Shift by Jeri Smith-Ready

                                             Shift By Jeri Smaith-Ready

    

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Shift (Shade #2)

byJeri Smith-Ready (Goodreads Author)

Shift (Shade, #2)4.32 · rating details · 1,153 ratings · 321 reviews

Aura’s life is anything but easy. Her boyfriend, Logan, died, and his slides between ghost and shade have left her reeling. Aura knows he needs her now more than ever. She loves Logan, but she can’t deny her connection with the totally supportive, totally gorgeous Zachary. And she’s not sure that she wants to. Logan and Zachary will fight to be the one by her side, but Aur
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Aura’s life is anything but easy. Her boyfriend, Logan, died, and his slides between ghost and shade have left her reeling. Aura knows he needs her now more than ever. She loves Logan, but she can’t deny her connection with the totally supportive, totally gorgeous Zachary. And she’s not sure that she wants to. Logan and Zachary will fight to be the one by her side, but Aura needs them both to uncover the mystery of her past—the mystery of the Shift.
As Aura’s search uncovers new truths, she must decide whom to trust with her secrets…and her heart.

Hardcover, 367 pages

Published May 3rd 2011 by Simon Pulse

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ISBN

1416994084 (ISBN13: 9781416994084)

primary language

English

original title

Shift

series

Shade #2

     Shift was good but I am not in love with it like I was with Shade. I will still buy it for my shelf and even read it again depending on the next book.

       Lets see, Shift starts about 3 months after Shade, with Aura looking for Logan. In the book Aura and Zack finds out more about the shift, along with finding out about her moms past. Zack and Aura are on the run from DMP and have to find a way back to town. Aura and Zacks relationship is a rollercoaster and they learn they cant keep secrets from each other any more or they may not ever be able to share them with each other.

    Alright i dont really know how to give a review with out ruining the book for you if you have not read it, for what the book has is not much and would ruin it unlike the first where there was alot i could say without ruining much.. I only liked the first couple of chapters and the end, everything in between was pretty much the same stuff in the first book just with Aura flipping back and forth with Logan and Zack which i found annoying. (by the way I am team Zack) I fell with the first blowing my away this one didnt really have a chance to be as great.

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Shade by Jeri Smith-Ready

 

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Shade (Shade #1)

byJeri Smith-Ready (Goodreads Author)

Shade (Shade, #1)4.05 · rating details · 2,670 ratings · 640 reviews

Love ties them together. Death can't tear them apart.
Best. Birthday. Ever. At least, it was supposed to be. With Logan's band playing a critical gig and Aura's plans for an intimate after-party, Aura knows it will be the most memorable night of her boyfriend's life. She never thought it would be his last.
Logan's sudden death leaves Aura devastated. He's gone.
Well, sort



...moreLove ties them together. Death can't tear them apart.
Best. Birthday. Ever. At least, it was supposed to be. With Logan's band playing a critical gig and Aura's plans for an intimate after-party, Aura knows it will be the most memorable night of her boyfriend's life. She never thought it would be his last.
Logan's sudden death leaves Aura devastated. He's gone.
Well, sort of.
Like everyone born after the Shift, Aura can see and hear ghosts. This mysterious ability has always been annoying, and Aura had wanted nothing more than to figure out why the Shift happened so she can undo it. But not with Logan's violet-hued spirit still hanging around. Because dead Logan is almost as real as ever. Almost.
It doesn't help that Aura's new friend Zachary is so understanding—and so very alive. His support means more to Aura than she cares to admit.
As Aura's relationships with the dead and the living grow ever complicated, so do her feelings for Logan and Zachary. Each holds a piece of Aura's heart...and clues to the secret of the Shift.

                                           

Hardcover, 309 pages

Published May 4th 2010 by Simon Pulse

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ISBN

1416994068 (ISBN13: 9781416994060)

primary language

English

original title

Shade

series

Shade #1

    Aura was born 16 years after the shift, her boyfriend Logan, before the shit. Everything was going good Logan was having the night of his life, till it became Aura's worst night. Every one born after the shift can see ghost and no one knows why.
    When Logan suddenly dies Aura gains a new shost, this time its Logan's ghost and she is the only one keeping him from shading. Aura has to learn how to live with his loss while falling more in love with him as a ghost.
    An exchange student shows up at Aura's school and has secrets of his own that can unlock her past and secrets of the shift. As Zack and Aura gets closer can they stay just friends, can she save Logan from turning to a shade, can she stay safe?
     This book blew my mind away! At first I had a hard time in the begging due to being confussed about the shift and about shading and stuff, I think they could have explained it alittle better but other then that i would have given it 5 stars! I could NOT put the book down, i ended up staying up all night reading it, crying my eyes out and even laughing. This book is a must read for teens and adults. Great book on loss, love, and strength.
http://www.goodreads.com/review/list/6753651-jessica-hansen"

