From author C.M. McCoy, comes a story about love, loss and creepy things all rolled up into one amazing package that you'll have a really hard time putting down.EERIE is the debut novel for C.M. McCoy who is an Irish dancer and former Air Force officer living in the Great White North. Though B.S.'d in Chemical Engineering and German, she’s far happier writing stories involving Alaska and a body bag (with an awkward kiss in the mix.) While working emergency dispatch for Alaska State Troopers, she learned to speak in 10-codes, which she still does...but only to annoy her family.
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Book Blurb:
Being a ParaScience freshman is a nightmare come true...
Hailey’s dreams have always been, well...vivid. As in monsters from her nightmares follow her into her waking life vivid. When her big sister goes missing, eighteen-year-old Hailey finds the only thing keeping her safe from a murderous 3,000-year old beast is an equally terrifying creature who’s fallen “madly” in love with her. Competing to win her affection, the Dream Creature, Asher, lures her to the one place that offers safety—a ParaScience university in Alaska he calls home. There, she studies the science of the supernatural and must learn to live with a roommate from Hell, survive a tunneling earworm, extract a carnivorous splinter, evade the campus poltergeists, and hope the only creature who can save her from an evil immortal doesn’t decide to kill her himself.
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Review:
Sex: Nope. There's is some steamy lip-locking, though.
Language: Is fairly mild, however there are a few sh*t's and only one f-bomb.
Violence: There is the mention of dismemberment a couple times, along with a few good punches thrown in. There is also the tying of souls which is quite painful to the one it's inflicted upon.
Drugs/Alcohol: The main character takes a few drinks of whiskey or wine.
Nudity: Yes, there is nudity but only because of poltergeists and the pranks they play.
What I Loved: First and foremost, I loved the world building at Beartown University in Middle of Nowhere, Alaska. I mean there are yetis, bookworms who drink tea and blow up like balloons, and not to mention the carnivorous splinters and the 30 types of misquitos! The world is so well built, you'll want to journey up north and tour this strange, magical place. The next best thing is Hailey's roommate from Hell, Giselle. She is the complete and total opposite of Hailey: grumpy, dark, brooding, creepy and oh, NOT human. I love that I LOL'd literally a dozen times and that I had that tingly neck pulling feeling at other times (you know the one where you're reading something heartbreaking but you don't cry, you just FEEL the pain? Yeah, that one). I just plain LOVED this book!
Why 5 Stars? This was an easy 5 stars for me because I just simply loved this book! I don't easily give out 5 stars because I do tend to pick out little things like language or cliche endings, but with Eerie, I was so pleasantly surprised at how much I enjoyed the story and the world!
Who Would Like This? Fans of Harry Potter will remember why they fell in love with Harry Potter because of EERIE. C.M. McCoy has created a fantastical world within EERIE at Beartown University and Middle of Nowhere, Alaska. You'll love the carnivorous splinters and Giselle, Hailey's roommate from Hell. You'll love Hailey's draw to Asher and the sneaky feelings she feels towards Fin. Seriously, what won't you like?
Where Can I Buy EERIE?
Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0176M19RM
Amazon UK: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Eerie-C-M-McCoy-ebook/dp/B0176M6MA6
Amazon Canada: http://www.amazon.ca/Eerie-C-M-McCoy-ebook/dp/B0176M19RM
Barnes & Noble: http://www.barnesandnoble.com/s/9781623422332
Apple iBooks: https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/eerie/id1052918810
BAM: http://www.booksamillion.com/search?query=9781623422332
Kobo: https://store.kobobooks.com/en-us/ebook/eerie-17
Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/books/details/C_M_McCoy_Eerie?id=yfDPCgAAQBAJ
>>>>SPOILER ZONE—DO NOT read past this if you don't want to know what happens in the book!<<<<
Seriously...stop reading if you haven't read the book!!
So here is where we discuss more of "the book". And I don't just mean more summary or equivilant, I mean we're going to go into the nitty gritty (does anyone really still say that?) Alright, lets begin with the creatures called Envoys. So, Asher, he's one of the Envoys who is longing to go back home to the Aether, one of the three worlds/dimensions in EERIE (you have earth, Heaven and the Aether, a kind of in-between where energy is the Envoys) Being an Envoy, you can take any shape you want, and of course, Asher chooses to look somewhat like James Dean, because...James Dean. And Hailey met him in her dreams when she was young and kinda developed a crush on him, because...JAMES DEAN!
But then we're introduced to Fin who is a little older than Hailey and has girls dripping off of him because he's Hottie McFly. Hailey had a little crush on him for a short while too, but decided he was more like a big brother the way he looked out for her.
So then Holly, Hailey's sister up and gets her foot chopped off in the alley and...wait for it...DIES! She dies and we're like...wait! She and Hailey were going to go to this obscure college in Middle of Nowhere, Alaska and study Parascience. While she's grieving Holly, Fin, who's been there helping her through the funeral, just up and leaves and she doesn't see him again for almost six months! Way to be dependable, Fin...
Insert college now and the trip to Alaska is crazy! Fin AND Asher are both there and she's like..."Wait, what are you two doing here? You go to Beartown?" And Fin's all..."Yeah, something like that." And Asher's all...."I'm ignoring you..."
And then there's all this crazy stuff about don't get hurt because if you go the hospital on campus you might die because sometimes that happens...but hey! You won't be dead long. Oh, and don't forget your Yeti spray, because...YETI'S.
Let's not forget Giselle and her crazy sleeping cocoon on the ceiling or how she hates Hailey, but secretly doesn't. I just love her and her transformation and how Hailey is always trying to befriend her. It's such a great part of EERIE and makes it real.
So we're back to Asher and Fin and how they grapple over Hailey and I have to say, I am Team Fin, all the way. I kinda love that he tries to tell Hailey how he feels about her by being obscure. Sure, pushing her away as his did gave me the whole tingly neck pulling thing (remember from above??), but it added so much to her realization later on how he felt.
And then that rotten Cobon and his nasty trick at the end...I really didn't see that coming, oh, Cobon is an Envoy who has kind of gone insane and isn't too nice. Like at all (remember Holly from above? He orchestrated that whole deal - see...not nice!) I did, however, think that what happened in the very end, was going to happen...but I'm not really going to discuss that...if you really want to know how EERIE ends, you're just going to have to buy yourself a copy, because...EERIE.
>>>>EERIE and C.M. McCoy will soon be a household name, I am sure!!<<<<
I love this so much!!! Thank you!! My very first Eerie review. Like for-realsies review of the book that will be published in *gasp* TWO DAYS! Thank you BK! Go Team Fin!!
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