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Swift (Swift #1)
by
Heather London (Goodreads Author)
A girl totally unaware of her destiny.
Two men who will stop at nothing to take her power.
One family who will do whatever it takes to protect her.
After graduating from high school, Meredith is ready to leave the place that has been a constant reminder of what happened to her as a child. She was just eight years old when her family died in a mysterious car accident, taking t...more
Two men who will stop at nothing to take her power.
One family who will do whatever it takes to protect her.
After graduating from high school, Meredith is ready to leave the place that has been a constant reminder of what happened to her as a child. She was just eight years old when her family died in a mysterious car accident, taking t...more
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August 29th 2012
by Heather London
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Note: I received this book from the author in exchange for an honest review.
Meredith, an eighteen year old girl, has never fit in with anyone around her after the deaths of her parents and her twin sister when she was eight, but she could never figure out why. That is until Blake and his family came to town and then the mystery is slowly revealed to her.
This book was amazing! It was an extremely quick read with in-depth characters and an interesting story line. The story was cute and the relatio...more
Meredith, an eighteen year old girl, has never fit in with anyone around her after the deaths of her parents and her twin sister when she was eight, but she could never figure out why. That is until Blake and his family came to town and then the mystery is slowly revealed to her.
This book was amazing! It was an extremely quick read with in-depth characters and an interesting story line. The story was cute and the relatio...more
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NOTE: I RECEIVED THIS BOOK FOR FREE THROUGH GOODREADS FIRST READS IN EXCHANGE FOR A HONEST REVIEW.
Even though it took me a little while to get into this book (due to my 1 year old son demanding attention) I loved this book so much. I am definitely going out to buy book number 2 when it is published. This book is brilliant and definitely had me wanting to read more and more. The characters are well defined in the book and there are not too many distractions that take you away from the main story...more
Even though it took me a little while to get into this book (due to my 1 year old son demanding attention) I loved this book so much. I am definitely going out to buy book number 2 when it is published. This book is brilliant and definitely had me wanting to read more and more. The characters are well defined in the book and there are not too many distractions that take you away from the main story...more
An astonishing debut novel full of outstanding premise and originality, which blew me away!
I was so impressed by this wonderful book that certainly exceeded any expectations I may have had prior to reading. The beautiful purple cover is simply stunning and I can state that it is something uniquely distinctive, and different within the YA genre. Highly readable and totally unputdownable, Heather London has produced something very compelling and exciting. I instantly connected with main protagoni...more
I was so impressed by this wonderful book that certainly exceeded any expectations I may have had prior to reading. The beautiful purple cover is simply stunning and I can state that it is something uniquely distinctive, and different within the YA genre. Highly readable and totally unputdownable, Heather London has produced something very compelling and exciting. I instantly connected with main protagoni...more
I couldn't decide whether to give this book two or three stars. I ended up going with the higher rating because there was enough there to make me buy the second book. The characters were okay, the story was okay, the writing was okay-but it all could have been much better.
Our heroine's supporting characters didn't do much in the way of, well, supporting. Her best friend, who is supposedly like a brother to her, goes away at the beginning of the story and then barely pops up for a cameo or two....more
Our heroine's supporting characters didn't do much in the way of, well, supporting. Her best friend, who is supposedly like a brother to her, goes away at the beginning of the story and then barely pops up for a cameo or two....more
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A girl totally unaware of her destiny.
Two men who will stop at nothing to take her power.
One family who will do whatever it takes to protect her.
After graduating from high school, Meredith is ready to leave the place that has been a constant reminder of what happened to her as a child. She was just eight years old when her family died in a mysterious car accident, taking the secret of her destiny with them. It’s not until a new family moves to town that she realizes leaving may not be as easy a...more
GENRE: YA Paranormal
THEME: Magic/Romance
RECEIVED: Tour
BLOG: http://seeingnight.blogspot.com/
REVIEW:
This was a great start to a new series, lots of character development, magic and mystery. The story starts out a bit slow but once the leads meet, the pace picks up and the readers get sucked into a world where witches exist.
Swift follows Meredith Martin who just graduated from high school and is trying to figure out what to do next in her life. She had lost her family at a young age in a tragic ac...more
THEME: Magic/Romance
RECEIVED: Tour
BLOG: http://seeingnight.blogspot.com/
REVIEW:
This was a great start to a new series, lots of character development, magic and mystery. The story starts out a bit slow but once the leads meet, the pace picks up and the readers get sucked into a world where witches exist.
