Cornerstone The Cornerstone Series Book 1 eBook Misty Provencher
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Cornerstone is the first book in this completed, Young Adult series. The reading order for these books is Cornerstone, Keystone, Jamb, Capstone.
Nalena Maxwell is The Waste. At least, that’s what she’s been tagged as at school, due to her mother’s obsession with hoarding truckloads of paper, each one scrawled with lines of what appears to be single-sentence stories. The insane volume of paper has forced them out of their house and now threatens to push them out of their apartment, but Nalena’s mother, Evangeline, refuses to part with a single sheet.
Evangeline’s papers are so much more than just a hoarder’s obsession.
They are the reason behind the Maxwell’s tumultuous family past.
And they are the reason why the future is calling upon Nalena as its champion.
Kept in the dark, in order to protect her from the past and future that no mother wants her child to endure, the life she’s presently living is illegible to Nalena. She believes her fate is to be only The Waste, until one night, when Garrett Reese--possibly the school’s most handsome and popular Senior--seeks her out in the back corner of the library with answers and questions that reveal the true ink on Nalena’s destiny.
Cornerstone The Cornerstone Series Book 1 eBook Misty Provencher
3.5 stars -- I've had this book on my TBR pile for YEARS it feels like. I'd heard good things, and since she's going to be an author at Utopia this year (again), I wanted to read it before then! I ended up with mixed feelings about this book. There were aspects that I adored and totally sucked me in, but there were also quite a few aspects that just rubbed me the wrong way.... And even with this higher rating, I highly doubt I will continue on with the series...I just have way too much to read, and so my standards have shifted, you know?I found Nalena to be very intriguing from the beginning. I tend to gravitate towards main characters with self-esteem issues (the bullied in this case), and so my heart ached for her and her precarious situation at school brought on by her mother's paper hoarding. The problem is that she could be hard to get behind all the time. Sometimes the way she saw her crush on Garrett had me cringing internally, and that's a me problem all the way. She just flip flopped in her emotions so much it was giving me whiplash. Now, quite frankly, this is probably pretty accurate for a 17 year old...but I guess I've lost my memories of those times, so it was so hard to empathize with her. One minute she's agonizing b/c he can't possibly feel the same way, and the next she's reacting with amazing amounts of hope from the slightest grin from him. It just didn't work for me personally. It's funny though, b/c I would start to sympathize with her and get a good feel for her and what kind of character I would be reading, and then it just felt like there was a 180, so it probably aggravated me more than it normally would.
Garrett was intriguing. I kind of loved him and his whole chaotic family. I loved how happy and smiling he always was. I loved watching the siblings fight like real siblings would. I loved just how gregarious they all could be. I kind of wanted more from the romance department there, but I'm sure I would get more if I continued with the series.
I can't decide how I feel about Nali's mother. It's such a strange situation that they're in. Because of who she is and what she does and what her role is in this paranormal world, there is an excuse for the paper hoarding. But because she kept that all from Nali, she kind of let her unnecessarily suffer for it, you know? And I kind of get her reasons, but it's hard. So I'm just a big old ball of conflict when it comes to her.
As for the the paranormal aspects -- it was amazingly unique. But at times I had a hard time following it and keeping up with all I was being told. Now maybe it was just that I wasn't in the right mode for such a detailed world, but I still don't really feel like I "got" all of it, you know? And sometimes the descriptions for what was happening to Nali (like her first description of the bubble I guess) just weren't enough for me. I just honestly could not picture it in my head. Again, this could be just me. I'm not going to lay this at others feet if I just wasn't having good brain time, you know? I will say I loved Addo Larry though. He killed me.
So all in all, I was sucked in to the book, but there were just too many moments of confusion to have me clamouring for the next one. And quite frankly, I just have too many other books to read to keep going on a book that left me feeling downs as well as ups.
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Cornerstone The Cornerstone Series Book 1 eBook Misty Provencher Reviews
Cornerstone is the first book in a YA series about a young girl who doesn't know she belongs to a community of paranormal beings for which she was born and marked...(a rare Contega Cusp), and starts experiencing powers she didn't know she had (wait for it). Nalena is an outsider and outcast, her mother seemingly afflicted with a mental disorder the whole school knows about, and for which the school cruelly brands her. Looks are deceiving and the story unfurls. Enter Garrett, confident and striking senior who will melt you into a puddle. Why is he being so nice to her when she's called The Waste at school? Why The Waste? Read.
When I moved further into the story, I found Nalena and Garrett's families tied to each other...and that's as far as I go because you'll get no spoilers from this girl. I can't believe I highlighted so much of this book for its witty, poetic, often striking dialogue and prose. It's just so beautifully created and executed, and Ms. Provencher brought this story to life for me.
