Review: Human Blend

Title: Human Blend (book 1 of the Blend Trilogy)
Author: Lori Pescatore
Publisher: Createspace/self-published
My Rating: 4 TURTLES: A great read, I definitely recommend.
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Description (via Goodreads):

Escaping from them had been difficult enough, now Laney needs to keep hidden. All she wanted was to be on her own. Laney is not like other girls... she has very special abilities that set her apart from others. How or why she came about these abilities is a mystery she has yet to unfold.
Haunted by memories and flashbacks of the suffering she endured at the hands of her captors, she changes her appearance and hides out in a small town. Ignoring her own warnings, she begins a relationship with a local boy.
A young doctor's interest is piqued when he witnesses her mysteriously curing a young child's illness. He befriends her due to his growing fascination with uncovering the true nature of her abilities, but not without harboring secrets of his own.

Review:

Human Blend really grabbed my attention from the beginning. It is very fast paced and the plot takes many twists and turns. I had no idea what was going to happen next! The main character, Laney, who changes her name to Julie, is seeking the normal life she never had, but ends up uncovering more mysteries about herself and the doctor she befriends than she could have imagined. Besides the fact that there was a lot of information about Laney/Julie’s life that was thrown at the reader, I never felt like I was reading any info-dumps, Lori Pescatore did a great job of incorporating the information into the book without just taking paragraphs to describe one particular thing.
My one big vexation with this book was the typos. I don’t mind if there are just a couple, but there were just enough that I found it distracting. Despite that, the story and characters were so engrossing that I did not think I should lower the rating at all.
I would recommend this book to fans of Urban Fantasy, and if you have a hankering for romance, this would be a good title to check out as well.
Human Blend is a great YA Fantasy read and I will definitely be continuing on with the trilogy.

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Kreativ Blogger Award

Hi everyone! I was awarded the Kreativ Blogger Award by Amanda at Truth, Justice, & Other Stuff

The rules: link back to the blogger who awarded said award. Done! Provide ten facts about myself…not done. And pass it on to six people. Well! Here we go.

1. I went to the Hunger Games premiere at midnight and I would go to the theater and see it everyday until it came out on dvd if I could!

2. When Suzanne Collins came to do a book signing in my town, I got to the store an hour before it opened so I could be first in line.

3. I am allergic to gluten, and think that far too few people even know what it is (so if you don't know look it up! ;-))

4. In my spare time I usually always read (shocker right?) But I am about halfway through a rough draft of a novel that I have been working on for... a long time.

5. The four types of pets that I have never had that I would want if the pet fairy came to my door would be: a pug, a pot-bellied pig (or a royal dandy), a hedgehog, and a turtle.

6. I am a huge fan of LOST and Firefly and am still really sad that they are over/cancelled, but currently am hooked on Downton Abbey.

7. I think Victorian England and a parallel reality where machines are made out of clockwork rivals peanut butter and chocolate for the best combination ever invented.

8. I have an obsession with movie scores and movie trailer scores.

9. When I was four years old I told my mother that I wanted to be a bookworm.

10. My horoscope is Sagittarius.

My Winners Are:

1. Alaskan Book Cafe
2. Back to Books
3. Bookgirl Knitting
4. Epic YA Reads
5. Fighting Dreamer
6. YA Story Teller

Hunger Games Read-Along Chapter Twenty-Seven and giveaway winners!

Well, we have come to the end of the read-along... but don't be sad because that means in two short days (or tomorrow at midnight for some of us). I would also love to thank my co-host Sharon at Obsession With Books

To be honest I had forgotten how the first book ended, and felt a little crushed. I can totally picture the face Josh Hutcherson *excuse me* Peeta makes when he puts 1+1 together and realizes Katniss has just been playing along the whole time and isn't actually madly in love with him!

I am sure most of you now know this, but in case you hadn't heard, the companion soundtrack to the Hunger Games just came out!


From the songs I have heard, it is amazing, and I can't wait to hear the score as well! (I am a total movie score nerd).

And now I believe I have some winners to announce! (winners were selected through Random.org).

The winner of the ecopy of A Little Magic by Valerie Gillen is lpcoolgirl!

The winner of the copy of Mortal Obligation by Nichole Chase is books 4 gr8!

Congratulations you two!

And thank you so much for everyone who checked out the posts, participated in the read-along, and contributed their time to this project, I couldn't have done it without you guys! My respite will be brief though, since I am hosting my annual Haiku Writing Challenge in honor of April, National Poetry Month. (Hopefully I'll actually have a prize this year!)

Hunger Games Read-Along Chapter Twenty-Six

The chapter post for chapter 26 in the Hunger Games read-along is over at The Bookaholic!

Giveaway announcement

Be sure to check out this awesome giveaway!

Follow Friday

Q: What is the best book you've read in the last month? What is the worst book you've read in the last month?.


The best book that I read in the last month was probably Wonderstruck by Brian Selznick. Selznick is such a master story-teller and always original with his combination of illustrations and text. And because so much of the book is pictures, one could easily read in one sitting, but that doesn't make it any less potent. If you haven't read Wonderstruck yet you really need to, I promise it will be worth it!


I haven't read any bad books this month, but one that I didn't like as much as the others was probably Crossed, which I just finished on audiobook. I think the thing that bugs me the most about this series is the cookie cutter YA love triange. I am not a very love triangle -y person, I mean I have my exceptions *cough* Katniss-Gale-Peeta *cough* Tessa-Jem-Will *cough*, but I think that there are more ways to have your character have romantic tension without it be a triangle, you know what I mean?

Hunger Games Read-Along Chapter Twenty-Four

The chapter post for chapter 24 in our read-along is over at Death Books and Tea, but sure to check it out!