Hello, guys! More book news! Today Breach Point, from dear Steve Spatucci, is out and about! đ You can check the review here on the blog and find the book on Goodreads here đ
Steve put a lot of effort on the release and Iâll show you guys some of the coolest things đ
Iâm that kind of reader that always wants to know all about a book that I loved, even which color of shoes the author was wearing when they had the idea for the book, haha! And here we have a full video to observe the cover progression of Breach Point!
You thought that was cool? Just wait a minute, haha! Steve also took the fangirling/fanboying thing to the next level. Aunt Maureen, one of my favorite characters from Breach Point, does cross-stitch and Steve comissioned a professional cross-stitcher to make and sell Aunt Maureen’s pieces that are mentioned on the book! =O You can check it here â¤
this is my favorite one, so true!
And there is more! Really, why doesnât every author do that? Steve also opened a store for the Breach Point Castle merchandise, also mentioned a lot in the book! Thereâs pillows, mugs, magnets, t-shirts⌠Really, itâs too cool to be true! You can see all products here đ
I want this pillow so baddly, haha!
So many good news, right? đ The book is available in digital and paperback formats at Amazon!
Honestly, I think the other authors can take some notes on how to do an awesome book release, haha! â¤
Thatâs it! Thanks for reading đ Are you excited for Breach Point too?
Hi, guys! I have some cool book news đ The book trailer for Steve Spatucci’s new book, Breach Point (review is here!), is finally ready! I just watched it and it’s so cool! I totally felt the book aura, haha!
Check it out:
And you can already pre-order the paperback copy of the book on Amazon here! The book will be released on August 26th (it’s close!) and I can’t wait to be able to have my own paperback copy of Breach Point on my shelf â¤
Hello! Month ending means Monthly Wrap Up! This month, I read most mangas than books, unfortunatelly. I don’t know why, but I’m a slow reader during vacations – makes no sense, haha!
During July, I received my first books to review and got pretty excited! I want to thank all these marvelous authors for the books and give you guys a preview of what’s coming to the blog! Here they are:
Chasing Rainbows, by Linda Oaks – will be started as soon as I finish The Tutor (pretty pretty soon, because I’m devouring it, haha!)
Thank you, everybody! â¤
Also, I have blog good news! Now you can find all my social profiles at the About Annelise page and I’ve inaugurated the Partnerships page! There, it will be listed forever the names of the authors that sent me a book for review and the respective reviews đ The page is still under construction, as I am still asking for permissions to write down names on it, but soon it will be oficially on the tracks, haha!
I also would like to thank my 400 friends (the word followers doesn’t sit well for me) at Instagram! I never imagined I could meet so many nice people when I began bookstagramming! Thanks!! *–*
That’s it for now! I also have some mangas I need to review and post here – I already read them, but forgot to do the reviews, shame on me…
In the beginning of July, I received from author Steve Spatucci a review-only copy of his new book, Breach Point (thanks again!). I finished it last Thursday, but it was all so intense that I needed to absorb the book first, haha đ
But letâs go to the story: Clara is a teenager that just went through a social trauma with her best friend, Jerilyn, and decided she needed a change of scenarios in the summer â she was having serious troubles with her mother as well. Clara wants to go to the engineering area at college, so she signs for a trainee summer program at a company at Breach Point, the island where her Aunt Maureen lives (just wanted to say that Aunt Maureen is a sweeting <3).
After having her phone and electronics confiscated and a calm and reflexive trip, Clara arrives at the fictional island of Breach Point and immediately feels better, free. Unfortunately, the feeling is brief, as Aunt Maureen has a serious heart condition and doesnât seem to be so well in health matters, even that she tries to cover it with her funny and sassy personality.
As soon as Clara goes out exploring the town, she meets Nicholas, a seventeen boy with a pretty smile and a nice personality, as well as the townâs big mystery: the Breach Point Castle. The castle used to be a horror attraction of the town that burned down several years ago and nobody seems to know what happened, as it was never properly investigated. Nicholasâ uncle, Kevin, seems to have a very complicated relationship with the castle, just like his friends, as all of them worked in the castle.
Even after her trainee program start, Clara wasnât able to forget about the castleâs mystery, always researching and digging more, having this strange need to understand what happened there, why the fire started and why people didnât want to know it as well. Each person that she meets seems to be involved in some way in this mess â even Nicholas.
