Review with Author Interview: No Good Deed by Kara Connolly

Book info:

Title:  No Good Deed
Author:  Kara Connolly
Genre:  YA Fairy tale retelling
Release Date:  July 18th, 2017
Publisher:  Delacorte Press
Source: ARC from publisher for honest review
My rating:  5 stars

Synopsis:

Fans of Dorothy Must Die will love this reimagining of the legend of Robin Hood. Girl power rules supreme when a modern girl finds herself in the middle of a medieval mess with only her smart mouth and her Olympic-archer aim to get her home.

Ellie Hudson is the front-runner on the road to gold for the U.S. Olympic archery team. All she has to do is qualify at the trials in jolly old England. When Ellie makes some kind of crazy wrong turn in the caverns under Nottingham Castle—yes, that Nottingham—she ends up in medieval England.

Ellie doesn’t care how she got to the Middle Ages; she just wants to go home before she gets the plague. But people are suffering in Nottingham, and Ellie has the skills to make it better. What’s an ace archer to do while she’s stuck in Sherwood Forest but make like Robin Hood?

Pulled into a past life as an outlaw, Ellie feels her present fading away next to daring do-gooding and a devilishly handsome knight. Only, Ellie is on the brink of rewriting history, and when she picks up her bow and arrow, her next shot could save her past—or doom civilization’s future.

My Review:
If you've been following my blog for a while, you know that I'm a big fan of fairy tale retellings.  I especially like when they are looking at actual historical events and people, which this book does that as well.  

When the book starts out, Ellie has just had a strange experience at a tournament, one that almost caused her to get disqualified.  She sees a man in a white monk's habit in between her and the target she is aiming for.  No one else sees him, and he disappears.  Later on she goes with her mom for lunch, and then while her mom is working, Ellie goes to see the Nottingham castle.  When she's getting ready to buy her ticket to go see the tourist attraction, she spies the monk again and so she goes to follow him, trying to figure out who he really is.  This leads her through the tunnels under the castle, but when she comes out of those tunnels, suddenly she seems to be back in time.  And being there is a crime, and she is immediately on the run from the sheriff and other law of the time.  She ends up being saved by a knight, James, who is also a member of the Templars.  

Along the way she ends up with her own little merry band of friends, who turn out to all kind of fit the characters that were supposed to be Robin Hood's band of outlaws.  So not only is she trying to find her way back home, she's also trying to keep from being put to death for her suppposed crimes of the time, as well as help out those who are suffering under the horrible taxation that seems to be happening at the time.  You know, she kind of becomes Robin Hood.

What I really enjoyed was all of the different historical facts that were woven into the story, making it so much more than just a fairy tale/time travel story.  There was King Richard, and Prince John, as well as Eleanor of Aquitane, and so much more about that time period.  I loved learning where the word sheriff actually came from.  

This was a very fun read, and hard to put down.  There were some things about the Robin Hood story I was unfamiliar with, but it was fun to do the research on those things as well, when I would google as I was reading.  

Author Interview:
1. What does your writing process look like? Do you know the whole story when you start? Or do you just start writing and go with it (seat of the pants writing)? If you plan it out, how do you do that? Outline, notecards, post-it-notes, etc.?
I always seem to know the beginning of the story and the end. I would love to dive in with just that much, but after millions of words of unfinished novels, I realize I need a map.
I like to visualize things, so in my journal, I have a sort of Mad Libs storyboard with all the essential turning points marked where they fall in the timeline. It's all graphed and color coded, which is either sad or awesome. That way I can be in the middle of my day job, and if I get an idea for one of these anchor points I can jot it down. So I'm sort of a hybrid plotter/pantser. I don't have to know every step of the journey, but I need to have signposts.
As I'm writing the first draft, though, I make Post-it notes for each scene. Then when I get to revising, I stick them up on the wall and have a complete timeline to look at. Nothing really beats being able to look at the book from a few steps back.

2. How do you come up with your ideas for your stories?
Have you ever had a compost pile? Basically, you put all your kitchen scraps, coffee grounds, egg shells, etc., into a big pile, and it breaks down into this rich soil you can use for growing more things. You keep adding more stuff and you turn it regularly so it doesn't just become a trash heap. (That part's important.)
My idea process is basically like that. Everything I read or see or hear goes into the bin, along with things that have been there since I was a kid, like my love of the Robin Hood stories, and random things I don't even remember remembering from history class. I add to it with trips to the museum, or true crime podcasts, or books about the decoding of the Rosetta Stone, and I stir it by journaling and drawing and trying to tap into different parts of my creativity.
Then either I plant a seed I want to germinate, or something will sprout on its own. But it's basically grown out of all that stuff that's been mixing and cooking forever. Every writer, I think, has an idea bank, or a shelf, or a file. Mine I think of as fertilizer. I guess you could say my process is organic. ;)

3. How long have you been writing?
I can't remember ever not writing. Before I wrote things down, I acted out stories with action figures (with help from my brother). In school, when the class had to write sentences with our spelling words, I'd turn it into a story. (Which was why I always needed extra time to complete my assignments.) I wrote (terrible) fan fiction. But it took me a long time to write a sellable, full-length novel.

