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Feb 21, 2012

Stephanie rated it:

Let's play a little game of:

WHO AM I...

-My book starts with me moving to a new location and starting at a new school.

-I live with just my dad, but don't worry about him, he's not important. In fact, you'll barely notice he exists at all!

-I quickly make friends at my new school. I'm not sure why everyone likes me. I'm not remotely interesting.

-I've never had a boyfriend before meeting my love interest and for some reason people at my school More...

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Dec 15, 2011

Katie(babs) rated it:

The Carrier of the Mark by Leigh Fallon was one of the much buzzed YA books at this year’s BEA. The cover is striking and it takes place in Ireland. Also, Leigh was published by posting the original Carrier of the Mark on a writing site called Inkpop. Unfortunately I DNFed this 100 pages in. Yet another example of what’s wrong with the YA genre. If Carrier was well received at Inkpop, so much so that Harper Teen wanted it, it makes me wonder what other entries are up on there because Carrier has More...

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Nov 14, 2011

Kwesi 章英狮 rated it:

I keep on reading books, books are already part of my everyday life, but what if you manage to encounter a book that have similarities to the book you hated before you read it. What will you do? React like a destructive monster or an angelic reader who just leave the mess away and continue reading it, or in between. I read few reviews of this book and I was so shocked that until now I can still feel the intense feelings (mostly hatred) of those reviewers and I mean it, I agree to wha More...

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Jan 08, 2012

K. rated it:

End of review.

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May 27, 2011

Leigh rated it:

My rating for my book... Well of course it's five stars. I love this book with all my heart. If I didn't feel it was worth five stars, I wouldn't have put it forward for publishing. And hey, how can I expect you guys to love Carrier if I don't love it myself. I'm just so excited about this book being published and read that I'm sure you'll forgive me my moment of shameless self promotion.

Thanks guys and I truly hope you love my story and characters as much as I do.

Happ More...

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Oct 03, 2011

Misty rated it:

1.5
I feel bad about what I'm about to do. Honestly. I'm not one of those people who just writes snarky, mean-spirited reviews, just for the sheer black-hearted, puppy-kicking glee of it. As tempting as that sometimes is, I just am not that reviewer (generally). I like puppies. And Leigh Fallon seems like a really nice person, and I had high hopes for this book. And everything I'm about to say makes me feel like a bully, but no. Just - no.

I knew almost immediately that More...

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Jun 08, 2011

Kris rated it:

I'm delighted that I was able to win an ARC from a competition that Leigh hosted on her blog and at the book's Facebook page. Now, I'm even more delighted to say that I LOVE LOVE LOVE the book. But I'm sad that this is only the ARC because it means that I have to wait over a year for the next installment.

Warning: beware of an overuse of adjectives and adverbs. I just loved the book so much!

The story follows Megan following her move to Kinsale, Ireland for her father's new More...

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Dec 14, 2011

Isamlq rated it:

Beautiful Cover strikes again. Dang it! What I got out of CARRIER was a story of what Bella and Edward would have done, had they not been vampire and emo-girl but rather some other type of supernatural boy and emo girl/Avatar-to- be. Things went quickly though, that I have to give it. Except this fact might have more to do with my feelings of having been there and read that rather than me feeling things like “Oh boy! What a good story!” Not just that it was in turns abrupt and over the top, bu More...

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Jan 04, 2012

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Dec 11, 2011

Carla rated it:

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Jan 02, 2012

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Jan 17, 2012

Parajunkee.com rated it:

I am honestly just at a loss for the epic failure of this book. The sad thing about it was how well it started. I was immediately sucked in and excited and then after I had gotten my feet wet I just kept reading and going ‘what?’ ‘huh?’ and ‘I think I might have read this before?’ And I had read it before in a book that you might be familiar with, called ‘Twilight’. I really hate comparing books to ‘Twilight’ because basically you can probably do this to a lot of young adults books from love tri More...

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Jan 14, 2012

Ezmirelda rated it:

So just to start off, this book was okay-ish. But there were times when I just could not take the characters seriously. The fact that the main characters had their first kiss SO early in the story completely confounded me. And when it did hapen everything felt so fake and completely out of place...the feeling you get when you're yanked out of the story because it starts to feel too unbeleivable. The dialogue felt so alien in that confession scene because there wasn't any real meaning to it. At More...

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Dec 23, 2011

KM rated it:

Honestly, this book was disappointing for me. I was really intrigued by the synopsis and the gorgeous cover, and I had high hopes for a story set in Ireland. But there was something really generic about this book that just didn't spark my imagination.
I've complained a lot about insta-love in YA and how much it irks me. Really, this was a great example of some serious insta-love. I mean, she-sees-the-boy-across-the-parking-lot-they-kiss-the-next-week kind. It all just felt very rushed. Even More...

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Jul 28, 2011

Mocha ღ Latte rated it:

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I was originally captivated by Carrier of the Mark due to it's cover. I think it's gorgeous and as you dig your way through the story you'll learn the significance of both the cover and the title of the novel. I can only imagine what the finished hard copy will look like. Will there be shimmering or reflective paper? Quite a bit of possibilities to make it pop. What caught me next was the summary; a mention of an Iris More...

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Oct 25, 2011

Kristia rated it:

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Jan 05, 2012

Kelly rated it:

First of all I want to say that I'm going to keep this short, because a lot of people feel the same way about this and I don't want to repeat too much of what has already been said.

