The Cresswell Plot - Eliza Wass [Review]

Title: The Cresswell Plot

Author: Eliza Wass

Genre: Young Adult, Fiction, Mystery

Publisher: Disney-Hyperion

Publishing date: June 7th 2016

Pages: 272

Rating

★★★★☆

Hi, today I’m reviewing a book I read a while ago, The Creswell Plot by Eliza Wass, this book seems to have been published also under the name In the Dark, In the Woods with a different cover, but it’s the same book.

This book tells us the story of Castella Cresswell and her five siblings—Hannan, Caspar, Mortimer, Delvive, and Jerusalem. For years, their world has been confined to their ramshackle family home deep in the woods of upstate New York. They abide by the strict rule of God, whose messages come directly from their father.

Slowly, Castley and her siblings start to test the boundaries of the laws that bind them. But, at

Paperback cover.

school, they’re still the freaks they’ve always been to the outside world. Marked by their plain clothing. Unexplained bruising. Utter isolation from their classmates. That is, until Castley is forced to partner with the totally irritating, totally normal George Gray, who offers her a glimpse of a life filled with freedom and choice.

Castley’s world rapidly expands beyond the woods she knows so well and the beliefs she once thought were the only truths. She discovers that his father might be lying to her family with his imposing religion, and that all her family might be at risk because her father makes a chilling announcement: the Cresswells will soon return to their home in heaven. With time running out on all of their lives, Castley must expose the depth of her father’s lies and come up with a plan to save her family from her father’s grasp.

The Cresswell Plot shows the reader an insight of what is like to live under a controlling father who is also a religious fanatic, not a very good combination. Due to this you cannot expect regular characters. The Creswell family is definitely odd and hard to relate to if you haven’t live in a situation like theirs, but still is easy to feel some empathy towards them. They all have strange fears and attitudes that their father has imposed on them.

Evento: Firma de Marie Lu & Kiersten White en San Diego [Warcross tour]

¡Hola! ha pasado un rato desde mi última entrada porque no quería que la entrada del sorteo se perdiera con otras, esta vez les vengo a hablar de otro evento al que fui.

El sábado pasado, 23 de septiembre, fui a la última firma de autógrafos de Marie Lu en su tour Warcross, que se llevó a cabo en la librería Mysterious Galaxy en San Diego, California. Esta vez Marie Lu estuvo acompañada por la autora Kiersten White, que si no reconocen su nombre es autora de Hija de las Tinieblas.

Sinopsis

La obsesión comenzó hace unos años y ahora los seguidores de Warcross están dispersos por todo el mundo, algunos ansiosos por escapar de la realidad y otros, esperando hacer algún negocio. Emika Chen, una joven hacker, trabaja como cazarecompensas persiguiendo a los jugadores de Warcross que hacen apuestas ilegales. Pero el mundo de los cazadores es muy competitivo y sobrevivir en él se convierte en una verdadera hazaña. Emika necesita dinero y se arriesga a ingresar ilegalmente al juego inaugural del Campeonato Internacional de Warcross... y, por una falla técnica, termina convirtiéndose en furor de la noche a la mañana.

Convencida de que la arrestarán, Emika no puede creerlo cuando recibe una llamada de Hideo Tanaka, el creador del juego, con una oferta irresistible: necesita un espía dentro del torneo para desentrañar un problema de seguridad y quiere que ella se encargue. Rápidamente, la envían a Tokio, donde se ve sumergida dentro de un mundo de fama y dinero. Pronto su investigación se vuelve cada vez más oscura y se da cuenta de que la persona que está violando la seguridad del juego puede traerle consecuencias terribles al imperio de Warcross.

Debo admitir que llegué tarde, cuando llegué ya había empezado el evento y corrí a recoger el

Marie Lu.

libro que ya había preordenado y compré aparte The Rose Society y Midnight Star de Marie Lu y también Beanstalker and Other Hilarious Scarytales de Kiersten White. Todo el evento fue una conversación entre ambas autoras sobre sus proyectos y experiencias. Hay una química maravillosa entre ambas, lo cual hizo al evento divertido y entretenido.

Marie Lu habló principalmente del libro que está promocionando, Warcross. Mencionó que este libro nació porque quería escribir algo menos sombrío como lo es Los Jóvenes de la Elite, así que escribió Warcross para ella. Decidió escribir una duología en vez de trilogía como ha hecho hasta ahora porque pensó que así se desharía del tedioso segundo libro que según sus palabras es el más difícil de escribir. No creyó que la estructura cambiaria tanto, pero escribir una duología resulto más difícil al tener que escribir dos libros en uno en el caso de la secuela.

Event: Marie Lu & Kiersten White Signing in San Diego [Warcross tour]

Hello! It’s been a while since my last post, this due the giveaway I was organizing, I didn’t want that entry to get lost so more people could see it and participate.

Last Saturday, September 23, I attended the last signing of Marie Lu for the Warcross tour, for this one she was going to chat with author Kiersten White. 

Warcross Summary

For the millions who log in every day, Warcross isn’t just a game—it’s a way of life. The obsession started ten years ago and its fan base now spans the globe, some eager to escape from reality and others hoping to make a profit. Struggling to make ends meet, teenage hacker Emika Chen works as a bounty hunter, tracking down players who bet on the game illegally. But the bounty hunting world is a competitive one, and survival has not been easy. Needing to make some quick cash, Emika takes a risk and hacks into the opening game of the international Warcross Championships—only to accidentally glitch herself into the action and become an overnight sensation.

