Books, Coffee, and Neal Shusterman

I decided to share with you all an amazing bookstore/coffeeshop thingy today me and my dad found called Hardback Cafe. It is my new alltime favorite bookstore because they had ANTSY DOES TIME written by the AMAZING Neal Shusterman. Now I have read:

• Everlost
• Everwild
• Everfound
• Bruiser
• Unwind
• Downsiders
• The Eyes of Kid Midas
• (Halfway through) Full Tilt
• (Got this one along with Antsy) Speeding Bullet
• The Schwa Was Here

I HIGHLY suggest checking out his books, any of them are amazing. The reason he is my favorite author is because any one of his books I pick up, I am instantly hooked. Susan Collins didn't do that for me when I read The Hunger Games, then tried to read Gregor the Overlander. Erin Hunter (Vicky Holmes, Kate Cary, Cherith Baldry, and Tui Sutherland) didn't do that for me when I read Warriors, then tried to read Seekers. I first read The Skinjacker Trilogy by Neal Shusterman because chapter two (When Leif is parading through his forest from tree to tree) was on our first six weeks reading test, and once I read the entire series, I was itching to read more. After the trilogy I read Downsiders, which was marvolously crafted. Seriously, who thinks of setting up a city underneath the "topside" made of subway tunnels?! AMAZING. Then I read Unwind, and that book made me want to be an author.

It was fantabulous as my BBF would put it, with the three main characters running for their lives trying to stay alive. No. Not alive. In their own state of mind. They are running from being "unwound", where parents can have their unwanted teenagers be taken apart peice by peice and donated to sick patients. Oh my goodness that book was amazing. I'm gonna stop now because I will probably tell the entire book chapter by chapter if I continue. . .

Afterwards, I read Bruiser. That honestly might be my favorite Neal Shusterman book because of the poetry. Brewster seems like the horrid person through Tennyson's POV, but once it changes to Brewster's, you will sob loudly into your pillow. I love the way he describes the cafeteria as high schoolers practicing the art of preening and grooming one another. When his uncle hits Cody, but the pain goes to the Bruiser I was so prepared to leap into the story and drag those poor people out! Anyway, if you could only read one book in your entire life, this one better be it.

Now I am being thrashed about through Full Tilt, an incredible novel by the amazing Neal Shusterman, about a boy named Blake who's soul was thrust into- well. You'll have to read it first.