Beautiful Creatures is mysterious and thrilling as you’re thrown into a story like never before. This book keeps you wanting more as the romance and action get hotter and more dangerous by the chapter.
Ethan Wate begins the story as the main character in his normal life stuck in the middle of nowhere. Nothing ever changes in this town where there are no secrets until Lena Duchannes arrives. She shakes up the town, first by living with her uncle, the town’s shut-in, but as the days go by, the town realizes there is something more to Lena. When they try to run her out of town, Ethan is willing to throw his life away for her, as though they were brought together by a dream. Once Ethan finds out about Lena’s sixteenth birthday he doesn’t care that she only has months left to live and they fall hopelessly in love while they fight for her life. Many things are discovered during their race against time and they only have one chance to make it right.
I really liked this book because it is so well written it kept me interested. It takes you in to a different world full of suspense and wonder that you would think you are in the story. I love the plot and find it amazing that Beautiful Creatures finds a way to bring two worlds together in a race against time.
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Wednesday, August 18, 2010
City of Bones by Cassandra Clare (reviewed by Joe Stradling)
This is the first book of an amazing series and documents a truly impressive fantasy world. It is set in New York City and spins around a world set in the background of the mundane which holds angels and demons in constant war, with vampires, werewolves, the fair folk, warlocks, and shadowhunters, or Nephilim, arrayed between. This book starts when Clarissa, a redheaded artist living with her mother, goes to a club with her best friend, Simon. Clary witnesses a brief glimpse of shadowhunters killing a demon intent on exsanguinating humans.
After leaving the scene of this sudden execution, Clary goes to her house to find that her mother has been taken by demons, as well as a rear guard resolved to kill her. She was saved by a shadowhunter by the name of Jonathan Wayland, or Jace, who takes her to hallowed ground that houses a sanctuary filled with other shadowhunters. It is revealed to her that she and her mother are shadowhunters and her mother posseses the mortal cup, a member of the objects that the angel Raziel passed on to humans to help fight the evil that the demons were spreading in the world. The man who abducted Clary’s mother, Valentine Morganstern, is a fanatical Nephilim, banished for trying to overthrow Nephilim government, or the Clave, and who is looking for the cup. She gets her friend Simon into a deep mess, is taken to a city made of the bones of Nephilim, falls deeply in love with Jace, and finds out that her mothers best friend is a werewolf. She finds her mother and her father and her brother and a traitor in the people that she hates and loves, encounters triumph, evil, loss and pain and discovers the whereabouts of the mortal cup.
I liked this book and this series a great deal. Not only was it based on a clever and intricate history and structure, it also had engaging dynamic characters, a cute love story, amazing narrative drive, spectacular settings, a viable conflict, and, best of all, a sequel.
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Joe reviewed City of Bones as part of our special summer promotion: review a book and get the ADVANCE READING COPY (ARC) of the prequel, giving him a chance to read it MONTHS before it was released! How did Joe find out about this amazing promotion?! He's signed up for the library's teen e-mail list, so he gets to hear about all the latest news, promotions, programs, and events first. Want to be on the list? Send us an e-mail at ysweb @ lacnm dot us to get added! You can also hear about what's happening by visiting the library's teen website!
After leaving the scene of this sudden execution, Clary goes to her house to find that her mother has been taken by demons, as well as a rear guard resolved to kill her. She was saved by a shadowhunter by the name of Jonathan Wayland, or Jace, who takes her to hallowed ground that houses a sanctuary filled with other shadowhunters. It is revealed to her that she and her mother are shadowhunters and her mother posseses the mortal cup, a member of the objects that the angel Raziel passed on to humans to help fight the evil that the demons were spreading in the world. The man who abducted Clary’s mother, Valentine Morganstern, is a fanatical Nephilim, banished for trying to overthrow Nephilim government, or the Clave, and who is looking for the cup. She gets her friend Simon into a deep mess, is taken to a city made of the bones of Nephilim, falls deeply in love with Jace, and finds out that her mothers best friend is a werewolf. She finds her mother and her father and her brother and a traitor in the people that she hates and loves, encounters triumph, evil, loss and pain and discovers the whereabouts of the mortal cup.
I liked this book and this series a great deal. Not only was it based on a clever and intricate history and structure, it also had engaging dynamic characters, a cute love story, amazing narrative drive, spectacular settings, a viable conflict, and, best of all, a sequel.