4. What tips do you have for aspiring writers?
Read a lot and write a lot. Reading is how you fill your mental compost heap, and writing and writing and writing is how you develop your voice. If you start a novel, commit to it and don't abandon it when the voice in your head says it's terrible, or this other idea would be better. Your idea is great. And if the writing is terrible, you can fix it. But you can't fix a novel that's never finished.

5. Some favorites:
Books/authors/genres
Classic faves: The Dark is Rising series by Susan Cooper. The Blue Sword (and anything else) by Robin McKinley. Agatha Christie. Lately, I've been reading and loving The Great Library series by Rachel Caine. I love fantasy, and I love gothic novels, and I love that female-lead thrillers are having a moment. (Thank you, Gone Girl, for that.)

Movies/TV Shows
I saw Wonder Woman three times in the theater. Full price. *blush* Star Wars, Star Trek, the Avengers (the first one), Doctor Strange (you're probably sensing a theme), and pretty much anything with a dragon in it. (Why hasn't anyone made the Temeraire series into a movie yet?) Also, I will mainline Modern Family on Hulu when I need a laugh.

Music
I listen to singer-songwriter type stuff at home, Regina Spektor, Ingrid Michaelson, Tori Amos. When I'm driving I like Mumford & Sons, Flogging Molly, and other things where I have to be careful not to speed. I love Florence and the Machine, and I will always love U2. (And sometimes I listen to Taylor Swift in secret.)

Food/Writing snack
I like Smarties when I write. I line them up on the desk and use them as a reward. Write a page, get a Smartie. Write a paragraph, get a Smartie. Some days I have to reward myself for a sentence.

Social Media Site
I've always been a Twitter...er? But lately I have narrowed my feed down to nothing but cute animal pictures (@weratedogs) and special interest feeds (@MerriamWebster @NASA @mental_floss @lifehacker). But it's still the best for easily connecting people. (I'm @readKaraC, by the way.) I pinned a lot on Pinterest when I was writing No Good Deed, but Instagram has taken over that part of my social media brain. (I'm @readkaraconnolly there.)

Thanks so much for the chance to visit with you!

  
About the Author:

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KARA CONNOLLY loves history, though she's never time traveled. She lives and writes in Arlington, Texas. To learn more about Kara and her books go to karaconnolly.wordpress.com or follow @karaconnolly4 on Twitter and @readkaraconnolly on Instagram.

 
 

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Author: Genevieve Crownson

Publisher: Dreamspire Publishing

Pages: 366

Genre: Scifi / Time Travel / YA

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Emma Diamond is still reeling from the shocking revelation she’s been given an extraordinary ability meant to save humanity, when everything she knows and loves begins to unravel. 

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I slammed my head against the wall as the same bloody symbol flashed through my mind again and again. I was immersed in a bone-chilling nightmare; tortured in the same way I had been when I was led to paint the portrait of Emma. There was no way Margaret and her cronies could be behind this. It was too dark, too sinister. It surged and burned, its dangerous currents of evil pulsing through me in a strange, hallucinogenic dance.

I was a loose cannon, unable to complete the simplest of tasks. The food I cooked was disgusting, not to mention I kept messing up the menu items at work. I was on the verge of being fired. To make things worse, my cat Zen fled every time I came near him.

I had periods of wild delusions, times when I became so destructive I wanted to kill Diamond, the woman I loved and adored.

There were hours on end I couldn’t account for. I was frantic; terrified I had actually done something terrible to Emma. My mind would race, desperately trying to recall the lost time.

Fear gnawed at me relentlessly.

I was afraid of myself.

Genevieve Crownson graduated from the College of Charleston with a Bachelors of Science degree. A love of writing led her to pen her debut novel, The Soul of the Sun, book one in her highly anticipated trilogy, The Argos Dynasty. She currently lives in beautiful Charleston, SC with her family and beloved four legged friends. Go to www.genevievecrownson.com to learn how to get FREE books, behind the scenes sneak peaks, special offers and other fun goodies!

