Review: A Week of Mondays

Today I'm excited to join the Thank God It's Monday blog tour! Many thanks to Mary and Macmillan for setting up this tour.

Author: Jessica Brody

Genre: YA Contemporary

Page Length: 464 Pages

Publication Date: August 2,  2016

Publisher: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux

Source: ARC via publisher

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Ellie is having the worst Monday of her life. She messes up her school speech for the class vice presidency position, she manages to take the world's worst school picture, she bombs softball tryouts, and the icing on top of this awful cake: her perfect boyfriend who is in a high school rock band dumps her. At the end of the day, Ellie wishes she could redo everything. When she wakes up the next morning, she discovers that it's Monday again! She has six more chances to redo the day in the hopes of having everything go exactly the way she wants. But in the process, she just may find out that what she really wants and what she actually needs are two very different things.

Literary Agent Interview: Jennifer Johnson-Blalock

The profession and day-to-day job of a literary agent has always fascinated me. These people work tirelessly and enthusiastically to help sell their clients' books to publishers. Just thinking of all your favorite books, some literary agent helped get that book recognized and published.

Today I interview Jennifer Johnson-Blalock, a literary agent at Liza Dawson Associates. Learn more about the job of a literary agent, what she looks for in manuscripts, and her favorite tv shows!

What Sparked Your Love for Reading?

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On the first day of my "Young Adult World and Perspective" class, my teacher posed the following question to us: "What is your favorite book?"

The question seemed simple enough to answer, right?  It's a common topic of conversation, and a common question many of us are asked rather frequently.  When it was my turn to share, I answered without difficulty.  However, as we went around the class, some of my classmates' answers were both amusing and . . . disappointing -- and perhaps surprising.  Here are some of the most notable answers I can remember:

APCB's Got Two More Co-Bloggers!

When I first started A Perfection Called Books, I never anticipated on the site blossoming into something much bigger than I could handle alone. Now roughly two and a half years later, I've found two wonderful co-bloggers in Julia and Mishma. As APCB continues to grow and life gets busier, we thought it best to add an additional co-blogger to join the APCB team. Among so many amazing applications, Julia, Mishma, and I discovered two people who really stood out to us as amazing individuals who could contribute great content and really click with the rest of us. The two new co-bloggers will now introduce themselves! 

-Rachel

Review: Fear the Drowning Deep

Thanks Brittany @ Brittany's Book Rambles for including me in this epic blog tour for Fear the Drowning Deep! I met Sarah Glenn Marsh nearly a year ago at Bookitcon, a book event in Moorestown, New Jersey! I've been so excited for her book ever since, and I'm happy to say that this book is wonderful! Sarah's debut, Fear the Drowning Deep, is a historical fiction thriller that takes place in the early 1900s on an isle in the middle of a tempestuous sea.

Author: Sarah Glenn Marsh
Genre: YA Historical Fiction
Page Length: 310 Pages
Publication Date: October 4, 2016
Publisher: Sky Pony Press
Source: eARC via Publisher
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Witch’s apprentice Bridey Corkill has hated the ocean ever since she watched her granddad dive in and drown with a smile on his face. So when a dead girl rolls in with the tide in the summer of 1913, sixteen-year-old Bridey suspects that whatever compelled her granddad to leap into the sea has made its return to the Isle of Man.

Soon, villagers are vanishing in the night, but no one shares Bridey’s suspicions about the sea. No one but the island’s witch, who isn’t as frightening as she first appears, and the handsome dark-haired lad Bridey rescues from a grim and watery fate. The cause of the deep gashes in Fynn’s stomach and his lost memories are, like the recent disappearances, a mystery well-guarded by the sea. In exchange for saving his life, Fynn teaches Bridey to master her fear of the water — stealing her heart in the process.

Now, Bridey must work with the Isle’s eccentric witch and the boy she isn’t sure she can trust — because if she can’t uncover the truth about the ancient evil in the water, everyone she loves will walk into the sea, never to return.

Review: The Season

Author: Jonah Lisa + Stephen Dyer
Genre: YA Contemporary
Page Length: 326 Pages
Publication Date: July 12, 2016
Publisher: Viking
Source: Finished Copy via Publisher
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She can score a goal, do sixty box jumps in a row, bench press a hundred and fifty pounds…but can she learn to curtsey?

Megan McKnight is a soccer star with Olympic dreams, but she’s not a girly girl. So when her Southern belle mother secretly enters her in the 2016 Dallas debutante season, she’s furious—and has no idea what she’s in for. When Megan’s attitude gets her on probation with the mother hen of the debs, she’s got a month to prove she can ballroom dance, display impeccable manners, and curtsey like a proper Texas lady or she’ll get the boot and disgrace her family. The perk of being a debutante, of course, is going to parties, and it’s at one of these lavish affairs where Megan gets swept off her feet by the debonair and down-to-earth Hank Waterhouse. If only she didn’t have to contend with a backstabbing blonde and her handsome but surly billionaire boyfriend, Megan thinks, being a deb might not be so bad after all. But that’s before she humiliates herself in front of a room full of ten-year-olds, becomes embroiled in a media-frenzy scandal, and gets punched in the face by another girl.

The season has officially begun…but the drama is just getting started.