Convinced she’s going to be arrested, Emika is shocked when instead she gets a call from the game’s creator, the elusive young billionaire Hideo Tanaka, with an irresistible offer. He needs a spy on the inside of this year’s tournament in order to uncover a security problem . . . and he wants Emika for the job. With no time to lose, Emika’s whisked off to Tokyo and thrust into a world of fame and fortune that she’s only dreamed of. But soon her investigation uncovers a sinister plot, with major consequences for the entire Warcross empire.

Marie Lu.

I arrived kind of late, the event had just started and I had to pick up the book I had preordered online to get a ticket for the signing line. The whole event was a chat between both authors, which have a super nice chemistry making everything fun and interesting.

Marie Lu talked mainly about her new book, Warcross. She mentioned that she wanted to write something lighter because the books she had been working on were dark (the Young Elites), and so she wrote Warcross for herself. She decided to challenge herself writing a duology instead of a trilogy, that way she could get rid of the middle book that’s always hard to write, but she didn’t think the structure would change that much. She mentioned that writing a duology turned out to be harder because she has to combine two books into one.

Lu also mentioned that right now Emika, Warcross main character, has become her favorite because she put so much of her own personality into Emika, so she identifies with her a lot. And finally she said that she would like to see Warcross adapted as an anime, she is currently watching Sword Art Online, an anime with a similar story about immersion videogames.

Resultados Sorteo Hija de las Tinieblas

Muchisimas gracias a todos aquellos que se animaron a participar en este, el primer sorteo que organizo, de todo corazon gracias.

Sin mas preambulo, el ganador es...

a Rafflecopter giveaway

¡¡Karine D!!!

¡¡Felicidades!! :D

A todos aquellos que no ganaron, no se desesperen, planeo hacer mas sorteos en el futuro, aunque tal vez no en un futuro tan cercano.

Ya me he puesto en contacto con la ganadora y recibido sus datos. Enviare el premio la próxima semana de serme posible :)

[Sorteo] Hija de las Tiniebas de Kirsten White + Swag Literario

¡Hola! La entrada de hoy es muy especial ya que estoy organizando mi primer sorteo, espero tener una buena experiencia y que ustedes también la tengan.

Supuestamente tenía planeado hacer un sorteo por el aniversario de mi blog que según yo era en julio, pero resulta que fue en mayo. Aunque no tengo una razón en especifica, quise hacerlo de todos modo :)

El premio principal es una copia autografiada de Hija de las Tinieblas, la llevé a firmar durante la fiesta de lanzamiento de Now I Rise, segunda entrega de la trilogía.

Ademas del libro, el ganador se llevará lo siguiente:

Evento: Mi experiencia en San Diego Comic Con 2017 / Domingo 23 de Julio

¡Hola! ha pasado un rato desde mi última entrada, esta vez les hablaré sobre mi experiencia en San Diego Comic Con este año.

Marisa Meyer (Heartless, Las Cr

Este año sólo alcance boleto para un día, domingo, el último día de la convención donde todo
está más barato, pero también está todo escogido y hay menos firmas que los otros días. Con mucha antelación preparé un presupuesto e hice una lista de los libros que compraría y las firmas que quería conseguir.

No asistí a ningún panel porque, aunque son interesantes, al ser el último día de la convención y el único que fui, quería pasar  el día explorando el Exhibit Hall y el domingo la convención termina más temprano que los demás días.

Llegué exactamente a las 9:00 am, cuando estaban abriendo las puertas, así que entré y subí a la zona de autógrafos por la bolsa de la convención y los libros que dan con el mapa del evento y horarios. Después fui al Coat Check a dejar una mochila de llantas que llevé y la dejé con unos libros que ocuparía rato después, de ahí partí a mi aventura en el exhibit hall.

Event: My Experience at San Diego Comic Con 2017 / Sunday, July 23.

Hi! It’s been a while since my last post, this time I’ll talk about my experience at comic con this year.

Marissa Meyer (Renegades, The Lunar Chronicles)

 I only attended one day, Sunday, the last day when everything is cheaper but there are less signings and the con ends earlier. Several days before the con, I made a budget and listed the book related events I wanted to attend.

I did not attend any panels because as I only had one day to enjoy the con, I wanted to explore the exhibit hall as much as possible, but I would attend some post-panel signings.  

I arrived exactly at 9:00 am and picked up my con bag, left a backpack with wells in the coat check with some books inside, and started my adventure in the exhibit hall.

Marie Lu (Legend, The Young Elites, Warcross)

The first signing I had planned was Sarah Khun, author of Heroine Complex. The signing would be held at the exhibit hall from 10:30 am to 11:30 am. When the time arrived I got lost and couldn’t find the booth, when I finally did I noticed they were only selling a special box that contained the second book, and other bookish things, but the price was $60, so I went to a bookstore booth named Mysterious Galaxy to buy the book, but turned out Mysterious Galaxy had signed copies of the book, all the copies they had were signed so I thought I could postpone buying it to buy another book and buy it signed later in their store.

The second signing I planned to attend to was Pierce Brown’s (Red Rising trilogy), that would be held at Del Rey booth from 11:30 am to 12:30 pm. It was a ticketed event, first come first serve. I got a ticket and waited in line for half an hour but the line didn’t move, I only moved 2 people, so I left because other signing was approaching.