Quote of the Day

"I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look, or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I know that I had begun."

Pride and Prejudice

One for the Money

Written by Janet Evanovich

Goodreads Synopsis: Welcome to Trenton, New Jersey, home to wiseguys, average Joes, and Stephanie Plum, who sports a big attitude and even bigger money problems (since losing her job as a lingerie buyer for a department store). Stephanie needs cash--fast--but times are tough, and soon she's forced to turn to the last resort of the truly desperate: family.
Stephanie lands a gig at her sleazy cousin Vinnie's bail bonding company. She's got no experience. But that doesn't matter. Neither does the fact that the bail jumper in question is local vice cop Joe Morelli. From the first time he looked up her dress, to the time he first got into her pants, to the time Steph hit him with her father's Buick, M-o-r-e-l-l-i has spelled t-r-o-u-b-l-e. And now the hot guy is in hot water--wanted for murder.
Abject poverty is a great motivator for learning new skills, but being trained in the school of hard knocks by people like psycho prizefighter Benito Ramirez isn't. Still, if Stephanie can nab Morelli in a week, she'll make a cool ten grand. All she has to do is become an expert bounty hunter overnight--and keep herself from getting killed before she gets her man.

My Confession: M-o-r-e-l-l-i may spell trouble for Stephanie, but it reads like
a-d-d-i-c-t-e-d for me. And not just to Joe Morelli, who is--without a doubt--one of the hottest, most badass, swoon-worthy male characters I've ever read. Ever. He's a hot-blooded, Italian cop with a bad attitude and notorious reputation. He hates vegetables, enjoys watching sports, and relieved Stephanie of her virginity behind a bakery counter when she was 16. Regardless of whether you think he's guilty of murdering an unarmed man, in the first few chapters, you'll convict him of being murderously sexy.

Okay, that was cheesy. But considering I'm already reading my fifteenth Stephanie Plum book (yes, I've burned through them that quickly), I've had a lot of time to marinate over Morelli's character. Curse you, Janet Evanovich, for making me fall for a character who undoubtedly does not exist in real life.

Anyway.

I have to take my hat off to any author who can cause readers to become heavily invested in the same group of characters for eighteen books (and counting). What makes the character of Stephanie Plum so endearing is the fact that she's so normal. Her roommate is a hamster named Rex, she's obsessed with doughnuts and other equally-fattening foods (probably explains her affinity for spandex), she bums meals from her crazy family a few times a week, and she's hopelessly flawed when it comes to being a bounty hunter. She's outmatched in her quest to bring in Morelli, and soon finds herself teaming up with the suspected-murderer in a plot to prove his innocence. Add in Batman-esque  Ranger, an incredibly hunky and skilled bounty hunter who becomes Stephanie's mentor, and skin-chillingly scary boxer Benito Ramirez, who specializes in rape and murder, and One for the Money makes for a fun, freaky, and fabulous read.

Recommendation: This first installment in the Stephanie Plum series will sink its claws into you, and if you didn't buy the next couple books already, you will. If you're anything like me, you'll get those nifty mass market paperbacks that come three-to-a-box. The writing is quick, the banter is snappy, and the characters are the perfect mixture of endearing and goofy. Once the story gets started, it's hard to put down, and there are moments outside the comic and lighthearted that will make your pulse race and your palms sweat. These aren't sugar stories, and the quirkiness and humor mixed throughout make for a good break in the action, but by no means diminish the seriousness of the crimes commited and the danger Stephanie finds herself in. It's the suspense that keeps you reading. And it's the characters (ahem, Morelli, ahem ) that will bring you back seventeen more times (and counting).

Rating: 4/5

320 pages, first published by Penguin on March 25, 1995 and later by Harpercollins in 2001 and St. Martin's Press in 2003

Quote of the Day

"Kind of like people. We're too lazy to change, so we'll just keep doing what we're doing until it's too late."

The Probability of Miracles

The Fault in Our Stars

Written by John Green

Goodreads Synopsis: Diagnosed with Stage IV thyroid cancer at 12, Hazel was prepared to die until, at 14, a medical miracle shrunk the tumors in her lungs...for now. 
Two years post-miracle, sixteen-year-old Hazel is post-everything else, too: post-high school, post-friends, and post-normalcy. And even though she could live for a long time (whatever that means), Hazel lives tethered to an oxygen tank, the tumors tenuously kept at bay with a constant chemical assault.
Enter Augustus Waters. A match made at cancer kid support group, Augustus is gorgeous, in remission, and shockingly to her, interested in Hazel. Being with Augustus is both an unexpected destination and a long-needed journey, pushing Hazel to re-examine how sickness and health, life and death, will define her and the legacy that everyone leaves behind.