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Leaving Paradise by Simone Elkeles (reviewed by Alanna Cover)
Another majorly spoiler-y (and majorly epic!) review from Alanna, huzzah!
Caleb hit Maggie. Caleb hit Maggie with car. Caleb go to jail. Maggie stay in hospital. Caleb wants everything go back to normal. Maggie want go to Spain. I stop Caveman talk. Now.
When Caleb is released from prison, he's back to Paradise, back to school, back to his sexy girlfriend, Kendra, back to his old buds, and back to his family. But, when he's back, he figures out that it's nothing that he remembered, or would ever remember. School moved on without him, his best friend is dating Kendra, and his family is so whack: his twin sister is totally emo, and his mom is overdosing on her depression meds.
CRAP! What's Caleb to do? For now, he lives like it was... and Kendra has something deep in mind for him.
Maggie? Well... everything has changed for her too. An avid tennis player, she gets home from the hospital with a leg that she can hardly walk on. Ugly scars cover it, and she fears she'll never get anywhere in life. That's why she's decided to leave, everything has changed around her, she's lost all of her close friends, she's a loner, and her mom is... a bit protective. But life has different plans for her. Her scholarship wasn't accepted for the college she wanted to attend. Life sorta crashes around her at that point, because Caleb comes back, and for one, she's terrified of him. And then she's more ignored at school. Then a nice lady, her mother's boss' mother, offers to give her a job to pay for college. Maggie agrees.
Caleb, basically having to go to his community service after school everyday is given a job, to help a the same lady, Maggie and Caleb have to work together for a few weeks. Maggie planting bulbs, and Caleb building a gazebo. One day, he gets into a fight on the way to the bus stop because a couple of guys dissed Maggie. Because Maggie and Caleb were best friends before, Caleb feels the same as he ever did. It was an accident, he didn't mean to. Then things go crazy with Maggie's life, her mom starts to date Mr. Reynolds, Maggie's boss's son. (confusing, huh?) ANYWAYS!! She freaks out... and calls her dad. Who doesn't care. Like, reeaally doesn't care. She loses it, and the first number her fingers dial is her ex-best friend, person-who-hit-her-with-car... isn't that enough information? She calls Caleb, they meet, and she pours her heart out to the boy who hit her with his car... and then he kisses her. WHOAH!!! It was so cute though. :3 Eh... but she runs. Anyways, on the bus the next day, they sit on the bus together again, and they hold haands. and this and that and they keep working... and then when EVERYTHING goes perfectly..
Mrs. Reynolds dies, Caleb learns he isn't supposed to have any relation with Maggie, Kendra corners Caleb in the hall (after deciding for them both that they have a secret relationship. ooh la la-NOT. it was kinda ewwie tho.. >_<) and makes him say that he doesn't like Maggie, who is behind him, who slaps him, and the perfect relationship is over. But then Maggie figures something out. She becomes strong. And with that, she's determined to stay and finish high school and figure everything else out later. Caleb leaves his whacked up house (he was gonna be kicked out sooner or later, anyways...), and they meet on the road where it all happened, Maggie realizes that Caleb didn't hurt her. It was Leah, Caleb's twin sister, who couldn't take what happened, and Caleb, being a good brother, took the blame for hitting her. Caleb says goodbye, he is Leaving Paradise. Probably for good. And thus ends the story. It killed me. CLIFF-HANGERS FAIL!!!! D= That's that. End of Leaving Paradise... go home children, nothing else to see... BUT WAIT!! What is that I see in the near horizon of September? No.. IT CAN'T BE!! IT'S THE SEQUEL TO LEAVING PARADISE!!! :O Can't wait :3
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Simone Elkeles is the BEST! Click here to check our catalog to see if Leaving Paradise is on the shelves.
Alanna reviewed Leaving Paradise as part of our special summer promotion: review a book and get the ADVANCE READING COPY (ARC) of the sequel, giving her a chance to read it MONTHS before it was released! How did Alanna find out about this amazing promotion?! She's signed up for the library's teen e-mail list, so she gets to hear about all the latest news, promotions, programs, and events first. Want to be on the list? Send us an e-mail at ysweb @ lacnm dot us to get added! You can also hear about what's happening by visiting the library's teen website!
