Song to Wake to (Levels, # 1)
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Song to Wake to (Levels #1)

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Sixteen-year-old Maddy Bride starts at a new school in the countryside. She knows she’ll have to deal with sports obsessed rich kids, cliques, and pressure. She doesn’t expect myths from the shadowy past to be taking place around her. Not only are the legends unfinished. They’re starting all over again.

Her new classmate, Eddy Moon, is awkward, and shy, and has lived a life...more
Kindle Edition, 312 pages
Published October 1st 2011 by Round Hill (first published September 10th 2011)
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J.D. Field
Apr 18, 2012 J.D. Field rated it 5 of 5 stars  ·  (Review from the author)
Okay, first off, I have to say I'm biased, cos I wrote this. But I wrote it for a purpose. I wanted to write a book full of story elements I love to read about.
It has mystery, paranormal secrets that slowly unfold. It's set in a school, and it has a hero and heroine that are different and new. They're flawed, but not wimps. She's fickle, bright, and knows her own mind. He's well... you'll just have to read to find out exactly how special Eddy Moon is...
Just My Opinion
Wow! This book was incredibly enchanting! The author requested I read the book, so without even knowing the premise or genre, I dove right in. It's a combination of modern day life and several beloved historical legends. As it turns out, they are some of my "favourite" legends and I was immediately enraptured and submerged into an ethereal atmosphere which accompanied me throughout the story.

I could physically feel the emotions and the action throughout its entirety. The author does an amazing j...more
Margaret
A young adult book mixed with Arthurian legend made this quite intriguing to start with however once I began it I was hooked. It has elements that are familiar and yet it has unique and different aspects as well. As you get to know the characters there is a lot of mystery surrounding both them and in the story itself. It leaves you with just the right amount of curiosity and anticipation for the sequel. It's not a long and overwhelming read but satisfying.
Amaleen Ison
JDField has me hooked, and I can’t wait for the next instalment. Song to Wake to is refreshingly original in a genre of sameness. The plot - well I won’t spoil it - takes on the most unexpected twist, but ticks all the YA romantic boxes. Forget Edward Cullen, Jace Weyland and even Daniel Grigori, because there’s a new brooding male in town, and his name is Eddy Moon.
Nina
Song to Wake to surprised me as a completely original, very well written young adult novel. When I first read the description my thoughts were "oh boy, another paranormal novel with some sort of supernatural legends". I could not have been more wrong.

Maddy comes across as a very smart, realistic sixteen-year-old. After moving away from London and to the countryside, she realizes that she can start over as exactly who she wants to be. She is constantly trying to figure out who she really is, whet...more
Audra
Love it! I like this new and interesting mythology - as much as I love vampires, I am kinda sick of reading about them! This was a refreshing break! I think the YA audience will be curious enough to go and look at the original King Arthur legends to get some background, and this teacher says YAY!
Like the strong voice of Maddie, and her indecision as to ":who she should be today." At 45, sometimes I can't decide which Audra I am! The characters are interesting, realistic and I want to get to know...more
Katy
This was such a good book !! I have never read a book like this and it was just so interesting !! I know some history about king Arthur and it was fun how all of that was woven into the book :) I really want to know what the four horsemen boys/dudes have to do with this, what character they are. It was such a good book, and I can't wait to start the next one
Alicia
I picked up this book not knowing what to expect. I had yet to read a book centered around the legend of Arthur and found the idea intriguing. It was definitely something different for me.

