Fierce Reads Tour Recap

Fierce Reads Tour

Event Recap

The Picture Edition

June 9th 2012
Third Place Book in Lake Forest Park

Pre-Event Dinner

Before the event two other bloggers Benji, Sarah and I had dinner and chatted about books. This was really fun and I'm so glad Benji suggested it. I hope I can do this more often for other events in the future.

Me, Benji & Sarah

Benji being a good sport so I could set up my camera and flash for the event

The Event

I love multi author events, they are always so much fun, especially when the authors have already had a few tour stops together and you can really see their fun dynamic playing off of each other. There was lots of laughs throughout the entire event and I had an absolute blast. I won't be posting about any of the Q&A topics, too much to try and remember from this awesome event. Some of the other blogger recaps did post  the info, you can find the links to their posts at the bottom of the post. I on the other hand captured lots of fun pictures.

Lish McBride, Marissa Meyer, Leigh Bardugo, Jennifer Bosworth, Anna Banks & Emmy Laybourne

 I can't remember exactly what the context of this picture was, but it was a fun and entertaining moment

The Book Trailers

 Each author's book trailer was presented before they talked a little bit about their book

Signing Their Books

 Anna from Peace, Love, Teen Fiction

Look I got a picture of Daniel Marks again author of Velveteen coming out in October

A few of the girls posed for me while they were signing my books

Group Photos

They are so fierce with two other bloggers Benji and Sarah

 All the girls holding up the awesome book necklaces Anna made for them all

In summary the event was AWESOME and I really hope they all will come back to Seattle for future book tours. I hope you enjoyed the photos that I took.

The Books

All the books I took with me to get signed at the event. The four most current ARCs, plus a finished copy of every authors book. The second copy of Struck and Cinder are for a friend that couldn't make the event. 

The Sweet Swag

The Fierce Poster

Other Bloggers in Attendance 

The official event blogger for the Seattle stop was Sarah's Random Musings... she will be hosting a giveaway for all 6 of the authors signed books

A few other local bloggers have also posted awesome recaps of the events

The Non Reluctant Reader

The Readventurer

Chicks with Crossbows

My Reviews

(read all but one before the event)

Struck

Of Poseidon

Monument 14

Shadow and Bone

Cinder
 

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Monument 14 Review

Monument 14

By Emmy Laybourne

Summary

Your mother hollers that you’re going to miss the bus. She can see it coming down the street. You don’t stop and hug her and tell her you love her. You don’t thank her for being a good, kind, patient mother. Of course not—you launch yourself down the stairs and make a run for the corner.Only, if it’s the last time you’ll ever see your mother, you sort of start to wish you’d stopped and did those things. Maybe even missed the bus.But the bus was barreling down our street, so I ran.Fourteen kids. One superstore. A million things that go wrong.

In Emmy Laybourne’s action-packed debut novel, six high school kids (some popular, some not), two eighth graders (one a tech genius), and six little kids trapped together in a chain superstore build a refuge for themselves inside. While outside, a series of escalating disasters, beginning with a monster hailstorm and ending with a chemical weapons spill, seems to be tearing the world—as they know it—apart.

What I Liked

Story

When I was reading the book I kept thinking of a modernized and more tame version of Lord of the Flies, but in a supermarket instead of on an unpopulated island. Monument 14 contains some opposite character personalities and how different people will coupe with life threatening situations. The book is filled with survival, some violence and interesting situations.

Characters

Dean: The Stable/Dependable One: I have to admit for some reason when I started reading the book I though our character was a girl, no gender specific notations were made to make me think other wise until a few chapter in when the character was referred to him being Sr and his brother Jr. After I got over that and I had switch my gender perceptions I did have a hard time loving Dean, I liked his character, but I'm not the hugest fan of nonathletic nerdy boys. I did feel sorry for him, he was the unnoticed guy that becomes the "gofer" (go for this go for that) in the book. But in situations like these a dependable and stable character is needed.

Niko: The Leader: Every bad situation needs to have "The Boy Scout" the one who knows how to take control, asses the situation and save them all. He may have been a tight ass on many things, but I personally would gravitate more towards this type of person. 

Jake and Brayden: The Idiots: The ones who cause the most problems for the group and their survival. Hate these guys.

Josie: Momma Hen: The one who takes care of the little ones, I would mostly take up this position.

Didn't Like

At a few points in the book I wasn't sure if I would be able to finished the book, not because it wasn't good but because I got so into it and I was getting stressed out by some of the things that where happening to these poor kids. I don't handle thriller end of the world disaster movies and books very well, but I'm glad I worked my way through it because I did thoroughly enjoy the book.

Recommendation 

A book to be read for sure. No romance in this book at all though.

Releases

June 5th 2012

Amazon / B&N / Book Depository 

Information 

Monument 14 Series
Monument 14
Monument 14: Sky On Fire summer 2013
not sure long the series will be

What type of person would you be in a disaster?

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