Caleb hit Maggie. Caleb hit Maggie with car. Caleb go to jail. Maggie stay in hospital. Caleb wants everything go back to normal. Maggie want go to Spain. I stop Caveman talk. Now.
When Caleb is released from prison, he's back to Paradise, back to school, back to his sexy girlfriend, Kendra, back to his old buds, and back to his family. But, when he's back, he figures out that it's nothing that he remembered, or would ever remember. School moved on without him, his best friend is dating Kendra, and his family is so whack: his twin sister is totally emo, and his mom is overdosing on her depression meds.
CRAP! What's Caleb to do? For now, he lives like it was... and Kendra has something deep in mind for him.
Maggie? Well... everything has changed for her too. An avid tennis player, she gets home from the hospital with a leg that she can hardly walk on. Ugly scars cover it, and she fears she'll never get anywhere in life. That's why she's decided to leave, everything has changed around her, she's lost all of her close friends, she's a loner, and her mom is... a bit protective. But life has different plans for her. Her scholarship wasn't accepted for the college she wanted to attend. Life sorta crashes around her at that point, because Caleb comes back, and for one, she's terrified of him. And then she's more ignored at school. Then a nice lady, her mother's boss' mother, offers to give her a job to pay for college. Maggie agrees.
Caleb, basically having to go to his community service after school everyday is given a job, to help a the same lady, Maggie and Caleb have to work together for a few weeks. Maggie planting bulbs, and Caleb building a gazebo. One day, he gets into a fight on the way to the bus stop because a couple of guys dissed Maggie. Because Maggie and Caleb were best friends before, Caleb feels the same as he ever did. It was an accident, he didn't mean to. Then things go crazy with Maggie's life, her mom starts to date Mr. Reynolds, Maggie's boss's son. (confusing, huh?) ANYWAYS!! She freaks out... and calls her dad. Who doesn't care. Like, reeaally doesn't care. She loses it, and the first number her fingers dial is her ex-best friend, person-who-hit-her-with-car... isn't that enough information? She calls Caleb, they meet, and she pours her heart out to the boy who hit her with his car... and then he kisses her. WHOAH!!! It was so cute though. :3 Eh... but she runs. Anyways, on the bus the next day, they sit on the bus together again, and they hold haands. and this and that and they keep working... and then when EVERYTHING goes perfectly..
Mrs. Reynolds dies, Caleb learns he isn't supposed to have any relation with Maggie, Kendra corners Caleb in the hall (after deciding for them both that they have a secret relationship. ooh la la-NOT. it was kinda ewwie tho.. >_<) and makes him say that he doesn't like Maggie, who is behind him, who slaps him, and the perfect relationship is over. But then Maggie figures something out. She becomes strong. And with that, she's determined to stay and finish high school and figure everything else out later. Caleb leaves his whacked up house (he was gonna be kicked out sooner or later, anyways...), and they meet on the road where it all happened, Maggie realizes that Caleb didn't hurt her. It was Leah, Caleb's twin sister, who couldn't take what happened, and Caleb, being a good brother, took the blame for hitting her. Caleb says goodbye, he is Leaving Paradise. Probably for good. And thus ends the story. It killed me. CLIFF-HANGERS FAIL!!!! D= That's that. End of Leaving Paradise... go home children, nothing else to see... BUT WAIT!! What is that I see in the near horizon of September? No.. IT CAN'T BE!! IT'S THE SEQUEL TO LEAVING PARADISE!!! :O Can't wait :3
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Alanna reviewed Leaving Paradise as part of our special summer promotion: review a book and get the ADVANCE READING COPY (ARC) of the sequel, giving her a chance to read it MONTHS before it was released! How did Alanna find out about this amazing promotion?! She's signed up for the library's teen e-mail list, so she gets to hear about all the latest news, promotions, programs, and events first. Want to be on the list? Send us an e-mail at ysweb @ lacnm dot us to get added! You can also hear about what's happening by visiting the library's teen website!
Incarceron by Catherine Fisher (reviewed by Bear Schacht)
A prison like no other........
Long ago Incarceron was built, and many prisoners were placed inside. It was intended to create a perfect society, but something went terribly wrong. On the inside, everything is in chaos. The strong rule the weak, and the living prison does nothing but observe. On the outside time has been outlawed, and everyone is forced to live in a past era, and most of them have no idea what is going on inside.
Claudia is the daughter of the Warden of Incarceron. Finn is inside, but has vague memories of the outside.
