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Pulse Point by Colleen Nelson Blog Tour (Guest Post)

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Title: Pulse Point Author: Colleen Nelson & Nancy Chappell-Pollack Genre: Fantasy/YA Publisher: Yellow Dog Release Date: May 8, 2018 Summary ( Goodreads ) Pulse Point is set in a future where the climate has made the world inhospitable to humans. In order to survive, people live in self-sustaining domed cities. The City that Kaia and her family live in is run by Overseers, guards that ensure all the Citizens follow the guidelines so the City can maintain its ‘Energy In = Energy Out’ policy. Citizens are only allowed to use the energy they create. Energy production is calculated and displayed on their pulse point, a transmitter embedded in a person’s finger. When a Citizen is no longer able to produce energy, they are Balanced, or killed. Guest Post Top 5 things We Learned Writing Dystopian 1) Be Specific and Research - The end of the world has occurred so how do these characters survive?  The world building has to be logical and ...

Love Story by Jennifer Echols

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Love Story Cover You can purchase this  here or on amazon   here   Pub. Date: July 19 2011 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Adult Publishing Group Format: Paperback , 256pp  Read on S&S Gallery Grab My Review I have read many stories/novels by the author, and I think I like this one the most because throughout the story we have the different views at which the main characters are trying to confess their love to each other, and they have soo much history with each other by which their parents have history. Echols writing gives us insight into these teenagers’ lives and experiences through college.  In "Love Story" we see the ups and downs of writing literature from Erin and Hunters class of literature in New York.  When reading their stories they explain why they hated each other for the past 6 years since her mother died and why they like each other at the same time, and reflect true stories of their lives in the story. I thought that t...