Swift follows Meredith Martin who just graduated from high school and is trying to figure out what to do next in her life. She had lost her family at a young age in a tragic ac...more
So there's some books that you start reading, and halfway through you still don't fully know what it's about. For me, this was one of those. It's not a bad thing, at all. In fact, that intrigued me more because I liked it from the get go. I'll start off with a couple things I didn't like, and that's the reason this gets 4 stars and not 5. Remember, this is MY opinion. The writing, while great, started to get to me, when in the dialogue there was a lot of "can not" or "did not" or "have not" inst...more
This series has potential. The storyline is great and I love the characters, but I am only giving 3 stars for this book because 1) It took at least halfway through the book for me to have any idea what is going on 2) some parts kept me wanting to keep reading but there were also parts that seemed to drag on and almost made me want to skip sentences. 3) the parts that I wanted to read more about were over with in less than a page (like the day in training). And 4) the ending doesn't seem to me li...more
I received this book from the author in exchange for an honest review.
Meredith is a 18 year old girl that has had her fair share of troublesome times. Just 10 years ago she lost her entire family, including her twin sister, Charlotte. If that wasn't enough, she never felt quite... Normal. Meredith has lived her life feeling as if something was missing, like she didn't fit in.
That was until one day when she meets a few strangers- which is odd in her small home town. Though they seem strange to h...more
Meredith is a 18 year old girl that has had her fair share of troublesome times. Just 10 years ago she lost her entire family, including her twin sister, Charlotte. If that wasn't enough, she never felt quite... Normal. Meredith has lived her life feeling as if something was missing, like she didn't fit in.
That was until one day when she meets a few strangers- which is odd in her small home town. Though they seem strange to h...more
NOTE: I received this book free in exchange for an honest review.
Meredith is your typical high school senior graduate. She's a bit lost and not sure what to do with herself. She has decided to stay in her home town for one last summer while she works and saves up money to travel. Enter Abby and her brother Blake. There in town with their parents just for the summer to fix up an old estate nearby. They seem nice but Meredith soon notices things that are weird about them, like the way they talk an...more
Meredith is your typical high school senior graduate. She's a bit lost and not sure what to do with herself. She has decided to stay in her home town for one last summer while she works and saves up money to travel. Enter Abby and her brother Blake. There in town with their parents just for the summer to fix up an old estate nearby. They seem nice but Meredith soon notices things that are weird about them, like the way they talk an...more
I received this book from the author, Heather London in exchange for an honest review.
Wow! I can honestly say that I fell in love with this story and the characters! It is about an 18 year old girl named Meredith, who just graduated from high school. She never really felt like she belonged anywhere..sort of a loner. She lived with her Aunt Rose after her parents and twin sister Charlotte were killed in a car wreck 10 years before. She meets an unexpected visitor in the cemetery while visiting t...more
Wow! I can honestly say that I fell in love with this story and the characters! It is about an 18 year old girl named Meredith, who just graduated from high school. She never really felt like she belonged anywhere..sort of a loner. She lived with her Aunt Rose after her parents and twin sister Charlotte were killed in a car wreck 10 years before. She meets an unexpected visitor in the cemetery while visiting t...more
I received this novel from the author in exchange for a review.
When I first came across Swift on Goodreads, I immediately wanted to read it. Even as an adult, I really appreciate a well written YA paranormal romance novel. Going into this book, my expectations were fairly high, with all of the amazing reviews. With that said, I absolutely loved it. This story sucked me in from the beginning and was very hard to put down.
Some of my favorite things about this book were:
I loved how mysterious the p...more
When I first came across Swift on Goodreads, I immediately wanted to read it. Even as an adult, I really appreciate a well written YA paranormal romance novel. Going into this book, my expectations were fairly high, with all of the amazing reviews. With that said, I absolutely loved it. This story sucked me in from the beginning and was very hard to put down.
Some of my favorite things about this book were:
I loved how mysterious the p...more
I received a free copy of this book from Heather London in exchange for an honest review...
All I can say is: OH MY FREAKING WORD!!!!!!!!!! I literally LOVED the entire book! From start to finish! Heather London - here's to a job well done! What a brilliantly written story!
The novel is about Meredith Martin whose family are tragically killed in a car accident when she was a little girl. She's always wondered why she was the one to survive.
Meredith recently graduated high school and had been plan...more
All I can say is: OH MY FREAKING WORD!!!!!!!!!! I literally LOVED the entire book! From start to finish! Heather London - here's to a job well done! What a brilliantly written story!
The novel is about Meredith Martin whose family are tragically killed in a car accident when she was a little girl. She's always wondered why she was the one to survive.