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Review: Into the Dim by Janet B. Taylor

First, thanks to Edelweiss and HMH Books for Young Readers for allowing me to read an egalley of this book.  I'd heard good things about this, and I was intrigued by the synopsis.  And I wasn't disappointed.  I've never read the Outlander series, but this is billed as that for teens, so I may have to give the Outlander series a chance now.

The main character is Hope.  Her mother died, or at least disappeared when she was giving a speech in a country where there was a horrible earthquake.  Now, Hope is adopted, and her father, who does love her, has found a new woman to love.  And he is going on a trip with this new woman.  So Hope has the option of staying at home for the summer with her grandmother, who doesn't like her at all, or going to stay with her mother's sister, someone she's never met.  Oh, one other thing, because her aunt lives in Scotland, Hope will have to take a plane, something she has never been able to do because of her claustrophobia.  Hope gets some sedatives from the doctor and makes the plane ride to Scotland safely.  Once she gets there, she soon learns that her mother wasn't quite who she always thought she was.  Hope has always had an eidetic memory, being able to recite word for word any book she'd ever read.  In Scotland she learns that her mother and her family are actually time travelers.  And they need her to go back and help them find something in the time of Eleanor of Aquitane. 

She will have to go back and try to stay undercover so that she doesn't stand out or mess up the timeline by changing history. But back in time she will have to save her new friends she has traveled with, and also try to keep what they are looking for out of the hands of another group of time travelers who want it for nefarious purposes.  And of course, there is the cute boy that she first meets on her aunt's land.  He will figure into the story in a surprise way.  But he will still be a love interest for Hope.  In the end not everything will end up being settled, but Hope will learn how things work, and try to figure out who is really her family and friends, and who the enemy really is.

I loved the historical parts.  I love when there are actual historical figures in a story and I learn more about them intertwined with an interesting story.  I also loved that the stone the time travelers needed to have on their person when traveling through time was an opal.  As opals are my birthstone, I'm always fascinated by stories that use them, because I love them  myself!  As I said not everything is finished at the end, so I'm looking forward to a sequel.  And I'm excited to see what part of history we'll get to visit in the next story.  I can't wait to see where this romance between Hope and Bran goes.  And the major twist at the end with the two of them, well I'm ready to see where else it leads.  I highly recommend this book if you enjoy time travel stories with great history in them.

Review: Until We Meet Again by Renee Collins

First thanks to Sourcebooks for sending me an advanced reader's copy of this book.  I hadn't heard much about it before that time, but the synopsis definitely had me intrigued.  As those of you who have followed me know, I've been kind of swamped with all the egalleys that I had been requesting,  and so unfortunately I didn't get to this one until this week.  But hey, at least my praise for it and review can get people reminded that they need to go out and give it a read!

The main character, well we kind of have two actually, and different chapters are told from each of their viewpoints.  But really it is Cassandra who we get most of the story from. Cassandra is having to spend the summer with her mom and stepdad in a fancy house, with its own private beach, in a small town.  The small town thing is probably the biggest issue for Cassandra. She's away from her friends and stuck with what she thinks are snooty people.  People that her stepdad invites over for parties that she gets stuck going to.  At one of these when she's able to escape the party for a bit, she heads down to the beach.  When she gets there, she finds there is a cute boy, Lawrence, already there. That's odd because as I mentioned, it is a private beach, so no one else should be there.  Also, she's not seen him before, around town, and is is a small town.  He is dressed up, and does say he's from a party up where her house is, so she isn't sure. But he is cute, and nice to talk to.

It turns out that Lawrence believes it is 1925.  When the two of them both try to walk up to the house together, the other one disappears from their view. This is what kind of convinces them that they must really be from different times, and somehow the beach connects them.  In Lawrence's time, he is staying at the house with his uncle, and his uncle, and father, want him to go into law.  But Lawrence doesn't want to, he enjoys writing, poetry especially.  The two of them spend time together on the beach, and of course, really develop feelings for each other.

But one day when Cassandra goes back to her time and one of the guys she was friends with is all of a sudden nowhere to be found, and no one even knows who he is, she realizes that they've maybe caused a big time disruption.  So she goes to the library to do some research into the town's past.  And what she finds is that Lawrence's life is in danger.  But she isn't sure what she should tell him, and what  might mess up things even more.

This was a good story.  It wasn't necessarily time travel, because I feel like the beach was kind of an out of time, in between place.  And while I had kind of figured out what might be going on back in Lawrence's time, I still had no idea how they would be able to solve the problem without completely messing up the time continuum.  I also wondered if any of their theories about what was going on would end up working, so that maybe they could be together.  The story was solved in a good way, with an ending that I think was just right. 

