Review

Watching a debut author in the days leading up to their first publication (book birthday!) is always a joy to behold. Tahereh Mafi was especially fun to watch as her excitement was palpable. She also acted in a way I think I would (will?) act should I ever be published. She was grateful, amazed, in shock, stunned, dazed, excited, giddy and a whole host of emotions. Her tweets brought a smile to my face.

So, of course, I had to read her book.

“You can’t touch me,” I whisper.

I’m lying, is what I don’t tell him.

He can touch me, is what I’ll never tell him.

But things happen when people touch me.

Strange things.

Bad things.

No one knows why Juliette’s touch is fatal, but The Reestablishment has plans for her. Plans to use her as a weapon.

But Juliette has plans of her own.

After a lifetime without freedom, she’s finally discovering a strength to fight back for the very first time—and to find a future with the one boy she thought she’d lost.

The writing in this book. *flails* I bow to her wordsmithing skills – seriously. The repetition and strike-throughs and stuttered sentences convey the visceral fear Juliette feels around others. The descriptions are delicious and evoke such imagery of this broken world they live in now.

“Their hands are wrapped in gloves wrapped around guns that could put a bullet through a million possibilities.”

Brainspasm…

So, here’s the thing. When I come across a book I know I’ll want to buy, I will preorder it immediately. Sometimes, I accidentally preorder it more than once because I forget. That happened this time. I possess two copies of this book. Normally, I would send it back, BUT

I’m going to give it to one of you. It isn’t signed or anything special but it’s a first edition, release day hardcover copy. It’s pretty and new and shiny and smells wonderful. I bought it with my own money – no one sent it to me or bribed me or promised me cookies to read it.

All you have to do is leave me a comment. That’s it. One comment. Tell me about your day or your favorite color or why you’d want to read this book or just say hi. Leave me a valid email so I can get in touch with you if you win! But only one comment. Subsequent comments won’t count and you don’t get any extra entries for Tweeting, Tumbling, Facebooking, Blogging, Google Plussing or anything else-ing.

USA and Canada only. Sorry, overseas lovelies, I can’t afford the postage.

I’ll run a randomizer thingy on Monday and pick a winner. Easy!

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