Clara would only be sure of the supernatural forces acting on the island after Aunt Maureen suffers an accident â but then, it was too late to leave everything as it was before. Clara and all the people that try to help her are now in grave danger, as a huge secret is hidden in the waters of Breach Point.
Now, letâs go to the analysis! This is only my opinion of the facts and my impressions as a reader, ok? Just a reminder đ
I loved this book. Its start is a bit slow, as the story is kind of first person narrated and Clara is not a self-centered character; I mean, she doesnât think a lot about herself, her personality or even her looks. She thinks about what happens to her, in her feelings. The reader discovers her personality through her actions in the book, like practically all the other characters â Clara just is not the descriptive type, haha!
The whole mystery was very good and I only understood what was really going on nearly in the end â and this is very unusual, as I kind of study the characters as I read and tend not to be surprised by the events at all, haha! Spatucci was ingenious while maintaining the conspiracy atmosphere and the âsomeone is watching youâ feeling. The reader gets insecure, as itâs impossible to be sure in which characters we can trust and who is lying. It reminded me a lot a Clue board game, you know? At each place that Clara went, she discovered a new clue and we had to redo the whole castle theory and it wasnât always that the clues made sense either. Itâs the kind of book that breaks your heart when it ends, but have no fear, the sequel is on its way! (and if it wasnât, Steve would hear me online screaming with him ;D)
In narrative matters, as I commented, Clara is not a descriptive person, so I donât even know how she looks like and I already finished the book. I presume she has long hair with a medium or high stature and pretty enough â all thanks to the events of the book, haha! This would normally bother me a lot, but it didnât. Clara notices the island and the places on there, so itâs easy to construct the charactersâ appearance by the small details that we are given. I had never read a book like this and I canât imagine anyone doing this like Spatucci â congrats!
By the way, it was impressive how easy it was to connect with Clara, even with her very unique personality. Sheâs not a silly girl that only dreams and sit to wait things to happen. She goes after what she wants, doesnât expect anyone to help her, but knows when itâs the time to go ask for it without being proud or ashamed. Definitely I won a new bookish friend, haha! And a bookish boyfriend, as Nicholas is a sweeting â¤
Now, there was some characters that I thought a bit unreal. Claraâs bosses, Shane and Theresa, were totally out of the world for me, in professional aspects. People just arenât like that in the market. I already had incredible bosses, stupid bosses, all kinds of good and bad bosses and none of them behaved like Theresa and Shane, in this sympathetic, calm or even slow way, even more giving that they have high positions on the company. Kevin, Nicholasâ uncle, also was a bit forced too. I understand he has a difficult personality, but he always seemed the same boring and uncomfortable type even in scenes that he was supposed to be having a good time â while he didnât know that Clara was around. It wasnât enough to make me hate anyone, but it bothered me, haha!
Describing is for sure the strongest point of the book. Spatucci spent years working on the story for a series of reasons, so you can feel that Breach Point is real, you know? It seems like if you open an US map, you can find the island there. This care left me speechless. And itâs also a bit funny, as the characters seem to be mere ghosts in a place with its own life, haha! But in a good way đ Even the supernatural element of the plot seems real and natural, itâs crazy cool!
The castle mystery also is a funny phenomenon in the book. Itâs the king of deal that you know that is there, but you donât really care. Then, things start to get really weird and, before you know it, you have this craving to understand what the hell happened in the place. Clara awakes a kind of obsession in the reader, slowly and gradually, so one day you catch yourself daydreaming with the possibilities and trying to solve the mystery even when youâre not reading! How is it possible? Hahaha!
In one of the e-mails that I exchanged with Steve, I joked that he deserved some online screaming thanks to some of the events of the end of the book, but now, way calmer and with my breath on its place, I can say he only deserve compliments.
Breach Point will be released on August 26th (donât forget to check it out on Amazon!) and it will be available in paperback and ebook formats. I canât wait to have my own paperback version of the book! (Anyone else here that, when reads a very good ebook, also wants to buy the paperback/hardcover version as well? o/). The book also features an extra chapter with a scene from before the fire in the castle and bonus materials telling all about the creation process of the book. It is very cool to read, Steve had so much work, haha!
Thatâs it, guys! Thanks for reading and I hope you enjoy Breach Point as much as I did! And thank you again, Steve, for allowing me to meet and read one of the best books of my 2015 list and for introducing me to the wonderful world of Breach Point â¤
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