I'm seriously torn though... I want to give this book 1 star, but I'd feel too much of a bully, so I'm gonna go with 1.5 or even maybe a 2. As many before me have said, this book really is so much like Twilight that I had a hard time trying to not burn or trash it.

The romance was badly written More...

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Jan 15, 2012

Julia rated it:

I don't have time (or much desire) to write a coherent review, but I feel I have to write something since I had so many qualms to read this book.

I give it 2 stars which in a Goodreads measure system means that the book was ok. I can't say I liked it but it was not as awful as I expected. True, there are a lot of things that could have been done better, there are mistakes that an experienced writer would not make, but all that in mind, it was an ok book. It's clearly a Twilight wan More...

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Nov 18, 2011

Rachel rated it:

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May 30, 2011

D.J. added it

Let me start off by saying Leigh’s writing is beautiful. She has this knack for turning words and sentences into images so lush and concrete that the beauty and wonder of Ireland unfolded in my mind. The story would not have been the same without the Irish setting and Leigh has done such an amazing job of making capturing its beauty in words and making it believable. I’ve always wanted to go to Ireland and much like Stephanie Perkins’ Anna and the French Kiss, which made me feel as though I was More...

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Jan 04, 2012

◕ ◡ ◕ Arooj rated it:

Pre-Reading: Wow. I'm absolutely in love with that cover. Can't wait to read it!!

Review: You know what I'm really not liking nowadays? How most YA paranormal books are almost exactly the same thing, just with different paranormal situations. Girl meets mysterious guy, they quickly fall in love, girl gets pulled into some paranormal world, learns she is "special", etc. It's really ticking me off. Of course, not ALL YA paranormal books are like this. And I was really hoping More...

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Nov 14, 2011

Kat rated it:

If you want a book that thrills, chills and dosent let you go ,not even at the end. This is your book in so many ways. Its amazing I could go on forever. It catches your attention right from the start and dosent let go and this is coming from an a,d,d person. Its dark yet bright .Leigh Fallon could run the world with her wording. She is one of the best authers I have ever had the pleasure of seeing. Her ,c.c hunters ,edger allen poe, and robert frost all have my heart with there writing. Im tru More...

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Apr 05, 2011

Morgan rated it:

The Carrier of the Mark is magic. It’s a story that will haunt me for days. I was completely immersed into the world of Megan, Adam, Rian, and Aine. The characters are so real, I feel like they’re constantly with me, hovering somewhere over my left shoulder. Great build and progression through the story. Excellent tension. Fun humor. Leigh Fallon has the ‘it’ factor—the ability to make life spring from the page. As soon as I finished, I couldn’t decide whether to start over or just savor the sto More...

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Nov 27, 2011

Maria rated it:

A girl. A boy. Magic. Forbidden love. Cliché? Yeah, but sometimes I can’t resist! I don’t know for sure, but I think that I loved this book because of Ireland! Don’t get me wrong. “Carrier of the Mark” by Leigh Fallon is a very good YA book but except some details, it’s like many other YA fantasy books. Although, at first I thought (and I was right) that the book has many similarities with a few other books, at the end I was very happy to read it.

I liked that for a change the story i More...

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Nov 02, 2011

Jessica rated it:

Let me preface this by stating that I have read some of the other reviews posted here about Carrier of the Mark, and I am disappointed by the constant comparison of Fallon's novel to that of Meyer's imfamously poor written Twilight Saga. I do understand that there are similar constructs at play--for instance, the idea of a girl and boy drawn inexplicably to one another. However, Fallon's novel proves in many ways to be stronger and is more original than "Twilight."

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Nov 19, 2011

Hayden rated it:

Carrier of the Mark is a refreshing story told from the perspective of seventeen-year-old Megan Rosenberg, a girl who just made the big move to Ireland for her father's work. I can't say it's original (see this review if you need more on that), but I can say her supernatural being is pretty creative.

I enjoyed watching the plot slowly unfold from the very beginning. Fallon writes characters very nicely; they don't blend together in my head, like characters in so many other books. The More...

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Feb 09, 2012

Jana rated it:

I don’t really have much to say about this book. To say the least, I was disappointed. That doesn’t mean I didn’t enjoy it, it just didn’t exceed my expectations.

The writing is so plain and at times I felt like I’m reading fan fiction. I didn’t feel like I was reading a published book. I know this was the first book discovered on Inkpop (a HarperCollins website where anyone could post their own stories) but I expected more from this, I guess.
The only reason why I gave this story a More...

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Oct 22, 2011

Sandy rated it:

2.5 stars

This book must have been written at the height of Twilightdom.

In the immortal words of Georgia Nicolson, this is a facsimile of a sham. I've read a lot of YA books copying the Twilight playbook, but Carrier of the Mark is the most blatant Twilight clone of them all. I won't get started on specifics because I would exceed the word count allowed for this review, but trust me on this one--just change some names and you've got Twilight (minus that addictive, guilty- More...

8 comments like (29 people liked it)

Jan 04, 2012

Cara rated it:

So overall I really enjoyed this. It was interesting with the history of the elements and it was well-written. My only beef was the relationship went a little fast to me. In the beginning, before they really got together, it was all on fire and I was really intrigued. I think it would've been nice to have that part drawn out a bit. Also, there was a lot of Twilight foreshadowing going on, like with this mysterious family and Adam being oh-so-handsome but untouchable for the other girls. I think More...

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Jan 04, 2012

Emily rated it:

It was okay.

0 comments like (4 people liked it)