Fatal heat waves,
acceptable losses,
is there any solution?
Her mother’s overprotectiveness, her father’s abandonment, the eternal summer that’s killing everything on Earth – and somehow just-turned-18 Piper can fix everything??
As PJ noted at a recent author talk, she actually did have some input on the cover art (most authors don’t) and made sure that the city skyline was truly Austin!
Especially for fans of
- dystopias (with a twist)
- Greek mythology
- growing up stories and finding your own path
- climate change as a character
- ancient tales set in modern times
- love triangles with real tension
Grab this debut novel from a Texas Sweetheart writer today and discover the depth of the choices which Piper must make.
How far would you go to save your family? to save the world?
**kmm
Book info: Solstice / P.J. Hoover. Tor Teen, 2013. [author site] [publisher site] [publisher book trailer] [author’s book trailer] Personal copy; cover image courtesy of the publisher.
My book talk:
Piper endures her overprotective mom and the heat waves sweeping the earth, little realizing that she alone holds the key to solving the global climate crisis and averting the death of humanity!
Mom’s greenhouses protect rare medicinal plants from the heat bubbles that push Austin over the 120 degree mark so often now. But they’re like a prison to Piper, who just wants to graduate and go somewhere, anywhere away from the dark visions which began on her 18th birthday.
At school, handsome Shayne understands her better than her best friend does and new guy Reese promises answers about Piper’s ever-absent father. Her mom’s sudden out-of-town trip gives Piper the chance to go on her first dates – and discover that she’s not just a teen girl from Texas!
Questions about the strange birthday gifts delivered by messenger and her mother’s habit of moving them so frequently have peculiar answers, involving the Underworld and Hades’ motivation, plus Mars plotting to rid the world of humankind forever…
Who is Piper (really)?
How could she stop the Global Heating Crisis?
Which stunning guy should she choose – when her mother hates them both?
Greek mythology meets near-future dystopia in this debut novel where only the relationship stresses are hotter than the everlasting summer.
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