Audio Book Review: Passion (Fallen #3) by Lauren Kate (September Sequel Challenge #2)

Once again I downloaded the audio book from the library to go on with this story. And I really enjoyed a lot about this next part in the series.  It was filled with so many different periods in history, which was a lot of fun.  We didn't get to see all of the characters that much in this book, other than of course Luce and Daniel, although the others did show up here and there for small parts of the story.  If you haven't read this far in the series yet, you can stop here and go back and read my review of the first book, Fallen, so that I don't give you any spoilers. 

In this story we pick up right where we left off from book 2, Torment, Luce has taken off inside of an Announcer, and the others are following her, trying to find her.  Especially Daniel.  Luce is trying to understand just why do they always fall in love.  It leads to death for her every time, and horrible heartbreak for Daniel every time.  And she doesn't know just why they fell in love, or if they are just compelled to because of the curse.  And so she is going back to her past lives to try to figure out why they love each other.  Along the way she will pick up someone named Bill, a gargoyle, who is there to help her figure out what she wants to see.  She will find out in some lives she is a much different girl than she is now.  She will see Daniel in all of his different human bodies as well.  We get to see how she dies, and Luce gets to actually be inside the bodies to experience the death in some of the situations.  I loved all the reincarnations, although so many were in Europe and places other than America, even before it got into the more ancient history.  But there was World War I, and World War II.  Russia, Shakespeare's time, ancient Mayans, and the one I was beginning to wonder if they'd have, ancient Egypt.

The whole time Daniel is following her, always showing up just right after she's left it seems.  And he is just hoping that she won't do something that could mess up all of history, including their love.  In the end, they will find each other, but it will be after something horrible is about to be set in motion.  You see the devil himself will show up, and he will have something to say about this whole thing with Luce and Daniel, and his own wants.  And we'll be left waiting to find out how the gang will fight him, and whether Luce and Daniel's love will really survive, and if they can finally break the curse.

I liked it better than the first two, although there were still moments I wanted to smack Luce, and moments that Daniel was still kind of a controlling jerk.  But again, I'm so ready to read the next book and find out what happens.  Or should I say listen to the next book.  I also heard there is going to be a 5th book, told from Cam's point of view.  And does anyone know when the movie comes out?  I thought it was this fall, but I haven't seen any previews for it.

Promo Post and Giveaway: The Next Together by Lauren James

The Next Together (The Next Together #1)
by Lauren James
Publisher: Walker
Release Date: September 3rd 2015

Genre: Young Adult, Romance, Historial Fiction, Contemporary, Fantasy, Time Travel

Synopsis:

How many times can you lose the person you love? 

Katherine and Matthew are destined to be born again and again, century after century. Each time, their presence changes history for the better, and each time, they fall hopelessly in love, only to be tragically separated. 

Spanning the Crimean War, the Siege of Carlisle and the near-future of 2019 and 2039 they find themselves sacrificing their lives to save the world. But why do they keep coming back? What else must they achieve before they can be left to live and love in peace? 

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A powerful and epic debut novel for teenagers about time-travel, fate and the timelessness of first love. The Next Together is told through a mixture of regular prose, diary entries, letters, "original" historical documents, news reports and internet articles.

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Book Blitz: Silverwood by Betsy Streeter (Giveaway)

Book and Author Details:

Silverwood by Betsy Streeter
(Silverwood #1)
Publication date: March 15th 2015
Genres: Science Fiction, Young Adult

Synopsis:
A story of finding where you belong, even if it involves time travel, shape shifting, and hacking.

Helen Silverwood, fourteen, is sick of life on the run with her mom and her younger brother. Nothing makes sense. She doesn’t understand why she has recurring dreams of shape-shifting creatures, why her mother is always disappearing, and how her brother can draw things that haven’t happened yet. Most of all, Helen longs to know what happened to her dad—is he imprisoned, a fugitive, or gone forever?

When someone blows up the apartment where Helen lives, the stories of the ancient Silverwood clan—and her role in it—begin to unravel. All Helen wants is to feel like there’s someplace she belongs—but getting there will prove very, very complicated.


