{"id":24,"date":"2013-02-25T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-02-25T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=24"},"modified":"2013-03-22T16:43:18","modified_gmt":"2013-03-22T21:43:18","slug":"dangerous-boy-by-mandy-hubbard-fiction-good-girl-daredevil-boyfriend-dangerous-twin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=24","title":{"rendered":"Dangerous Boy, by Mandy Hubbard (fiction) – good girl, daredevil boyfriend, dangerous twin"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"bookNew guy in the small-town high school.
\nHandsome, rich, daring<\/a>.
\nFalling for everyday girl Harper?
\nSwept off her feet, toward danger.<\/p>\n

Logan wants a fresh start to his life after the difficulties he and his brother had in their hometown. Harper’s life after her mom’s death had gotten quieter and quieter. Boom! Romance like a whirlwind, eerie vandalism<\/a>, brother Daemon mocking Harper’s affection for Logan.<\/p>\n

If you sense a whiff of Robert Louis Stevenson’s novella The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde<\/i> (read it free at Project Gutenberg here<\/a>), you’ve found one inspiration for author Mandy Hubbard’s fast-moving story of Harper’s hope for happiness and the too-real peril she faces.<\/p>\n

Grab this one today at your local library<\/a> or independent bookstore<\/a> but do watch for strange happenings in your neighborhood, won’t you?
\n**kmm<\/p>\n

Book info<\/b>: Dangerous Boy \/ Mandy Hubbard. Razorbill, 2012.\u00a0 [author’s website<\/a>] [publisher site<\/a>]<\/p>\n

My Recommendation<\/b>: When handsome Logan Townsend moves to her small town, Harper is intrigued. When he asks her out, she\u2019s amazed and delighted. When his twin brother threatens her, she doesn\u2019t know what to think. But if she merely thinks instead of acting, it might just be too late.<\/p>\n

Living in the old Carson mansion with their uncle way out on the river road must be boring for Daemon, who\u2019s doing school online instead of at Enumclaw High with his twin brother. He never comes along with Logan and Harper as they go to a Halloween haunted corn maze with friends or riding four-wheelers. Logan says that Daemon messed up relationships for him at their old school, so it\u2019s better that he doesn\u2019t want to be with their group anyway<\/p>\n

Bloody cow bones showing up in rural mailboxes, red handprints on every car in the school parking lot, stop signs stolen \u2013 this new rash of vandalism is getting dangerous.<\/p>\n

Harper has never really liked doing dangerous things, but after her mother\u2019s death, her own father is like a ghost, going through the motions at their farm, without enough energy to warn her against trying reckless things that Logan loves to do. That four-wheeler rollover when a wheel fell off was just an accident, right?<\/p>\n

Wondering what Daemon did at the twins\u2019 former school to make them leave that town, Harper does some checking on Facebook and the newspaper, but comes up with more questions than answers.<\/p>\n

Why isn\u2019t Logan tagged in any pictures with his former classmates?
\nWhat did Daemon do that was hushed up so quickly in the media?
\nWhy does his twin want Harper to stay away from the creaking house that he shares with Logan?<\/p>\n

Echoes of Doctor Jekyll and Mister Hyde drift through this spooky tale, with a young woman\u2019s safety and sanity depending on her reactions to the dangers she uncovers.\u00a0 (One of 6,000 books recommended on www.abookandahug.com<\/a>) Review copy and cover image courtesy of the publisher.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

New guy in the small-town high school. Handsome, rich, daring. Falling for everyday girl Harper? Swept off her feet, toward danger. Logan wants a fresh start to his life after the difficulties he and his brother had in their hometown. Harper’s life after her mom’s death had gotten quieter and quieter. Boom! Romance like a […]<\/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_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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":""},"categories":[19,41],"tags":[22,4,75,5,70,37,18,43,34,39,49,15,9,21,35,60,8,84],"class_list":["post-24","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiction","category-paranormal","tag-behavior","tag-belonging","tag-brothers","tag-coping","tag-crime","tag-death","tag-family","tag-growing-up","tag-horror","tag-love","tag-memories","tag-relationships","tag-school","tag-self-image","tag-surprises","tag-tbr2012","tag-us-author","tag-washington"],"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\/24","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=24"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":489,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24\/revisions\/489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}