My Confession: Every so often, I come across a book that gets me really excited. Really excited about the fact that I can stumble across something that causes me to miss valuable hours of sleep because I've become physically incapable of putting the book down. Really excited about the idea that one person could make up a story so enthralling, so emotional, and so enchanting that it reminds me once again why I am a writer, and why I spend countless hours reading other people's words.

This is one of those books.

It's hard to put into words everything this book will make you feel. It is one of the most beautiful, well-crafted stories I've ever read. It's stunning and heartbreaking, and the raw honesty and bare reality literally took my breath away at times.

I had a moment with this book. I connected with this book. I have never felt quite so gutted, quite so drained after finishing a book, and then immediately felt the urge to pick it back up and read it all over again.

Augustus and Hazel have a connection that doesn't need glitz, glamour, or paranormal activity to portray the strength of true love. Their interactions are specific and intellectual, their banter witty and humerous. The added notion that they both battle(d) cancer adds a note of irony and maturity to their relationship, but you never forget that these are kids, kids who just happen to see the world a whole lot differently than most people do.

This is not a story about cancer and what it takes away. This is a story about finding love and transcending both time and circumstance. It's a story about life and what you do with it; love and whether you choose to believe it; hope and how you dare to feel it.

Recommendation: If you call yourself a book lover, or like myself, a bookaholic, then you cannot--cannot--miss this book. It is one of the most powerful things I've ever read. Everyone should feel the simultaneous, beautiful confliction of bone-rattling, earth-shaking love and knee-breaking, heart-wrenching sorrow that The Fault in Our Stars makes you experience in its breathtaking 300 pages. Read it. It's a rollercoaster worth riding.

Again and again.

Rating: 5/5

318 pages, published by Dutton Juvenile (Jan. 10, 2012)

Quote of the Day

"Neither novels nor their readers benefit from any attempts to divine whether any facts hide inside a story. Such efforts attack the very idea that made-up stories can matter, which is sort of the foundational assumption of our species."

The Fault in Our Stars

Embrace

Written by Jessica Shirvington

Goodreads Synopsis: It starts with a whisper: "It's time for you to know who you are."
Violet Eden dreads her seventeenth birthday. After all, it's hard to get too excited about the day that marks the anniversary of your mother's death. As if that wasn't enough, disturbing dreams haunt her sleep and leave her with very real injuries. There's a dark tattoo weaving its way up her arms that wasn't there before.
Violet is determined to get some answers, but nothing could have prepared her for the truth. The guy she thought she could fall in love with has been keeping his identity a secret: he's only half-human--oh, and same goes for her.
A centuries-old battle between fallen angels and the protectors of humanity has chosen its new warrior. It's a fight Violet doesn't want, but she lives her life by two rules: don't run and don't quit. When angels seek vengeance and humans are the warriors, you could do a lot worse than betting on Violet Eden...

My Confession: This was my very first ARC (advance reader copy, for those of you not schooled in publishing terms). It appeared in my mailbox at work as if by magic, a puffy manila envelope of promise, come to bring me the slightest of smiles on a Monday afternoon.  The bundle of joy contained an uncorrected proof for a new YA series, the first of which is Embrace, a story of fallen angels and a love triangle-gone-very-wrong. It's a three-book series that has already been published (and made quite a splash in) Australia, so the final two books in the series will be released in six-month increments. Given the usual year (at least) between series that are written a book at a time, the pacing for these novels could prove influential in how the story is embraced (whoa, no pun intended there) by American YA readers.

And, all in all, I think people will like these books. First of all, the cover art is brilliant. I'm a big fan of bright, bold colors, and the purple used here is undeniably eye-catching. Second, people still love paranormal romances. Why this trend hasn't died out yet still muddles my mind a bit, but there is a market for books like these, especially when they're done well, which is definitely the case here. The story is complicated and varies greatly from other fallen angel stories out there. Violet is a pretty strong heroine, with a background in martial arts and a complicated, estranged relationship with her father. She seems to have been forced to fend for herself, which leaves her a bit callused and abrasive.