Both struggle in their different worlds, until they both find mysterious crystal keys with which they can communicate. Claudia finds her way into incarceron, and they try to escape back out, something that has been done only once before. Trouble is, that's against the rules. The prison was designed to keep people in, and it does not want them to leave.
A gripping and complex story, masterfully told with plenty of suspense and plot twists, a must-read for any steampunk fan.
(and then, at the end, with the thing, and it's like...... SOOOO awesome!)
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Ah, Incarceron, one of my favorites!! Click here to check our catalog to see if Incarceron is on the shelves.
Bear reviewed Incarceron as part of our special summer promotion: review a book and get the ADVANCE READING COPY (ARC) of the sequel, giving him a chance to read it MONTHS before it was released! How did Bear find out about this amazing promotion?! He's signed up for the library's teen e-mail list, so he gets to hear about all the latest news, promotions, programs, and events first. Want to be on the list? Send us an e-mail at ysweb @ lacnm dot us to get added! You can also hear about what's happening by visiting the library's teen website!
Long ago Incarceron was built, and many prisoners were placed inside. It was intended to create a perfect society, but something went terribly wrong. On the inside, everything is in chaos. The strong rule the weak, and the living prison does nothing but observe. On the outside time has been outlawed, and everyone is forced to live in a past era, and most of them have no idea what is going on inside.
Claudia is the daughter of the Warden of Incarceron. Finn is inside, but has vague memories of the outside.
Both struggle in their different worlds, until they both find mysterious crystal keys with which they can communicate. Claudia finds her way into incarceron, and they try to escape back out, something that has been done only once before. Trouble is, that's against the rules. The prison was designed to keep people in, and it does not want them to leave.
A gripping and complex story, masterfully told with plenty of suspense and plot twists, a must-read for any steampunk fan.
(and then, at the end, with the thing, and it's like...... SOOOO awesome!)
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Ah, Incarceron, one of my favorites!! Click here to check our catalog to see if Incarceron is on the shelves.
Bear reviewed Incarceron as part of our special summer promotion: review a book and get the ADVANCE READING COPY (ARC) of the sequel, giving him a chance to read it MONTHS before it was released! How did Bear find out about this amazing promotion?! He's signed up for the library's teen e-mail list, so he gets to hear about all the latest news, promotions, programs, and events first. Want to be on the list? Send us an e-mail at ysweb @ lacnm dot us to get added! You can also hear about what's happening by visiting the library's teen website!
Tuesday, July 6, 2010
The Gorgon's Gaze by Julia Golding (reviewed by Kristi Davis)
The thing that I liked the most about this book is that some of the people are paired with different magical creatures that are not supposed to exist. Like unicorns, storm-birts, and dragons. The main character, though, is the only one through the whole book who is paired with all the creatyres and has powers the rest of the people don't have. I like how Col and Connie save each other from Kullervo the evil shape-shifter. I liked it also when Connie got another specific companion other than the shift-shaper. Her other specific companion is Argans the golden undefeatable dragon. It made me angry when her great-aunt took her away to her prison-like house where she forbid Connie to talk to or have anything to do with the society.
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This series, The Companions Quartet by Julia Golding, is one of my favorites and a great read-alike for Percy Jackson fans! Click here to check our catalog to see if The Gorgon's Gaze is on the shelves.
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Huzzah for new reviewers, thanks to Kristi for her first (of many, I am sure) contribution! You, too, can review for this blog. Send us your reviews today and next thing you know, they'll be up here on the blog. Kristi submitted her review as part of our amazing summer reading program, by reviewing a book she has a chance to win an amazing prize in our end of summer BIG PRIZE BONANZA. YOU still have time to be part of summer reading. For more information, come in to the library today or visit our website.
This series, The Companions Quartet by Julia Golding, is one of my favorites and a great read-alike for Percy Jackson fans! Click here to check our catalog to see if The Gorgon's Gaze is on the shelves.
I Am Not A Serial Killer by Dan Wells (reviewed by Joe Stradling)
The hero of I Am Not A Serial Killer by Dan Wells is John Wayne Cleaver. His main struggle is that he is dealing with a set of problems that stem from his uncanny emotional resemblance to other serial killers at his age, with symptoms up to and including arson, animal cruelty, and sociopathy. He lives in a mortuary with his single mother and his name is eerily similar to the name of the infamous murderer John Wayne Gacy plus the iconic implement of butchery and horror flicks. His (apparently entirely reasonable) belief is that the universe is aligning circumstance so that he will become a full-blown serial killer, however unwillingly. His goal is to prevent this seemingly forgone conclusion.
