Showing posts with label yacontemporary. Show all posts
Showing posts with label yacontemporary. Show all posts

Thursday, 7 April 2016

Book Review: LIFE IN THE LUCKY ZONE by Patricia B. Tighe


Life in the Lucky Zone (The Zone #2)
by Patricia B. Tighe
Publication Date:  April 5, 2016
Publisher:  Swoon Romance


Seventeen-year-old Lindsey Taylor has been living a charmed life—always the lead in school plays, possessor of a healthy entourage and a hot boyfriend. But halfway through her junior year, the unthinkable happens. Her boyfriend dumps her. She screws up her audition for the spring play. And to top it all off, her theater teacher wants her to run lines with Trey Berger, a gamer guy who irritates her practically every time he opens his mouth. Lindsey needs to find some better luck and quick.

Trey Berger can barely tolerate Lindsey Taylor. It’s bad enough that their best friends are dating and he has to see Lindsey at group hangouts. Now they have to rehearse together. Berger would rather do just about anything else, even chill with his grandmother, whose dementia has forced her to move in with his family.

But as the semester continues, Berger discovers there’s more to Lindsey than the drama queen

persona she puts on for everyone else’s benefit. And the person behind the mask might be someone he cares about. A lot. So what exactly is he going to do about it?

And while Lindsey desperately tries to change her luck and heal from the breakup, she slowly realizes Berger has become her best friend. This video-game-playing boy makes her laugh. And holds her when she cries. Could he possibly become something more?




I absolutely adored this book! It's just as good as it's predecessor, Life in the No-Dating Zone. One would think, how could Tighe carry on the sweet story of Claire and Gray... by carrying on a contemporary romance between their best buddies, Lindsey & Berger.


That's right - total polar opposites, Lindsey (popular girl) and Berger (gamer boy). But this isn't your stereotypical opposites attract -- I love how Tighe sucks us in with Lindsey recovering from her recent breakup (oh come on, no one liked him) and Berger's hidden passion for drama club. When Berger has a chance at a part and Lindsey is made to tutor him, so begin the sparks...


Okay, so not quite that easy, but to find out more you'll have to read this for yourself!!

I definitely give Life in the Lucky Zone 5 stars.
Don't miss out!!




The mother of two grown sons, Patricia B. Tighe lives in West Texas with her husband and two dogs. She eats too much pizza, drinks too much coffee, and watches way too much NFL football. On the bright side, she loves to read and write young adult fiction. Especially if there’s kissing involved.




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Saturday, 12 December 2015

#WO2016: This Week in YA Cover Reveals

Whoa! What a bunch of beautiful covers we have for you this week. Fantasy, contemporary, and sci-fi!  This weeks cover reveals are: An Occasionally Grim Fairy Tale by Ann Noser, What I Saw by Beck Nicholas, and Scardust by Suzanne van Rooyen.


An Occasionally Grim Fairy Tale (Book One of Desiderata) by Ann Noser (YA/NA crossover Fantasy):
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What I Saw by Beck Nicholas … One punch will shatter a town…
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Scardust by Suzanne van Rooyen:
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Wednesday, 9 December 2015

#Wattpad Wednesdays

Want to sample a new book? Or are you looking for that next big indie author? Just want to share a little writing of your own? Wattpad is the answer. Check out these two YA finds I staked out on Wattpad this week:

YA HorrorDrowned Silence by Amy McNulty

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Living in a home dripping with silent tension, lonely teen Dylan finds refuge at school—until Kelsey is assigned to be his class project partner.

Kelsey, the school outcast, is allergic to water, dresses in Gothic Lolita fashion and refuses to use technology from past the 19th century, which makes working together difficult to say the least.

Invited to Kelsey’s house during her sister’s Halloween party, Dylan uncovers a frightening connection between Kelsey and a death that took place on her property years before. 

A serialized YA contemporary horror short story from the author of Nobody’s Goddess (the Never Veil Series). Kelsey and Dylan’s story is over after Part 3. This collection includes three bonus UNRELATED, one-shot short stories: Five Bucks, Ego Cafe and All the Living and the Dead.

Read the story here, on Wattpad.




Contemporary YASticky Notes by Geri Ami

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Sean Collins and Shairaleigh Winters were never meant to cross paths. They were supposed to graduate, go to their respective colleges and never see each other again. But, all thanks to a pad of pink sticky notes, a special bond was formed between the two. Thanks to a small piece of paper with a strip of adhesive on the back that allows attachment or removal from a surface, sparks flew and suddenly, they became so much more the mere strangers that they were supposed to be.

Read the story here on Wattpad.



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