**It's the late 1960s in McKinney, Texas.** At the downtown theater and the local drive-in, movies--_James Bond_ , _My Fair Lady_ , _Alfie_ , and _Dr. Zhivago_ --feed the dreams and obsessions of a ten-year-old Clarke who loves Audrey, Elvis, his family, and the handsome boy in the projector booth.
Dead Rules
β Scribed by R S Russell,R. S. Russell
- Publisher
- Quercus;HarperTeen
- Year
- 2011
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 127 KB
- Edition
- 1. edition
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9780857386755
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
When Jana Webster dies in a tragic accident, she finds herself transferred to 'Dead School' in the afterlife, where students fall into distinct cliques. Risers (good kids who died innocently), Sliders (bad kids, who have one foot tied to earth) and Virgins (there are fewer than Jana would expect). Jana's boyfriend and love of her life - Michael - is still in the land of the living. Michael is Romeo to Jana's Juliet and as the story goes... even death can't keep them apart. Tired of waiting for him to kill himself over his grief of losing her, Jana decides she needs to do it for him. To kill Michael she'll need the help of a dangerous and sexy Slider - Mars Dreamcoate. But Mars has a goal of his own: he wants to save a life to atone for having taken one in a drunk-driving accident. And to complicate matters, he was trying to save Jana when she died and saw what was really going on when her 'accident' happened. Jana decides to do whatever it takes to get Michael back, and nothing - not even Mars' warm touch or the devastating secret he holds about her death - will stop her.
Review
'The book was a fun, quick read and I really recommend it if you want something lighter and a little different from the usual paranormal books' Bloggers Heart Books.
'intriguing plot' The Book Bag.
'intriguing' SFX.
'witty novel of the undead' Booktrust.
'if you like your humour slightly twisted with a seasoning of sarcasm then you are in for a treat' Book Angel Booktopia.
'a cracking story and bundles of black humour' Serendipity Reviews.
'The way some of the kids have to 'live' is very darkly comical - you almost feel guilty for giggling to yourself' District YA.
'Dead Rules is not just another paranormal romance with a brooding love triangle ... The world he has created in Dead Rules is such creepy fun that I truly hope he decides to take us back sometime in the near future!' Daisy Chain Books.
'the book offers a creepy version of the afterlife' Irish Times. 'Ghoulish yet amazing, a real revelation and I loved every page' My Favourite Books.
From the Back Cover
Sometimes falling in love means you have to kill somebody... Jana Webster and Michael Haynes were in love. They were destined to be together forever. But Jana's destiny was fatally flawed. And now she's in Dead School, where Mars Dreamcote lurks in the back of the classroom, with his beguiling blue eyes and irresistibly warm touch. Michael and Jana are incomplete without each other. Jana is sure Michael will rush to her side soon. But things aren't going according to Jana's plan. So she decides to do whatever it takes to get Michael back, and nothing - not even the devastating secret Mars holds about her death - will stop her. TILL DEATH DO US PART.
Library : Fantasy
Formats : EPUB
ISBN : 9781743349700
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