Saving Casey by Liza O'Connor review and giveaway

Title: Saving Casey

Author: Liza O'Connor

Genre: YA, Suspense, Coming of Age, Sweet Romance,

Publisher: Decadent Publishing

Format: Ebook

Length: 63,700 words

Book Trailer

Purchase: Bonobookstore | Amazon | B&N |

Book Description:

Having been diagnosed with cancer, Cass Goldman decides to opt out of any futile medical care and end her life. While she has some thoughts on afterlife, she never expects to reincarnate into the body of a seventeen-year-old girl named Casey Davidson.

When she awakens in a hospital, Cass discovers two disturbing facts: One, she is now inside the body of a troubled teenager, and two, the former owner of this body committed suicide, but only Cass knows that. Everyone else believes Casey has survived, but suffered a complete memory loss. Cass has two choices: to take on Casey’s life and turn it around, or to confess the truth about her reincarnation and end up in a mental asylum. Given this second chance to life, Cass decides to take on the future life of Casey—the frightening ghoul-faced teen with short, black, spiky hair.

Every person around Cass has an ulterior motive and discovering the truth of Old Casey’s life is more complicated than the “new math” she is forced to learn in school. In addition, Cass has to contend with raging teenage hormones and the prior crimes of Old Casey, which she might not remember, but everyone else certainly does. However, her biggest frustration concerns her feelings for her father’s rugged security specialist who sees her only as a teenager and doesn’t want to explore the mutual attraction between them.

Will her second chance at life prove to be worth the struggles she has to overcome?

My Review: What a great idea for a book. To die and be reincarnated always interested me. However it is not always greener on the other side. Cass finds out that not only did she die of cancer, but she was also reincarnated in the body of a teenager that had killed herself from a Valium overdose. Left with no choice Cass decides to take on Casey's life.
What she doesn't realize it that Casey has one messed up life. Everything she learned in high school as Cass is being put to the test. Especially when there is a new way to do math. Cass is lost in Casey's high school, but she has no choice.
She also finds out that her parents believe in tough love, finally. After years of misbehaving, Casey's parents have had enough. They make her remove her tattoos and so much more. Cass makes plans for Casey's future, but what kind of future can you have, when you never lived your past?
I liked this book, and that is why I am giving it a 4/5. I didn't like all the bad things that happen to Cass and then Casey. There was a happy ending, but it was a happy ending with sad news.

Excerpt:

Upon settling down on the toilet, Cass noticed the floor to ceiling mirror facing her and screamed at the sight of the creature within it. Short black hair spouted about its head, black circles surrounded both eyes and fell like triangular knives down the cheeks. Black lips, stretched in horror as if in a nightmare. Pulling up her pants, she moved closer to the mirror.

She was a ghoul, an honest to God ghoul!

The door crashed open and her father stared at her, fear and panic clear in his eyes.

She touched her face. “Please tell me these aren’t permanent.”

His panic remained a second longer as her words filtered into his brain and then he pulled her into his arms. “Don’t worry, we will get them removed—if you want to…”

“If? Oh, I definitely want them removed,” she said.

How can I turn around my life if I look like the walking dead from a low-grade monster movie?

 

TOUR SCHEDULE LINK: http://www.fmbpromotions.com/2013/02/tour-schedule-saving-casey-by-liza.html

About the Author:

I live in Denville, NJ with my dog, Jess. We hike in fabulous woods every day, rain or shine, sleet or snow. Having an adventurous nature, I learned to fly small cessnas in NJ, hang-glide in New Zealand, kayak in Pennsylvania, ski in New York, scuba dive with great white sharks in Australia, dig up dinosaur bones in Montana, sky dive in Indiana, and raft a class four river in Tasmania. I’m an avid gardener, amateur photographer, and dabbler in watercolors and graphic arts. Yet through my entire life, my first love has and always will be writing novels. I love to create interesting characters, set them loose, and scribe what happens.
 

Website/Blog | Twitter @Liza0Connor | Facebook | Facebook Author Page |

 

Decadent Publishing

 

Sign up for Decadent Publishing’s Newsletter | Follow on Twitter | Like us on Facebook |

 

For more information about Decadent Publishing authors, books, and their submissions guidelines, visit www.decadentpublishing.com.

Decadent Publishing is current accepting submissions in all sub-genres of romance, including their ongoing series'.

a Rafflecopter giveaway