{Cover Wars} Beta by Rachel Cohn

Hi guys welcome to Cover Wars, where covers do a little catwalk for us then we get to pick our favorites. Before we get to see this week’s competitors lets get to see last week’s winner, your favorite Magic Under Glass is...

Curious Cover

Now that we know who gets to bask in all the glory lets see the book blurb of Beta by Rachel Cohn.

Elysia is created in a laboratory, born as a sixteen-year-old girl, an empty vessel with no life experience to draw from. She is a Beta, an experimental model of a teenage clone. She was replicated from another teenage girl, who had to die in order for Elysia to exist.

Elysia's purpose is to serve the inhabitants of Demesne, an island paradise for the wealthiest people on earth. Everything about Demesne is bioengineered for perfection. Even the air induces a strange, euphoric high, which only the island's workers-soulless clones like Elysia-are immune to.

At first, Elysia's life is idyllic and pampered. But she soon sees that Demesne's human residents, who should want for nothing, yearn. But for what, exactly? She also comes to realize that beneath the island's flawless exterior, there is an under­current of discontent among Demesne's worker clones. She knows she is soulless and cannot feel and should not care-so why are overpowering sensations cloud­ing Elysia's mind?

If anyone discovers that Elysia isn't the unfeeling clone she must pretend to be, she will suffer a fate too terrible to imagine. When her one chance at happi­ness is ripped away with breathtaking cruelty, emotions she's always had but never understood are unleashed. As rage, terror, and desire threaten to overwhelm her, Elysia must find the will to survive.

Now that we all get the gist about what is on the inside lets see what is on the outside.

First we have the hardcover cover the one with the girl that was supposed to be soulless but will discover that there is more to this world than just what we are supposed to do.

Then we have the cover makeover for the paperback edition of this book, the one that depicts the island and what seems to be a glance to the people that inhabit it.

Well guys contestants have done the catwalk and now it is time for you to vote be it in the form of a comment, poll or smoke sign; your opinion is highly appreciated.

{Review} Dash and Lily's Book of Dares by Rachel Cohn and David Levithan

Publication date: October 26, 2010

Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers

ISBN-13: 9780375866593

Synopsis

What do you do when you find a strange book on in the shelf where your favorite books reside, what do you do?

Obviously you pick it up and do whatever the book tells.

And that is basically how Dash’s winter adventure started and he got into the road to meet Lily.

Review

Dash & Lily’s book of dares is between my summer picks, I picked this book on a hot day and thank goodness it made me forget all about the heat (in case you didn’t notice I am not a hot weather person, I feel like the wizard of Oz witch when she is screaming I’m MELTING!!!!). Now don’t get me wrong this isn’t a book that I would just recommend for summer this book is a good read at any season and any day of the year is a good one to start Dash and Lily’s Book of Dares.

Dash and Lily don’t voice out the way that normal teenagers do, instead of feeling like you are reading a regular teen it’s more like you are reading representative from the quirky awesome minority group. And by the way this is done I can assure you I’m saying this as a good thing.

This is not a book I would aloud myself to read in public, this books sense of humor is just great there was a lot of grinning, smiling and laughing, so… that might be a thing you might want to consider if you haven’t graduated from the book reading poker face academy.

Rachel Cohn and David Levithan make a great work at mixing a boy and girl’s point of view in this interesting quest of two people trying to know each other via the Book of Dares, no cellphones, no facebook, no technology to get in the way of the two of them knowing each other, not even their faces get in the way or really discovering who the other is in the middle of the busiest time of the year in New York city and this digital age.

 I would call this book a must read, but honestly you will be the ones making the call and I hope that if you do pick up you enjoy it more or at least as much as I did.

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