But she falls for Lincoln, a much-older martial arts instructor who takes a special interest in Violet. The two become close friends when he offers to teach her one-on-one. You immediately get the impression that Lincoln is the only stable thing in Violet's life, her trust and confidence in him so physically tangible. So when she finds out that he is hiding his true nature from her, she's shattered. His interest in her begins to look like obligation, and as she grapples with his betrayal, she falls under the spell of another guy, a fallen angel named Phoenix, whose influence on her life proves detrimental to not just her relationship with Lincoln, but the bigger angel battle currently being waged around her.

Recommendation: You're going to get sucked in, so get ready. The story is very addictive, and while the numerous twists and turns will leave you a bit whiplashed at times, it's a pretty inventive rollercoaster. I really like these characters. I like Lincoln, and I like Violet. This isn't so much a love story as it is a story about forgiveness: forgiveness of others and forgiveness of yourself. And then it's a battle. A giant, psychological and physical battle that's pretty awesome. But the one thing I have to harp on, because I just have to, is the barrier that keeps Lincoln and Violet apart. Because they're destined "angel partners," a physical relationship between the two is impossible. In other words, just like a famous vampire novel phenom, sex can kill them.

Oh, please.

Rating: 4/5

367 pages, published by Sourcebooks Fire (March 6, 2012)

*I received this book free from YPG*

Quote of the Day

"We had done it before. Pretended we fit like the hollow of earth beneath a rock that had rested against the same dirt for centuries. Millennia. And when the raw truth of our differences felt harsh and uncompromising, we shifted positions, tried again. It wasn't deceptive, not really. It was who we were."

Far from Here

When She Woke

Written by Hillary Jordan

Goodreads Synopsis: Hannah Payne's life has been devoted to church and family. But after she's convicted of murder, she awakens to a nightmarish new life. She finds herself lying on a table in a bare room, covered only by a paper gown, with cameras broadcasting her every move to millions at home, for whom observing new Chromes--criminals whose skin color has been genetically altered to match the class of their crime--is a sinister form of entertainment. Hannah is a Red for the crime of murder. The victim, says the state of Texas, was her unborn child, and Hannah is determined to protect the identity of the father, a public figure with whom she shared a fierce and forbidden love.
A powerful reimagining of The Scarlet Letter, When She Woke is a timely fable about a stigmatized woman struggling to navigate an America of the not-to-distant future, where the line between church and state has been eradicated, and convicted felons are no longer imprisoned but chromed and released back into the population to survive as best they can. In seeking a path to safety in an alien and hostile world, Hannah knowingly embarks on a journey of self-discovery that forces her to question the values she once held true and the righteousness of a country that politicizes faith and love.

My Confession: I'm a big advocate of modernizing classic literature, as long as it's done tastefully and gives a proper nod to the original. When She Woke intrigued me because of the author's clever realization that The Scarlet Letter could not be reimagined in our society today. Adultery and pregnancy outside of marriage is hardly noteworthy (unless you're MTV or Bravo) and they're both a far cry from what we deem criminal acts. So instead, Hillary Jordan sets her story in a manic, superficial, dystopian universe where the church has become the state. With the infamous Roe v. Wade case overturned, Hannah's abortion turns criminal, and she's punished with the heinous act of chroming--the resolution to high prison expenses. She's sentenced to spend almost 20 years as a red-skinned outcast, her normal life stripped away forever.

The themes of self-discovery were very prominent in this story. It's not just about how Hannah comes to terms with life as a Chrome; we also watch her re-evaluate and question the once-undeniable "truths" that she was brought up to accept without hesitation. The institution of organized religion takes a beating as Jordan shows us a society where religious extremists run the government. Elements of The Scarlet Letter permeate, like Hannah's lover, a prominent and married minister whose image is put in jeopardy when Hannah discovers her pregnancy. And while Hannah drifts from Hester in that she terminates the pregnancy, she does name a hand-sewn doll "Pearl," after her unborn daughter. There are also many times when the story drifts far into its own world and farther away from the one created by Nathaniel Hawthorne. But that's okay--When She Woke becomes about more than the forbidden romance that causes Hannah's pregnancy. It analyzes a world that has truly lost sight of humanity. The concept of "justice" involves breaking a person into madness and destroying the individuality that causes imperfections as well as independent thinking. The picture painted is eye-opening and graphically realistic. I kept compulsively looking at my arms to wonder what would happen if they were suddenly red instead of olive. What would happen to my self-worth, my identity.

