Crazy for Young Adult Books discussion

Join Kathy, Trisha and I!

Trisha, if this date doesn't work for you let us know and we can always switch it!

yay!!! I'm totally good with the 6th!

Awesome! :)

Yay! I put my copy on hold so I should get it soon! :D

Awesome! (:

we ready for this one tomorrow??

we have 296 pages and
16 chapters

I will probably come back every 5 chapters which is about 100 pages!

Sounds good to me! I have my copy ready to go! :D

Is it okay if I join?

Woo!

I am doing the Bout of Books 9.0 readathon this week so I might finish this quick.

yay! so excited to start this one!
Just do our usual and come back every 5 chapters?

YES! Megan, please join us!!

Trisha wrote: "yay! so excited to start this one!
Just do our usual and come back every 5 chapters?

YES! Megan, please join us!!"

Yup! Every 5 chapters is about 100 pages so I think that is good!

Megan wrote: "Is it okay if I join?"

Yes! Of course! :D

Great! Thanks :)

I'm doing the Bout of Books read-a-thon too! :)

Oh, that's awesome!

Jacque, where is that read-a-thon?

Vicki wrote: "Jacque, where is that read-a-thon?"

Well it is a blog-ran readathon. I am just participating on Twitter though with the #boutofbooks

Here is the blog if you want to know more: http://boutofbooks.blogspot.com/

Thanks, Jacque :)

You're welcome!

okay 5 chapters in
who knew they would be so long! LOL! 5 chapters is almost 100 pages!

so

Rally (view spoiler)[ wow, holy wow. She died there and they froze her.
Her new reality...is just crazy (hide spoiler)]

Teeg (view spoiler)[ wow, I'm so sad for her. and this new world....is frightening (hide spoiler)]

it's all pretty crazy so far....but really interesting. and so far, it's a really fast read!

Wow, I have like no reading time. :/ Ugh. I really was looking forward to these books but will have to wait to start until I have time. :( I will get to it soon!

no worries :) just start when you can :)

Thanks, Trisha! :)

Ok! Sorry guys, I'm just now starting this one!

Be back after 5 chapters! :D

No worries Kathy! so glad you can join in!! yay! :D

Thanks Trisha! :D

Just finished the first 5 chapters and WOW!

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I know I read the synopsis for the book, but I completely forgot that she died. Needless to say I was shocked when I read that she died at the rally...and by a sniper who didn't even mean to hit her!

What a shock to wake up thinking it's only been a few hours when it's been 100 years!

I'm enjoying the way the story is being told, with Tegan telling it to us...and even lying Toronto.e to time. When I read that she didn't look up the information on her family and friends to see what their lives were like, I couldn't believe it - I think that would've been one of the first things I did. Then when I read that she lied about it, and it was actually one of the first things she looked up was she got her computer but regretted it since she didn't like knowing some of the things, I understood.

I'm definitely looking forward to reading more! (hide spoiler)]

yay Megan! So glad you are liking it!!! I am too!

wasn't it a huge shock! Yes, this one is great so far! I'm reading more and then I'll post in the morning :)

Ok I only got 4 chapters in, but I will read to chapter 10 tomorrow!

Teeg (view spoiler)[ I think it's awful that they did that to her! What a rude awakening! I mean what about her family? I'm sure they wanted to see her afterward! Did they get to? Did they even find out what happened to her?

I also think that they should have kept tabs on her family, so that just in case she wanted to know what happened to them it wouldn't have been difficult because like she said with servers crashing and format changes it could have been lost forever!

And then to find out that your boyfriend of one day says that the woman he married is 'the love of his life'. That must have been hard. And then Owen! What happened with him? I'm a little anixous about that because it seemed ominous or foreboding.

I do like her though! I love how she stuck to her guns with Commander Dawson! I love how strong she is considering what everything she's been through so far! (hide spoiler)]

Finished the next five chapters (page 183).

(view spoiler)[Now I get why the story's being told the way it is...it's Tegan doing a 'cast while on the run. I'm curious what pushed her to run and who's all with her.

And we still don't know what happened with Owen! Hopefully that will be revealed in the last section.

I'm intrigued to find out what's in that warehouse and why the military is using it.

@Kathy - I LOVED how she held her own with Dawson and that she's not afraid to stand her ground! (hide spoiler)]

Finished the book.

(view spoiler)[The story was okay, but it was also sort of a let down...at least for me. I still enjoyed it, but not as much as I thought I was going to after I finished reading the first five chapters - I was loving it then.

It was sad that Tegan's brother died the way he did. And that Tegan felt like it was her fault it happened.

It was interesting finding out that Joph was pretended to be so ditzy and was really helping to smuggle medicine to countries that needed it. Very smart!

I hate cliffhangers, epecially when I'm not sure if I want to read the next book! (hide spoiler)]

8 chapters in and I have to stop for now to get ready for work. I'll finish tonight or tomorrow.

(view spoiler)[ I love how she is telling her story too! Talking straight to the reader!

I cannot imagine how hard it was for her to see Abdi for the first time! And then he sang with her! That was pretty sweet!

So this 'Ark Project.' I wonder if it's like 'Noah's Ark?' Like they are gathering people somehow to save humanity? But why did the procedure work for her and not others? And that Inheritor guy said that they wanted her specificaally, so did they know it would work on her better than on others?

I can see how she is doing this as a 'cast while on the run. Makes me wonder who is with her too. Also she said that they have her friend Bethari so that kind of scares me! (hide spoiler)]

darn, I ran out of time today to get to this one - but I'll definitely finish it tomorrow!

okay, all done!

I'm ready to chat when you guys are :D

Megan wrote: "Finished the book.

[spoilers removed]..."

I 100% agree with your post (view spoiler)[ I don't know if this just got too philosophical for me- what would God think of all this?
or if it just got too deep into politics -
but I got bored after 8 chapters or so. It was just too muddy and convoluted......

I'm not sure I'll read book 2 either... (hide spoiler)] I can't wait to see what everyone else thinks!

I haven't done any more on this one today. I have had a headache all day and I'm trying to finish up some other books too. But I'll try to finish tomorrow. :)

no worries :) I know, lol, we're all juggling a handful of books aren't we!? :D

I hope your headache goes away :( that's no fun

I'm done!

(view spoiler)[I didn't like it much either!
Too philosophical and political and also I didn't like the fact that they talked Tegan into taking that drug! I don't think she was that bad off enough to take something. And the way they said! "You don't have to feel this way. You can feel better." And even after the way her brother died! Because of drugs!

I was really liking it right up until that! So I won't be reading the next one. :( (hide spoiler)]

YES! Kathy, I totally agree. It just got too...into the the politics and philosophical theories. Ugh, it got bogged down and lost a cool story idea.

well....unless I hear otherwise, i don't think I'll be hunting down the 2nd one any time soon :(

Yeah, I was really disappointed! :(

Aw, sorry you guys didn't like it! I still haven't started but I promise to read this during the readathon! (: Deal? LOL!

no worries Jacquelyn, pick it up when you can. :)

Trisha wrote: "no worries Jacquelyn, pick it up when you can. :)"

Thanks, Trisha! Thank goodness I have a group of understanding buddies! (: