{Cover Wars} Hold Still by Nina LaCour

Hi guys welcome to Cover Wars the place where you can covers battle it out for your affection. Let’s start by taking a look at last week’s winner, last week we had the Hate List by Jennifer Brown, you guys picked and now here it is!

Thank you to everyone that took the time to vote and for Alexis from Reflections of a Bookaholic for commenting.

This week we have Hold Still by Nina LaCour, for everyone that isn’t familiar with this book here is a look at the book blurb.

An arresting story about starting over after a friend’s suicide, from a breakthrough new voice in YA fiction dear caitlin, there are so many things that i want so badly to tell you but i just can’t.

Devastating, hopeful, hopeless, playful . . . in words and illustrations, Ingrid left behind a painful farewell in her journal for Caitlin.

Now Caitlin is left alone, by loss and by choice, struggling to find renewed hope in the wake of her best friend’s suicide. With the help of family and newfound friends, Caitlin will encounter first love, broaden her horizons, and start to realize that true friendship didn’t die with Ingrid.

And the journal which once seemed only to chronicle Ingrid’s descent into depression, becomes the tool by which Caitlin once again reaches out to all those who loved Ingrid—and Caitlin herself.

Now then shall we take a look at the covers that are trying to portray this girl struggle lets take a look at the covers that are trying to give this book a face.

First we have the original cover, the one with the girl looking out trying to get some strength to go one after her confident decided to leave her.

Then we have the book cover make over, the girl that is trying to make time stop while the world keeps moving up around her.

 So please share with us which cover do you like best? Who wore it best? Which of this covers would be more attractive for you to pick out of a shelf? Let us know, be it by voting on the poll or my favorite by leaving us your thoughts in the comment section!

{Cover Wars} Hate List by Jennifer Brown

Hi guys welcome to Cover Wars the place where you can covers battle it out for your affection. Now guys let’s take a look at last week’s winner, last week we had Smart Girls Get What They Want by Sarah Strohmeyer the cover you thought fits this story best is……

A TIE!!!

Thanks to all you lovely book lovers hat took the time to vote and comment in Smart Girls Get What They Want Cover Wars Edition.

This week we have the Hate List by Jennifer Brown, and for all the people out there that don’t remember what this book is about here we have the Hate List’s book blurb:

Five months ago, Valerie Leftman's boyfriend, Nick, opened fire on their school cafeteria. Shot trying to stop him, Valerie inadvertently saved the life of a classmate, but was implicated in the shootings because of the list she helped create. A list of people and things she and Nick hated. The list he used to pick his targets.

Now, after a summer of seclusion, Val is forced to confront her guilt as she returns to school to complete her senior year. Haunted by the memory of the boyfriend she still loves and navigating rocky relationships with her family, former friends and the girl whose life she saved, Val must come to grips with the tragedy that took place and her role in it, in order to make amends and move on with her life.

Now that we are all in the same page let’s take a look to the covers that give a face to this story so you can decide who wore it best!!

First we have the original cover, the one with the regret on the cover, with an ambiguity in the cover that doesn’t let you know if you are looking into Nick or Valerie.

Next we have the cover with the accomplices, the picture before they went from everyday teenagers into the masterminds of this tragedy.

So guys which cover do you think makes a better face to this story? Or is there one that you were immediately drowned too?  Please vote on the poll or leave a comment.

{Blog Tour Review} The Rules for Disappearing by Ashley Elston

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:

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{Trailer Sunday} My Sister Jodie by Jacqueline Wilson

Publication Date: April 1st, 2008

Publisher: Doubleday UK

ISBN-13: 9780385610124

Pearl and Jodie are sisters. Pearl is the younger one, small, shy and anxious. Jodie is nearly three years older, bold and brash and bad and Pearl adores her. When their parents get new jobs at Melchester College, a Victorian Gothic mansion, the girls spend a bizarre summer holiday in the boarding school with just a few leftover children for company.

Things start to change now they are in their new home. Jodie has always been the leader but now it's Pearl who's making new friends. When term begins, their strange summer is over. But things keep on changing. Jodie really doesn't fit in with the posh teenagers in her class. Pearl is blossoming.

Maybe she doesn't need Jodie as much as she used to. But Jodie needs her. And when the school celebration of Firework Night comes around and a tragic event occurs, Pearl realises quite how much she does need her big sister.

{AudioBook} 13 Reasons Why by Jay Asher

Synopsis

Hannah Baker committed suicide almost two weeks ago, every time I look to the seat in the middle of Mr. Porter class, the seat that will be empty for the rest of the year I can't help but think about the one that used to seat there, about Hannah Baker. 
After school a package was waiting at my doorstep, they don't have a returning address, but curiosity takes the best of me and I open it. Inside I find a group of mix tapes labeled from 1 to 13. But what is inside of them is more then I can bare, soon after hitting play Hannah's voice telling me that somewhere in this tapes I play a part on the snowball effect that lead her to an early grave.

Trailer Sunday #8 Where She Went by Gayle Forman

It's been three years since the devastating accident . . . three years since Mia walked out of Adam's life forever.

Now living on opposite coasts, Mia is Juilliard's rising star and Adam is LA tabloid fodder, thanks to his new rock star status and celebrity girlfriend. When Adam gets stuck in New York by himself, chance brings the couple together again, for one last night. As they explore the city that has become Mia's home, Adam and Mia revisit the past and open their hearts to the future-and each other.

Told from Adam's point of view in the spare, lyrical prose that defined If I Stay, Where She Went explores the devastation of grief, the promise of new hope, and the flame of rekindled romance.