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Waiting to Catch Fire
Waiting to Catch Fire? From the publisher of The Hunger Games trilogy, here are three books to read while you wait for The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, in theaters November 22!
Inside you will find:
* The FULL digital galley of Inhuman by Kat Falls
* Chapters from The Darkest Path by Jeff Hirsch
* Chapters from The Bar Code Prophecy by Suzanne Weyn
About Inhuman:
Lane’s crossed into the Feral Zone, where humans have gone…wild. In this imaginative tale of action, intrigue, and romance, author Kat Falls brings readers to the very edge of civilization — and dares them to jump.
About The Darkest Path:
A civil war rages between a militant religious group called the Glorious Path and what's left of the US government. When forced convert Cal is sent on the run, a chain of events threatens the fate of the entire country. USA Today bestselling author Jeff Hirsch once again creates a futuristic world with stunning, dramatic realism.
About The Bar Code Prophecy:
One girl struggles to escape the conformity of a dystopian world in this third book of the Bar Code series.
On Grace’s seventeenth birthday, she comes home to find her family gone and police everywhere. Now she’s on the run — part of a dark conspiracy and an extraordinary prophecy that will change the world forever.
Inside you will find:
* The FULL digital galley of Inhuman by Kat Falls
* Chapters from The Darkest Path by Jeff Hirsch
* Chapters from The Bar Code Prophecy by Suzanne Weyn
About Inhuman:
Lane’s crossed into the Feral Zone, where humans have gone…wild. In this imaginative tale of action, intrigue, and romance, author Kat Falls brings readers to the very edge of civilization — and dares them to jump.
About The Darkest Path:
A civil war rages between a militant religious group called the Glorious Path and what's left of the US government. When forced convert Cal is sent on the run, a chain of events threatens the fate of the entire country. USA Today bestselling author Jeff Hirsch once again creates a futuristic world with stunning, dramatic realism.
About The Bar Code Prophecy:
One girl struggles to escape the conformity of a dystopian world in this third book of the Bar Code series.
On Grace’s seventeenth birthday, she comes home to find her family gone and police everywhere. Now she’s on the run — part of a dark conspiracy and an extraordinary prophecy that will change the world forever.
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Kat Falls
7 books684 followersKat Falls lives in Evanston, IL with her husband, theater director Robert Falls, their three children, and a whole slew of pets. She grew up in Silver Spring, MD, attended Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute as an undergrad, and went on to receive an MFA from Northwestern University, where she now teaches.
Kat is the author of the middle-grade science fiction novels, Dark Life and Rip Tide, which she describes as “underwater westerns.”
She came up with the idea for Dark Life (Scholastic, 2010) during a writing exercise. Knowing that her 11-year-old son loved reading about the ocean, Wild West pioneers, and the X-Men, she combined his interests and created a story premise that kept her up nights plotting and world-building. Since then, Dark Life has been nominated for children’s book awards in ten states and translated into 17 languages around the world. Kat appeared on the Today Show when Dark Life was featured on Al Roker's Book Club. Currently, Dark Life is in development for film at Disney with The Gotham Group producing.
When the sequel, Rip Tide (Scholastic, 2011) came out, Publishers Weekly wrote, “As with its predecessor, there’s no shortage of action, intrigue, or daring exploits in this aquatic thriller. Atmospheric and tense, built around an expertly used post apocalyptic–meets–Wild West setting, this story’s a whole lot of fun.”
Kat’s YA novel, Inhuman (Scholastic, 2013), is the first book of a science fiction trilogy set in the near future after a plague has turned millions of people into feral beast-men.
Inhuman received glowing reviews from Publishers Weekly, SLJ, VOYA, and a starred review from Kirkus. Inhuman is also a nominee on the 2014-2015 Tome Society It List for “clean” teen reads.
Kat is the author of the middle-grade science fiction novels, Dark Life and Rip Tide, which she describes as “underwater westerns.”
She came up with the idea for Dark Life (Scholastic, 2010) during a writing exercise. Knowing that her 11-year-old son loved reading about the ocean, Wild West pioneers, and the X-Men, she combined his interests and created a story premise that kept her up nights plotting and world-building. Since then, Dark Life has been nominated for children’s book awards in ten states and translated into 17 languages around the world. Kat appeared on the Today Show when Dark Life was featured on Al Roker's Book Club. Currently, Dark Life is in development for film at Disney with The Gotham Group producing.
When the sequel, Rip Tide (Scholastic, 2011) came out, Publishers Weekly wrote, “As with its predecessor, there’s no shortage of action, intrigue, or daring exploits in this aquatic thriller. Atmospheric and tense, built around an expertly used post apocalyptic–meets–Wild West setting, this story’s a whole lot of fun.”
