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Fates
Author:
Bross, Lanie
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Class:
Fiction
Age: 12-19
Language: English
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LC: PZ7.B799
Grade: 7-12
Print Run: 25000
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ISBN-13: 9780385742825
LCCN: 2012035297
Imprint: Delacorte Books for Young Readers
Publisher: Delacorte Press
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Pub Date: 02/11/2014
Availability: Out of Stock Indefinitely
List: $17.99
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Hardcover
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Physical Description:
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325 pages ; 22 cm
H 8.5",
W 6.12",
D 1.14",
0.955 lbs.
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Brodart Sources:
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Brodart's Insight Catalog: Teen
Brodart's TOP Young Adult Titles
Brodart's YA Reads for Adults
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Bibliographies:
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Awards:
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Horn Book Guide Titles, Rated 1 - 4
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Starred Reviews:
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TIPS Subjects:
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Occult Fiction
Romance
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BISAC Subjects: |
YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Paranormal, Occult & Supernatural
YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Action & Adventure / General
YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Romance / General
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LC Subjects:
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Fate and fatalism, Fiction
Fate and fatalism, Juvenile fiction
Love stories
Love, Fiction
Paranormal fiction
San Francisco (Calif.), Fiction
San Francisco (Calif.), Juvenile fiction
Supernatural, Fiction
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SEARS Subjects: |
Fate and fatalism, Fiction
Love stories
San Francisco (Calif.), Fiction
Supernatural, Fiction
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Lexile Level:
720
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| Annotations |
| Brodart's TOP Young Adult Titles | 06/01/2014 |
| Tasked with ensuring that people's fates unfold as they should after being exiled from her peaceful Pyralis Terra life, the fallen Corinthe need only kill a boy named Lucas Kaller to finally earn her way back to paradise, a task which grows impossibly complicated when Corinthe begins to fall for the boy. When all is said and done, one of them must die. 336pp. |
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| Journal Reviews |
| Booklist | 02/01/2014 |
| Grades 10-12. Are we doomed to live out a scripted life, or can we change our futures? Because she questioned the rules, Corinthe has been cast out of her home world and sent down to live among humans. To earn her way home, she must ensure that certain events come to pass. She is determined to follow the rules this time, until she meets Luc and realizes she is destined to kill him. With doubts setting in and forces beyond her control using her to secure their own ends, the stakes are raised. Bross has done a lot right: backstory hints lend mystery and depth to secondary characters, the plot moves along at a good clip, and the book ends with plenty of story left for the sequel. Corinthe and Luc are a bit too perfect, but perhaps they might get the necessary depth as the story continues. By the conclusion, many characters are fighting against their fates, but the one fated thing readers are aware of does come to pass, despite everyone's best efforts. Can we change our destiny? Only time (and book two) will tell. Hailey, Peggy. 336pg. AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION, c2014. |
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| Horn Book Guide | 11/01/2014 |
| 4. Corinthe is a supernatural being trapped in a teenage body in Humana (Earth), assigned to carry out humans' fates until she can return to her home realm, Pyralis. Her final task is to kill Luc, but she questions everything as the two fall in love. The world-building buckles under the love story, but paranormal-romance fans may enjoy the dreamlike plot of this series-opener. abg. 327pg. THE HORN BOOK, c2014. |
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| Kirkus Reviews | 12/01/2013 |
| This debut fantasy series opener flies over half the universe, but it delivers some depth amid all the chaos. Corinthe longs to return to her home planet of Pyralis. She's the first Fallen Fate in history, banished to Humana (Earth) for losing one of the marbles of fate. There, she follows orders to engineer the fates of humans. Meanwhile, Luc, a star soccer player hoping to escape his impoverished, fractured family, strives to keep his little sister, Jasmine, out of trouble. When the two meet, they are immediately attracted to each other, but Corinthe has little idea what that means. She has been ordered to fulfill one last assignment: to kill Luc. At this point, the story takes off into serious fantasy, as Luc and Corinthe fall into a Crossroad between planets and begin a journey to rescue Jasmine, who has been abducted and imprisoned in a flower, there to be turned into a vicious Blood Nymph. Bross takes readers to several different and imaginative worlds and introduces a solid cast of secondary characters. The sudden twists and turns into new worlds become dizzying as the story progresses. Readers who persevere will see Corinthe progressing toward an understanding of love as she slowly becomes more human and realizes that order and obedience might not be the paramount ideals of the universe. An interesting read for patient romantic-fantasy fans. (Fantasy. 12 & up). 336pg. KIRKUS MEDIA LLC, c2013. |
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| School Library Journal | 05/01/2014 |
| Gr 7 Up. Supernatural being Corinthe has been exiled to Humana (Earth) from the realm of Pyralis Terra. In Pyralis, she was a Fate, but now she must act as an Executor, who makes sure that nothing interferes with the working of destiny, thus ensuring the balance of the universe. Sometimes this means engineering an unsuspecting human's death in an accident. For 10 years, Corinthe has carried out her orders, hoping to return to home, and at last she receives her final assignment: she must kill teen Lucas Kaller. When the girl attempts to assassinate him, he escapes through a gateway to other worlds, and she pursues him. However, Corinthe and Luc are being manipulated by other beings attempting to alter the balance of the universe, and to complicate the situation further, they are falling in love with each other. The detailed descriptions of the colorful alternate worlds in which the protagonists find themselves is a strong point, but these worlds don't seem to have any connection with each other. The invented mythology is often confusing, and the budding romance between Corinthe and Luc doesn't seem plausible. Paranormal fans may initially be attracted this title but may not stick around for the projected second and third books in the series. Kathleen E. Gruver, Burlington County Library, Westampton, NJ. 336p. SCHOOL LIBRARY JOURNAL, c2014. |
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