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Bookish Delights has chosen Possess by Gretchen McNeil as the YA Debut Book Of The Month for August! Possess is an amazing book that should be on your must read list! In honor of this, we will be featuring Possess in a review, have an author interview, and a giveaway. The giveaway will be on the release date of Possess, which is on August 23rd. So be sure to read Bookish Delight's review of Possess to know why it is our choice for August as the YA Debut Book of the month!
Gretchen McNeil's Bio:
Gretchen McNeil is an opera singer, writer and clown. Her YA horror/paranormal POSSESS debuts with Baltzer + Bray for HarperCollins, August 23, 2011. Her second novel, TEN - YA horror/suspense about ten teens trapped on a remote island with a serial killer - is tentatively scheduled for a fall 2012 release. Gretchen is a former coloratura soprano, the voice of Mary on G4's
Code Monkeys and she currently sings with the LA-based circus troupe Cirque Berzerk (
http://www.cirqueberzerk.com). Gretchen is also a founding member of the vlog group YA Rebels (
http://www.youtube.com/yarebels) where she can be seen as "Monday."
Other Author Sites:
Gretchen's Blog:
http://gretchenmcneil.blogspot.com
Possess Releases August 23, 2011
Possess Synopsis (goodreads): Fifteen-year-old Bridget Liu just wants to be left alone: by her mom, by the cute son of a local police sergeant, and by the eerie voices she can suddenly and inexplicably hear. Unfortunately for Bridget, it turns out the voices are demons – and Bridget has the rare ability to banish them back to whatever hell they came from.
Terrified to tell people about her new power, Bridget confides in a local priest who enlists her help in increasingly dangerous cases of demonic possession. But just as she is starting to come to terms with her new power, Bridget receives a startling message from one of the demons. Now Bridget must unlock the secret to the demons' plan before someone close to her winds up dead – or worse, the human vessel of a demon king.
Check Out The Awesome Book Trailer For Possess:
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