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Secret Society Girl #3.2
Powerless
Extra from Diana Peterfreund's website taking place at the end of "Rites of Spring (Break)".
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First published May 1, 2009
About the author
Diana Peterfreund
54 books2,075 followersDiana Peterfreund has been a costume designer, a cover model, and a food critic. Her travels have taken her from the cloud forests of Costa Rica to the underground caverns of New Zealand (and as far as she’s concerned, she’s just getting started). Diana graduated from Yale University in 2001 with dual degrees in Literature and Geology, which her family claimed would only come in handy if she wrote books about rocks. Now, this Florida girl lives with her husband and their puppy in Washington D.C., and writes books that rock
Her first novel, Secret Society Girl (2006), was described as “witty and endearing” by The New York Observer and was placed on the New York Public LIbrary’s 2007 Books for the Teen Age list. The follow-up, Under the Rose (2007) was deemed “impossible to put down” by Publisher’s Weekly, and Booklist called the third book, Rites of Spring (Break) (2008), “an ideal summer read.” The final book in the series, Tap & Gown, will be released in 2009. All titles are available from Bantam Dell.
She also contributed to the non-fiction anthologies, Everything I Needed to Know About Being a Girl I Learned from Judy Blume, edited by Jennifer O’Connell (Pocket Books, 2007), The World of the Golden Compass, edited by Scott Westerfeld (BenBella Books, 2007), and Through the Wardrobe, edited by Herbie Brennan (BenBella Books, 2008).
Her first young adult novel, Rampant, an adventure fantasy about killer unicorns and the virgin descendents of Alexander the Great who hunt them, will be released by Harper Collins in 2009. When she’s not writing, Diana volunteers at the National Zoo, adds movies she has no intention of watching to her Netflix queue, and plays with her puppy, a Nova Scotia Duck Tolling Retriever named Rio.
Her first novel, Secret Society Girl (2006), was described as “witty and endearing” by The New York Observer and was placed on the New York Public LIbrary’s 2007 Books for the Teen Age list. The follow-up, Under the Rose (2007) was deemed “impossible to put down” by Publisher’s Weekly, and Booklist called the third book, Rites of Spring (Break) (2008), “an ideal summer read.” The final book in the series, Tap & Gown, will be released in 2009. All titles are available from Bantam Dell.
She also contributed to the non-fiction anthologies, Everything I Needed to Know About Being a Girl I Learned from Judy Blume, edited by Jennifer O’Connell (Pocket Books, 2007), The World of the Golden Compass, edited by Scott Westerfeld (BenBella Books, 2007), and Through the Wardrobe, edited by Herbie Brennan (BenBella Books, 2008).
Her first young adult novel, Rampant, an adventure fantasy about killer unicorns and the virgin descendents of Alexander the Great who hunt them, will be released by Harper Collins in 2009. When she’s not writing, Diana volunteers at the National Zoo, adds movies she has no intention of watching to her Netflix queue, and plays with her puppy, a Nova Scotia Duck Tolling Retriever named Rio.
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September 12, 2015
4 stars.
I NEED MORE POE.
It had to have been someone else. James Orcutt, Knight Poe, Order of Persephone, Club of D176, Eli University graduate—he doesn’t do things like that. He doesn’t disobey the elder patriarchs, he doesn’t act impulsively, and he doesn’t steal yachts in the middle of the night without the first clue of what to do with them once he’s at sea.Powerless; or in which Jamie proceeds to make readers swoon with his I-will-save-thee-or-perish philosophy.
At least, I didn’t before I met Amy Haskel.
I NEED MORE POE.
January 18, 2017
An unnecessary extra. What was Poe thinking in the shower? That's what I really want to know.
April 24, 2026
Incontestavelmente delicioso — Em Powerless temos conhecimento com mais profundidade dos sentimentos e pensamentos de Poe nessas férias arrebatadora em Cavador Key. Sim! Nosso patriarca preferido da Sociedade Secreta Rosa & Túmulo se vê de mão atadas quando o assunto é Amy Haskel.