I am a brand new fan of this author and will be for life. She made me care deeply about her characters, forcing me to keep turning the pages (even when I could barely keep my eyes open) because the main plot and subplots are so compelling. If you can't keep turning the pages, the book will call to you...sort of clawing at the back of your mind until you return.
For those that are die-hard Cassandra Clare fans like me, I would compare Ms. Provencher and Cornerstone to Clare and The Mortal Instruments. I will be reading the rest of this series without hesitation, and the rest of her books across all genres because I'm curious. This gem of author will become a household name. You just wait and see... *taps crystal ball*
At first the Maxwells and the Reeses seem like regular American families. Nalena Maxwell and Garrett Reese go to the same high school where he’s super popular and she’s ostracized and nicknamed “The Waste.” Her mother hoardes paper and writes the memories of dead people on the sheets.
Then Garrett begins paying attention to Nalena in the library, and she’s attacked in the woods near the library. A shadowy man may be stalking her.
Garrett, his family and Nalena’s mother belong to some secret group that they describe as a community. Nalena discovers she herself has some remarkable talents and soon is invited to join the community. A romance develops between her and Garrett.
I loved the characters especially the Addo, who is something like a counselor and something like a priest, but one who lives in a trailer with a yellow kitchen and who loves cookies.
I liked Garret’s family especially his six-year old sister.
I liked the fight between three teenage girls in the bathroom which unfolded like a Kung Fu movie.
But the romance between Garrett and Nalena unfolds too slowly. Their scenes become boring at the end of the book. I also expected an initiate to this supernatural group to have to perform tests and earn entry. Nalena’s entrance was too easy - though it did have some humorous moments.
The Furies are supposed to be a large group, but the reader meets only Roger, a shadowy character not seen enough until the very end. We wonder what happened to him. Because of all this, the book is slightly put of balance, but I like the writer’s style. It has energy.
3.5 stars -- I've had this book on my TBR pile for YEARS it feels like. I'd heard good things, and since she's going to be an author at Utopia this year (again), I wanted to read it before then! I ended up with mixed feelings about this book. There were aspects that I adored and totally sucked me in, but there were also quite a few aspects that just rubbed me the wrong way.... And even with this higher rating, I highly doubt I will continue on with the series...I just have way too much to read, and so my standards have shifted, you know?
I found Nalena to be very intriguing from the beginning. I tend to gravitate towards main characters with self-esteem issues (the bullied in this case), and so my heart ached for her and her precarious situation at school brought on by her mother's paper hoarding. The problem is that she could be hard to get behind all the time. Sometimes the way she saw her crush on Garrett had me cringing internally, and that's a me problem all the way. She just flip flopped in her emotions so much it was giving me whiplash. Now, quite frankly, this is probably pretty accurate for a 17 year old...but I guess I've lost my memories of those times, so it was so hard to empathize with her. One minute she's agonizing b/c he can't possibly feel the same way, and the next she's reacting with amazing amounts of hope from the slightest grin from him. It just didn't work for me personally. It's funny though, b/c I would start to sympathize with her and get a good feel for her and what kind of character I would be reading, and then it just felt like there was a 180, so it probably aggravated me more than it normally would.
Garrett was intriguing. I kind of loved him and his whole chaotic family. I loved how happy and smiling he always was. I loved watching the siblings fight like real siblings would. I loved just how gregarious they all could be. I kind of wanted more from the romance department there, but I'm sure I would get more if I continued with the series.
I can't decide how I feel about Nali's mother. It's such a strange situation that they're in. Because of who she is and what she does and what her role is in this paranormal world, there is an excuse for the paper hoarding. But because she kept that all from Nali, she kind of let her unnecessarily suffer for it, you know? And I kind of get her reasons, but it's hard. So I'm just a big old ball of conflict when it comes to her.
As for the the paranormal aspects -- it was amazingly unique. But at times I had a hard time following it and keeping up with all I was being told. Now maybe it was just that I wasn't in the right mode for such a detailed world, but I still don't really feel like I "got" all of it, you know? And sometimes the descriptions for what was happening to Nali (like her first description of the bubble I guess) just weren't enough for me. I just honestly could not picture it in my head. Again, this could be just me. I'm not going to lay this at others feet if I just wasn't having good brain time, you know? I will say I loved Addo Larry though. He killed me.
So all in all, I was sucked in to the book, but there were just too many moments of confusion to have me clamouring for the next one. And quite frankly, I just have too many other books to read to keep going on a book that left me feeling downs as well as ups.
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