfare, and everyone breaks CIA codes for extra credit in computer class. So in truth, while the Gallagher Academy might say it's a school for geniuses what they really mean is spies. But what happens when a Gallagher Girl falls for a boy who doesn't have a code name?

Cammie Morgan may be fluent in fourteen languages and capable of killing a man in seven different ways (three of which involve a piece of uncooked spaghetti), but the Gallagher Academy hasn't prepared her for what to do when she meets an ordinary boy who thinks she's an ordinary girl. Sure, she can tap his phone, hack into his computer, and track him through a mall without him ever being the wiser, but can she have a regular relationship with a regular boy who can never know the truth about her? Cammie may be an elite spy in training, but in her sophomore year, she's doing something riskier than ever—she's falling in love
.

True confession: I love spies. In college, while my fellow Poli. Sci. students were reading Marx, I was reading Ian Fleming. True story. So imagine my delight when I realized that Ally Carter wrote a series based on an exclusive spy school for girls?

Oh, the things I love about this first story. Well, there’s the fact that our protagonist’s dad is missing. And her mother is the headmistress. And then there’s the small matter of the boy who captures Cam’s attention. A townie named Josh. Here’s a little scene between them from page 153 when someone places their hands over Cam’s eyes while she’s waiting for Josh to show up for a date:

   One second you’re standing there, being grateful that you’d remembered to pack a candy bar, and then…POW…everything goes black.
   Well, that’s what happened. But did I panic? No way. I did what I was trained to do – I grabbed the offending arm, shifted my weight, and used the force of my would-be attacker’s momentum against him.
   It was fast. Really fast. Scary, these hands-are-lethal-weapons fast.
   I am so good, I thought, right up until the point when I looked down and saw Josh lying at my feet, the wind knocked out of him.
    “Oh my gosh! I’m sorry!” I cried and reached down for him. “I’m so sorry. Are you all right? Please be all right.”
   “Cammie?” he croaked. His voice sounded so weak, and I thought, This is it. I’ve killed the only man I could ever love, and now I’m about to hear his deathbed (deathstreet?) confession. I leaned close to him. My hair fell into his open mouth. He gagged.
   So…yeah…on my first pseudo-date, I not only physically assaulted my potential soul mate, I also made him gag – literally.
   I pushed my hair behind my ear and crouched beside him. (Incidentally, if you ever want to feel a boy’s abs, this is a pretty good technique – because it seemed perfectly natural for me to put my hands on his stomach and chest). “Ooh. What is it?”
   “Do something for me?”
   “Anything!” I crouched lower, not wanting to miss a single, precious word.
   “Please don’t ever tell any of my friends about this.”
How I loved Cammie’s voice and all her asides and reports. I also adored the fact that her friends and mom were there to help or well, distract her from her mission to find out if Josh was indeed a “honeypot” (a label used for a fellow spy who is trying to infiltrate their school). Ally captures everything that makes a good spy story – the intrigue, the missions and most of all the relationships between spies and the people who get tangled up in their lives. I’m thrilled that there are three more books in the series and a fifth one coming out next year. If you have mother-daughter book club, I highly recommend this book. You won’t be disappointed. Now, I’m moving on to the next book in the series, because well, I need to find out what happens next to Cammie and her friends. You know that feeling Mundie Moms, it's one of the best, isn't it?

YA Crush Tourney: The Finals

Just a reminder that we have a lot of incentives so let's make sure that everyone is voting for Jace in YA Sisterhood's YA Crush Tourney. Cassie has promised the following:

  1. Link to the Tourney on Twitter any time aftertoday until 8 am CST tomorrow (use the #teamjace hashtag ) on Facebook, on your blog, on Tumblr — anywhere! Go here and leave a link to your post and you'll be entered into a contest to win all sorts of awesome things like a set of personalized books, TMI jewelry, signed posters, chapter samplers for upcoming books, and other coolness.
  2. The Dirty Sexy Club Scene (DSCS) featuring Jace and...yeah...we've got to find out more about this one. Inquiring Mundie Moms have to know.
  3. A "spicy teaser" from CP.
  4. If Jace wins by more than a thousand votes: Cassie will donate $500 to Reading Is Fundamental. We love this organization; they do so much good.
Now, to get us in the mood to vote, Cassie tweeted a teaser from the spicy Clockwork Prince scene:
"I did not want to tell you before," he said. "I did not want you to think I was taking liberties.”
She reached up and touched his cheek, so close to hers, and then the Mark-traced skin of his throat, where the blood beat hard beneath the surface. His lashes fluttered down as he followed the movement of her finger with his eyes.
“Take them,” Tessa whispered.
Here's to taking such liberties and voting for Jace. Go, now, #teamjace needs you. And you know, he's not good at begging.

Waiting on Wednesday: The Future of Us

Waiting on Wednesday is a meme hosted by Jill at Breaking the Spine, were bloggers select a book they can't wait to read that's not yet been released.

by Jay Asher and Carolyn Mackler
Published by Razorbill
To be released on November 21st, 2011

It's 1996, and less than half of all American high school students have ever used the Internet.

Emma just got her first computer and an America Online CD-ROM.
Josh is her best friend. They power up and log on--and discover themselves on Facebook, fifteen years in the future.

Everybody wonders what their Destiny will be. Josh and Emma are about to find out. (from Penguin)

I loved Jay Asher's Thirteen Reasons Why!! I just read it this year and fell in love with his writing, it was amazing. I'm really looking forward to reading this one and seeing what this will be all about, the synopsis even though it's very short it's quite intriguing. I'm sure it will bring back many memories of the 90's with CD-ROMs and Dial-Up internet, FUN TIMES!!!


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