Showing posts with label Lissa Price. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Lissa Price. Show all posts

Monday, January 06, 2014

{Review} Enders (Starters #2) by @Lissa_Price {Giveaway}@NightOwlReviews {Published} @randomhousekids @dana_kaye


Enders (Starters, #2)Title: Enders
Author: Lissa Price
Series: Starters
Publisher: Random House
Release Date: January 7, 2014
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback
Source: Night Owl Reviews
Rating: 5 Stars
Description:

With the Prime Destinations body bank destroyed, Callie no longer has to rent herself out to creepy Enders. But Enders can still get inside her mind and make her do things she doesn't want to do. Like hurt someone she loves. Having the chip removed could save Callie's life - but it could also silence the voice in her head that might belong to her father. Callie has flashes of her ex-renter Helena's memories, too ...and the Old Man is back, filling her with fear. Who is real and who is masquerading in a teen body? This is the thrilling sequel to "Starters".

Lissa Price’s debut novel STARTERS is an award-winning, international bestseller published in over thirty countries. Dean Koontz called this YA futuristic thriller “a smart, swift, inventive, altogether gripping story.” The LA Times said it is “Dystopian science-fiction at its best,” and “Readers who have been waiting for a worthy successor to ‘The Hunger Games’ will find it here.” 

STARTERS was a Barnes & Noble pick of the month and one of only four debuts on the B&N Best Teen Books of 2012. It was awarded the its Eselsohr for Best YA Book in 2012, selected by a jury of teens in Germany, and was chosen as a top ten favorite book of 2012 by both French and German readers. It won the Crimezone Award for Best YA Thriller and is one of the LAPL's and Chicago Public Library's Best Teen Books of 2012.

Starters was chosen for the IRA Reading List and is the only book nominated for both the Florida Teens Read List and the SSYRA Middle School List 2013-14.

In Germany, Starters launched a brand-new YA imprint of the established Piper Verlag publisher called IVI. Audiobooks have been recorded in English and German.

See the book trailer that played in front of the Hunger Games film in selected theaters in the US and abroad at her site. The release dates for Enders will be announced by the publishers of each country, with some starting in May 2013.










Enders was shorter than Starters but so much better.  We find even more twists and turns and a surprise ending.  It is even set up to come back for a book three if the author so chooses to do so.  I love that fact that there could be a book three or a spin off.  As this world of Starters and Enders is getting really good and it draws you in and makes you want to know more.  As I had said before I would love to have a prequel to learn about their world before the wars.  But in Enders you find out who is the real enemy and who you can trust.  And maybe not all middles died.  This is deff a book that you need to read!! If you love mystery, dynastopian, and a little romance, then this is deff the book for you!


"*I received a copy of this book for free to review, this in no way influenced my review, all opinions are 100% honest and my own."





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Friday, January 03, 2014

{Review} Starters (Starters #1) by @Lissa_Price {Giveaway}@NightOwlReviews {Published} @randomhousekids @dana_kaye


Starters (Starters, #1)Title: Starters
Author: Lissa Price
Series: Starters
Publisher: Random House
Release Date: July 23, 2013
Pages: 384
Format: Paperback
Source: Night Owl Reviews
Rating: 5 Stars
Description:

This edition includes Portrait of a Spore, a never-before-published short story that takes place in the world of STARTERS!

You can’t get them out of your head. . . . 

Callie lost her parents when the Spore Wars wiped out everyone between the ages of twenty and sixty. She and her little brother, Tyler, go on the run, living as squatters with their friend Michael and fighting off renegades who would kill them for a cookie.
Callie’s only hope is Prime Destinations, a disturbing place in Beverly Hills run by a mysterious figure known as the Old Man. He hires teens to rent their bodies to Enders—seniors who want to be young again. Callie, desperate for the money that will keep her, Tyler, and Michael alive, agrees to be a donor. But the neurochip they place in Callie’s head malfunctions and she wakes up in the life of her renter.
Callie soon discovers that her renter intends to do more than party—and that Prime Destinations’ plans are more evil than she could ever have imagined. . . .

Lissa Price’s debut novel STARTERS is an award-winning, international bestseller published in over thirty countries. Dean Koontz called this YA futuristic thriller “a smart, swift, inventive, altogether gripping story.” The LA Times said it is “Dystopian science-fiction at its best,” and “Readers who have been waiting for a worthy successor to ‘The Hunger Games’ will find it here.” 

STARTERS was a Barnes & Noble pick of the month and one of only four debuts on the B&N Best Teen Books of 2012. It was awarded the its Eselsohr for Best YA Book in 2012, selected by a jury of teens in Germany, and was chosen as a top ten favorite book of 2012 by both French and German readers. It won the Crimezone Award for Best YA Thriller and is one of the LAPL's and Chicago Public Library's Best Teen Books of 2012.

Starters was chosen for the IRA Reading List and is the only book nominated for both the Florida Teens Read List and the SSYRA Middle School List 2013-14.

In Germany, Starters launched a brand-new YA imprint of the established Piper Verlag publisher called IVI. Audiobooks have been recorded in English and German.

See the book trailer that played in front of the Hunger Games film in selected theaters in the US and abroad at her site. The release dates for Enders will be announced by the publishers of each country, with some starting in May 2013.






Although parts of the story were predictable don't let that stop you from reading this amazing dystopian.  I would have to say that it has hints of Cinderella as well as a little romance, and a whole lot of running for your life!!  This plot/story was so complex but simple.  It was never dull and it just makes you want to read more!!  This is deff a series that I am so happy to have book two Enders due out Jan. 7th.  Because if I had to wait for it I would be crying.  Lissa Price is deff. a fav author after this one.  The plot to Starters is a war had broken out and of course it turned chemical.  So they vaccinated the very young and the very old just like they normally do with things like the flu.  So then when the spore hit they killed off anyone that was aged 20-50 give or take. Starters will leave you asking for more!  I do hope that she adds to this Duo-logy as I would love a prequel.

"*I received a copy of this book for free to review, this in no way influenced my review, all opinions are 100% honest and my own."





Disclaimer: Thanks to Goodreads and Amazon for the book cover, about the book, and author information.

















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