I feel that the characters and some of the situations could use a little more depth. The idea of the Four Horsemen is believable at first, but the author is not consistent with their characters. It was hard for me to believe that teenage boys who were supposed to be so arrogant and self centered could turn arou...more
Turtles
I stopped reading this at 88%. I don't want to call this a self-publish issue, but sometimes you still need an editor! This could have garnered more stars from me if it was not such a mess. I felt like 3 people wrote different parts of the book. It wavered from bare bones, passionless descriptions to conversation dumps. The writing style and pace were all over the place, the lack of consistency lulls you to read more when you get to a good patch, then to threaten your innocent Kindle with spine-...more
Steffi
The Book "Song to Wake to" beginns as many other teen books: Girl moves and is the new one at school. In this case is the protagonist Maddy Bride not the typical girl from such storys but she has an annoying tendency to invent herself in every imaginable situation new. Which means that she behaves out of the blue in a totaly different way than bevor. Okay so teens try to find out who they really are and also sometimes try to be different but for me this went too far and was only irritating. Howe...more
Katrina Passick Lumsden
Perhaps I'm being too harsh in only giving this two stars. Two and a half? Who knows, by the time I'm done writing this review, I may have upgraded it to a full three stars. I don't feel it warrants much more than that, however. As inventive and imaginative as the story was, it was too hard to really connect with any of the characters, especially the main protagonist, Maddy. Sympathetic characters are a must for me and, try as I might, I just couldn't bring myself to really like Maddy at all. Co...more
Kate
This book was fantastic, it completely had me hooked and I just couldn’t put it down. There were parts at the beginning of the story that reminded me of both Twilight and The Vampire Diaries – I love both of these so this is not necessarily a bad thing, I just felt that I had read it before. However, I soon realised that this story was very different when certain British legends were brought into the equation.

King Arthur, the Lady of the Lake and Merlin are just some of the things that make this...more
Kathryn
WOW!! I was totally captivated by this book. I absolutely LOVE the story told throughout this book and the reference to one of my FAVORITE legends.
J.D. Field has taken a story that has been written many times and made it modern with its own twists that grab a hold of you from the beginning of the book and keep you enticed all the way through. The book was paced perfectly giving me answers exactly when I needed them and then still leaving questions for me to ponder as we near the end of the book...more
Karin
Mar 04, 2012 Karin rated it 4 of 5 stars Recommends it for: People who read Young Adult
I really, really enjoyed this book. When I was finished, I went right out to the Amazon Kindle store and bought the second (I'm about 16% through it). I think it could have used a bit more editing, but some of that could just be the difference between UK English and American English.
Maria
Song to Wake to is a refreshing young adult novel. It's a great start to a series. It has all the things that make me (a-not-so-young-adult) love YA literature and it revives an original background story to go with it.
Maddy is a great heroine and you can already tell she is going to evolve throughout the series and us with her. Eddy is, like heroes usually are, dreamy at times and exasperating at other, sometimes you just want to shake him.
The whole book is told through Maddy's point of view, an...more
R.C.
If you like YA and have a fascination for King Arthur, you will enjoy this book. The characters come off the page, the prose stands on its own, and the story itself is quite original. The tale is told from the perspective of Madeleine, a teenager girl with a rather unusual pedigree--I won't spoil anything here, but she, along with others, are tied into Arthurian Legend.

There were few things I wasn't thrilled about. The formatting seemed off (purchased for Amazon Kindle): there were no indentati...more
Tammy
I had no idea what to expect from this book, only that it had great reviews and was compared to several other series I've read. Right away I had a good feeling about this book because it reminded me of a book that I read when I was actually in my teens. Based on that feeling, I thought I knew what the main characters were-I was so wrong! I'm leery of summarizing the book, because it wouldn't be fair to give anything away. I love the setting, I love the characters, and I love that while there is...more
Kim
This was a wonderful beginning to a series and I was sucked in from the very beginning. It had a good balance of romance and action. I also think it was original and unpredictable (I haven't read a lot of fantasy though so maybe I just don't know). One other thing, I really liked the heroine, Maddy. She figured things out when a smart person should. I can't stand it when the clues are all there and the chick just can't put the pieces together to figure out what the heck is going on. Maddy was no...more
Elisabeth Wheatley
"Arthur said he'd come back when we needed him. How bad does it have to get?"

Every devotee of Arthurian lore knows about the legend of the Seven Sleepers. Countless writers have ventured to tell their own versions of how Arthur came to rest in a hidden mound where he lies yet. What I have never encountered before, is a story that tells about what happens when The Once And Future King really does wake up. And how amazing it is!

