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Permalink Reply by Mary on September 20, 2011 at 6:10pm

She's supposed to hate the guy, right?

Review here.

Genre: Contemporary YA

Summary from Goodreads:

Will Elise’s love life be an epic win or an epic fail?

At Coral Tree Prep in Los Angeles, who your parents are can make or break you. Case in point:

As the son of Hollywood royalty, Derek Edwards is pretty much prince of the school—not that he deigns to acknowledge many of his loyal subjects.

As the daughter of the new principal, Elise Benton isn’t exactly on everyone’s must-sit-next-to-at-lunch list.

When Elise’s beautiful sister catches the eye of the prince’s best friend, Elise gets to spend a lot of time with Derek, making her the envy of every girl on campus. Except she refuses to fall for any of his rare smiles and instead warms up to his enemy, the surprisingly charming social outcast Webster Grant. But in this hilarious tale of fitting in and flirting, not all snubs are undeserved, not all celebrity brats are bratty, and pride and prejudice can get in the way of true love for only so long.

Permalink Reply by Bibliophile on September 22, 2011 at 5:25pm

http://www.lifeisbetterwithbooks.com/2011/09/tankborn.html

Tankborn by Karen Sandler
high school & up

Kayla and Mishalla are GENs; genetically engineered non-humans who are built to serve as unpaid labor to those who are natural born. When they are 15 they are given their lifetime work Assignments. Kayla will be serving as the caretaker of a very old member of one of the Highest Status families. Mishalla is assigned to a crisis creche that seems to have a shady agenda. When each meets (and falls for) a trueborn boy they begin to wish that life could be different. Soon both are caught up with an underground movement to end the slavery of the GENs.

This is a pretty engaging story that takes the conflict about genetic engineering to a possible outcome. I thought the story lines were great, I especially liked Mishalla. I also found the tidbits about the GENs religion very interesting. The deification by the GENs of the scientists who invented the procedures is a unique take on the topic.
I did think that it got bogged down some in the middle. I really wish the author had given us some more information about the underground movement earlier in the story. It just seemed like the story didn't go anywhere for a while and then suddenly remembered the book is almost over. Then all at once, we find out several pertinent details.

Still, great for discussion in a biology or ethics class.

Permalink Reply by BookGirlR on September 23, 2011 at 7:28pm

The Night Circus by Erin Morganstern is a fantastic new novel! Check out the review on BookGirl's BookNook.

Permalink Reply by Jennifer Ochs on September 24, 2011 at 3:16pm

Check out my review of There You'll Find Me, by Jenny B. Jones at http://jensbookden.blogspot.com due out 10/4/11

Permalink Reply by Belle's Bookshelf on September 26, 2011 at 12:15am

Cargo by Jessica Au

http://bellesbookshelf.blogspot.com/2011/09/review-cargo-by-jessica...

Permalink Reply by Heather (BookStacksOnDeck) on September 29, 2011 at 1:24pm

ARC review of Seers, by Heather Frost [to be published Oct 4th]... http://bookstacksondeck.blogspot.com/2011/09/seers.html

Permalink Reply by Gisela Sedlmayer on September 29, 2011 at 8:45pm

Review about my book TALON, COME FLY WITH ME.

http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1548935006&sk=notes#!/no...

And of my second manuscript, not yet published by Casey-Lyne

http://phoenixlandscapephotography.blogspot.com/2011/09/review-of-t...

My website: http://www.writersportal.org/Gigi

Permalink Reply by Mary on October 4, 2011 at 10:03am

Having a heroin overdose almost killed her...

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Review here.

Genre: Contemporary YA

Permalink Reply by Gisela Sedlmayer on October 4, 2011 at 5:47pm

Hi i have some reviews and interviews. one of them is:

http://phoenixlandscapephotography.blogspot.com/

I also have posted the rest of the reviews and interview on my website:

http://www.writersportal.org/Gigi

But i like to post of them here:

Review by David Broughton. Too Tall

My review of

Talon, Come Fly With Me
by Gigi Sedlmayer

This is one of the most interesting books I've read in a long

time, of any variety. (I review a lot of books, so I see more than most

people.) The lead character is young Matica is from Australia but now lives in Pucara, located on a high and open, sandy, vast plateau of the Andes about a thousand meters up in Peru, South America. Matica finds and befriends a

rare condor, and eventually the condor's family. The condor family becomes part

of Matica's family, in a way after Matica and her father do their best to

protect them from poachers. Everyone in the family helps hatch their egg …

that's just the beginning of the story.

There is a lot in this book, in many ways, it's a unique story a

great read, but there must be more than a hundred lessons it can teach

children, without them ever knowing they're learning anything. There are

lessons about ecology, family, native ways, just to name a few. This story

somewhat leaves me at a loss for what to say about it. All the superfluous

words in my arsenal fail to do it justice. Talon is so good on so many levels,

that adults will enjoy it, so will children, whether the children can read it

themselves of have it read to them. There is drama, humor, and a flight of fancy

or two throughout Talon.

The only odd thing that caught this editor's eye was the British

(and Aussie) spellings and punctuation style. Once I got used to that, it

flowed beautifully. This book is a keeper, that's for sure. If you buy the hard

cover edition, you'll want to hand it down through the family for generations

to come, it's that good. I guess that's all I can say about the book; the

author on the other hand, is a story waiting to be told. I'll let her tell it,

when she's ready, it should be quite the interesting story too. You'd never

know from this book that English is her third language.

P.S. to the author: Keep that editor, he or she is worth their

weight in platinum!

Permalink Reply by Melissa's Eclectic Bookshelf on October 4, 2011 at 6:33pm