City of bones

City of Bones by Cassandra Clare

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From Publishers Weekly

This Buffy-esque YA novel does not translate well to the audio medium, and part of the problem lies in the story's pacing. Teenager Clary discovers she can see supernatural beings that no one else can, gets drawn into the world of the Shadowhunters (teens who kill demons and monsters) and learns that her mother is somehow mysteriously connected to all the strange happenings around her. As a result, a good chunk of the novel consists of long explanatory passages, as various characters fill Clary in on supernatural creatures, the history and rules of the Shadowhunters and her mother's entanglements—all of which come across as tedious lectures. In addition, narrator Graynor makes almost no attempt to differentiate the various teen characters' voices. Only the minor character Dorothea, played as a faux witch with a gravelly New York accent, is memorable. Graynor also frequently ignores the author's explicit textual directives, such as [Simon] came back, sounding worried or The tone of arrogant superiority was back in [Jace's] voice, for her performance, making this a program with an intriguing premise and cast but disappointing execution. Ages 14-up. (May)
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From School Library Journal

Grade 8 Up–When Clary Fray witnesses three tattoo-covered teenagers murder another teen, she is unable to prove the crime because the victim disappears right in front of her eyes, and no one else can see the killers. She learns that the teens are Shadowhunters (humans who hunt and kill demons), and Clary, a mundie (i.e., mundane human), should not be able to see them either. Shortly after this discovery, her mother, Jocelyn, an erstwhile Shadowhunter, is kidnapped. Jocelyn is the only person who knows the whereabouts of The Mortal Cup, a dangerous magical item that turns humans into Shadowhunters. Clary must find the cup and keep it from a renegade sector of Shadowhunters bent on eliminating all nonhumans, including benevolent werewolves and friendly vampires. Amid motorcycles powered by demon energies, a telepathic brotherhood of archivists, and other moments of great urban fantasy, the story gets sidetracked by cutesy touches, like the toasted bat sandwich on the menu of an otherworldly restaurant. The characters are sporadically characterized and tend toward behavior that is both predictable and slightly repellent–Clary finds out who her real father is about 200 pages after readers will have it figured out. Despite the narrative flaws, this version of New York, full of Buffyesque teens who are trying to save the world, is entertaining and will have fantasy readers anxiously awaiting the next book in the series.–Heather M. Campbell, Philip S. Miller Library, Castle Rock, CO
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Product Details Reading level: Young Adult Hardcover: 496 pages Publisher: Margaret K. McElderry Books; First Edition, Later Printing edition (March 27, 2007) Language: English Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.3 x 1.6 inches Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #88,475 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

What I think of this book!
This book is from the Mortal Instrument series, and after seeing it around the book world I decided to read it and boy am I glad I did. I started it late one night and finished it in 2 sittings. there are some slow parts but also fast parts, and found my self looking up some of the words used in this book. This book is action packed, with romance, adventure, self discovery and keeps you guessing.  So on with my summary. Clary and her best friends Simon go to a club and while dancing she sees this boy that is in trouble and goes to try and help him, while doing so she discovers a new world that she has a hard time believing exist. Later on in the book some-one she loves goes missing and she is thrown into this new world where she teams up with a boy named Jace to help find her mom and discover what she is and who she is. During the book Clary is hunting for her mom while someone is hunting her and in order to find her mom Clary has to unlock her past while fighting for her future. The book Has a Big twist in the end that i didn't see coming and was sad to read but it'll be interesting for the 2nd book.


I would rate this book a 4 out of a 5.


some say this series is like the harry potter series but i haven't read the harry potter series before, and don't think i will till my son is older. Cassacandra was a fan fiction writer for harry potter i learned as I'm writing this lol. On another note though one thing i loved was that this book describes everything and really will put you in the the book of Clary's world.

Behind the book!

Hi, all my name is Jess (short for Jessica) I am 22 years old. I am a mom to a crazy, wild 2 year old little boy named Charles, I am also a wife to a wonderful husband named Gary, who works hard and goes to school full time to support us.

            I am starting this blog for my renewed love for reading, to keep track of what i read and to review the books i have read, and to maybe even inspire more people to read or to start to read again. I love YA books and adult books in pretty much any kind of fiction, i also will be posting reviews for children's books, for after all I am a mom and read every day to my son.

                                                   



                                                        10 facts about myself
                                    I was an Army wife now i am a Vets wife.
                               I have a white and black husky with blue eyes named Mia
                              Believe it or not i am only have white other half i am a mix of Hispanic
                            I have 2 sisters, and out of them I am the oldest, they are 19 and 16.
                   I have lived in Alaska, Illinois, Nevada and now live back in my home state of Cali.
                              I was a foster kid from the age of 14 till I aged out of the system
              I started reading at the age of 14 as a way to escape my reality when I was in a stable place.
    I started reading again when I moved to Alaska with my husband since the winters are long and cold.
                                                  I would love to visit Ireland.
   Meet my husband online at the age of 18 and moved to Alaska 2 months before my 19th birthday.