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Book Trailer Thursday (66)–The Way We Fall by Megan Crewe & Fever by Lauren DeStefano

24 May

Finding book trailers was easier today, so I’m posting two!  The Way We Fall by Megan Crewe is a new dystopian from Disney-Hyperion and Fever by Lauren DeStefano is the second book in The Chemical Garden trilogy.  I like both trailers and I hope you enjoy them as well :)

Summary of The Way We Fall (From Goodreads): It starts with an itch you just can’t shake. Then comes a fever and a tickle in your throat. A few days later, you’ll be blabbing your secrets and chatting with strangers like they’re old friends. Three more, and the paranoid hallucinations kick in.

And then you’re dead.

When a deadly virus begins to sweep through sixteen-year-old Kaelyn’s community, the government quarantines her island—no one can leave, and no one can come back.

Those still healthy must fight for dwindling supplies, or lose all chance of survival. As everything familiar comes crashing down, Kaelyn joins forces with a former rival and discovers a new love in the midst of heartbreak. When the virus starts to rob her of friends and family, she clings to the belief that there must be a way to save the people she holds dearest.

Because how will she go on if there isn’t?

Summary of Fever (From Goodreads): Rhine and Gabriel have escaped the mansion, but danger is never far behind.

Running away brings Rhine and Gabriel right into a trap, in the form of a twisted carnival whose ringmistress keeps watch over a menagerie of girls. Just as Rhine uncovers what plans await her, her fortune turns again. With Gabriel at her side, Rhine travels through an environment as grim as the one she left a year ago – surroundings that mirror her own feelings of fear and hopelessness.

The two are determined to get to Manhattan, to relative safety with Rhine’s twin brother, Rowan. But the road there is long and perilous – and in a world where young women only live to age twenty and young men die at twenty-five, time is precious. Worse still, they can’t seem to elude Rhine’s father-in-law, Vaughn, who is determined to bring Rhine back to the mansion…by any means necessary.

In the sequel to Lauren DeStefano’s harrowing Wither, Rhine must decide if freedom is worth the price – now that she has more to lose than ever.

Book Trailer Thursday (65)–Au Revoir, Crazy European Chick by Joe Schreiber

17 May

Has anyone read Au Revoir, Crazy European Chick by Joe Schreiber?  I haven’t read any reviews for it, but I found the trailer while searching for today’s post feature and I think it sounds fun.  I like that it’s written from a guy’s point of view as well.  I’d love to know your thoughts if you’ve read it or heard anything about it!

Summary (From Goodreads): Perry Stormaire is a normal high school senior– he is busy applying to college and rehearsing with his band –until he agrees to go to the prom with the Lithuanian exchange student who is staying with his family. It turns out that Gobi Zaksauskas is not the mousy teenager that she seems but rather an attractive, confident trained assassin. Instead of going to the prom, Perry finds himself on a wild ride through the streets of New York City as Gobi commandeers the Jaguar his father lent him for the prom in order to take out her targets. Perry learns a lot about himself – and ends up with some amazing material for his college application essays.

 

Book Trailer Thursday (64)–Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein

10 May

Recently I’ve seen some tweets and received an email or two about an upcoming release called Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein (May 15th).  Pretty much everything I’ve seen on Twitter and Goodreads has been positive, so I decided to look into it.  Based on the early reviews and the summary, I decided to check it out and requested a copy via NetGalley which was recently approved.  I haven’t started reading Code Name Verity yet, but I’m looking forward to it because I know historical fiction is popular with a group of my students, the boys in particular.

I have mixed feelings about this trailer because it doesn’t make the premise of the book obvious in regards to text.  I like the music and the warning siren and everything else though because it gives potential readers a good idea of the tone of the book despite needing to pay closer attention to the text as it’s displayed.  I’d love to know your thoughts about the trailer and the book if you’ve read it :)

**Note–This is the trailer created by Edgmont for the UK release which was in February of this year.**

Summary (From Goodreads): Oct. 11th, 1943—A British spy plane crashes in Nazi-occupied France. Its pilot and passenger are best friends. One of the girls has a chance at survival. The other has lost the game before it’s barely begun.

When “Verity” is arrested by the Gestapo, she’s sure she doesn’t stand a chance. As a secret agent captured in enemy territory, she’s living a spy’s worst nightmare. Her Nazi interrogators give her a simple choice: reveal her mission or face a grisly execution.

As she intricately weaves her confession, Verity uncovers her past, how she became friends with the pilot Maddie, and why she left Maddie in the wrecked fuselage of their plane. On each new scrap of paper, Verity battles for her life, confronting her views on courage and failure and her desperate hope to make it home. But will trading her secrets be enough to save her from the enemy?

Harrowing and beautifully written, Elizabeth Wein creates a visceral read of danger, resolve, and survival that shows just how far true friends will go to save each other. Code Name Verity is an outstanding novel that will stick with you long after the last page.