I'll admit to not being a fan of every plot twist and turn. The lesbian relationship at the end of the novel didn't really have a place, and I felt that it was thrown into the story for shock value rather than substance. The story is very heavy on its own, and I don't think the addition of Hannah's sexual encounter with another woman adds anything to her character development--in fact, I think it stunts and undermines it. This relationship lacks sincerity and believability, comes out of nowhere, and disappears just as quickly. It just didn't gel with the story as a whole, which was not centered on Hannah's sexuality, despite her pregnancy and illicit affair. Just when you think Hannah has figured out who she is and what she wants, we're confused all over again by her actions.

Recommendation: All in all, I found this to be a worthwhile Nook purchase. It reads well and tackles some deep and spooky questions about where our society is headed. I just wish it had finished as strong as it started.

Rating: 3.3/5

Wake

Written by Abria Mattina

Goodreads Synopsis: Eighteen isn't too young to run your life into the ground, but it's not too old to fix it, either. The desire for change drives Willa Kirk from St. John's, Newfoundland back to her hometown of Smiths Falls, Ontario, away from her mistakes and the place where her sister died. She's looking for a place to settle and rebuild, but Jem Harper just wants to get out of town, back to the life he knew before cancer. By letting the tragedies in their lives define them, they are both dying a little more every day. Welcome to the wake.

My Confession: So, this is a first, Book Nookers. My first requested review. I had the privilege of meeting Abria when we roomed together (along with two other girls) during my six weeks in New York at NYU. The longest conversations we'd have, crowded around the small kitchen table (there was no living room in our dorm apartments...odd) were about the books we'd written (Abria) and the books we'd almost finished writing (me). I watched her fiddling with her Kindle all the time, and a few weeks ago, I found out why: she self-published Wake, her first novel, as an e-book through Amazon. I'm still warming up to my Nook, but wanted to read this book. From the synopsis, I wasn't really sure what the book was about. Once I started, though, I knew almost instantly where it was going to go.

Wake reminded me quite a bit of Keith, a short story written by Ron Carlson about a cancer-stricken boy who befriends the most popular girl in school, bonding with her over little stupid stuff until the two eventually fall in love. I liked Keith so much, I adapted it into a screenplay for a Screenwriting class I took in college. Wake feels like a full-length version of this short story. Jem is recovering from cancer, and Willa is running from what cancer stole from her. They're thrown together as partners in a Home Ec class, and while they, at first, can't stand each other, they realize rather quickly the important aspects the other brings to their life. I really enjoyed how the story was told from both perspectives, sometimes the same events overlapping for both Jem and Willa. I felt like I really got the chance to know both of them as characters: what they were thinking, how they really felt, what they didn't want the other person to know. It was so awesome to see the same events two different ways; their voices felt so accurate and realistic. The book isn't short, and the length really lets the reader grow more comfortable with Jem and Willa; I felt like I knew them. I grew quickly attached to their relationship and loved the little, unique quirks that made the dialogue pop. I haven't read these characters before, and for that, I give Abria lots of credit.

If I'm going to harp on one thing about this book (and since it's an e-book, I'm still not convinced myself that it matters) it would be the cover. Don't love it. And while I get it, and having read the book, I know where it comes from, I don't think it accurately portrays the story inside. I picture something with a little more color, a little something extra. I actually pictured something like a girl's hand on a boy's chest, covering a catheter (a sore spot for Jem throughout the novel). When I say I went into this book completely blind about the plotline, I mean blind. The cover, title, and synopsis didn't really clue me in. Now having read it, I can see where they work, but I'm still not totally buying it. Now, as an e-book, does the cover totally matter? Not really. But this story's quality lends me to think that I could very well see this on the shelves someday. So maybe just a little something to think about. This book needs--and deserves--every  possible chance for success.