Meredith recently graduated high school and had been plan...more
I love stories with so much insight into what the person is thinking. Not to mention mysteries. You read through the first half of this book trying to puzzle out what is going on, and then when you discover it, it's a bomb blasting. The story takes you through a girl trying to figure out where she belongs and moving on passed the deaths of her parents and twin sister. She has a hard time moving away from them, or their graves. It's really sad. Then, the weird stuff starts happening and the weird...more
Overall, a good read. :-) I would give it a 3.5. I liked the overall story. As frustrating as it was not knowing what exactly was going on with Meridith, Blake, and Abby, it made me more intuned to how Meridith must have felt not know what was going on either. Usually in paranormal books, you have a good idea what the big paranormal aspect is, but it wasn't until halfway through this book, that you finally find out what they "are" (I don't want to give it away :-). I thought that the story flowe...more
R2R: Swift (Swift #1)
I received a free copy, in exchange for a review.
Meredith has had enough tragedies in her young life. Losing both her parents and her twin sister is not something that happens to everyone and Meredith tries to take this in stride. Leaving Marblehead is the one escape that she wants, after graduating from high school. Just to get away from this place and try her life out, in the world. But then, mysterious things start to happen, in her small town. It all started when she saw...more
I received a free copy, in exchange for a review.
Meredith has had enough tragedies in her young life. Losing both her parents and her twin sister is not something that happens to everyone and Meredith tries to take this in stride. Leaving Marblehead is the one escape that she wants, after graduating from high school. Just to get away from this place and try her life out, in the world. But then, mysterious things start to happen, in her small town. It all started when she saw...more
Swift is a story about a young woman whose desperate desire is to venture away from the small town where she grew up. But as the time draws near to finalize those plans things start to get weird, starting with the mysterious hottie that appears across the street when she almost looses her life and the girl crying in the cemetery that seemed to recognize the main character. Meredith's past is shrouded in mystery prior to the day she was in a fatal accident that killed all her family and leaving h...more
I received this book as part of a read to review program in Goodreads. Ah...this book was awesome! I adored this book. It was a must read!
It took me a minute to get into the main character, Meredith. I felt there could have been a little more character development, but nothing major. Abby was my favorite character. I loved her from the time we met her all the way until the end. Blake wasn't too bad either:)
This was a great plot that kept me guessing. I knew at the beginning that something was go...more
It took me a minute to get into the main character, Meredith. I felt there could have been a little more character development, but nothing major. Abby was my favorite character. I loved her from the time we met her all the way until the end. Blake wasn't too bad either:)
This was a great plot that kept me guessing. I knew at the beginning that something was go...more
May 08, 2013
Sharon *aka* ShaeAnn77
rated it
4 of 5 stars
Shelves:
cinco-de-mayo-anything-goes,
lop-r2r-read
I was given this book in exchange for an honest review.
Meredith Martin is eighteen. She's the only Martin left. Her parents and twin sister all died in an accident that she survived. Her surrogate Aunt Rose has taken care of her the ten years since. And Rose's boyfriend Jack has been a part of their lives the past three.
While Mer is saying goodbye to her parents and sister at the cemetery she comes across a grieving girl at a very old grave. Mer is saying goodbye because she has graduated and is...more
Meredith Martin is eighteen. She's the only Martin left. Her parents and twin sister all died in an accident that she survived. Her surrogate Aunt Rose has taken care of her the ten years since. And Rose's boyfriend Jack has been a part of their lives the past three.
While Mer is saying goodbye to her parents and sister at the cemetery she comes across a grieving girl at a very old grave. Mer is saying goodbye because she has graduated and is...more
I loved this story from the first page to the last. It is well plotted and the characters were so real I felt as if I knew them. They could be your next door neighbors with an added twisted of magic. The romance between the two main characters had me longing for more. It is a sweet love story among other things.
This book and its sequel felt a little like the Twilight series but was written so much better and without the vampires and werewolves. In the Twilight series I wanted to smack Bella on t...more
This book and its sequel felt a little like the Twilight series but was written so much better and without the vampires and werewolves. In the Twilight series I wanted to smack Bella on t...more
One thing you should keep in mind going into this book is that things don’t really pick up until well after halfway through the story. That’s not to say the first half is boring or anything, just kind of uneventful and you’re left wondering what is going on and what exactly the author is trying to write about. The “big mystery” doesn’t surface until pretty much two-thirds of the way, and even then, it’s a bit vague and I was left with many questions. The story was promising enough, but I felt li...more
I only made it 3/4 of the way through this book. I tried to finish it I did. But it sucked. Bad. Friends that are written out after the first few chapters. Magic connections and good and bad witches. Saying I love you to dudes you have spent a total of less than 24 waking hrs with. Ridiculous dialogue that is so over the too and canned soap opera crap I could hardly stand it. And what about mentioning how you were always an outsider and now you hVe a destiny and your whole life makes sense crap?...more
I really want to love this book. Its just that there some parts that were too slow just like on the first few chapters when Meredith is trying to know what her dreams/flashbacks pertain to, Blake and his family's sudden appearance and their role in her life, etc.. It took time for me to know what is really going on.
