{"id":4117,"date":"2015-05-25T12:00:05","date_gmt":"2015-05-25T19:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/colleenhouck.com\/?p=4117"},"modified":"2015-04-30T18:45:59","modified_gmt":"2015-05-01T01:45:59","slug":"mayday-monday-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colleenhouck.com\/blog\/2015\/05\/25\/mayday-monday-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Mayday Monday (5)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/colleenhouck.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/mayday-monday1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2823\" src=\"https:\/\/colleenhouck.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/mayday-monday1.jpg\" alt=\"mayday-monday\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colleenhouck.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/mayday-monday1.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.colleenhouck.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/mayday-monday1-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Check it out, I&#8217;m on a roll with these Mayday Mondays! Let me know if there&#8217;s a YA book that you&#8217;re waiting to be released that I can feature!<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Cage-Megan-Shepherd\/dp\/0062243055\/ref=sr_1_20?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1430443562&amp;sr=1-20&amp;keywords=young+adult\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/d.gr-assets.com\/books\/1414088833l\/16071187.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"314\" height=\"475\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>The Maze Runner<\/em> meets Scott Westerfeld in this gripping new series about teens held captive in a human zoo by an otherworldly race. From Megan Shepherd, the acclaimed author of <em>The Madman&#8217;s Daughter<\/em> trilogy.<\/p>\n<p>When Cora Mason wakes in a desert, she doesn&#8217;t know where she is or who put her there. As she explores, she finds an impossible mix of environments\u2014tundra next to desert, farm next to jungle, and a strangely empty town cobbled together from different cultures\u2014all watched over by eerie black windows. And she isn&#8217;t alone.<\/p>\n<p>Four other teenagers have also been taken: a beautiful model, a tattooed smuggler, a secretive genius, and an army brat who seems to know too much about Cora&#8217;s past. None of them have a clue as to what happened, and all of them have secrets. As the unlikely group struggles for leadership, they slowly start to trust each other. But when their mysterious jailer\u2014a handsome young guard called Cassian\u2014appears, they realize that their captivity is more terrifying than they could ever imagine: Their captors aren&#8217;t from Earth. And they have taken the five teenagers for an otherworldly zoo\u2014where the exhibits are humans.<\/p>\n<p>As a forbidden attraction develops between Cora and Cassian, she realizes that her best chance of escape might be in the arms of her own jailer\u2014though that would mean leaving the others behind. Can Cora manage to save herself and her companions? And if so . . . what world lies beyond the walls of their cage?<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Releasing tomorrow, this premise totally makes me want to watch Men In Black with the little aliens in the locker&#8230;. Tell me you know what I mean!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Check it out, I&#8217;m on a roll with these Mayday Mondays! Let me know if there&#8217;s a YA book that you&#8217;re waiting to be released that I can feature! The Maze Runner meets Scott Westerfeld in this gripping new series about teens held captive in a human zoo by an otherworldly race. From Megan Shepherd, the acclaimed author of The Madman&#8217;s Daughter trilogy. When Cora Mason wakes in a desert, she doesn&#8217;t know where she is or who put her there. As she explores, she finds an impossible mix of environments\u2014tundra next to desert, farm next to jungle, and a &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"class_list":["post-4117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-upcoming-ya-books"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colleenhouck.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colleenhouck.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colleenhouck.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colleenhouck.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colleenhouck.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4117"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.colleenhouck.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4118,"href":"https:\/\/www.colleenhouck.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4117\/revisions\/4118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colleenhouck.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colleenhouck.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}