{"id":8292,"date":"2017-04-21T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-04-21T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=8292"},"modified":"2017-04-22T06:19:23","modified_gmt":"2017-04-22T11:19:23","slug":"r-for-reach-in-rocks-fall-everyone-dies-by-lindsay-ribar-book-review-family-secrets-magic-doom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=8292","title":{"rendered":"R for reach in Rocks Fall Everyone Dies, by Lindsay Ribar (book review) – family secrets, magic, doom"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"bookRemoving a troublesome memory<\/a>
\nor unneeded physical attribute,
\neasy enough to do for Aspen’s family.<\/p>\n

Using his ‘reach’ to steal thoughts or feelings or fears from others to keep the Cliff from falling on Grandma’s town? <\/p>\n

Aspen sometimes can’t believe the ritual works, but the lure of snipping out someone’s memory for his own benefit is very, very hard to resist.<\/p>\n

Go to the publisher’s website here<\/a> to read an excerpt of this spooky tale (free!); the eerie paperback edition releases on June 6, 2017.<\/p>\n

Would you reach into someone else’s memories and take one away?
\n**kmm<\/p>\n

Book info<\/strong>:\u00a0Rocks Fall Everyone Dies \/ Lindsay Ribar. [author site<\/a>]\u00a0 [publisher site<\/a>]\u00a0 Review copy and cover image courtesy of the publisher.<\/p>\n

My book talk<\/strong>: Summer vacation in upstate New York is no holiday for Aspen, as the teen discovers that his family’s rituals for keeping the Cliff from falling on Three Peaks are more sinister than he ever imagined.<\/p>\n

Being able to ‘reach’ into someone’s memories or passions or skills and remove one, just by touching an important object, is his family’s secret skill, but the townspeople don’t know how the things they leave at the May Day tree are used, to heal faults in the Cliff… and more.<\/p>\n

Is family story true, about how they became bound to the Cliff which gave the gift of reach?
\nWhat if Aspen doesn’t want to help with the ritual any longer?
\nAnd that rule about ‘never steal from family’ when you reach – why?<\/p>\n

Superstitious tokens at the May Day tree and the power to remove memories, skills, even life itself – the Cliff and this family have a long, dark history together!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Removing a troublesome memory or unneeded physical attribute, easy enough to do for Aspen’s family. Using his ‘reach’ to steal thoughts or feelings or fears from others to keep the Cliff from falling on Grandma’s town? Aspen sometimes can’t believe the ritual works, but the lure of snipping out someone’s memory for his own benefit […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8510,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":[19,30,41],"tags":[10,90,7,11,20,5,37,16,18,40,44,185,43,38,49,186,15,21,35,33,3,6,8],"class_list":["post-8292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiction","category-legends","category-paranormal","tag-a2z","tag-abandonment","tag-beliefs","tag-communication","tag-conflict","tag-coping","tag-death","tag-determination","tag-family","tag-fathers","tag-friendship","tag-grandparents","tag-growing-up","tag-magic","tag-memories","tag-new-york","tag-relationships","tag-self-image","tag-surprises","tag-survival","tag-teens","tag-travel","tag-us-author"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/booksyalove.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Rocks-Fall-Everyone-Dies.jpg?fit=300%2C450&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8292","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=8292"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8523,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8292\/revisions\/8523"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}