Regrettably, his will is tested when he oversteps the rules in which he has encased himself out of fascination for a murderer who is striking in his town. The draw to this like-minded celebrity is too much for him to handle and he starts to use his vast and, in some cases, personal knowledge to track down the killer and hopefully bring him to justice. His efforts start to prove successful but the task vastly different than it appears and, perhaps, impossible.
I liked this book. The character found in John Wayne Cleaver is engaging and unique, there was good narrative drive, and the plot was surprising. It had an unorthodox view on the thoughts and feelings that accompany the emotionally blind and deaf. It was graphic and bloody and interesting. It was a story of destiny and redemption, and was overall a good read.
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Regrettably, his will is tested when he oversteps the rules in which he has encased himself out of fascination for a murderer who is striking in his town. The draw to this like-minded celebrity is too much for him to handle and he starts to use his vast and, in some cases, personal knowledge to track down the killer and hopefully bring him to justice. His efforts start to prove successful but the task vastly different than it appears and, perhaps, impossible.
I liked this book. The character found in John Wayne Cleaver is engaging and unique, there was good narrative drive, and the plot was surprising. It had an unorthodox view on the thoughts and feelings that accompany the emotionally blind and deaf. It was graphic and bloody and interesting. It was a story of destiny and redemption, and was overall a good read.
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Huzzah for new reviewers, thanks to Joe for his first (of many, I am sure) contribution! You, too, can review for this blog. Send us your reviews today and next thing you know, they'll be up here on the blog.
Joe reviewed a book that wasn't yet added to the library's collection to let us know if he thought it was worth adding to the shelves. Do YOU think you could give your opinion on if the library/other people should buy or add books? If so, you can ask at youth services or send us an e-mail for more information on how you can get a chance to be a pre-reviewer for certain titles!
Impossible by Nancy Werlin (reviewed by Alanna Cover)
Another spoiler-tastic and FANATASICAL review from Alanna, turn away if you don't want to be spoiled, but read on if you want a great review!!
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Impossible is amazing. ABSOLUTELY POSITIVELY AMAAAAZING!!!~
The book starts out with little Lucinda Scarborough at age six finding a compartment. Nancy perfectly describes the amazement of a child when she finds something seemingly magical and secret. Her hiding place for anything. She finds a letter inside, but since she cannot read cursive, discards it, hides it in her older friend's birthday gift to her: a Yastrzemski Red Sox shirt. She hopes it'll fit her the next year, on her seventh birthday, but she completely forgets about both the letter and the T-Shirt. Thus ends the awesome prologue.
Lucinda Scarborough, 17 years old, wants to be normal. But how can she do that when her birth mother, Miranda, is mentally ill and decides to follow her around? She sings this song over and over, it's a haunting song that her foster father, Leo, taught Lucy, having been taught by Miranda before she went beserk. But how can she tell any of her friends that that crazy homeless lady that wanders around the school with a shopping cart is really her mother? She doesn't. Why would she? But, despite that, she IS a normal girl, with everyday problems. Her best friend, Sarah, has so many boyfriend problems, she's a pretty average student, and is on the hurdling team for her school's track team. Life couldn't get any worse, or better, really... but could it?
Her childhood friend, Zach, is coming home that summer to live with them from college, and Lucy is going to her first prom... with a guy! A real life guy! All's well until Miranda shows up at her house and throws glass and plastic bottles at them. Hurting her date's car. The guy drives off, and Lucy feels terrible. Miranda is picked up by the cops, Soledad, Lucy's foster mother and Miranda's best friend, is hurt (more about the fact that Miranda doesn't seem to listen to her, but also because Miranda elbowed her in the nose.) and their guest is oddly fine with it. Lucy's date drives back and picks her up, to Lucy's glee, and takes her to prom after all. Where, simply and something you actually wouldn't expect, he rapes her. Then crashes into a tree.
Whoah... WHAT?!
Back track: yes, after he raped her, he drove off and smashed into a tree... THIS BOOK IS INTENSE!!! ^-^
Anyways, Zach picks her up and takes her home, and he is not happy. Not happy at all. They don't tell the police about what happened, when they are questioned about the way the boy crashed into the tree.