Kat’s YA novel, Inhuman (Scholastic, 2013), is the first book of a science fiction trilogy set in the near future after a plague has turned millions of people into feral beast-men.
Inhuman received glowing reviews from Publishers Weekly, SLJ, VOYA, and a starred review from Kirkus. Inhuman is also a nominee on the 2014-2015 Tome Society It List for “clean” teen reads.
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April 24, 2015
More of a 2.5 rating. Sadly the book and excerpts contained in this set did not really match up to The Hunger Games trilogy as was suggested but it wasn't completely horrible. Inhuman was a pretty easy read if occasionally clunky (partially due to formatting but also the transitions between action weren't always clearly delineated). I was feeling kinda meh about the love triangle I could see developing, but luckily the author didn't let it devolve as happens all too often in YA these days so that saved me from raging at the book and characters. Lane was attracted to two boys at once and certainly had some mildly lascivious thoughts about them but she never fell into that sudden relationship spiral with either guy so that was a welcome change. She was actually more concerned with trying to find her father and complete the fetch so he could avoid execution (and also survival as a whole) that she deliberately put her possible feelings for the guys on hold to deal with the more important things. Yay!
However the pacing of the book was kinda problematic. Things would get really exciting and action-y and then very abruptly change pace to more methodical explication and world-building. I mean, I loved learning about all the hybrids and mutations that were around because that's totally interesting and pretty unique, but the sudden switch from RUN-FIGHT-SURVIVE to let-me-explain-what-those-things-are-and-who-these-people-are-and-what-it-has-to-do-with-our-plot threw me out of the story so many times. I just needed more of a steady build. And also much less of the random plot twists that kinda came out of left field (I'm looking at you, whole-end-of-book-set-in-the-Chicago-compound). Maybe if there'd been a little more hinting at those developments it wouldn't have seemed so abrupt and almost deus-ex-machina at times.
Also the ending was just kinda meh in my opinion. I could tell that things were being set up for a possible sequel but a lot of things were still wrapped up pretty neatly (almost too neatly) and it just left me feeling kinda blah about finally reaching the ending. Still it was a decent enough book that had some good things going for it that helped counterbalance the not as good things.
As for the excerpts from the other two books: the first excerpt from The Darkest Path sounded pretty interesting from what I read. I might have to track that one down. The second excerpt (The Bar Code Prophecy) didn't catch my eye as well as the first did, but that could've been because it was obviously a sequel to a book I haven't read and there were a lot of formatting issues with the ebook copy (lots of split text and weird mumbo-jumbo breaking up or deleting parts of the prose). Maybe I'll give the actual first book a try and see if it's better when I can actually read what's there.
However the pacing of the book was kinda problematic. Things would get really exciting and action-y and then very abruptly change pace to more methodical explication and world-building. I mean, I loved learning about all the hybrids and mutations that were around because that's totally interesting and pretty unique, but the sudden switch from RUN-FIGHT-SURVIVE to let-me-explain-what-those-things-are-and-who-these-people-are-and-what-it-has-to-do-with-our-plot threw me out of the story so many times. I just needed more of a steady build. And also much less of the random plot twists that kinda came out of left field (I'm looking at you, whole-end-of-book-set-in-the-Chicago-compound). Maybe if there'd been a little more hinting at those developments it wouldn't have seemed so abrupt and almost deus-ex-machina at times.
Also the ending was just kinda meh in my opinion. I could tell that things were being set up for a possible sequel but a lot of things were still wrapped up pretty neatly (almost too neatly) and it just left me feeling kinda blah about finally reaching the ending. Still it was a decent enough book that had some good things going for it that helped counterbalance the not as good things.
As for the excerpts from the other two books: the first excerpt from The Darkest Path sounded pretty interesting from what I read. I might have to track that one down. The second excerpt (The Bar Code Prophecy) didn't catch my eye as well as the first did, but that could've been because it was obviously a sequel to a book I haven't read and there were a lot of formatting issues with the ebook copy (lots of split text and weird mumbo-jumbo breaking up or deleting parts of the prose). Maybe I'll give the actual first book a try and see if it's better when I can actually read what's there.
July 31, 2023
Waiting to Catch Fire
by Kat Falls
August 20, 2013
They were really good, but just a few chapters so it was much too short.
Thank you to Scholastic and NetGalley for the electronic advanced reading copy in exchange for an honest review.
by Kat Falls
August 20, 2013
They were really good, but just a few chapters so it was much too short.
Thank you to Scholastic and NetGalley for the electronic advanced reading copy in exchange for an honest review.
July 4, 2014
Thanks to net galley I received this book for free. Inhuman is definitely the best story in this series of three. (The other two are just chapters or snippets into these other worlds.) But inhuman was my fav.
June 18, 2014
I love and hate reading excerpts! I hated that I couldn't read on once I was hooked. But I loved getting the books I was interested in at the library.
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