Mother/ Daughter Book Club Giveaway

About the Mother - Daughter Book Club:

Start a tradition of reading with your daughter with a Mother-Daughter Book Club! Scholastic’s monthly selections will help you choose books that you and your daughter will enjoy!

The book club launched in May with 4 titles and there will be 2 new featured titles each month. June’s book selections are Whatever After: Fairest of All by Sarah Mlynowski and The False Prince by Jennifer A. Nielsen.

Along with book selections, the Mother-Daughter Book Club website also features discussion questions and snack suggestions for your book club meetings and a monthly Skype sweepstakes where you can enter to win a Skype visit from one of the authors at your next book club meeting. June’s sweepstakes author is Sarah Mlynowski, author ofWhatever After: Fairest of All.

I really enjoyed both of these books and now you have a chance to.

One (1) winner receives:

Copies of both June book club titles: Whatever After: Fairest of All and The False Prince! 

Rules

• Must be 13 or older to enter
• +2 points for commenting on this post
• +2 for commenting on my reviews of The False Prince or Fairest of Them All (or both)
• +2 for spreading the word
• Contest ends June 14th
• Fill out this form to enter

Review: The False Prince - Jennifer A. Nielsen

Where I got it: Finished copy from publisher
Rating: 5 stars  

Cover Rating: 3 stars (I like the blue background and the representation, but it's sort of meh.)
Genre: Young Adult

Publication Date: April 1, 2012

Publisher: Scholastic Press

Page Count: 342 p.

Buy it: Book Depository / Amazon
Add it: Goodreads

Connor, a nobleman at the King's court holds a secret. This secret could topple the kingdom if it isn't played just right. So Connor takes off in search of an orphan. Not just any orphan, but one he can pass off as being the long lost Prince Jaron. Sage doesn't trust Connor very much, but is forced to go with him and the other boys. What Connor is doing is treason and Sage and the others are being forced to participate. There are so many lies an deceptions unveiled each day, that no one can tell where the truth lies. When Connor picks the boy who is to be the Prince though, all will become clear and things will fall into place. If only the boys can survive it.

I was really amazed by how much I loved this novel. There were so many deceptions, that you always knew things weren't quite as they seemed, but you could never be sure what they are. I really loved this aspect of it, so I am not sure how I feel about a series for this. I'm just not sure how Jennifer A. Nielsen will pull so much delicious deceit in the next novel. So much was already revealed in this one, though near the end there was that bit where... I will definitely be on the look out for the next novel though, just to see if it is as amazing as this one. I really enjoyed Sage, even his pigheadedness. He was always causing trouble, which is what made him such a fun character. The other kids were okay, but they didn't have that soul that I saw with Sage. They were over-achieving back stabbers. Sage was just surviving and coming up with plans of his own, but not back-stabbing plans. He was very conscious of the other boys and didn't seem to wish them any ill will, even if they wished it upon him. He was a joy to take this adventure with. Definitely, definitely, DEFINITELY read this book. This is now one of my favorite novels.

First Line:
"If I had to do it all over again, I would have chosen this life."

Favorite Lines:
"My father had warned me about my quick tongue countless times. Perhaps he should have warned me more often."

Review: Fairest of them All - Sarah Mlynowski

Where I got it: Finished copy from publisher
Rating: 3 stars  

Cover Rating: 4 stars (Cute. I really think it's a great fit. The cover artist has more work you can view here.)
Genre: Middle Grade

Publication Date: May 1, 2012

Publisher: Scholastic Press

Page Count: 169 p.

Buy it: Book Depository / Amazon
Add it: Goodreads

Abby's parents move her and her brother Jonah to a new town. Here the kids do everything wrong. They call pop soda, they make peanut butter and banana sandwiches wrong, they even play tag wrong. Abby doesn't think she likes it here one bit. She likes it better than the world beyond the mirror though. When her brother is messing around in the basement one night, Abby and Jonah get sucked in through it and plop right down in a fairy tale. Now they have to right the things they've messed up in the tale, and get home before their parents wake up.

This was a really fun fairy tale twist. I'm quite excited to see what happens with the next ones. This story talked about the butterfly effect in essence. If you change one thing, the course of the entire story gets altered. Abby was certainly an interesting character, a good contrast to her over-eager brother. He was always ready for an adventure. Abby was a little annoying at times, but overall not too bad. She was far more annoying before the mirror, so it's lucky she got sucked up right away. She's very bossy though, but of course someone needs to take charge. I appreciated that she kept a relatively level head after what happened, mostly because she was in denial, but still. I liked the dwarves in this story, quite a bit different than Disney had them, but a lot more interesting. I really can't see what happens next with Abby and Jonah. Anyone who loves fairy tale retellings is going to want to check this one out.

First Line:
"Once upon a time my life was normal."

Favorite Lines:
"Coke pops on your tongue. It doesn't soda on your tongue."