Screaming Divas

Title: Screaming Divas
Author:  Suzanna Kamata
Genre:  Teens and YA
Publisher:  Merit Press
Publish Date:  May 18th, 2014
Pages:  Hardcover:  208
ISBN:  9781440572791
Obtained:  Free review copy from Netgalley
Synopsis: Screaming Divas takes four talented girls through the dizzy, dangerous world of rock music, where their friendship breaks up and makes up amid the temptations and triumphs of love, rivalry, success, and rejection. They couldn't be more different from each other, but all of them are talented musicians. Trudy, Cassie, Harumi, and Esther form Screaming Divas, a rock band that unites the girls in sisterhood, even as their relationships, differences, and desires threaten to tear them apart. A measure of early success is about to change their lives. But what comes next? Is the tradeoff for the dream worth the price the girls will have to pay, and what might happen to them as a result?

Celebromancy

Title: Celebromancy
Author:  Michael R. Underwood
Genre:  Sci Fi and Fantasy
Publisher:  Pocket Star
Publish Date:  July 15, 2013
Pages:  Kindle edition: 310
ISBN:  9781451698145
Obtained:  Free review copy and bought on Amazon (a bit of a mix up on my part. Though I'm not sorry as I'm only too glad to give this author my finical support.)
Synopsis: Fame has a magic all its own in the no-gossip-barred follow-up to Geekomancy. Ree Reyes gets her big screenwriting break, only to discover just how broken Hollywood actually is.

Things are looking up for urban fantasista Ree Reyes. She’s using her love of pop culture to fight monsters and protect her hometown as a Geekomancer, and now a real-live production company is shooting her television pilot script.

But nothing is easy in show business. When an invisible figure attacks the leading lady of the show, former child-star-turned-current-hot-mess Jane Konrad, Ree begins a school-of-hard-knocks education in the power of Celebromancy.

Attempting to help Jane Geekomancy-style with Jedi mind tricks and X-Men infiltration techniques, Ree learns more about movie magic than she ever intended. She also learns that real life has the craziest plots: not only must she lift a Hollywood-strength curse, but she needs to save her pilot, negotiate a bizarre love rhombus, and fight monsters straight out of the silver screen. All this without anyone getting killed or, worse, banished to the D-List.

Fic: Why Fanfiction is Taking Over the World

Title:  Fic: Why Fanfiction is Taking Over the World
Author:  Anne Jamison
Genre:  Nonfiction
Publisher:  Smart Pop
Publish Date: December 3, 2013
Pages:  kindle edtion : 434
ISBN:  9781939529190
Obtained:  Free copy from Netgalley
Synopsis: What is fanfiction, and what is it not? Why does fanfiction matter? And what makes it so important to the future of literature?

“Fic” is a groundbreaking exploration of the history and culture of fan writing and what it means for the way we think about reading, writing, and authorship. It’s a story about literature, community, and technology—about what stories are being told, who’s telling them, how, and why.

With provocative discussions from both professional and fan writers, on subjects from “Star Trek toThe X-Files and Buffy the Vampire Slayer to Harry Potter, Twilight, and beyond, Fic sheds light on the widely misunderstood world(s) of fanfiction—not only how fanfiction is transforming the literary landscape, but how it already has.

Ever After High: Storybook of Legends

Title: Ever After High: The Storybook of Legends
Author:  Shannon Hale
Genre:  YA
Publisher:  Little, Brown and Company
Publish Date:  October 8, 2013
Pages:  hardcover, 305 pages.
ISBN:  0316401226
Obtained:  Bought from Amazon
Synopsis: At Ever After High, an enchanting boarding school, the children of fairytale legends prepare themselves to fulfill their destinies as the next generation of Snow Whites, Prince Charmings and Evil Queens...whether they want to or not. Each year on Legacy Day, students sign the Storybook of Legends to seal their scripted fates. For generations, the Village of Book End has whispered that refusing to sign means The End-both for a story and for a life.

As the daughter of the Evil Queen, Raven Queen's destiny is to follow in her mother's wicked footsteps, but evil is so not Raven's style. She's starting to wonder, what if she rewrote her own story? The royal Apple White, daughter of the Fairest of Them All, has a happy ever after planned for herself, but it depends upon Raven feeding her a poison apple in their future.


What if Raven doesn't sign the Storybook of Legends? It could mean a happily never after for them both.