Review: Seize the Day! And This Box-Set of Great Reading!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 01 15, 2013
Carpe DiEmily: Seize The Day! And This Book!Fast paced, beautifully written & so jam-packed with twists, turns & witty dialogue - this is an "un-putdownable read".Riley J Ford yet again delivers a book with a unique twist on the genre. As well as a central character who, no matter how "staid", is still quirky, immensely likeable & real.Characters that jump off the page with life. And a story that at anytime the reader can say to themselves, "Yup! I can soooo relate!". This is a fantastic offering from a gifted writer.Keep em coming! 5 stars well earnedInto You: Fiction With a Great Paranormal TwistAs a former high school teacher, I love a well-crafted novel that gets the young adult audience away from the game-consoles and back to a good read. As an adult who loves a good story with a paranormal twist, I have been on the lookout for new, fresh and unique takes on the genre. After the saturation of vampire/human/werewolf love triangle formats (that funnily enough, exploded onto the market after the success of the "Twilight Series" by S. Meyer), you feel yourself yearning for something different in the paranormal genre to pull you in.Riley J. Ford does this with "Into You". Her background in high school teaching shines here, as she manages to do what many fail at: make realistic, dimensional characters, with all the angst of high-school life, AND keep the story going at a crisp and sharp pace. Sure it is in the first person, but the heart and lack of pretension (as well as being a bit "ballsy") in this main protagonist makes her likeable and wanting to know and follow the story.Several times I put down my e-reader, only to pick it up again to keep reading - just another chapter... I am very impressed to find out this is a first novel. It has made me not only a fan of her work, but so impressed at where her new work has taken me to!I highly recommend this to young adult readers and the young at heart alike.