Early Review: Kissing Shakespeare by Pamela Mingle

Kissing Shakespeare

Author: Pamela Mingle

Publisher: Random House, 2012

Genre: YA Paranormal

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Overview

Miranda has Shakespeare in her blood: she hopes one day to become a Shakespearean actor like her famous parents. At least, she does until her disastrous performance in her school's staging of The Taming of the Shrew. Humiliated, Miranda skips the opening-night party. All she wants to do is hide.

Fellow cast member, Stephen Langford, has other plans for Miranda. When he steps out of the backstage shadows and asks if she'd like to meet Shakespeare, Miranda thinks he's a total nutcase. But before she can object, Stephen whisks her back to 16th century England—the world Stephen's really from. He wants Miranda use her acting talents and modern-day charms on the young Will Shakespeare. Without her help, Stephen claims, the world will lost its greatest playwright.

Miranda isn't convinced she's the girl for the job. Why would Shakespeare care about her? And just who is this infuriating time traveler, Stephen Langford? Reluctantly, she agrees to help, knowing that it's her only chance of getting back to the present and her "real" life. What Miranda doesn't bargain for is finding true love . . . with no acting required.

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I am eagerly waiting for... 

Destroy Me

(Shatter Me 1.5)

Tahereh Mafi

October 2 2012

Goodreads:

Back at the base and recovering from his near-fatal wound, Warner must do everything in his power to keep his soldiers in check and suppress any mention of a rebellion in the sector. Still as obsessed with Juliette as ever, his first priority is to find her, bring her back, and dispose of Adam and Kenji, the two traitors who helped her escape. But when Warner’s father, The Supreme Commander of The Reestablishment, arrives to correct his son’s mistakes, it’s clear that he has much different plans for Juliette. Plans Warner simply cannot allow.

Why am I waiting for it?

Honestly, I do not like Warner. Hate him. He's the villain. And his obsession with Juliette is kind of creepy. BUT…I love Tahereh's work. I believe in her, in that she can make me not love, but maybe like Warner a bit in this novella. So, I'll read it.

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Tempest's Fury
by Nicole Peeler

"I realized how much I'd come to want you—to see you, to talk to you, to touch you. And I knew that if you died in that bed, in my bed, I'd be really, really pissed off."

          I couldn't help but giggle. "Royally pissed off?"

          "Royally," he replied, but while his tone was light his expression was very serious.

          "Would you have run off to expose your sparkly chest to the humans in Italy?"

          "What the hell are you talking about?"