Interview with LJ Cohen, author of The Between

Posted by bkristin on Apr 10th, 2012 in interviews | 1 comment Last week I reviewed The Between by LJ Cohen and as a follow up here is a short interview with her that she kindly did with me. If you want to know more about LJ or her books, visit her website at http://www.ljcohen.net/ How did you get your ideas for The Between- are you a fan of faeries in general? The initial idea for THE BETWEEN emerged from two sources: the first, was a short story I wrote for a writing workshop about a woman who had been a witness to a crime involving a Faerie in the human world, was called to a Fae trial and ended up in the Faerie witness protection program. Now the novel has...

Review: The Between by LJ Cohen

Posted by bkristin on Apr 4th, 2012 in reviews | 0 comments Review: The Between by LJ Cohen Lydia finds out that she is a faerie – and a powerful one at that. Now both Oberon and Titania are trying to get her to join their side. While it would be easy to assume light is the good guys and shadow are the bad guys, things are always more complicated in faerie. Luckily for Lydia, although she doesn’t understand how to control her power, some things come naturally. This book had a good pace to it. The beginning quickly grabbed your attention. Lydia was being chased and a creeper (Clive- who turns out to not really be a creeper) is following her. You...

Review: The Iron King , The Iron Daughter, The Iron QUeen by Julie Kagawa

Posted by bkristin on Mar 30th, 2012 in reviews | 0 comments Review:  Iron King,  Iron Daughter, Iron Queen   by Julie Kagawa Faeries have taken Meghan’s brother. Unbeknownst to Megan, she is part faery and her best friend Robbie is actually Robin Goodfellow, AKA Puck, a faery. With his help, Megan learns the truth- it is neither the summer nor winter courts that have taken her brother, but the new iron king. As the second book begins, Meghan is now caught in the winter court trying to convince everyone that the iron fey are the problem, though no one will believe her. Meghan finds in the winter court Ash is as cold as the rest of the winter fey and will not be...

Review : Inescapable: The Premonition Series by Amy Bartol

Posted by bkristin on Mar 28th, 2012 in reviews | 2 comments Review : Inescapable: The Premonition Series by Amy Bartol Evie’s first year in college takes a lot of twists and turns after she meets not only one, but two love interests. While Russel is comfortable and charming, Reed is alluring and hiding answers Evie desperately seeks. As Evie changes, Reed reveals answers – or more so agrees with Evie’s new understanding. But nothing they can do will stop the predictions she has dreamed for months even before she went off to college. This was a well written story that progressed nicely. The plot was easy to follow yet had twists and turns to keep...

Interview with P.T. Michelle, author of Brightest Kind of Darkness

Posted by bkristin on Mar 26th, 2012 in interviews | 1 comment Last week I reviewed The Brightest Kind of Darkness by P.T. Michelle and as a follow up here is a short interview with her that she kindly did with me. If you want to know more about P.T. or her books, visit her website at http://www.ptmichelle.com/. How does writing YA fiction compared to what you normally write? YA fiction has a very broad range. I LOVE that freedom. 🙂   Would you want to be able to dream your next day like Nara? I don’t think I’d want to dream my whole next day. I like to live life in the moment, not know about stuff ahead of time, especially  if it turns out to be...

Review: Graceling by Kristin Cashore

Posted by bkristin on Mar 23rd, 2012 in reviews | 4 comments Review:  Graceling by Kristin Cashore  Katsu is graced with killing. A bit of an odd grace for a woman but one that shaped her into the character she was-not what she could become. On an undercover rescue mission, Katsu meets Po, and man graced with fighting. He finally meets his match. Along their adventure to find out why his grandfather was kidnapped, he teaches her more about herself than she could ever have guessed. Out of all the books I have read thus far, this was the catchiest opening. From the start, you jumped into the action and told only bits of the world, enough to take a breath and...