Book Nerds Across America: Noah Shaw

Tuesday, December 11, 2012

8 Days of Hanukkah: Day 2

My favorite book series of 2012 is the Mara Dyer Series by Michelle Hodkin. I read The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer shortly before the release of The Evolution of Mara Dyer. I LOVED both of these books. For my complete reviews...click on the links.

I was SOOOO over the top excited about the release of the second book that Book Nerd Flo picked up the following for me at a release party near Miami.

You can't comprehend how happy this made me.

So....what makes this series GREAT? This question can be answered with two words. NOAH SHAW. I did a Book Nerds Fictional Boyfriend post about him, which you can find at this link.

If you haven't read this series, you should rush to your local book store, library, eReader, etc. and get these books STAT.

Friday, October 19, 2012

Friday's Fictional Boyfriend: Noah Shaw

For those of you who are not familiar with Noah Shaw, he is from the Mara Dyer series. The Evolution of Mara Dyer, the second book in the series, will be released this Tuesday October 23rd. I am BEYOND excited and can't wait to get my hands on this book. I have already pre-ordered my copy and feel like a kid at Christmas counting down the days until it magically appears on my Nook.

Noah is an English boy, ahhhh swoons over the accent. He is also brilliant, well educated, witty, arrogant, and a bit of a bad boy. He is from a very wealthy family, but his appearance is usually disheveled. His dark hair and clothes look like he just rolled out of bed and he has a perpetual 5 o'clock shadow, but for him the look is perfection. He doesn't have the best reputation when it comes to the ladies, but that all changes when he meets Mara. These two are destined to be together and for once in his life he treats a girl the way she should be treated.

Here are a couple of swoon worthy quotes from The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer:

Mara, I have never felt about anyone the way I feel about you. And when you're ready for me to show you," he said, brushing my hair to the side, "I'm going to kiss you." His thumb grazed my ear and his hand curved around my neck. He leaned me backward and my eyes fluttered closed. I breathed in the scent of him as he leaned in and kissed the hollow under my ear. My pulse raced under his lips.
"And I won't settle for anything less.”

You want me as much as I want you. And all I want is you."
My tongue warred with my mind. "Today," I whispered.
Noah stood slowly, his body skimming mine as he rose. "Today. Tonight. Tomorrow. Forever."

The icing on top of the cake...Noah is a reader. His room is filled with bookshelves containing countless books, all of which he has read. Some of the books are a bit inappropriate, but what would you expect from a high school boy. The image at the top of this post is a copy of the book plate Michelle Hodkin is giving out at her upcoming book signings. It is a quote from The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer, which makes reference to Noah's book collection.