Things start to happen after that... they find out that Lucy is pregnant with Gray Spencer's baby, they find Miranda's journal, they find the letter in the hidden compartment again, and they learn of the three tasks. They learn of her curse. Lucy's maternal family has the same fate: Give birth and go crazy. And the funny thing? They all got pregnant at the same age: 18. And they were all unmarried. Whoah... creepy. After researching more into this (after Zach proclaims his undying love for Lucy (awww... sweeet!! ^-^)) they have no choice but to try to complete the three impossible tasks: make a seamless shirt without needles, find an acre of land between the land and sea, and plow it with a goat's horn and sow it with one grain of corn.
Ouch much? How do you make a seamless shirt? Without needles? What the..? I've been kinda obsessed with my own sewing machine, I know how to make clothes, and seamless? Without needles? Impossible!! Hah! Not for them... They someone used felt and a washing machine to fuse the felt together to make a shirt. As Lucy makes the dummy for the shirt using Zach as a model, he asks her to marry him (^-^) she accepts, it's the best thing for her daughter if she goes crazy.
Then, they have trouble on the second task: I mean, how do you find an acre of land between land and sea? Is there such a thing? And an acre? I was thinking of something related, but it wouldn't ever be an acre anyways.
Anyways, so Zach and Lucy get married as soon as possible, and they fight to get the last two tasks, buying goat horns and wheelbarrow, she figures out how to do the third task... but where is the land? Several of the chapters was trying to find the land, which she soon finds after she meets the Elfin Knight, the man whom put the curse on her family. It is one of Soledad's colleagues: the drop-dead handsom Padraig Seeley. Anyways, they get to the land in Canada, where at high tide is saltwater, and low tide is land. And Lucy begins to plow. She fights as hard as she can with a due date in the next couple of days, and plows as hard as she can, sowing what she plowed with tiny corn particles mixed into sand. On her last three rows, she meets again with the Elfin Knight who gives her a new option: Stop working, and I'll get rid of the curse, if you come with me, if you be my true love.
Lucy gives up! She walks away to stand with her husband, who pushes her back, and helps her push the wheelbarrow again. They finish it right before the tide comes in. And Lucy is in labor. She went into labor three quarters of the way through. And their baby girl is on the way.
Zach rushes his wife to a nearby house and delivers the baby, they give her the name Dawn Greenfield. Not Dawn Scarborough Greenfield. Dawn Greenfield. Simple as that. The Elfin Knight comes to take her. Zach steps in, when he finally sees him, and gives him something the other two did not think of. Lucy did not voice her give in... therefore, it doesn't count. The Elfin Knight, in a fit of rage, leaves.
Lucy is free, the Scarboroughs are free. HAPPY ENDING!!!
But wait!! What happens to the other women who were previously mentally ill? Miranda shows up to a celebratory party... perfectly fine. Goodbye illness!! ^-^
Amazing ending! I was not expecting that!! I thought the Elfin Knight would keep them =/ BUT THIS IS BETTER!! ^-^
Nancy, you are an amazing author!! ^-^ Now I'm gunna read your other books that are lying on my bed ^-^
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Soooo true, Alanna, Nancy IS an amazing author and Impossible is very, very good!
Click here to check our catalog to see if Impossible is one the shelves.
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Impossible is amazing. ABSOLUTELY POSITIVELY AMAAAAZING!!!~
The book starts out with little Lucinda Scarborough at age six finding a compartment. Nancy perfectly describes the amazement of a child when she finds something seemingly magical and secret. Her hiding place for anything. She finds a letter inside, but since she cannot read cursive, discards it, hides it in her older friend's birthday gift to her: a Yastrzemski Red Sox shirt. She hopes it'll fit her the next year, on her seventh birthday, but she completely forgets about both the letter and the T-Shirt. Thus ends the awesome prologue.
Lucinda Scarborough, 17 years old, wants to be normal. But how can she do that when her birth mother, Miranda, is mentally ill and decides to follow her around? She sings this song over and over, it's a haunting song that her foster father, Leo, taught Lucy, having been taught by Miranda before she went beserk. But how can she tell any of her friends that that crazy homeless lady that wanders around the school with a shopping cart is really her mother? She doesn't. Why would she? But, despite that, she IS a normal girl, with everyday problems. Her best friend, Sarah, has so many boyfriend problems, she's a pretty average student, and is on the hurdling team for her school's track team. Life couldn't get any worse, or better, really... but could it?
