Kym Brunner

{My Thoughts} – Bonnie and Clyde back from the beyond, who would have thought that it was possible? I have to say that books never seize to amaze me in their ability to pull me in and take me on a fun roller coaster ride into a fictional environment.

Monroe is this sweet sort of anti-social girl that works for her dad at his dinner theater called the Clip Joint. This place sounds amazing in the book. I’d love to work their myself. It is described as having lots of old gangster paraphernalia on the walls as decoration that Monroe’s dad has collected from various auctions he has attended. The most recent to his collection is a set of five bullets that were said to have been pulled out of the dead bodies of Bonnie and Clyde and a poem that Bonnie had written while she was in prison.

Monroe’s dad shows these things to her and gives her the poem as a gift. However, when he leaves the room she takes a few of the bullets out of their case and then manages to become infected by Bonnie’s presence. “Is it possible for the brain to cough out words and phrases on it’s own? Unless somehow when I cut myself…. no. That’s stupid Bonnie Parker is not in my head.” As much as she wanted to believe that she was just losing her mind and all that wasn’t the case. Later on that night she goes to a party with a co-worker where she meets Jack. Jack hits on her, flirts with her and makes small talk, but he isn’t appealing enough to her that she wants to have anything to do with him. It turns out that she ends up showing him the bullets that she took from her dad as a way to try and get rid of him, however instead he becomes infected by Clyde. They end up having to leave the party in a rush and because the police are there to break it up and he runs and leaves her behind. She catches up to him and the go to a local McDonald’s where they meet Milo.

Milo becomes somewhat possessed by I’m not sure what to call it and he tells Monroe that it is important that she listen to him and heed his warnings. After the trance passes he takes off scared out of his mind. — If you would like to know the rest you really need to read the book. It’s amazing!

I really enjoyed how well written this book was. I understand how it can become a jumble of a mess when switching between characters and having more then one person talk from the same persons mouth and all. This author did a spectacular job, you always knew who was talking and when and it wasn’t confusing at all. I liked how the personalities of Bonnie and Monroe were so incredibly different that there was no way you couldn’t know who was who even though a majority of Bonnie’s speaking was in italics. I also liked how you could tell how different Jack and Clyde were as well.

Jack and Clyde were an interesting pair, neither could communicate with one another and they only had the ability to see what the other was doing. They couldn’t hear anything at all. But when they swapped places they were able to take complete control over Jacks body. Jack decided he didn’t like Monroe like he thought he had and Clyde wanted Monroe to feel as if she was the girl for him. Bonnie on the other hand had other plans for all of them.

Monroe and Bonnie were able to speak in Monroe’s head and if Monroe Touched Clyde Bonnie could speak though Monroe’s mouth. Monroe didn’t care for Jack either but seemed to be falling for Clyde however, it was unclear through most of the book if it was for show or if she really had fallen for him. If you want to know read the book. I said that already didn’t I?

I loved how the book relayed information about Bonnie and Clyde, their family, the crimes the committed and more. I also couldn’t believe how quick of a read it was. I felt like I had just started the book and then it was done. It is very fast paced and just well amazing. I think anyone that reads it will fall in love with it just like I did!… (meer)

{My Thoughts} – This book was amazing. I was skeptical but not in the sense I had thought it would be bad, but because I have Polish heritage and I know nothing about it. I know sad, but I wasn’t taught any of it.

Sophie is a sweet girl that wants to have a great summer vacation before her senior year. She and her friend have this goal to meet two great guys at the beach and to double date all summer. She ends up with a bad beginning to her summer when she winds up causing her mom to fire her, but in her words she more or less quit or was it the other way around? Anyways, because of that she ends up going job hunting and then so much happens.

There are two guys Nick and Geo. Both appear to be the picture perfect guy, but you know how looks can always be deceiving eventually, right? Eventually she ends up learning that things aren’t as they appear but with which boy or both? I won’t tell you! You need to read the book if you want the juicy info.

Sophie has some choices to make, some relationships to mend and make and one interesting summer vacation.

I really enjoyed this book because of it’s Polish references, it’s Italian references and that fact that it was an attention grabbing wonderful read that I highly recommend.… (meer)

{My Thoughts} – This book was amazing. I was skeptical but not in the sense I had thought it would be bad, but because I have Polish heritage and I know nothing about it. I know sad, but I wasn’t taught any of it.

Sophie is a sweet girl that wants to have a great summer vacation before her senior year. She and her friend have this goal to meet two great guys at the beach and to double date all summer. She ends up with a bad beginning to her summer when she winds up causing her mom to fire her, but in her words she more or less quit or was it the other way around? Anyways, because of that she ends up going job hunting and then so much happens.

There are two guys Nick and Geo. Both appear to be the picture perfect guy, but you know how looks can always be deceiving eventually, right? Eventually she ends up learning that things aren’t as they appear but with which boy or both? I won’t tell you! You need to read the book if you want the juicy info.

Sophie has some choices to make, some relationships to mend and make and one interesting summer vacation.

I really enjoyed this book because of it’s Polish references, it’s Italian references and that fact that it was an attention grabbing wonderful read that I highly recommend.… (meer)

Mercer Buddie has what he’s wanted for so long - a chance to show that he too can become a master falconer like his father and older brother. He names the newly captured bird “Flip” and, with his father and friend’s training, learns to work with Flip so that he can find prey and bring it back to Mercer, breaking only a few rules in the process. On the very morning he and his family go out to get his falcon, he meets the cute Lucy in the pet store, who thinks the mouse he’s buying is going to be a pet. You see, Lucy is a vegetarian and an active member, along with her parents, of HALT, a radical pro-animal rights group. Thus begins Mercer’s series of lies and deceptions, convincing Lucy that he wants to be a member of HALT, while training his falcon and eating cheeseburgers when at home. HALT does some pretty bad things, like destroying animal research and threatening scientists at Mercer’s mother’s university. Eventually the whole story comes out, when HALT breaks into his father’s animal rescue/falconry habitat, setting some birds free and injuring others. When the whole story comes out, Lucy has to decide between her feelings for Mercer and what her radical animal-loving parents want.

This book is for middle school readers, appealing mostly to boys. I confess that the things Mercer thought and said to his friends about Lucy were offensive - I sincerely hope all boys/men don’t think those things, and certainly don’t say them. The lying also bothered me - but the author does show how it doesn’t work out for Mercer in the end, and how he matures to make better choices. He was a more well-rounded character at the end of the book. The information about falconry was fascinating. The animal-rights angle was too radical. I know there are groups out there like this, but perhaps it could have been tempered so that option wasn’t as far-fetched.… (meer)