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Tuesday, April 13, 2010

Crashed: Skinned Book 2 Review

Title: Crashed
Series: Skinned Book 2
Author: Robin Wasserman
Pages: 440
Publisher: Simon Pulse
Publication Date: September 8, 2009
My Edition: Hardback
Reading Level: Young Adult
Genre: Dystopian
Received From: Christmas Gift from Amazon

Summary from Robin's website:

No one to trust... everything to lose.

Before the accident, Lia Kahn was happy.

Before the accident, Lia Kahn was loved.

Before, Lia was a lot of things: Normal. Alive. Human.

But when a voice from her past cries out for revenge, everything changes. Lia is forced to choose: between her old life and her new one. Between humans and mechs. Between sacrificing the girl she used to be and saving the boy she used to love. Even if it means he’ll hate her forever.

Review:

Crashed was an amazing addition to the Skinned trilogy. It was a lot different than Skinned but was a lot more action-packed with a touch of romance. Lia just left her family to live with the other mechs, since her family and friends no longer accept her or understand what she is now. The main plot was focused on the "orgs" against the "mechs" and was very interesting to learn how much the orgs hate the mechs because they shouldn't exist. The concept is very unique and very cool to read.

I love the original characters and the dystopian society with lots of new technology. Lia is a great, strong, developed character. She may technically be "dead" but her brain and mind was uploaded to a technology-made body. The relationship between all the characters was pretty tense until finally at the end things started to change. Towards the end, Lia starts to trust and become friends with some of her fellow mechs. All the mechs have their own past which is haunting many of the characters even in their new and different bodies. Even some romance brews between Lia and another mech which was a nice change from all the tension and fighting.

Crashed was pretty long but was very fast-paced & exciting. I'm really looking forward to the final book of the trilogy, Wired (out summer 2010), to find out what will happen to Lia and the other mechs. I enjoy the writing style of Robin Wasserman and highly recommend reading Skinned if you haven't already then Crashed!

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Sunday, January 10, 2010

Contest Reminder and IMMB 21

Hey everyone, my contest for A Brief History of Montmaray ends tonight. I won't select a winner til Tuesday so just get your entries in before then. I'll select the winner by random.org on the 12th and post them that day too. If you haven't entered already then go HERE and fill out the form!

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IMMB was started by The Story Siren. In My Mailbox is where I post the books I won, received for review, bought, or borrowed. The book titles are linked to their Amazon pages. These are the books, swag, and other stuff I got this week:

AMAZON GIFTS:

Crashed by Robin Wasserman (Hardback)

Gossip Girl Season 2 (Plus it came with book 2's audiobook)

CONTESTS/RECEIVED:

Donut Days by Laura Zielin (Signed Hardback)

Being Nikki by Meg Cabot (Hardback)

tons of Shadow Hills signed bookmarks, pins, magnets from Anastasia Hopcus

A cute sheep Feltie made by Alea of Pop Culture Junkie

What books did you get this week?

Tuesday, September 8, 2009

Crashed is on sale now!

Crashed by Robin Wasserman was released today September 8! Crashed is the sequel to Skinned which was really, really good. Unfortunately I probably won't get around to reading the it for awhile : ( but I'm still excited. Below is the summaries and covers of the two books from Robin's website:

Skinned (Book 1)
Lia Kahn was perfect: rich, beautiful, popular. Until the accident that nearly killed her. Now she has been downloaded into a new body that only looks human. Lia will never feel pain again, she will never age, and she can't ever truly die. But she is also rejected by her friends, betrayed by her boyfriend, and alienated from her old life.

Forced to the fringes of society, Lia joins others like her. But they are looked at as freaks. They are hated...and feared. They are everything but human, and according to most people, this is the ultimate crime - for which they must pay the ultimate price.

Crashed (Book 2)
Months have passed, and in that time, Lia has joined Jude and his roving gang of mechs, an eclectic collection of bored teenagers looking for trouble, and uniquely capable of finding it. It's a carefree life at first, but as the download process becomes more common, the opposition to the process becomes more vocal - and more hostile.

Lia gets swept up in the idea of being a revolutionary and fighting for a cause, but as the plans escalate, she starts having second thoughts - especially when she figures out Jude's real agenda. Yes, he's loyal to his cause - fiercely, desperately, blindly loyal. But only to his cause. Not necessarily to his people. In the end, Lia must make a choice. How many people - mechanical and organic - is she willing to hurt to protect her freedom? How far is she willing to go to protect the people she loves? And, when she betrays Jude - as she eventually realizes she must - how will he take his revenge?

Wednesday, August 26, 2009

Waiting on Wednesday (1)

"Waiting On" Wednesday is a weekly event, hosted at Breaking the Spine, that spotlights upcoming releases that I'm eagerly awaiting.

The book this week I'm excited for is Crashed by Robin Wasserman, and it comes out September 8th. Crashed is the sequel to Skinned which was amazing! Here is the summary and cover from Robin's website:

CRASHED

No one to trust... everything to lose.

Before the accident, Lia Kahn was happy.
Before the accident, Lia Kahn was loved.
Before, Lia was a lot of things: Normal. Alive. Human.

Lia no longer lives in before. Six months after the crash that killed her, six months after being reborn, Lia has finally accepted her new reality. She is a machine, a mech, and she belongs with her own kind. It’s a wild, carefree life, without rules and without fear. Because there’s nothing to fear when you have nothing left to lose.

But when a voice from her past cries out for revenge, everything changes. Lia is forced to choose: between her old life and her new one. Between humans and mechs. Between sacrificing the girl she used to be and saving the boy she used to love.

Even if it means he’ll hate her forever.