 

 

Book Trailer Thursday (63)–Stupid Fast by Geoff Herbach

3 May

So I guess I’m all about Geoff Herbach and his greatness this week!  I was on his website and found this new book trailer for Stupid Fast, which I really like because it was made by teens.  I’m looking forward to showing this to my students since I’m offering  an extra credit opportunity which allows them to make book trailers.  I hope you like it!

Summary (From Goodreads):

Praise for Stupid Fast
“A rare mix of raw honesty and hilarity. Stupid Fast is Stupid Good “
-Peter Bognanni,
author of The House of Tomorrow
I AM NOT STUPID FUNNY.
I AM STUPID FAST.
My name is Felton Reinstein, which is not a fast name. But last November, my voice finally dropped and I grew all this hair and then I got stupid fast. Fast like a donkey. Zing.
Now they want me, the guy they used to call Squirrel Nut, to try out for the football team. With the jocks. But will that fix my mom? Make my brother stop dressing like a pirate? Most important, will it get me girls -especially Aleah?
So I train. And I run. And I sneak off to Aleah’s house in the night. But deep down I know I can’t run forever. And I wonder what will happen when I finally have to stop.

 

Book Trailer Thursday (62)–Struck by Jennifer Bosworth

26 Apr

I’m getting ready to start reading Struck by Jennifer Bosworth, so I was pretty darn excited to see the trailer.  The cover for this book is really cool, and even though it has a girl on the cover, I think my guys in class will read it without hesitation.  The whole premise sounds fun and exciting, and the now the trailer has left me wanting to read it even more.  A lightning addict?  What a concept!  I’m wondering if Mia will be like Storm from X-Men (probably my favorite comic book series).

What do you think of the trailer?  Is Struck part of your TBR list?  If you’ve read it already I’d love to know what you think!

Struck Book CoverSummary (From Goodreads): Mia Price is a lightning addict. She’s survived countless strikes, but her craving to connect to the energy in storms endangers her life and the lives of those around her.

Los Angeles, where lightning rarely strikes, is one of the few places Mia feels safe from her addiction. But when an earthquake devastates the city, her haven is transformed into a minefield of chaos and danger. The beaches become massive tent cities. Downtown is a crumbling wasteland, where a traveling party moves to a different empty building each night, the revelers drawn to the destruction by a force they cannot deny. Two warring cults rise to power, and both see Mia as the key to their opposing doomsday prophecies. They believe she has a connection to the freak electrical storm that caused the quake, and to the far more devastating storm that is yet to come.

Mia wants to trust the enigmatic and alluring Jeremy when he promises to protect her, but she fears he isn’t who he claims to be. In the end, the passion and power that brought them together could be their downfall. When the final disaster strikes, Mia must risk unleashing the full horror of her strength to save the people she loves, or lose everything.

 

Book Trailer Thursday (61)–Wonder by R.J. Palacio

19 Apr

I’ve read some rave reviews for Wonder by R.J. Palacio and many of my Twitter friends have been singing its praises as well.  There’s even a hashtag devoted to Wonder #thewonderofwonder.  R.J. Palacio’s book is a little young, but it deals with a universal topic that I’m sure my students at the high school level will enjoy.  I really need to move Wonder up on my TBR list.  If you’ve read it, what did you think?  Is this trailer a good depiction/advertisement for the book?

Wonder Book CoverSummary of Wonder (From Goodreads): I won’t describe what I look like. Whatever you’re thinking, it’s probably worse.

August (Auggie) Pullman was born with a facial deformity that prevented him from going to a mainstream school—until now. He’s about to start 5th grade at Beecher Prep, and if you’ve ever been the new kid then you know how hard that can be. The thing is Auggie’s just an ordinary kid, with an extraordinary face. But can he convince his new classmates that he’s just like them, despite appearances?

R. J. Palacio has written a spare, warm, uplifting story that will have readers laughing one minute and wiping away tears the next. With wonderfully realistic family interactions (flawed, but loving), lively school scenes, and short chapters, Wonder is accessible to readers of all levels.

 

Book Trailer Thursday (60)–The Last Echo by Kimberly Derting

12 Apr

I am so excited that I found this book trailer because I LOVE this series!  Of all the series out there, The Body Finder series is one of my favorites.  I love the mystery and suspense and of course the romance.  Thankfully HaperCollins sent me an ARC of The Last Echo (releases on April 17th!!) which I read right away and am currently finishing my (very positive) review.  If you haven’t read the series yet, I don’t think this trailer will give anything away, but just in case I’m including the trailer for The Body Finder below The Last Echo trailer.

