Title: Turning Grace
Author: J Q Davis
Review:
My husband recommended this book to me and since he doesn't
normally do that I thought I should read the book.
Turning
Grace is a début Young Adult\Teen Novel by J.Q. Davis. The book is written from the prospective of
Grace your typical teenage girl. (Boys, Clothes, school and life) The
difference between Grace and other girls is Grace is a Zombie. J.Q. Davis takes a tried and overused genre
and creates a new twist bring life to an almost dead genre.
Possible
Spoiler.
The
first chapter of the book pulled me in quickly with a missing finger and a
little girl but soon I found the book to have it typical teen drama that I try
avoid when it comes to YA grene. I found myself struggling to read the book
because I am not the focal age group but around half way through the story the
teen drama turned and the story picked up again pulling me back in. Grace likes
a boy the boy has a girlfriend and the girlfriend hates Grace. Mom and Daughter have issues only because mom
is keeping secrets. Grace soon finds she
is in love with boy and the boy is in love with the Grace and will do anything
to protect her. Yup teen drama however
when you mix in the fact that Grace is a Zombie and she has to be constantly
eating -the story because more interesting until I find myself at the end of
the book which has a cliff hanger. I'm
not a fan of this particular cliff hanger because I feel it left the story
incomplete. Grace does some horrible
things to satisfy her need to eat and the author creates a kind of
foreshadowing with Tristan ie. the boy- the love interest and why she doesn't
ever eat him.
As a
Zombie book Genre I enjoyed the new twist I hadn't read before as a YA\Teen
Romance I had a more difficult time because the romance was slightly
unbelievable. J.Q. Davis has this book set up as a series with her cliff hanger
which I mention left me a bit sour. Again I am not the target age group for
this book so what a teen might enjoy reading I disliked.
Thanks
Heidi for this review
Published: Published June 10th 2014
ISBN: B00KWP2B00
Page
Count: 242
Quick
Review: 3 1/2 out 5 stars –
Why I
Read this Title: Suggestion from husband
Synopsis: “Each taste, each mouthful awakened a part of
me that I had never known. The sweet and bitter tenderness of every chew sent
my body into a whirlwind…”
Grace Elizabeth Watkins is the typical 17-year-old.
She is a girl with simple tastes, who enjoys nature, a gory B-rated slasher
movie, and her mother’s homestyle cookin’.
A high-schooler at Middleton High, Grace experiences
everything a normal girl would: A spunky best friend, a Mean Girl who hates her
whole existence for no reason at all, and an unavailable crush.
But as one of her favorite nights of the year
approaches, Grace soon realizes there is nothing…normal about her. There are
sudden and uncontrollable changes occurring right before her eyes. Urges
intensify, senses are lost, and questions soon arise as to what could be
causing Grace’s life to flip upside down.
How will Grace cope with this frightening and
eye-opening journey?
Turn the pages to Turning Grace and find out…
Author
Information: JoAnna
Quintana-Davis currently resides in the desert of Southern California. Her and
her husband were stationed there due to her husband's orders in the Marine
Corps. She has no children, but considers her pooches, Lucy, Cassie, and Bella,
her daughters. She is eagerly awaiting her return to New Orleans, Louisiana to
be with her family and friends. In the meantime, she will continue to add more
pages to Turning Grace.
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