Review: The Fault in Our Stars by John Green

                                                       The Fault in Our Stars              
                                                             John Green
                                                         January 10, 2012
Synopsis:
    
Diagnosed with Stage IV thyroid cancer at 12, Hazel was prepared to die until, at 14, a medical miracle shrunk the tumours in her lungs... for now.

Two years post-miracle, sixteen-year-old Hazel is post-everything else too; post-high school, post-friends and post-normalcy. And even though she could live for a long time (whatever that means), Hazel lives tethered to an oxygen tank, the tumours tenuously kept at bay with a constant chemical assault.

Enter Augustus Waters. A match made at Cancer Kid Support Group, Augustus is gorgeous, in remission, and shockingly to her, interested in Hazel. Being with Augustus is both an unexpected destination and a long-needed journey, pushing Hazel to re-examine how sickness and health, life and death, will define her and the legacy that everyone leaves behind.

Tanya's Review:
    The synopsis of this book had me thinking, oh no I can't read this it sounds so depressing. Then it started getting all this great buzz and I thought ok well maybe its not that horrible if I see it I will get it. So when I found it at my local used bookstore I totally bought it and it went in my giant TBR pile, because it really did still sound depressing. Then it was being made into a movie and well I always read the book before seeing the movie as I always find the movie lacking. So to the top of the TBR  pile it went. I started reading it while I was visiting my mom in the hospital, and the nurse looked at me and said " I just finished that book I can't believe you are gonna read that book in public, you know you are gonna cry right? " 
   So all that being said, I can  not believe what a schmuckk I was leaving this beautiful book in my TBR pile for so long. Did it make me cry? Of course it did but it also made me laugh and made me want to be a better person. The story is of course sad, kids with cancer but they are still teenage kids and they are normal and want to be treated normal. This story was so beautifully written, it had everything hope, sadness, laughter, devastation and so much love.
    I know this is a YA book, but honestly everyone should read it. This book really is worth all the hype and please have tissues handy when you do read it. 

The Fault in Our Stars:   5/5  stars
                                                   

Freedom to Read Giveaway Hop! Enter to win The Hunger Games and Earthbound!

We here at The Revolving Bookcase for Young Readers are so excited to be participating in our first ever giveaway blog hop: The Freedom to Read Blog Hop! Thank you so much to I Am a Reader and Bookhounds for hosting such an amazing hop - there are over 140 blogs participating with so many awesome prizes up for grabs so be sure to visit each one (see the linky list at the end of the post - some posts might not be live until the official start date of July 2nd)! We are giving away TWO YA books to one winner - a paperback copy of The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins and a paperback ARC (advance reader's copy) of Earthbound by Aprilynne Pike (note that the cover of the ARC is different from the cover pictured). This giveaway is open to US Only.

Winning means fame and fortune.
Losing means certain death.
The Hunger Games have begun...

In the ruins of a place once known as North America lies the nation of Panem, the shining Capitol surrounded by twelve outlying districts. The Capitol is harsh and keeps the districts in line by forcing them all to send one boy and one girl between the ages of twelve and eighteen to participate in the annual Hunger Games, a fight to the death on live TV.

Sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen regards it as a death sentence when she steps forward to take her sister's place in the Games. But Katniss has been close to dead before--and survival, for her, is second nature. Without really meaning to, she becomes a contender. But if she is to win, she will have to start making choices that weigh survival against humanity and life against love.

Tavia Michaels is the sole survivor of the plane crash that killed her parents. When she starts to see strange visions of a boy she’s never spoken with in real life, she begins to suspect that there’s much about her past that she isn’t being told. 

Tavia immediately searches for answers, desperate to determine why she feels so drawn to a boy she hardly knows. But when Tavia discovers that the aunt and uncle who took her in after her parents' death may have actually been responsible for the plane crash that killed them--and that she may have been the true intended victim--she flees for the safety of Camden, Maine, where the boy she sees in her visions instructs her to go.

Now, Tavia is on the run with no one to trust. No one, that is, except for her best friend and longtime crush, Benson.

Tavia feels torn between the boy who mysteriously comes to her at night and the boy who has been by her side every step of the way. But what Tavia doesn't know is that the world is literally falling apart and that to save it she will have to unite with the boy in her visions. Only problem? To do so would mean rejecting Benson's love. And that's the one thing Tavia Michaels swore she'd never do.

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Cover reveal and Giveaway: Descend by Skye Malone

Title: Descend

Series: Awakened Fate (Book Two)

Author: SkyeMalone

Genre: Young Adult Paranormal Romance

Publisher: Wildflower Isle

Publication Date: August 4, 2014

Cover Designer: Karri Klawiter (www.artbykarri.com)

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Chloe always dreamed of visiting the ocean, and now the ocean is the only place she has left to go. Trapped in the form of a mermaid and on the run from the Sylphaen, her best chance for safety lies in traveling with Zeke to his underwater home and staying under his protection there.

Leaving isn’t easy, however. Her best friend doesn’t know where she’s gone, and her family doesn’t either. She’s been forced to abandon Noah, the boy she’s liked for years and who she’s just discovered likes her too. She only hopes Zeke’s people will help her so she can return soon.

But when conspiracies follow her and people start to die, safety becomes harder to find than ever. The Sylphaen are coming. They’re more powerful than she could have imagined.

And they’re not through with Chloe yet.

Awaken by Skye Malone

Book #1 in The Awakened Fate Series

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About Skye Malone

Skye Malone is a fantasy and paranormal romance author, which means she spends most of her time not-quite-convinced that the things she imagines couldn't actually exist.

Born and raised in central Illinois, she hopes someday to travel the world – though in the meantime she’ll take any story that whisks her off to a place where the fantastic lives inside the everyday. She loves strong and passionate characters, complex villains, and satisfying endings that stay with you long after the book is done. An inveterate writer, she can’t go a day without getting her hands on a keyboard, and can usually be found typing away while she listens to all the adventures unfolding in her head.

Skye also writes YA urban fantasy as Megan Joel Peterson and is the author of The Children and the Blood trilogy.

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GIVEAWAYS: Celebrate Launch of The Revolving Bookcase for Young Readers!

We are so excited to be launching The Revolving Bookcase for Young Readers, a companion blog to The Revolving Bookcase! As its name suggests, The Revolving Bookcase for Young Readers will focus on books meant for those under 18: Children's, Middle Grade, and Young Adult genres. The (original) Revolving Bookcase will continue as it has been, mostly adult titles, with some crossover reviews for YA titles that adults would also enjoy. The new blog will officially launch July 1, but we're getting the party started a bit early to continue and add-on to our month-long blogiversary celebration with some new giveaways including one just for the Young Reader genres! Extra entries will be given for following both blogs in some way!

Giveaway #1

Tote Bag with 6 books (and a teaser pamphlet)

This giveaway is open to US Residents (18 or older) - for legal reasons, if you are under 18, your parents will have to enter for you. 

Included:

Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand (ARC of book adapted for Young Adult readers)

Skink No Surrender by Carl Hiaasen (ARC)

Winterfrost by Michelle Houts (ARC)

The Goddess Test by Aimee Carter

Dresskeeper by Mary Naylus

The Land of Stories by Chris Colfer (ARC)

365 Days of Wonder by P.J Palacio (Pamphlet and Tote bag - just one, two shown in photo to illustrate both sides of bag)

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Giveaway #2

$15 Amazon or Barnes & Noble Gift Card

(open internationally as long as it complies with all laws of your country and you are able to receive gift cards to Amazon or B&N via email)

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