The Body Finder series:
The Body Finder
Desires of the Dead
The Last Echo
Book #4 untitled

The Last Echo coverSummary of The Last Echo (From Goodreads):

In the end, all that’s left is an echo…
Violet kept her morbid ability to sense dead bodies a secret from everyone except her family and her childhood-best-friend-turned-boyfriend, Jay Heaton. That is until forensic psychologist Sara Priest discovered Violet’s talent and invited her to use her gift to track down murderers. Now, as she works with an eclectic group of individuals—including mysterious and dangerously attractive Rafe—it’s Violet’s job to help those who have been murdered by bringing their killers to justice. When Violet discovers the body of a college girl killed by “the girlfriend collector” she is determined to solve the case. But now the serial killer is on the lookout for a new “relationship” and Violet may have caught his eye…

 

 

 

The Body Finder coverSummary of The Body Finder (From Goodreads): Violet Ambrose is grappling with two major issues: Jay Heaton and her morbid secret ability. While the sixteen-year-old is confused by her new feelings for her best friend since childhood, she is more disturbed by her “power” to sense dead bodies—or at least those that have been murdered. Since she was a little girl, she has felt the echoes that the dead leave behind in the world… and the imprints that attach to their killers.

Violet has never considered her strange talent to be a gift; it mostly just led her to find the dead birds her cat had tired of playing with. But now that a serial killer has begun terrorizing her small town, and the echoes of the local girls he’s claimed haunt her daily, she realizes she might be the only person who can stop him.

Despite his fierce protectiveness over her, Jay reluctantly agrees to help Violet on her quest to find the murderer—and Violet is unnerved to find herself hoping that Jay’s intentions are much more than friendly. But even as she’s falling intensely in love, Violet is getting closer and closer to discovering a killer… and becoming his prey herself.

 

Book Trailer Thursday (59)–Insurgent by Veronica Roth

5 Apr

Squee!  The book trailer for Insurgent by Veronica Roth doesn’t tell us too much about the book, but it makes me extra excited for the release anyway.  This book trailer is, however, better than the trailer for Divergent.  Is anyone else über excited about the release of Insurgent?  Has anyone been lucky enough to read it already?!  If you didn’t already know, Insurgent releases on May 1st!

Insurgent Book CoverSummary of Insurgent (From Goodreads): One choice can transform you—or it can destroy you. But every choice has consequences, and as unrest surges in the factions all around her, Tris Prior must continue trying to save those she loves—and herself—while grappling with haunting questions of grief and forgiveness, identity and loyalty, politics and love.

Tris’s initiation day should have been marked by celebration and victory with her chosen faction; instead, the day ended with unspeakable horrors. War now looms as conflict between the factions and their ideologies grows. And in times of war, sides must be chosen, secrets will emerge, and choices will become even more irrevocable—and even more powerful. Transformed by her own decisions but also by haunting grief and guilt, radical new discoveries, and shifting relationships, Tris must fully embrace her Divergence, even if she does not know what she may lose by doing so.

New York Times bestselling author Veronica Roth’s much-anticipated second book of the dystopian Divergent series is another intoxicating thrill ride of a story, rich with hallmark twists, heartbreaks, romance, and powerful insights about human nature.

 

Book Trailer Thursday (58)–I Hunt Killers by Barry Lyga

29 Mar

I’m excited to see that Little, Brown made a book trailer for Barry Lyga’s newest novel I Hunt Killers.  This is a Y.A. crime novel which the trailer does an excellent job of portraying.  I also think readers will have a better understanding of the maturity level based on the pictures included, like the sharp, rusty tools and the blood.  I’m glad we only hear Jazz’s voice too.  It’s nice being able to create my own face to go with the character.  What are your thoughts?

Summary of I Hunt Killers (From the Publisher’s Website):

What if the world’s worst serial killer…was your dad?

 
Jasper (Jazz) Dent is a likable teenager. A charmer, one might say.
 
But he’s also the son of the world’s most infamous serial killer, and for Dear Old Dad, Take Your Son to Work Day was year-round. Jazz has witnessed crime scenes the way cops wish they could–from the criminal’s point of view.
 
And now bodies are piling up in Lobo’s Nod.
 
In an effort to clear his name, Jazz joins the police in a hunt for a new serial killer. But Jazz has a secret–could he be more like his father than anyone knows?

Book Trailer Thursday (57)–Born Wicked by Jessica Spotswood

22 Mar

Sigh.  I love this book SO MUCH (my review).  I really like the actor they chose for the trailer and the scenes they included.  Some really minor details, but important in my opinion, from Born Wicked are represented in the trailer.  Seriously, if you haven’t read this book make sure you do so pronto! :)

Born Wicked Book CoverSummary of Born Wicked (From Goodreads): Everybody knows Cate Cahill and her sisters are eccentric. Too pretty, too reclusive, and far too educated for their own good. But the truth is even worse: they’re witches. And if their secret is discovered by the priests of the Brotherhood, it would mean an asylum, a prison ship—or an early grave.

Before her mother died, Cate promised to protect her sisters. But with only six months left to choose between marriage and the Sisterhood, she might not be able to keep her word… especially after she finds her mother’s diary, uncovering a secret that could spell her family’s destruction. Desperate to find alternatives to their fate, Cate starts scouring banned books and questioning rebellious new friends, all while juggling tea parties, shocking marriage proposals, and a forbidden romance with the completely unsuitable Finn Belastra.

If what her mother wrote is true, the Cahill girls aren’t safe. Not from the Brotherhood, the Sisterhood—not even from each other.

 

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