{Cover Wars} Letters to Nowhere by Julie Cross

Come one come all, welcome to Cover Wars, where covers battle it out in a fierce catwalk so we can decide on who wore it best. Before we take a look a this week's contestant lets reveal the winner of last week's long battle "Dearly, Departed", and the winner for best dressed is....

U.S. Cover

Now that we've basked on the glory of the winning "Dearly, Departed" cover, it is time to move into this weeks Cover War affairs, this week we have Julie Cross's new book "Letter to Nowhere" where she moves away from the world of Tempest and makes us dive into the world of Contemporary. Let's take a pick into the world of "Letter to Nowhere".

Seventeen year old Karen Campbell has just lost both her parents in a tragic car accident. Grief stricken and alone, her gymnastics coach opens his home to Karen, providing her a place to live while she continues to train, working toward a spot on the world championship team. 

Coach Bentley’s only child, seventeen year old Jordan is good-looking and charming enough to scare away a girl like Karen—someone who has spent ten times more hours on balance beams and uneven bars than talking or even thinking about boys. But the two teens share a special connection almost immediately. It turns out Jordan has a tragic past of his own, grief buried for years. 

As Karen’s gymnastics career soars, her nightmares and visions of the horrible accident grow in strength. She can only avoid facing her grief for so long before it begins to surface and ultimately spin out of control in a very dangerous way. Can discovering love and lust (simultaneously) help with the grieving process or will it only provide a temporary distraction while waiting for reality to hit full force.

Now that we're all a bit more informed we can take a look into a covers, first we have the one I call the kissing cover, the one that shows Karen and hopefully Jordan sharing a sweet kiss with a blurry background as if saying that nothing else matters or that all fades away when they are together.

Next we have the one I call the "Comforting Cover" the one that shows Jordan behind Karen letting her know he has her back, with a subtle hand on her right shoulder as if trying to say that it doesn't matter that she must move forward he will be there for her.

Now you know my opinion of each cover and the names they go by in my head, but here comes the most important part! What do you guys think of this covers? Which cover wore this story best based on the book blurb or if you have already read this book then please share your thoughts.

Letters to Nowhere is now out and you can get it where e-books are being sold.

{Trailer Sunday} My Life Undecided by Jessica Brody

PLEASE READ THIS! MY LIFE DEPENDS ON IT!

Okay, maybe that was a bit melodramatic, but I’m sorry, I’m feeling a bit melodramatic at the moment.

Here’s the deal. My name is Brooklyn Pierce, I’m fifteen years old, and I am decisionally challenged. Seriously, I can’t remember the last good decision I made. I can remember plenty of crappy ones though. Including that party I threw when my parents were out of town that accidentally burned down a model home. Yeah, not my finest moment, for sure. 

 But see, that’s why I started a blog. To enlist readers to make my decisions for me. That’s right. I gave up. Threw in the towel. I let someone else be the one to decide which book I read for English. Or whether or not I accepted an invitation to join the debate team from that cute-in-a-dorky-sort-of-way guy who gave me the Heimlich Maneuver in the cafeteria. (Note to self: Chew the melon before swallowing it.) I even let them decide who I dated! 

 Well, it turns out there are some things in life you simply can’t choose or have chosen for you—like who you fall in love with. And now everything’s more screwed up than ever. 

 But don’t take my word for it, read the book and decide for yourself. You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you’ll scream in frustration. Or maybe that’s just me. After all, it’s my life.

{Blog Tour Review} Uses for Boys by Erica Lorraine Scheidt

Publication Date: January 15, 2012

Publisher: ST Martin Press

ISBN-13: 9781250007117

Synopsis

I had no mother

I had no father

I was all alone and all I wanted was a little girl

More then anything in the world
I wanted a little girl

You

You are my little girl.

That is what she used to tell me in our "tell me again" times, the time where I was all she needed, not a house, a face lift, stepbrothers or a man. Before I learned about boys, sex and how crewel life can be.

Review
Lets start with saying that if you want the type of realistic with a Disney ending and that doesn't touch strong subjects then step away from this book, slowly, slowly there you go.
This book starts with a hard issue, a mother leaving her daughter alone because she wants to feel up the emptiness in her life, how this starts to affect her daughters life and the daughter starts this cycle again.
We see little Ana learn about sex, use it as an escape and be a victim of it.
When you read this book you have to be conscious that this a dark type of realistic fiction. That this characters are humans and will make mistakes that will probably make you dislike them (sometimes really dislike them), but you will still want to cheer them on.
This isn't a story that tells you how you meet a guy and suddenly all your life is better, this story is more about the changes a person must go, the experience one goes throw and that a person is given times to break the cycle that binds you into committing the same mistakes over and over, even those passed from one generation to another.
This is really an interesting read, I wasn't really ready for it but I am glad to have read it. It may not resonate with my personal experiences but it shifted my view of life which is one of the things I love about novels, the feed you a little secret about people, about being human.
Also this story could have used a lot less pot use from the characters.

Playlist
This are some of the song that one way or another I feel they go with the story.

This songs may not tell the full story but as I said they remind me in one way or another to the story it might be a phrase, the feeling of the song or just a small moment in the music.