Review : Visited

Visited by Janine Caldwell 
Publication date: May 25th 2013
Genre: YA coming-of-age fantasy

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Synopsis:

Seventeen-year-old Joanna Murphy has lost faith in her life. Vying for her mom’s attention, she’s resentful of her stepdad’s intrusion to their family. Her best friend, Tommy, has no clue she’s in love with him as he dates girl after girl without noticing how it tortures her. The final kicker, though, is God’s sick joke to make her freakishly tall when everyone knows boys prefer petite girls.

Then in a bizarre accident Joanna meets James, a breathtaking teen who appears to her after an unusual falling star sighting. Suddenly, her dream for an alien encounter becomes all too real. But when she finds her life has been made unrecognizable, she’s forced into an explosive study of the original design for her life that just may have her regretting every wish she ever made.

My Thoughts:

Joanna is a 17-year-old girl who wants her best friend to see her as more than a friend and wants her mother attention that has waned since her mother got married to her now step father. Its her senior year and so many things seem to be changing one after the other and when she spots a shooting star that had appeared to be a but might be a ufo. Her mother had always said she reads too much Sci Fi .

When she gets into an accident she meets James she guy who witness the accident and helped her who is more than what he appears. Joanna is the only one who knows the secret and must not tell a soul. When she tries to get back to her life she realizes her life has taken a strange turn where she gets everything she wants but it turn out the grass isnt greener on the other side and reflects on her choices.

I'm not a fan of books that have to do with aliens. I didn't even realize it was one of those types of books when I first gotten it but realized like the UFO not everything was as it first appeared. At first this book was a bit slow for me but once I got into it I just couldn't put it down. I liked the characters. I had a love/hate thing going on with Joanna though. What I hated about Joanna was how selfish and immature she was. She wants wants wants but never considers others feelings. As the story progressed I liked that she was considering others feelings even if she made a mistake or two. I liked that she learned to appreciate what she had.

This book makes you want to appreciate what you have because not everything is all its cracked up to be. Overall I really enjoyed this book and recommend you readers to check out this book.

Janine Caldwell was born in Concord, CA and raised in the small San Francisco Bay Area town of Clayton. Four days after her high school graduation, Janine attended California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo and graduated with a degree in English.

Janine now lives in Anthem, AZ with her husband and two sons. As a lifelong literature fanatic, she knew it was only a matter of time before she would become obsessed with writing her own work. With relatives like the Brothers Grimm and Anita Loos (Gentlemen Prefer Blondes), she figured fantasy writing had to be in her DNA.

Books published by Janine include Visited, a YA coming-of-age fantasy, Rematch and Double Fault—the first two books of The Vortex Series. The final book in this YA fantasy romance, Deuce, will be released fall 2013.

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