Shadow Hills Review and Giveaway

16 Apr, 2010 by in shadow hills 13 comments

“Shadow Hills” by Anastasia Hopcus
to be published July 13th 2010 by Egmont USA
details Hardcover, 400 pages
isbn 1606840835
4.5 Stars

Synopsis from Goodreads: ” Since her sister’s mysterious death, Persephone “Phe” Archer has been plagued by a series of disturbing dreams. Determined to find out what happened to her sister, Phe enrolls at Devenish Prep in Shadow Hills, Massachusetts—the subject of her sister’s final diary entry.

After stepping on campus, Phe immediately realizes that there’s something different about this place—an unexplained epidemic that decimated the town in the 1700s, an ancient and creepy cemetery, and gorgeous boy Zach—and somehow she’s connected to it all.

But the more questions she asks and the deeper she digs, the more entangled Phe becomes in the haunting past of Shadow Hills. Finding what links her to this town…might cost her her life.

I have been waiting and waiting to read this book since I first met Anatasia Hopcus after she entered one of our blog giveaways and I found out she is Team Edward. Later she sent us the first chapter and after I read it I was hooked! So when it came in my mailbox this week as part of the ARC tour I was ecstatic!!! I must say it is a book that will keep you captivated from start to finish. Phe lives an ordinary High School life until she starts having mysterious dreams after the death of her sister. Why is she having visions of a graveyard and a boy she’s never met at the same time every night? And who is he?

After enrolling at a prestigious school in Shadow Hills she realizes all is not what it seems. She is drawn by an unseen pull to a boy names Zach and together they unravel the secrets hidden for centuries. You’ll find yourself pulled into a whirlwind of mesmerizing characters, magic and chemistry that can’t be denied. Phe is strong and sassy and Zach is the perfect Yin to her Yang. I am sure hoping Anastasia is is hoping on keeping these characters for a sequel because I am dying for more!
Read our previous posts about Anastasia here…
And, I just happened to have a couple of signed Shadow Hills bookmarks and pins laying around for a giveaway!

To Enter To Win a bookmark and button (there are two winners) :
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additional entries
+2 tell us your favorite band because we know how much Phe and the author love music!
+3 follow us @FireaicePhotos and her @anatastiahopcus
+3 tweet this contest
+3 Visit her blog and tell us what you think (the first Chapter is up!)
+5 add this contest or one of our buttons to your blog
Contest ends May 16, 2010 and is open internationally

13 Responses to “Shadow Hills Review and Giveaway”

  1. Diana

    Diana here from dikatzen at yahoo dot fr

    +2 my all time favorite band is HIM
    +5 I have your button
    Total: 8 entries

    Thank you!

    Reply
  2. Koriann

    Enter me please!
    +2 My favorite band is The Faint
    +3 following @FireaicePhotos and @anatastiahopcus
    +3 Tweeted the conestest (www.twitter.com/FoodisAwesome
    +3 I really cannot wait to read the rest of this book!
    Total entries 11
    Koriann
    kriggenbach95@gmail.com

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  3. uprobdontknowme

    i really love the cover!

    +2 tell us your favorite band because we know how much Phe and the author love music!
    Greenday

    +3 follow us @FireaicePhotos and her @anatastiahopcus
    (uprobdontknowme)

    +3 Visit her blog and tell us what you think (the first Chapter is up!)
    i love it!

    +5 add this contest or one of our buttons to your blog
    http://www.uprobdontknowme.blogspot.com

    yilingni@yahoo.com

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  4. Ella Press

    Sounds really good!
    I think this is the first review of this book I’ve read.
    Dreams are a really powerful thing. I should know. My “book” is about exactly that, lol.

    +3 I follow both on Twitter 😉

    Reply
  5. avalonne83

    Great giveaway!

    Please count me in. Thanks.

    avalonne83 [at] yahoo [dot] it

    Reply

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