{"id":11848,"date":"2018-09-21T21:57:54","date_gmt":"2018-09-21T16:27:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/travellingthroughwords.wordpress.com\/?p=11848"},"modified":"2018-09-21T21:57:54","modified_gmt":"2018-09-21T16:27:54","slug":"floored-a-ya-novel-by-7-authors-book-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/travellingthroughwords.com\/index.php\/2018\/09\/21\/floored-a-ya-novel-by-7-authors-book-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Floored- A YA Novel by 7 Authors (Book Review)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/images.gr-assets.com\/books\/1521813110l\/34372905.jpg\" alt=\"Floored\" width=\"314\" height=\"477\" data-mce-src=\"https:\/\/images.gr-assets.com\/books\/1521813110l\/34372905.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\" data-mce-style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/34372905-floored\" data-mce-href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/34372905-floored\">Add the book on Goodreads<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\" data-mce-style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/34372905-floored\" data-mce-href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/34372905-floored\">Buy on Amazon<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Format:<\/strong>&nbsp;Paperback<\/li>\n<li><strong>Pages:<\/strong>&nbsp;320<\/li>\n<li><strong>Publisher:<\/strong> Macmillan Children&#8217;s Books<\/li>\n<li><strong>Publication Date:<\/strong> 12 July 2018<\/li>\n<li><strong>Source:<\/strong>&nbsp;Advanced Reader&#8217;s Copy<\/li>\n<li><strong>My Rating:<\/strong>&nbsp;4 stars<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" data-wp-more=\"more\" data-wp-more-text=\"\" class=\"wp-more-tag mce-wp-more\" title=\"Read more\u2026\" data-mce-resize=\"false\" data-mce-placeholder=\"1\"><\/p>\n<p><b>Blurb<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The Breakfast Club&nbsp;meets&nbsp;One Day&nbsp;in&nbsp;Floored,&nbsp;a unique collaborative novel by seven bestselling and award-winning YA authors: Sara Barnard, Holly Bourne, Tanya Byrne, Non Pratt, Melinda Salisbury, Lisa Williamson and Eleanor Wood.<\/p>\n<p>When they got in the lift, they were strangers (though didn&#8217;t that guy used to be on TV?): Sasha, who is desperately trying to deliver a parcel; Hugo, who knows he&#8217;s the best-looking guy in the lift and is eyeing up Velvet, who knows what that look means when you hear her name and it doesn&#8217;t match the way she looks, or the way she talks; Dawson, who was on TV, but isn&#8217;t as good-looking as he was a few years ago and is desperately hoping no one recognizes him; Kaitlyn, who&#8217;s losing her sight but won&#8217;t admit it, and who used to have a poster of Dawson on her bedroom wall, and Joe, who shouldn&#8217;t be here at all, but who wants to be here the most.<\/p>\n<p>And one more person, who will bring them together again on the same day every year.<\/p>\n<p><strong>My Thoughts<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There are a lot of intriguing factors about this book. The first is that it is written by seven YA characters, each of whom contributed a character to the novel. The second one is the premise- something happens when a group of people enter an elevator that leads them to come together&nbsp;on the same day every year.<\/p>\n<p>Besides this, the blurb doesn&#8217;t really tell anything else about the story. All I knew was that it is YA and YA can be light-hearted and funny but it can also be incredibly emotional and meaningful.<\/p>\n<p>Each character was different from each other but equally interesting. At first, I was not a fan of any of them but the way they developed as the book progressed was worth reading for.<\/p>\n<p>The plot is very unpredictable. It was a lot deeper than I expected. It was not at all messy as one would expect it to be since it is written by seven authors.<\/p>\n<p>This was a very different read. The overall concept that a group of strangers who were brought together by a tragedy become close friends even though they meet once a year was lovely. I didn&#8217;t love every part of the book but I still ended up really liking it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\" data-mce-style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Thanks to Pan Macmillan India for an ARC of this book.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\" data-mce-style=\"text-align: center;\">Find me on&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/tavleen_words\/\" data-mce-href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/tavleen_words\/\">Instagram<\/a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tavleensoni\" data-mce-href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tavleensoni\">Twitter<\/a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/user\/show\/32793447-tavleen-kaur\" data-mce-href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/user\/show\/32793447-tavleen-kaur\">Goodreads<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Add the book on Goodreads Buy on Amazon Format:&nbsp;Paperback Pages:&nbsp;320 Publisher: Macmillan Children&#8217;s Books Publication Date: 12 July 2018 Source:&nbsp;Advanced Reader&#8217;s Copy My Rating:&nbsp;4 stars Blurb The Breakfast Club&nbsp;meets&nbsp;One Day&nbsp;in&nbsp;Floored,&nbsp;a unique collaborative novel by seven bestselling and award-winning YA authors:&hellip;<\/p>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/travellingthroughwords.com\/index.php\/2018\/09\/21\/floored-a-ya-novel-by-7-authors-book-review\/#more-11848\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &#10142; <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Floored- A YA Novel by 7 Authors (Book Review)<\/span><\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[340,507,510],"class_list":["post-11848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-reviews","tag-pan-macmillan","tag-ya","tag-young-adult"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11554,"url":"https:\/\/travellingthroughwords.com\/index.php\/2017\/12\/15\/tell-tale-by-jeffrey-archer-book-review\/","url_meta":{"origin":11848,"position":0},"title":"Tell Tale by Jeffrey Archer (Book Review)","date":"December 15, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Add this book on Goodreads Buy this book on Amazon Genre:\u00a0Short Stories Release Date: November 2nd 2017 Publisher:\u00a0Macmillan Pages:\u00a0288 Format:\u00a0Paperback My Rating:\u00a04 stars Tell Tale by Jeffrey Archer is a collection of stories inspired by the people the author has met throughout his travels. 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