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Say what you will about weird covers but I like this one, and when I learned it had killing in it I was all for reading it! (Yes I am well aware that makes me sound like a crazy person, but I'll do a post on that later.)  If you know me at all you will know how much I love books by Kimberly Derting and how I just gush over her Body Finder books, so when I read the back of this one and it reminded me a lot of Violet I was like "uh, heck yes.".  I really enjoyed this book because it had pretty much everything I like in it, kissing, mystery, and of course a dead body or two.  The idea was fully new to me and I was very pleased with how Jill wrote it.  When the character "slid" she had to figure out who's body she was in.  After that it was all about secrets, because what would happen if you tried to tell someone you were inside of their body and saw what they did?  You would be branded as a crazy person, and to make sure that didn't happen Vee had to hide it all.  I read this book really quick, it was short, less then 300 pages, but it was still good.  There was a lot of action in the last few chapters, some good kisses, a nice mystery story that I kind of figured out right before the main character (yes, it's hard to throw me off the trail!), and with some dead bodies there was also some insight into what we do and how it effects others.  I'm a lot like Vee (well, except for the fact that I can't slide into people's bodies at random times) in that I'm not in the popular crowd, and I really liked that Jill had her main character that way.  I was also very pleased with some of the other flaws her characters had, because, let's face it, a perfect character is kind of a game-ender.  I also have information from the author (and goodreads) that there is going to be a sequel titles Impostor (for the time being) and I can't wait to see what happens next.  Hopefully there will be more kissing and dead people, because we all know how much I love those things!

Out March 27, 2012

5/5 dust spirits

Breathless by Cole Gibsen Cover Reveal

Today I have a special treat for you.  I get to reveal the cover for Apocalypsy Cole Gibsen's (Katana [March 8th]) second novel, Breathless.  It comes out in paperback and e-book on March 27th of this year.  Now, here is the beautiful cover and the synopsis, along with a short interview I did with the author about the cover!

Obituary-reading emo girl Edith Small is broken - the end result of forcing herself inside a mold that doesn't fit. All she wants is to conform to her strict sergeant stepfather's rules long enough to make it to graduation day.

But a boat accident threatens to unravel the life Edith has worked so hard to keep. After waking up in a hospital with a lacerated shoulder, Edith fakes amnesia. Because admitting she received her injuries from a blue-haired girl who breathes underwater is all the reason Sir needs to send Edith on the first bus to military school.

Safe at home, Edith struggles to put the nightmare behind her. But the mysterious creatures that live in the ocean aren't about to let her forget.

After meeting Bastin - a strange boy with silver hair and black eyes - on a secluded dock, Edith learns about the war raging undersea to end human existence. A war that Edith, unwittingly, has become the key to winning.

In a world where death is an ever-present shadow and motives are as dark as the bottom of the ocean, Edith must decide if her life is worth risking for a love that can't survive past the shore.

What is your favorite thing about the cover?

I love how the scene depicts the emotions of the book--the girl is looking skyward, but her body language shows reluctance to leave.

Do you think it conveys the right message?  Does it relate to the book or is it just another pretty cover?

What's so great about it is that it depicts the entire tone of the story. While I think the cover is gorgeous, it also shows a girl whose head is tilted for the sun. It's like she knows she can't survive underwater, yet her body shows no signs of swimming for the surface.

Who is it supposed to be on the cover?

That would be Edith. She's a seventeen year old girl who, after a boating accident, finds herself caught in the middle of a mermaid war.

Is there anything you would change about it? If so what?

The only thing I wanted to change, they did change. When CMP first showed me a draft of the cover, my name was spelled wrong. lol

What do you hope people take away from the cover?

I was suffering with a bought of depression when I wrote BREATHLESS. Because of that, BREATHLESS is the darkest novel I've written to date.  I think the cover depicts the darkness quite nicely.