As the story progresses, Blake and Meredith are able to develop special feelings with each other and in the end, Meredith is able to travel back in time easily to save her loved ones...more
As the story progresses, Blake and Meredith are able to develop special feelings with each other and in the end, Meredith is able to travel back in time easily to save her loved ones...more
When I received this book from the author, I had no intentions of starting it for a least a week, due to hierarchy on my to-do list. However, when went to test the file to make sure it opened on my Kindle, I decided to just take a peek and fell face first into the book until I finished. Oops!
So, this is the 3rd time I have rewritten this review. Sometimes I struggle with what to say about a book because I want so desperately to do right by the author, but feel like anything I write will fall sho...more
So, this is the 3rd time I have rewritten this review. Sometimes I struggle with what to say about a book because I want so desperately to do right by the author, but feel like anything I write will fall sho...more
3.5 stars!!
This was a cute story about magic, love, and a little time travel. Meredith is an 18 year old that has just graduted and trying to decide what to do with her life. Her family was killed in a car accident many years before, so she has hopes and doing some traveling to places that her family was from. But then a new family shows up in town, and they help her discover the truth about herself. Brother and sister, Blake and Abby, and their parents, have come from the past to help protect h...more
This was a cute story about magic, love, and a little time travel. Meredith is an 18 year old that has just graduted and trying to decide what to do with her life. Her family was killed in a car accident many years before, so she has hopes and doing some traveling to places that her family was from. But then a new family shows up in town, and they help her discover the truth about herself. Brother and sister, Blake and Abby, and their parents, have come from the past to help protect h...more
Dreams, nightmares and a hot guy that has a secret. Merideth is an average teen looking for what every teen wants to get out on her own. She has decided to use her summer after graduation to work and earn enough money to get out of the small town she now resides in. Until she meets blake and abby people who are always around when things happen to her. They befriend her and then lay the bomb on her Her mother has sent them to protect her and they are from the past. Im not sure if i will read the...more
This review and more at my blog Into the Worm's Hole
Rating: 3 of 5 stars
Series book: Yes
Will I read the Next: Maybe
I have to say I'm a little disappointed. At first I was all for it, I was really expecting a good book. But when they mentioned they were witches and her moms name was Emma Watson and she was from London....I started to roll my eyes. Repeatedly. My eyes were literally hurting from rolling my eyes to much. So many cliches. The romance, the plot, everything. That's not to say I di...more
Rating: 3 of 5 stars
Series book: Yes
Will I read the Next: Maybe
I have to say I'm a little disappointed. At first I was all for it, I was really expecting a good book. But when they mentioned they were witches and her moms name was Emma Watson and she was from London....I started to roll my eyes. Repeatedly. My eyes were literally hurting from rolling my eyes to much. So many cliches. The romance, the plot, everything. That's not to say I di...more
As most reviews have already stated Meredith had a tragic young life, losing her parents and her twin when she was only 8. Fortunately for her, her mothers BFF Rose steps in and raised her like she was her own. The story takes place when Meredith is a senior in HS. She is a little odd from the rest of the teenagers and she doesn’t have many friends. All she knows is that she can’t wait to get out of the small town she lives in once she graduates.
Roger is her male BFF; he is fun and knows what h...more
Roger is her male BFF; he is fun and knows what h...more
Review originally posted on my blog. See the full post here
I would like to thank Heather London for giving me a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review!
My Rating: 3.5
I really enjoyed reading Swift. Meredith is a small town girl who’s just itching to get away from Olymipa and experience something different from the tiny town she grew up in. Especially since it’s the same place that she gets to be constantly reminded of losing her family in a car accident. Things start to change pretty...more
I would like to thank Heather London for giving me a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review!
My Rating: 3.5
I really enjoyed reading Swift. Meredith is a small town girl who’s just itching to get away from Olymipa and experience something different from the tiny town she grew up in. Especially since it’s the same place that she gets to be constantly reminded of losing her family in a car accident. Things start to change pretty...more
When I first opened this book there are 609 pages and I thought this meant many pages of senseless filler. I was wrong this is a very sweet love story and I can't wait to read the rest of it. Meredith Martin a small town girl who just wants to get out, meets Blake Harper and his family. This changes her life and brings her to life. Wonderful Read. I am interested to know what and where Roger her best friend will play a role in her life (he can't just go away to Harvard and disappear from her lif...more
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