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AUTHOR BIO:

Betsy Streeter grew up on a steady diet of Star Trek, The Muppet Show, Atari, and musical rehearsals in her family's living room. Her habits of making up stories and drawing and painting on everything within reach eventually led to degrees in art and communication from Stanford University. She has worked in film and video production, design, and video games, and has served as president of a community theatre. She and her family are voracious consumers of books, music, movies, art, action figures, and musical instruments, resulting in inadequate storage space. Betsy has published single-panel cartoons, comics, art, and short fiction in paper, digital, graffiti, and tattoo form. She lives in Northern California with her husband, son, daughter, two peculiar and disruptive cats, and a mellow but hungry tarantula.

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SILVERWOOD EXCERPT I: HELEN SILVERWOOD

(This is the opening of the book)

Helen Silverwood, fourteen, sits dangling her legs from the roof of a twenty-story brick apartment building. Her boot heels bounce off the wall in rhythm as she swings her feet.

The noise of the city echoes from below. Helen’s straight black hair flies across her face in the wind. She peels it off and pulls it back behind her ear with one hand.

With her other hand, Helen carves a symbol into the brick with a folding knife. It’s a circle, with a square in the middle, and a spiral that goes from one corner of the square out to the edge of the circle.  Once it’s done, Helen admires her work.

She folds the knife’s blade into its handle. The knife was a gift from Helen’s father, Gabriel. It’s really much than a knife; the handle sports a variety of buttons and a tiny screen. One of the buttons, when pressed, lights up red and blinks on and off. This is the button that Helen uses to record her journal.

Helen recorded her latest journal entry a few minutes ago on this roof:

RECORDING

Hi Dad, It’s Helen.

Sorry it’s been a while, we were moving. Again. And I didn’t have a roof to get some privacy so we could talk.

Currently, I'm sitting on top of our lovely apartment building in this, our latest greatest home. It's grimy and wet up here, and you have to avoid the puddles. I'm going to do the customary carving of my little symbol up here somewhere, like I do everyplace we stay. I like the way it says: Helen was here. Helen was somewhere. Since I’m sure I’ll be gone again soon. I’m not from anywhere.

When I woke up this morning, I thought the bio reader in the handle of my knife was lit up and I almost fell out of bed. You know, the reader that’s supposed to go on when you come near. Well, the light from the window hit it, I think, and for a split second it looked lit up. But it wasn’t. It’s never lit up.

Mom has been gone every night this week, every night since we moved here. She seems really edgy. The kid brother Henry says so too.

I wish I knew what mom was doing at night. All she ever says is, she has to go to work. And that her job is to keep us safe, and that’s why she does what she does. When she comes home in the morning she looks pretty rough, like she’s been fighting. I’m sure you know all about it, but since this is strictly a one-way conversation, I don’t suppose you’re going to tell me much. Mom is going to have to tell us herself. That is, if we don’t figure it out first.

I have my theories. Theory one: She’s a bodyguard for some mob boss or musician and they tour around and we have to follow. Theory two, which is better: She’s a repo-woman. You know, a person who goes out and takes people’s cars back when they haven’t paid for them and if they fight she kicks their butts and takes the car anyway. Whatever she does, it involves combat skills I’m pretty sure.

Henry has theories too, but his approach is to interrogate mom which doesn’t get very far. He’s only nine, so you have to excuse him, but he’s as smart as any grownup. I think that bothers the grownups.

I’ve got to talk to mom about Henry. He’s having a really hard time. I mean he’s always had a tough time with all this moving around, and he cries every time we pack up and leave. It makes my stomach hurt when I hear him cry.

At his last school Henry got in a lot of fights. And now he’s really quiet. I don’t know, something gives me the feeling he might try and run away. I’m worried about him. And he’s making more drawings of stuff that looks… bad. That’s all I can think of to say.

I say to Henry, someday we’re going to stop moving around, and we’ll have a real home, and dad will come live with us. And we’ll have friends. And a real bed, not just some stuff on the floor. Someday, we will be from somewhere.

I don’t want to be too dreary, so I’ll end on a positive note. Mom always tells me, say something positive. She says she got that from you.

So here it is: At least when we move, I get a break from the dream I always have about the big ugly Tromindox creatures. You know, the ones with the black scales and the tentacles. They look like if I could smell in my dreams, they would smell really bad.

The Tromindox dreams don’t show up for a few days after we move to a new place. Not that it’s all that bad. The dream is the same every time – this slimy thing shows up, and I turn it into a person, and they say thank you about a thousand times and then they leave. That’s it. It’s not a terrible dream, it just happens over and over. I get tired of it, even though the people are different. It’s nice to have a break when we move.

That’s my positive thought for today. No dreams. Maybe instead I can dream about flying for once. Until the Tromindox catch up with me again.

That’s it from the roof, and Dad if you ever get this, I hope I see you soon. We miss you.”

END RECORDING

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