Title: Pushed (Sense Thieves #3)
Author: Corrine Jackson
Genre: YA Paranormal Romance
Publisher: Kensington Teen
Pages: 300
Pub. Date: November 26, 2013
Find it: Goodreads, Amazon, Barnes& Noble
ISBN-10: 0758273347
She didn't know how far she’d go—until she was pushed.Remy O’Malley was just learning to harness her uncanny healing power when she discovered the other, darker half of her bloodline. Now she lives trapped between two worlds, uneasy among her fellowHealers—and relentlessly hunted by the Protectors.Forced to conceal her dual identity, and the presence of her Protector boyfriend Asher Blackwell, Remy encounters a shadow community of Healers who will put her loyalties to the test.Pushed to the limit, with the lives of those she loves most on the line, Remy must decide whether to choose sides in a centuries-old war—or make the ultimate sacrifice and go to a place from which she may never return…
This is Book Two in the Sense Thieves trilogy.
Now on to the review!
PUSHED WAS AWESOME!!!!! I loved TOUCHED but PUSHED kicked it's ass royally! I was always a fan of the older brother Gabe in the first book and we get sooooooooooooo much Gabe in this it was made of all the happy feels!
What I loved about PUSHED was Corrine took this book and changed the setting to San Francisco which is in my neck of the woods so everywhere the characters went I was totally familiar with! I felt like I was with Remy on this part of her journey. I lived in her grandpa's house at the Presidio, walked on the beach in Pacifica, rode the ferry into Sausalito, and hiked into Muir Woods with the crew!
Remy's growth in this book was amazing and I loved the changes in her attitude. She's becoming a strong young woman and she has Asher there to help her as well as Gabe, and trust me peeps you don't want to miss the Gabe scenes!! Team Asher will switch sides.
Lets just say I was a hot mess reading a lot of this book and when I finished I begged Cory to let me read book 3 early and she let me beta read it! I was so stoked!!!! If you haven't read this series yet please do it will make you smile and cry (I lost my shit ugly cried in books 2 and 3 lol)!
I was going to pick an excerpt but Corrine happened to pick a few and one of them was one I had bookmarked because it's full of Gabe hotness so yay! Check it out!!!!
Remy's growth in this book was amazing and I loved the changes in her attitude. She's becoming a strong young woman and she has Asher there to help her as well as Gabe, and trust me peeps you don't want to miss the Gabe scenes!! Team Asher will switch sides.
Lets just say I was a hot mess reading a lot of this book and when I finished I begged Cory to let me read book 3 early and she let me beta read it! I was so stoked!!!! If you haven't read this series yet please do it will make you smile and cry (I lost my shit ugly cried in books 2 and 3 lol)!
I was going to pick an excerpt but Corrine happened to pick a few and one of them was one I had bookmarked because it's full of Gabe hotness so yay! Check it out!!!!
Gabe Blackwell never saw me
coming.
In the
tick of a hummingbird’s wings, I had launched myself at his back, taking him
down in a tangle of arms and legs. Our bodies hit the blue mat in the middle of
the Blackwells’ gym with a thud that shivered from my teeth to my backbone.
Gabe’s
breath hissed out when Asher, leaning against a rack of weights, laughed at his
older brother’s defeat at the hands of a gangly girl half his size. I took
advantage of Gabe’s distraction to wrap an arm around his neck, putting the
whole of my weight into pinning him. My height rivaled his, with me close to
six feet and him just over, but he had a good sixty pounds of muscle on me.
Unwilling to loosen my hold for even a second, I considered biting him in
retribution for the thousand times he’d insulted me. And then I wondered if I
might have given away my abnormal speed. I really hoped not.
“What is
it you’re always yelling at me?” I pretended to think about it, enjoying my
little victory over my boyfriend’s brother. With his sculpted features, Gabe
never lacked for company, and he never let anyone forget it. I savored any
opportunity I had to take his ego down a notch. “Oh right. I remember now.
Never turn your back on the enemy, Protector.”
Gabe
cursed and cut my amusement short when his muscles tightened and gathered under
me. He might look twenty to my eighteen, but Gabe had lived more than a
century, and his experience with our powers surpassed mine. Too late, I tried
to strengthen my grip. The thought had scarcely occurred to me when I found my
face planted in the mat with his knee bending my spine like a bow.
“I also
told you to concentrate instead of getting cocky.” The cheer in Gabe’s proper
British voice grated on my nerves. “Now, be a good little mortal, and say it.”
His
humiliating version of saying “uncle,” he meant. Ten minutes ago I’d bet him
that I could take him down in a fair fight, and he’d agreed with terms of his
own if I lost.
“Come on,
Healer. Say it. Tell me I’m the greatest Protector who ever lived.”
His knee
pressed harder, as he settled in with more of his weight. Grunting, I tested my
range of motion and felt an electric storm of agony gathering inside my body.
Powerful energy, but not enough to turn the tables. Almost there, you smug jackass.
“All
right.” Defeat colored my tone, and my body went limp. “You win. I’ll say it.”
I could
picture the smirk on his carved, handsome face, and I used the anger to steel
myself against the coming pain. In an explosion of movement, my body jerked
backward, forcing his knee to dig in that little bit more I needed. A disk
popped in my spine and slid sideways. The tempest exploded out of me, firing my
pain into Gabe. Another pop and he
collapsed with a thump next to me,
his back now screwed up, too. Poetic justice. In the quiet that followed, I
pressed my cheek into the cushioned mat and studied my nemesis, curled up in
the fetal position next to me.
My voice
came out weaker than I intended when I declared, “I am the greatest Protector
who ever lived.”
Young adult author Corrine Jackson lives in San
Francisco and has over ten years experience in marketing. She has bachelor and master
degrees in English, and an MFA in Creative Writing from Spalding
University. Her novels include If I Lie (Simon
Pulse) and the Sense Thieves trilogy (KTeen), comprised of Touched, Pushed, and Ignited (5/27/14). Visit her at CorrineJackson.com or on Twitter at @Cory_Jackson.
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1.
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2.
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Giveaway Details:
2 Signed author copies of IGNITED to be sent in May.
20 Signed copies of PUSHED.
Check out Corrine's website for the Tour Schedule!
Also make sure to check out her events coming soon!
Events:
Monday,
February 10, 2014: PUSHED (Touched 2: Die Schatten der Vergangenheit) Paperback
Releases in German
Tuesday,
February 11, 2014 @ 6PM PST: PUSHED Twitter Party. Prizes, trivia, music and
more!
Friday,
February 13, 2014 @ 7PM: NYMBC presents “A Night of Swoon” with Corrine
Jackson, Talia Vance, and Katherine Longshore at Books Inc. Opera Plaza, San
Francisco, CA. Details.
Even though this is a Young Adult Fiction, I absolutely loved it. I read through it like drinking water on a hot day. Corrine Jackson has done an absolutely wonderful job with this series and I look forward to reading the next one. I've read two. Put together very good.
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