Recommendation: For $3.99, you're not going to find a more worthwhile e-book. It's so well written, and I found myself being mesmerized by the language almost as much as I was drawn in by the story itself. Abria initially warned me that this would be "morbid" book, but I'm not convinced. Sure, the subject matter isn't always super-uplifting, but I don't know about you--books without conflict and struggle just don't ring authentic enough to bother reading. And while you won't be finished in a day, this is the kind of novel that will stick with you. I started reading it at work and had an extremely difficult time putting it down. I'm truly impressed, and I can't wait to read what she comes up with next.

Buy Wake on Amazon here!

Rating: 4.5/5

Quote of the Day

"If you care about something, you have to protect it. If you're lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it."

A Prayer for Owen Meany

Beautiful Creatures

Written by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl

Goodreads Synopsis: Lena Duchannes is unlike anyone the small Southern town of Gatlin has ever seen, and she's struggling to conceal her power, and a curse that has haunted her family for generations. But even within the overgrown gardens, murky swamps, and crumbling graveyards of the forgotten South, a secret cannot stay hidden forever.
Ethan Wate, who has been counting the months until he can escape from Gatlin, is haunted by dreams of a beautiful girl he has never met. When Lena moves into the town's oldest and most infamous plantation, Ethan is inexplicably drawn to her and determined to uncover the connection between them.
In a town with no surprises, one secret could change everything.


My Confession: Just a disclaimer: any YA novel that rivals the Bible in thickness WILL BE PURCHASED by yours truly. I don't know why I'm attracted to humongous books, but I am. I love how they feel in my hands, almost like they don't quite fit. Beautiful Creatures  is a monstrous book, over 500 pages. And it took me a long time to get through it. You'd be amazed how much story (and sometimes, lack thereof) you can find in almost 600 pages. It's complicated, beyond messy, and at times, really difficult to follow. Lena can't be just a witch, and Ethan can't be just a human. There can't just be two sides, good and evil, and there can't be just love. Every element in this book isn't what it initially appears. And, for the most part, I really enjoyed it.

I really thought telling this story from Ethan's perspective set this novel apart from other supernatural/paranormal romances. For one, Ethan is a human (even though he has some kind of unknown power, since he and Lena connect on a much deeper level than thought possible for a mere mortal) and it's refreshing to experience a romance with a twist from a male perspective. He's a very level character who takes everything in lighthearted stride. He doesn't seem surprised by all the mysticism, and I think that's due to the Southern setting chosen by Garcia and Stohl. A Yankee myself, I don't know much about Southern traditions or values, but this book was just riddled with them. And they were played up to the point where I wasn't surprised when the out-of-the-ordinary started occurring. There's a magical quality to the entire setting that is both inviting and fascinating. It really ends up defining the book, as well as the characters in it.

Recommendation: Do it! But just know that it's neither a light nor a quick read. Due to its sheer size, expect there to be parts that drag a bit. The entire story takes place over the course of a little less than a year, and by the time you finish, that's the amount of time you'll feel you've spent reading it. As a positive, the length allows the relationships to blossom and develop at a normal pace. I believed in Lena and Ethan's relationship because they had so much time to grow together. The downside, of course, is that in a book like this, with lots of crazy stuff going on all the time, the parts that lag are pretty frustrating. Some parts could have been cut, but then again, it wouldn't be the huge, massive text that I love. Bigger book, bigger story. And in the end, pretty worth it.

Rating: 4/5

563 pages, published by Little, Brown (Dec. 1, 2009)

Quote of the Day

"If you love someone, if someone loved you, if they taught you to write and made it so you could speak, how can you do nothing at all? You might as well take their words out of the dirt and try to snatch them from the wind. Because once you love, it is gone. You love and you cannot call it back."

Crossed

Breaking Dawn: Part One Movie Review

First off: yes, I succumbed. And no, I'm not going to apologize. I read the Twilight series back in college, before the insanity began and way before Robert Pattinson died a wizard and woke up a vampire. I gave them a shot because, hey, I'm a book freak and these were getting good reviews. Are they the best things ever written? Hell to the no. Is the story kinda catchy? Yep. It's a guilty pleasure that none of us really take seriously. The movies started off awful, with blue-tinged film and horrific acting, and slowly got better (at least cinematically). But the only thing I cared about when I slipped into my seat at the theater to watch Breaking Dawn Part 1 was how they were going to cut the massive fourth book in half. And if they were going to do it well.

