I am pleased to be able to
share with you today the cover of Aspen by Rebekah Crane.
Author: Rebekah Crane
Release Date: January 2014
Category: YA contemporary
About the book:
One quiet night in Boulder,
Colorado, Aspen Yellow-Sunrise Taylor made a mistake.
In the next instant, her life changed forever.
Aspen doesn't want to remember when Katelyn Ryan, a sleek-haired popular soccer player, crossed the yellow line in her car and smashed into Aspen's. But forgetting is pretty hard- because Katelyn may have died - but she didn't leave. Her ghost is following Aspen around, and heading into senior year, it's kind of a problem. Especially when Katelyn's gorgeous former boyfriend Ben appears to be the only person at school with a clue as to how Aspen feels.
Popularity, college, Homecoming Court, hot guys - none of these things ever mattered to Aspen. She's been busy trying to rein in her giant mass of blonde curls, keep her stoner mother Ninny away from Toaster, her mom's awful bongo drumming boyfriend, and prevent her best friends Kim and Cass from killing - or kissing - one another. But with Ben sitting next to her in Physics looking all too gorgeous, Katelyn's spirit dogging her steps, and her obsessive snow-globe collecting therapist begging her to remember all the things she wants to forget, Aspen is thrust into a vivid, challenging world she can't control … and doesn't want to.
A darkly funny, emotionally gripping story of opening up, letting go, and moving on, ASPEN is about the best-worst accident of your life ... and what comes next.
In the next instant, her life changed forever.
Aspen doesn't want to remember when Katelyn Ryan, a sleek-haired popular soccer player, crossed the yellow line in her car and smashed into Aspen's. But forgetting is pretty hard- because Katelyn may have died - but she didn't leave. Her ghost is following Aspen around, and heading into senior year, it's kind of a problem. Especially when Katelyn's gorgeous former boyfriend Ben appears to be the only person at school with a clue as to how Aspen feels.
Popularity, college, Homecoming Court, hot guys - none of these things ever mattered to Aspen. She's been busy trying to rein in her giant mass of blonde curls, keep her stoner mother Ninny away from Toaster, her mom's awful bongo drumming boyfriend, and prevent her best friends Kim and Cass from killing - or kissing - one another. But with Ben sitting next to her in Physics looking all too gorgeous, Katelyn's spirit dogging her steps, and her obsessive snow-globe collecting therapist begging her to remember all the things she wants to forget, Aspen is thrust into a vivid, challenging world she can't control … and doesn't want to.
A darkly funny, emotionally gripping story of opening up, letting go, and moving on, ASPEN is about the best-worst accident of your life ... and what comes next.
About the author:
Rebekah Crane fell in love with YA literature while studying
Secondary English Education at Ohio University, but it wasn't until ten years
and two daughters later that she started to write it. Inspired by her past
students, growing up in Cleveland with its fabulous musical theater community,
and music of all kinds (particularly the Avett Brothers), she created PLAYING
NICE. It is her first published novel, but having an unbridled imagination,
it's not the only fantasy world she's lived in (just ask her husband). ASPEN,
her second YA creation, is set to release in January 2014. She now lives in
Colorado, where the altitude only enhances the experience.
Giveaway:
10 eARCs of ASPEN!
1
tie-dye shirt from Moe’s Broadway Bagels in Boulder, CO (an actual restaurant
in the story!)
2
Grateful Dead bumper stickers! Groovy!
5
Friendship bracelets because WHY NOT?!
1
hacky sack! Rad!
3
flower stickers you can stick to your laptop or desk or wherever! Peace, man!
I like the synopsis and the whole dead girl haunting thing going on! :)
ReplyDeleteLily @ Lilysbookblog
Doesn't it sound great! :)
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