É inegável o quanto Jamie Orcutt está terrivelmente apaixonado, suas ações, atitudes, absolutamente tudo nele se transforma quando se trata da nossa amada Coveira de mechas vermelhas Amy. Ele mesmo não se reconhece!
“When I first realized that I felt something for Amy Haskel, I wondered if I’d become possessed.
The day I punched Micah Price, it was as if some force outside myself had moved my fist.
Had I been in command of my actions, I certainly would not have endangered my life by jumping off the boat after her on the way to Cavador Key.
And surely it wasn’t me that had tracked her down and practically attacked her in the shower house the other night.
James Orcutt doesn’t do things like that. You can ask anyone you like. So there was only one explanation. I was possessed.”
[...]
“And yet, how else to explain my strange behavior? I became a different person around her, one I barely recognized. One over whom I had very little control. It was uncomfortable. It was uncanny. It was unwelcome.
Actually, no. The shower bit had been rather nice. Aside from that interlude, however, I was way out of my depth when it came to Amy.”
É esplêndido o quanto Jamie e Amy ficam bem juntos! (Entrou para a minha lista de casal literário favorito!!!) Ele é tão carinhoso e tem tanta ternura... aímeudeuscomoeuamoestehomem!!!
Powerless é uma secret stories sensacional, divertida, deliciosamente apaixonante e impossível de se parar de ler. Novamente retorno com a ideia, o quanto que eu gostaria de ter toda a história da série Sociedade Secreta pelo ponto de vista de Poe... Seria um complemento essencial para a série.
Jamie sabe o quanto está fascinado por Amy, e não, não dá mais para negar ou tentar disfarçar o que sente por ela. Não depois dessas férias ao sol, regrada de muitos beijos, aula de natação e muuuita 'aventura'. Está mais do que claro que James Orcutt ama Amy Haskel.
É inegável o quanto Jamie Orcutt está terrivelmente apaixonado, suas ações, atitudes, absolutamente tudo nele se transforma quando se trata da nossa amada Coveira de mechas vermelhas Amy. Ele mesmo não se reconhece!
“When I first realized that I felt something for Amy Haskel, I wondered if I’d become possessed.
The day I punched Micah Price, it was as if some force outside myself had moved my fist.
Had I been in command of my actions, I certainly would not have endangered my life by jumping off the boat after her on the way to Cavador Key.
And surely it wasn’t me that had tracked her down and practically attacked her in the shower house the other night.
James Orcutt doesn’t do things like that. You can ask anyone you like. So there was only one explanation. I was possessed.”
[...]
“And yet, how else to explain my strange behavior? I became a different person around her, one I barely recognized. One over whom I had very little control. It was uncomfortable. It was uncanny. It was unwelcome.
Actually, no. The shower bit had been rather nice. Aside from that interlude, however, I was way out of my depth when it came to Amy.”
É esplêndido o quanto Jamie e Amy ficam bem juntos! (Entrou para a minha lista de casal literário favorito!!!) Ele é tão carinhoso e tem tanta ternura... aímeudeuscomoeuamoestehomem!!!
Powerless é uma secret stories sensacional, divertida, deliciosamente apaixonante e impossível de se parar de ler. Novamente retorno com a ideia, o quanto que eu gostaria de ter toda a história da série Sociedade Secreta pelo ponto de vista de Poe... Seria um complemento essencial para a série.
Jamie sabe o quanto está fascinado por Amy, e não, não dá mais para negar ou tentar disfarçar o que sente por ela. Não depois dessas férias ao sol, regrada de muitos beijos, aula de natação e muuuita 'aventura'. Está mais do que claro que James Orcutt ama Amy Haskel.
March 1, 2015
Pajamie you little lovely minx
December 1, 2016
"I was possessed." hahahahahaha
Precious <3
Precious <3
January 3, 2017
I LOVE POE
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