{"id":16,"date":"2013-03-15T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-03-15T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=16"},"modified":"2013-07-17T14:56:00","modified_gmt":"2013-07-17T19:56:00","slug":"tempestuous-by-kim-askew-and-amy-helmes-fiction-blizzard-robbery-clique-wars-corndogs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=16","title":{"rendered":"Tempestuous, by Kim Askew and Amy Helmes (book review) – blizzard, robbery, clique wars, corndogs"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"bookPopular crowd versus geek teens,
\nTrapped together by a blizzard
\nWith bad cellphone reception<\/a>… and a robber!<\/p>\n

It’s Gossip Girl<\/i><\/a>\u00a0 and MacGyver<\/a> woven into Shakespeare’s play The Tempest<\/a> as authors Kim Askew and Amy Helmes throw the Bard’s heroine Miranda Prospero into a winter-whipped shopping mall with Ariel as her corndog-cooking sidekick.<\/p>\n

Check your local library<\/a> or independent bookstore<\/a> for this first book in the Twisted Lit series from new publisher Merit Press.<\/p>\n

Kind of crazy, lots of fun! What other Shakespeare remixes do you know of?
\n**kmm<\/p>\n

Book info<\/b>: Tempestuous (Twisted Lit #1) \/ Kim Askew and Amy Helmes. Merit Press, 2012. [Kim’s website<\/a>]\u00a0 [Amy’s website<\/a>] \u00a0 [publisher site<\/a>] \u00a0 [book trailer<\/a>]\u00a0 \u00a0 (Review copy and cover image courtesy of the publisher)<\/p>\n

My Book Talk<\/b>: Trudging through the snow toward the mall, Miranda again laments the unfairness of her life. Forced to work at a corndog stand in the mall to pay back the finks who turned her tutoring-matchmaking service into a cheating scam, Daddy taking away her platinum charge cards, wearing this hideous uniform with the revolving-wienie hat\u2026 at least other teens working in the mall turn to her for advice in sticky situations.<\/p>\n

Thank goodness perky co-worker Ariel also pulled this Saturday night shift at Hot Dog Kebob, so Miranda can throw her a surprise birthday party for her after closing. The petite home-schooled 17-year-old deserves the ice cream cake that Grady the security cop will pick up later. Maybe moody Caleb from the game store and gangly Chad from the sports store will come by, but no one has seen their pal Mike from collectibles tonight.<\/p>\n

The news is forecasting blizzard conditions overnight so the food court supervisor leaves early; in fact, most customers are heading out, but the closing employees must stay to lock up. Too bad Miranda\u2019s ex-boyfriend and his new girlfriend didn\u2019t go when they could \u2013 the mall doors are now completely blocked by snow! No one is getting home from here tonight and the mall cop has just discovered a burglary!<\/p>\n

Suddenly shoppers and workers try to find the best places to stay for the night, praying that the power stays on and that the robber stays away. Miranda accidentally gets handcuffed to Caleb, someone stalls the elevator with a panicked teen inside, and boredom threatens to become chaos if something exciting doesn\u2019t happen soon. Finding another teen knocked out cold by the robber wasn\u2019t in the plan!<\/p>\n

How long are the rival factions of teens going to be trapped in the mall?
\nWill Caleb\u2019s impromptu concert keep things from getting crazy?
\nCan Grady trap the robber before someone else gets hurt?
\nHow can Miranda get out of these handcuffs and get to the bathroom?<\/p>\n

A modern retelling of Shakespeare\u2019s The Tempest<\/i>, this first book in the Twisted Lit series has more wild and crazy twists than Miranda ever dreamed of, with quotes from the play as chapter headings to add to the fun. (One of 6,000 books recommended on www.abookandahug.com<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Popular crowd versus geek teens, Trapped together by a blizzard With bad cellphone reception… and a robber! It’s Gossip Girl\u00a0 and MacGyver woven into Shakespeare’s play The Tempest as authors Kim Askew and Amy Helmes throw the Bard’s heroine Miranda Prospero into a winter-whipped shopping mall with Ariel as her corndog-cooking sidekick. Check your local […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[19,51],"tags":[22,4,48,45,20,5,70,44,46,71,39,21,35,60,3,8],"class_list":["post-16","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiction","category-mystery","tag-behavior","tag-belonging","tag-business","tag-competition","tag-conflict","tag-coping","tag-crime","tag-friendship","tag-funny","tag-kidnapping","tag-love","tag-self-image","tag-surprises","tag-tbr2012","tag-teens","tag-us-author"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2193,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions\/2193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}