Publication date: May 14, 2013
Publisher: Disney-Hyperion
ISBN-13: 9781423168973
Synopsis
It’s
been a little over six months, and we’ve burned over more identities that I
would care to remember, now we have to move again and once more me and my
sister don’t get any explanation about why we are moving, I wish dad would just
confess, testify or do whatever the suits tell him he needs to do to release us
from the program.
Starting
today I am Megan Rose Jones, my hair was chopped short, the color horribly
changed and even my eyes don’t feel like my own. They are moving us to Natchitoches,
Louisiana; where we are to start over again and stay under the radar, and this
time I have a plan:
I will
not join any clubs
I will
not try out for cheerleading or any other teams
I will
not make friends
And I
will discover the truth about why we are now in the Witness Protection Program.
Review
The art
of disappearing experience I think it’s best described like this: At the beginning
of the book I felt like a fish really tempted by the bait that was in the water
so tempting that the fish just wanted to take a bit, after some analysis it
looks yummy enough so the fish takes the bait; but then the fisherman tries a
new trick something to roll the fish over that he/she hadn’t tried before and
just like that the fish is free to seem again, and even though the fish may be
tempted into eating from another bait it will think twice before taking it.
I’m not
really sure if it helps you, the story just draw me in even made my heart beat
faster once but then… there where this little details that didn’t had up with
the story, and even if I did enjoy the story I couldn’t get completely lost in
it because of those details the author kept using.
I like
the main character most of the time, she was trying to keep her family
together, trying to give her sister a fighting chance on their current
situation and trying to understand her. Some of the attitudes of some of the
family members looked a little exaggerated after I finished the book, but while
I was reading about them they seemed to work out.
The way
Ashley Elston describes the scenario and the way “Megan’s” head works is one of
the strong suits, because as I said before even if things don’t add up a 100%
when you pause or finish the book at that moment seem to make sense.
I do hope
the author leaves this book as a stand-alone, because as a stand-along and a
debut novel I can respect her work and keep her in my radar, but if this book
is going to be part of a series it just wouldn’t work out for me because of how
some things turned out on the book.
Rating:
Good review. Thanks for participating!
ReplyDeleteIt was nice being a part of this book tour, thank you for having me :)
ReplyDeleteI am not a huge fan of YA contemps, but I am glad to hear you would try another book by this author, its hard when things jarr us from the tale.
ReplyDeleteI don't usually look for contemps but they are a nice break from fantasy - paranormal books every now and then :)
ReplyDeleteI betta read a contemporary YA fiction story for an author and it was a nice and interesting change of pace.
And yes it's hard when something happens that disturbs the flow or the way the story was supposed to be leading you to (in a bad way) but at least this way we find out what we like and dislike, right?