Her childhood friend, Zach, is coming home that summer to live with them from college, and Lucy is going to her first prom... with a guy! A real life guy! All's well until Miranda shows up at her house and throws glass and plastic bottles at them. Hurting her date's car. The guy drives off, and Lucy feels terrible. Miranda is picked up by the cops, Soledad, Lucy's foster mother and Miranda's best friend, is hurt (more about the fact that Miranda doesn't seem to listen to her, but also because Miranda elbowed her in the nose.) and their guest is oddly fine with it. Lucy's date drives back and picks her up, to Lucy's glee, and takes her to prom after all. Where, simply and something you actually wouldn't expect, he rapes her. Then crashes into a tree.
Whoah... WHAT?!
Back track: yes, after he raped her, he drove off and smashed into a tree... THIS BOOK IS INTENSE!!! ^-^
Anyways, Zach picks her up and takes her home, and he is not happy. Not happy at all. They don't tell the police about what happened, when they are questioned about the way the boy crashed into the tree.
Things start to happen after that... they find out that Lucy is pregnant with Gray Spencer's baby, they find Miranda's journal, they find the letter in the hidden compartment again, and they learn of the three tasks. They learn of her curse. Lucy's maternal family has the same fate: Give birth and go crazy. And the funny thing? They all got pregnant at the same age: 18. And they were all unmarried. Whoah... creepy. After researching more into this (after Zach proclaims his undying love for Lucy (awww... sweeet!! ^-^)) they have no choice but to try to complete the three impossible tasks: make a seamless shirt without needles, find an acre of land between the land and sea, and plow it with a goat's horn and sow it with one grain of corn.
Ouch much? How do you make a seamless shirt? Without needles? What the..? I've been kinda obsessed with my own sewing machine, I know how to make clothes, and seamless? Without needles? Impossible!! Hah! Not for them... They someone used felt and a washing machine to fuse the felt together to make a shirt. As Lucy makes the dummy for the shirt using Zach as a model, he asks her to marry him (^-^) she accepts, it's the best thing for her daughter if she goes crazy.
Then, they have trouble on the second task: I mean, how do you find an acre of land between land and sea? Is there such a thing? And an acre? I was thinking of something related, but it wouldn't ever be an acre anyways.
Anyways, so Zach and Lucy get married as soon as possible, and they fight to get the last two tasks, buying goat horns and wheelbarrow, she figures out how to do the third task... but where is the land? Several of the chapters was trying to find the land, which she soon finds after she meets the Elfin Knight, the man whom put the curse on her family. It is one of Soledad's colleagues: the drop-dead handsom Padraig Seeley. Anyways, they get to the land in Canada, where at high tide is saltwater, and low tide is land. And Lucy begins to plow. She fights as hard as she can with a due date in the next couple of days, and plows as hard as she can, sowing what she plowed with tiny corn particles mixed into sand. On her last three rows, she meets again with the Elfin Knight who gives her a new option: Stop working, and I'll get rid of the curse, if you come with me, if you be my true love.
Lucy gives up! She walks away to stand with her husband, who pushes her back, and helps her push the wheelbarrow again. They finish it right before the tide comes in. And Lucy is in labor. She went into labor three quarters of the way through. And their baby girl is on the way.
Zach rushes his wife to a nearby house and delivers the baby, they give her the name Dawn Greenfield. Not Dawn Scarborough Greenfield. Dawn Greenfield. Simple as that. The Elfin Knight comes to take her. Zach steps in, when he finally sees him, and gives him something the other two did not think of. Lucy did not voice her give in... therefore, it doesn't count. The Elfin Knight, in a fit of rage, leaves.
Lucy is free, the Scarboroughs are free. HAPPY ENDING!!!
But wait!! What happens to the other women who were previously mentally ill? Miranda shows up to a celebratory party... perfectly fine. Goodbye illness!! ^-^
Amazing ending! I was not expecting that!! I thought the Elfin Knight would keep them =/ BUT THIS IS BETTER!! ^-^
Nancy, you are an amazing author!! ^-^ Now I'm gunna read your other books that are lying on my bed ^-^
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Soooo true, Alanna, Nancy IS an amazing author and Impossible is very, very good!
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