And you know what? They did. They really did. I actually enjoyed this film because it paid extremely close attention to the book. I think this is the first film where I really felt like I was watching the book come alive on the screen. Everything that happened in the book happened in the movie--almost to a T. And, no matter the story, I'm always impressed by that. Pay very close attention to this next sentence because you will never see me write it again: I found Kristen Stewart tolerable as Bella. While I find Rob positively yummy (so long as he doesn't open his mouth when he goes on talk shows--boyfriend is awkward ), I have always found Kristen flat, dull, and personality-less. Which somehow makes her the perfect Bella. And yet, especially during the scenes where she's defending her life-threatening pregnancy (cue the feminists here), I found her mildly convincing. I know. An early Christmas miracle.

I found the sex scene tasteful, the wedding actually pretty moving, and the graphics intense and cool. This franchise has come a long way since the first film (which, oddly enough, is still my favorite of the four so far) and I'm a little tired of people hating on it. No, I'm not a Twi-hard, but I also know that two-plus hours of a minimal escape from reality with a face like Rob's isn't awful either. This movie was pretty decent. You don't need to have seen the first three movies or even be familiar with the plot to see the film. It's pretty self-explanatory. It's certainly not going to gain any new fans, but it's definitely going to please the ones who already exist. And the last moment? Extremely cool. Saw it coming, but I still jumped a little.

Oh, and if you want a sneak peek of Renesmee, click here. She's a cutie.

Grade: B

Photos courtesy of Google Images

Quote of the Day

"I think of how perhaps the best way to fly would be with hands full of earth, so you always remember where you came from."

Matched

Crossed

Written by Ally Condie

Goodreads Synopsis: In search of a future that may not exist and faced with the decision of who to share it with, Cassia journeys to the Outer Provinces in pursuit of Ky--taken by the Society to his certain death--only to find that he has escaped, leaving a series of clues in his wake.
Cassia's quest leads her to question much of what she holds dear, even as she finds glimmers of a different life across the border. But as Cassia nears resolve and certainty about her future with Ky, an invitation for rebellion, an unexpected betrayal, and a surprise visit from Xander--who may hold the key to the uprising and, still, to Cassia's heart--change the game once again. Nothing is as expected on the edge of Society, where crosses and double crosses make the path more twisted than ever.


My Confession: I really enjoyed the first book in this dystopian trilogy, Matched. I was completely drawn in to this world where free will has become a fairy tale. When Cassia leaves in the first book to go after Ky, I was under the impression that she understood what she was leaving behind, and she was okay with that. Xander, her family, her friends--she cared for them, but needed Ky to feel complete. Which I was all for. Regardless of what the "Matching" pool said, it's made clear that Ky is her soulmate.

And yet, here we go again with Xander. There was so much about Crossed that I liked, from the scenes in the wilderness to the new characters introduced along the way. I loved the dual-narration of this sequel and found Ky's voice authentic and moving. Seeing inside his head was the key to making this a complete and whole story. Despite the barren landscape and occasional lags in plot, there was a lot of depth to this continuation of Cassia and Ky's story. But then a "secret" is revealed about Xander that changes the whole game. And for me, not in a good way. What makes this trilogy so good is that it's built around not a love triangle, but a choice: Cassia's choice between Xander and Ky isn't superficial; it represents a choice between the life she's expected to lead, and the life she wants to lead. Xander is the warm, comfortable, Society life; Ky is rebellion. Now, after the secret, it's back to being just a choice between two boys, not the two sides of herself. And, with that, I think this trilogy loses a little something.

Recommendation: I am not jumping off this bandwagon--not in the least. I'm still excited to see how this story ends, how Condie brings some form of resolution to a very complicated situation. However, I wish the need for a love triangle wasn't pushed so hard in this book. I like Ky, a lot. I like him and Cassia together, and despite what we discover about Xander (which, for some reason, I have a hard time believing), I still believe Ky and Cassia are meant to be together. And I don't appreciate a monkey wrench being thrown into their situation just for the sake of it. They're both such damaged and complex characters, and they have no problem getting in the way of their own relationship. There's obviously much to uncover about the two of them, much that they still hide from each other--that's the more interesting obstacle to their love. Not another person.

Rating: 4/5

367 pages, published by Dutton Juvenile (Nov. 1, 2011)