Trilogies

When I looked on goodreads, I saw that The Gathering is to be the first in a trilogy called Shadow House.  Then I remembered that my dear friend Rachel wrote a book that was published by Chicken House, which is tied to or part of Scholastic, like this book.  And when she and her husband wrote Claws they were told to change it SO much because it was also "slated to be a trilogy." Well I loved the book.  But Rachel and her husband felt it really lost something because of the changes.  Then Chicken House lost its big money author, Cornelia Funke.  And things changed big time for Chicken House/Scholastic.  It wasn't that Claws didn't sell well.  And Claws never became a trilogy, despite selling really well regularly and also at book fairs. It makes me sad because I won't ever know what happened to the characters and also because Mike and Rachel were never able to see the work that they had imagined and created come to life as they expected.  But I guess that happens.  But it doesn't make it any less horrible.  For authors and readers.
So I wonder if Shadow House will take off, but I hope it does.  First of all, the cover is fantastic! LOOK at that cover!
Four kids end up getting invites to live or attend school or shoot a movie at a far off mansion.  And creepiness begins. The end did get a little confusing for me, but that is me!  I can definitely recommend this book!

Hilarious and Really, Really Good

I loved, loved, loved Gorgeous by Paul Rudnick.  LOVED it.  And now that I am reading again, I was so happy to find that he had put out It's All Your Fault.  It was not a disappointment.  I loved it as much as Gorgeous, and it was very different, though not without similarities.

The thing that I thought was neat about this book is that the book is told through the POV of a high school senior, Caitlin, who is homeschooled and tells us right off that she is a Christian and in her description of her family she comes across a lot like a Duggar, before the sex scandal, but the book doesn't make fun of her faith, even though it does.  

What does all of that mean?

It means that as a Christian, I was not offended at all by this book and I can't imagine even the most conservative, homeschooling  Christian parents being offended by it other than the language.  There are many, many f-bombs.

Caitlin's cousin, Heller is a Miley Cyrus-type star and it is Caitlin's job to keep her out of trouble so there isn't any backlash against the biggest movie of her career.  A Twilightish-Hunger-Gamish-housewife-writes-bestselling-triolgy-that-drives-the-world-crazy movie.

Great, great fun.
I loved it.
And honestly, I thought it was good PR for Christians!  Just keep in mind a lot of f-bombs!