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Book Trailer Review: The Selection

Today we’re looking at the book trailer for Kiera Cass’s The Selection, the first in a forthcoming trilogy. Don't know what a book trailer is? Check out our guide. Holy budget-busters! This lovely live-action trailer is a big step up from the last trailer we reviewed, Carnival of Souls. An ornate ballroom, luxurious gowns, and even a glittering tiara make this one of the most eye-catching (and girly) previews we’ve seen. We start with a shot of a line-up of pretty young women in fancy frocks of every color, primping anxiously in the center of a brightly lit (for TV [...]

2016-12-31T17:59:14-07:00June 15th, 2012|Tags: , , , |

Selection, The

The Hunger Game Show Author: Kiera Cass How is getting married like a gladiatorial fight to the death? If you’ve been through a wedding or two, you may have your own thoughts on the matter, but for the purposes of this review, the answer is Kiera Cass’s The Selection, the first book in the Selection Trilogy. And if you picked up this book based on the clever, yet undeniably girly, book trailer or because of the cover art of a beautiful girl in a ballgown preening in front of a bunch of mirrors, there may be a little more darkness [...]

2016-12-31T17:57:14-07:00June 7th, 2012|Tags: , , , , |

Divergent (Stephanie)

War is Coming Author: Veronica Roth The problem – if I may generalize – with dystopian YA fiction is that authors are always having to come up with nefarious ways for those cruel, authoritarian, out-of-touch adults to RUIN EVERYTHING by keeping teenagers from their rightful happiness. At this stage, all the plausible premises are pretty much taken, so the set-ups are getting fairly outlandish and hard to swallow. Which brings us to the latest example, Divergent (book 1 of the Divergent Trilogy). This time around, a near-future dystopian Chicago has been fenced off from the greater world and divided into [...]

2016-12-31T17:57:16-07:00June 6th, 2012|Tags: , , , , , , |
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