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Monday, October 15, 2018

It's Monday! What Are You Reading? October 15, 2018

It's Monday! What Are You Reading? is a place to meet up and share what you have been, are and about to be reading over the week. It's an opportunity to visit other blogs and to comment on their reads. And ... you can add to that ever growing TBR pile! So welcome everyone. This meme started with J Kaye's Blog and then was taken up by Sheila from Book Journey. Sheila then passed it on to Kathryn at the Book Date. And here we are!

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Thanks for stopping by. I hope you all have a good week. Happy reading!

What I'm currently reading

Finding Libbie
by Deanna Lynn Sletten
This is a re-read for me but it's my pick for book club this month. And.... Deanna is going to join us in person. I'm so excited for everyone to meet her!

Miss Etta: A Novel
by Deanna Lynn Sletten
(audio-book)
Loved reading this and am loving the narration just as much!

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
(The Adventures of Tom and Huck #1)
by Mark Twain
(audio-book)

What I recently finished

A Thousand Doors: An Anthology of Many Lives
by J.T. Ellison et al.
So good and such an interesting idea!
Pub date 11/5

The Japanese Lover

by Isabel Allende

(audio-book)

Check out my giveaway to win a hardcover copy!

Second Star

by Alyssa B. Sheinmel

Interesting spin on the Peter Pan story. Read my thoughts here.

What I am going to read next

The Here and Now
by Ann Brashares

I really love my reading life!

What are you reading this week?

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Sunday, October 14, 2018

Second Star by Alyssa B. Sheinmel ~ My Thoughts #SecondStar #NetGalley

Second Star

Second Star by Alyssa B. Sheinmel
Kindle Edition, 256 pages
Published May 13th 2014 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux

A twisty story about love, loss, and lies, this contemporary oceanside adventure is tinged with a touch of dark magic as it follows seventeen-year-old Wendy Darling on a search for her missing surfer brothers. Wendy’s journey leads her to a mysterious hidden cove inhabited by a tribe of young renegade surfers, most of them runaways like her brothers. Wendy is instantly drawn to the cove’s charismatic leader, Pete, but her search also points her toward Pete's nemesis, the drug-dealing Jas. Enigmatic, dangerous, and handsome, Jas pulls Wendy in even as she's falling hard for Pete.

A radical reinvention of a classic, Second Star is an irresistible summer romance about two young men who have yet to grow up--and the troubled beauty trapped between them.

My thoughts about Second Star ~~

(I love to note the first lines of the books I'm reading. First lines can really grab a reader's attention and I love seeing where the author takes the reader after their first lines.)

First line—"I can smell the bonfire before I even get out of the car. It's dusk, and the sun is low on the water. According to my watch, it's been exactly four hours since I officially graduated high school."

I love the old classic stories that we have all heard or read when we were growing up. Second Star is a modernized retelling of one of my very favorites, Peter Pan. I enjoyed the way that this author set this wonderful tale in modern times and had the characters face modern problems, all while keeping the basic foundation of the original.

This story does not have the scary alligator or Captain Hook that we see as the evil components of the older tale, but Second Star does have it's own set of evil influences. This retelling has enough similarities to the original story that I was nostalgically reminded of the classic, with all of the old familiar and loved characters.

I received a copy of Second Star from NetGalley in exchange for my honest review.

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About the author

Alyssa B. Sheinmel

Alyssa Sheinmel is the New York Times bestselling author of several novels for young adults, including Faceless and Second Star. She is the co-author of The Haunting of Sunshine Girl and its sequel, The Awakening of Sunshine Girl. Alyssa grew up in Northern California and New York, and currently lives and writes in New York City. ~ Goodreads

Connect with Alyssa

Website | Goodreads | Twitter | Instagram

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