The plot:
This book was disruptive to my sleep patterns on account of t...more
Shirley
Don’t you love it when an author takes an age-old story and gives it a new twist? That’s exactly what J.D. Field has done with Song to Wake to.

Song to Wake to is the first book in J.D. Field’s Levels Series. I don’t want to give anything away, so I’ll apologize in advance for being kind of vague. I just want potential readers to have the story open up for them the way it did for me. It won’t take you long to figure out the myths and legends that this series is centered around, but even that litt...more
Jessica Bronder
Maddy has just moved from the city to her grandmother’s home. After her grandmother passed away, it has become Maddy and her mother’s responsibility to take care of the bees. Maddy is enrolled into a private school and feels out of place with her poorer appearance compared to the other students. But as she starts fitting in, she realizes there is more than meets the eye to the school.

Fellow student Eddy Moon is the adopted child to one of the Four Horsemen, four rich guys that seem to monopoliz...more
PostCardashian Kim
This is the best first book of a series I've ever read.
It's amazing, and I'm so excited that I read today there's going to be TWELVE books and the 2nd one is going to be out in like 3 days or something, so finally I can bear to officially stop reading it and post a review.

REASONS WHY SONG TO WAKE TO IS AWESOME.

1, The idea. it's like Twilight, like the Mortal Instruments, like My Blood Approves, but the paranormal plot is different to all of those, and to anything else I've read. It also links to...more
J.D. Field
Jun 03, 2012 J.D. Field rated it 5 of 5 stars  ·  (Review from the author)  ·  review of another edition
Okay, first off, I have to say I'm biased, cos I wrote this. But I wrote it for a purpose. I wanted to write a book full of story elements I love to read about.
It has mystery, paranormal secrets that slowly unfold. It's set in a school, and it has a hero and heroine that are different and new. They're flawed, but not wimps. She's fickle, bright, and knows her own mind. He's well... you'll just have to read to find out exactly how special Eddy Moon is...
~Christina's BookReviews~
Ok so I have to say I liked the premise of the story. I liked that the Maddy and Eddy were opposite of what you usually read, liked the houses, liked most of the characters. BUT felt the story lacked something...depth? maybe. I just didn't feel any connection with the characters. The relationship between Maddy and Eddy was rushed and just plain awkward. The story was rushed and not much was explained.

I think this story has a lot of potential and will give the next book a try.
Tona
When Maddie's grandmother passes away, Maddie and her mom move back to her home town. It's a big change moving from London to a small village. Not only that she needs to go to a private school. She soon meets Eddy. A bumbling giant. Maddie see's more in Eddy. Eddy has a secret that could prove to much for Maddie. A secret that Maddie's mom knows and could keep her and Eddy apart.
Karen Ziemkowski
This was a fantastic quick read! I loved the British school reminders of Hogwarts, the mystery of Eddy Moon, and the headstrong main character of Maddy Bride. Can't wait to read book two and find out how Maddy and Eddy's relationship progresses now that she knows his secret... and I'm horrified that Barnes and Noble doesn't seem to carry the second part for the nook!
Mindy
This book had an interesting premise and I really liked the parts where Maddie was helping Eddy and the water bits, but it wasn't as captivating or paced as well as it could have been. I would be interested in reading the second book in the series if it was lower-priced than it is now ($4.49). Maybe for $1.99.
Sophie
This book was probably closer to 4 1/2 stars - it was really amazing. Loved it, and will definitely read the second book. Love the whole history factor, and the incorporation of the past and present in a wonderfully unique and intriguing puzzle.

:)
Angela Willetts
A refreshing take on YA fictional fantasy, cleverly combining old mythical legends into modern day characters depicting how potentially this really could occur in real life and get intertwined in a real society and lives. Very good, easy read, and addictive.
Valerie
Won this for free on First Reads. It was a pretty good book, was able to read in one day. Sometimes the story line was a little strange, but was okay overall.
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I love travelling (especially in Eastern Europe, Ukraine and Romania). I believe that Dawsons Creek is deeply underated. If it was allowed I would eat bacon three times a day.
I like to invent silly dances and embarrass my friends. Basketball is good, as are whales.
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