This week we are going to take an in-depth look at Julia Keanini's books! So without further adieu, let's get started!
Publisher: Pickled Plum Publishing
Pages: 258
Publication date: March 3, 2015
Overall rating: 4.30/5 (Goodreads)
In the wake
of her parents ugly divorce, Lacey Steele is forced to choose to stay with her
dad in the home she loves or to move to California with the woman who has never
had time or patience for Lacey, otherwise known as her mother. When Charity,
Lacey's sister, choses their dad and home, Lacey knows she has to side with her
lonely mother.
Yet, four
years later, after having no contact with the father or sister she left behind,
Lacey is sent back to them when her mother decides to get remarried. Moving back
to a household that used to be filled with love (it's now icy cold) and finding
her ten-year crush has found his way into the arm's of Lacey's sister, are the
last straws of many. Lacey decides it's time to stand up for herself and take
matters into her own hands. Everything would be fixed if only she were thinner
and fit into the mold both her mother and sister had perfected.
With her
friend Ashley, they create the Future Goddess Girls Club. All it will take to
lose the future? Drop the extra pounds plaguing them. Extreme calorie cutting
may be a bit much, but no one would actually get hurt, would they?
Skinniness
is Next to Goddessness? Lacey's Story takes on a dark subject in a brighter
manner combining the difficulties of body image and eating disorders with hope,
love, and eventual acceptance.
Book 1 in
the Skinniness is Next to Goddessness? Series.
This book
does not contain explicit language or sex.The Goddessness? books are
stand-alone and can be read in any order, but each contain mild spoilers for
any previous books in the Goddessness? series.
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Publisher: Pickled Plum Publishing
Pages: 213
Publication date: March 3, 2015
Overall rating: 4.50/5 (Goodreads)
Book two in the Skinniness is Next to Goddessness? Series. Well-disciplined, well planned, and well executed. Follow these guidelines and, bam, you have the perfect life, at least that's what sixteen-year-old Anna Kaneshiro had always believed. She's followed this mantra in order to excel in school, recover form her eating disorder, and become the youngest quiz bowl captain in Woodlands High history. But after her cousin, Aya, runs out on her baby and the baby's father, 4.0 student and ever responsible Anna steps up in the way her cousin should have. Falling in love with the baby is excusable, but falling for the baby's almost-reformed bad-boy father teaches Anna all the discipline, planning, and execution in the world can't prepare you for one thing. Love.
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Publisher: Pickled Plum Publishing
Pages: 216
Publication date: April 5, 2015
Overall rating: 4.33/5 (Goodreads)
High School is a jock eat nerd world and seventeen-year-old Jamie Jenkins should know. She's lived life as the ignored little sister of the town football star, but when her family moved to Woodlands after her stint in an eating disorder program, it's time to reinvent herself. At Woodlands high Jamie Jenkins makes a name for herself as a cheerleader and best friend to Ms. Queen Bee, Jamie Murdock. There are a few downsides like putting up with Jamie's snide remarks about her weight, taking down the other students a peg or three, and being called the "Other Jamie" behind her back. But a pretty and popular existence is worth sucking it up or sometimes sucking it in.
Suddenly, Jamie loses everything she views as important and is forced to re-evaluate her life. Once a mean girl always a mean girl, right? it's up to Jamie to decide.
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Publisher: Pickled Plum Publishing
Pages: 202
Publication date: June 3, 2105
Overall rating: 5.00/5 (Goodreads)
Tina Turner (not that Tina Turner) and her band, The Rockets, achieve the unbelievable when they are asked to compete on the same music reality show television show, The Next Great American Band, that launched the careers of bands like Everclear. Sure,they'd accomplished some small time success in their small town of Woodlands, but this could lead to a bona fide record deal and a place among the greatest constellation of all, Music Stars.
For Tina, this would prove to her mother, supermodel Cece Turner (yes, that Cece Turner), that music is a viable career option, not just a hobby that would need to be put on a back burner when it came time for college, and a way to keep her band of best friends together forever.
But even a paparazzi veteran like Tina couldn't have foreseen the type of pressures the show would bring, even more groupies (how was that possible?), America's favorite female rocker turned judge out to criticize Tina's vocal flaws on national television and pick at Tina's physical flaws on national television and pick at Tina's physical flaws in private, and major family secrets unfolding, thus unraveling Tina on a way to observable stage.
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Publisher: Pickled Plum Publishing
Pages: 112
Publication date: July 28, 2015
Overall rating: 5.00/5 (Goodreads)
Sara Chandler knows she should be happy with her life. Her best friend, Lia, would even describe it as 'perfect'. She has the perfect boyfriend, the perfect grades, the perfect family and almost secured her spot as the perfect editor of The Gazette, her school news paper. But Sarah feels something is missing and can't help think it might be in the form of a dark-eyed wrestler, Blake Brandon, the same something every girl at Woodlands High thinks is missing form their lives.
Sarah knows that her crush is just that, a crush. But when Sarah finds Blake literately at her feet, Sarah's 'perfect life' flies out the window.
Although Sarah's new life in what must be an alternate reality appears to be absolutely wonderful, Sarah is wary. And she has every right to be. Especially when she finds out what Blake has been hiding.
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Stay tuned for next week! I'll be releasing my interview with Julia!
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