Feature Friday! Author P.G. Shriver

Young Adult and Children's Author P.G. Shriver

Author of Dead Perfect and The Fairytale

P.G. Shriver was born in Buena Park, California. She is the author of several young adult novels so far. P.G. has been writing since the age of seven when her poem won the opportunity of publication in the local newspaper. She discovered that people were affected by her writing; it made them happy, sad, hopeful.

P.G. currently lives in Texas with her husband, daughter and several animals. She works as an instructor at a local college.

P.G. enjoys reading, writing, cooking, walking, horseback riding and spending time with her family and friends.

"Good books make me happy! Stay awhile in one of mine!"

Book 1 in The Gifted Ones Series

THE FAIRYTALE 

Thrown together by the cruelties of a modern day world in which genuine compassion is rare, evil abounds, and goodness is often tainted by the fight to survive, two unusually gifted teenagers discover they are linked by a fairytale told them repeatedly throughout their youth by their late mothers. 

Destiny awaits them, but first they must locate the others, as the fairytale foretells, to defeat the evil monster who waits and change the lonely world in which they live. 

Only then will they find peace... and family.

Dead Perfect:  A Paranormal Love Story

My lifelong dreams never included falling in love. Graduating top of the class, going to college somewhere far away and starting a life in a place where my alcoholic mother could never find me were the first three goals on my list. Then the unexpected auto accident with Mother, after her regular doses of vodka, altered all of that. With her gone, my life and my perspective changed forever.  

Desperate to find Joanie so I could break free, I returned to my old school. The search led me to her, my Aphrodite, a familiar lost look in her soulful eyes. Fantasies of her forced reasoning from my mind...  

If you wish to purchase your own copy of Dead Perfect or The Fairytale

Please visit PG Shriver's Website @ Gean Penny Books

Her novels are also available in Paperback and Kindle Edition @ Amazon.com

Don't forget to visit the author on her Goodreads page ~HERE~

P.G. also has a blog! Follow her @ P.G. Writing

Gean Penny aka. P.G. Shriver, has also written several books for children

Including The Bobby Jay Series for Juvenile Readers!

~ MY REVIEWS ~

Dead Perfect is such a great romance novel! I have gladly given it four stars! 

P.G. has been gifted with such a delightful writing style. She has crafted a well written young adult novel full of heartache, romance and the paranormal! Dead Perfect has such a wonderful balance of all of these things and is definitely one of the most unique stories I have read.

The story is told in such an interesting way, where it switches back and forth from the main characters viewpoints. I really enjoyed this style of writing. It kept things interesting as well as progressing quickly.

I was hooked from the first chapter.

Oh the romance! Mel and Davis are the perfect match and from the moment you find out they both love Rocky Road, you are cheering for them. Their relationship is intense and passionate. 

 P.G. has done such an amazing job creating her characters. Mel is a lovely young girl who has faced so many demons in her short life. You really connect with her character through out the story and your heart goes out for her. 

Davis too has quite the interesting past and more than a few secrets. P.G. does a great job of pacing the story so you keep guessing until the very end. 

This book is about so much more than Davis and Mel's need for each other. It is also about redemption, grief and finding your way.

The ending of this book was my favorite part! The twists and turns in the plot are fantastic. I was left with tears in my eyes after the last page.

It is so wonderful when a book can take you to so many different places and allows you to experience a range of emotion. This book definitely did that for me!

If you are a sucker for romance and a great paranormal slice of life story I highly suggest picking up Dead Perfect!

Four stars for P.G. Shriver's, The Fairytale! This story is so unique and keeps you enthralled the whole way through. It is imaginative, endearing, and down right intriguing.

P.G. creates such strong characters. Ones that have faced such hardship, but have not let it break them. 

I love that her characters are real and from such different walks of life. They make for quite an emotional story. Much like P.G.'s other young adult novel, The Fairytale has you experiencing so many different things through out the story. Sadness, hope, and joy all wrapped up in one. 

Cheater, the main character, has been shuffled through the foster system and swears death follows her. Yet she has learned how to survive on her own and continues to follow her goal of reaching Paradise. I also loved the originality of Cheater's "gift". Her power adds such an enjoyable aspect to the story.

I can't wait to find out what the other ten children's gifts are! 

At first I was unsure of how a childhood fairytale would work as the basis for a novel. But the more I read, the more I loved the idea of it. P.G. is a talented writer and has crafted a fantastical adventure that is only just getting started.

The plot is so enjoyable and keeps you guessing all the way to the end. You are left wanting more and that is the mark of a good book.

This is a great first book to the series and I can not wait to see what happens next in the Gifted Ones series!

I definitely recommend this book to teens and adults alike. Readers who like real life stories with a touch of fantasy will thoroughly enjoy this one!