This is actually a re-post… but since it releases officially in the US on Tuesday, I figured you guys should all hear how much I loved it… AGAIN! lol
Graffiti Moon
by Cath Crowley
published: 2/14/2012 by Knopf Books for Young Readers
From Goodreads:
“Let me make it in time. Let me meet Shadow. The guy who paints in the dark. Paints birds trapped on brick walls and people lost in ghost forests. Paints guys with grass growing from their hearts and girls with buzzing lawn mowers.”
It’s the end of Year 12. Lucy’s looking for Shadow, the graffiti artist everyone talks about.
His work is all over the city, but he is nowhere.Ed, the last guy she wants to see at the moment, says he knows where to find him. He takes Lucy on an all-night search to places where Shadow’s thoughts about heartbreak and escape echo around the city walls.But the one thing Lucy can’t see is the one thing that’s right before her eyes.
* I read this book courtesy of Missie- The Unread Reader for the Go Aussie Book Tour*
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The Bookish Brunette thought:
Right away this book reminded me of Rachel Cohn & David Levithan’s Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist (the BOOK). Which is super fabulous because that is one of my favorite books of ALL TIME!
Graffiti Moon is told in the alternating POV’s of Lucy (best name ever!), Ed (Shadow), and Leo (Poet). Poet’s chapters are written only as his poetry, which YES if it was extremely long, drawn out blah blah poetry would get quite annoying… but it’s not! His poems are short, sweet and to the point.
To put it mildly- I LOVED Poet. I want to marry Poet and have 100 of his babies. Yeah, that much.I’m not sure why I connected so deeply with him… but he’s mine and I’ll lay the smack down on any chick who says different! Okay?
Lucy is certain that if she could just find Shadow (Ed) that he is totally going to be the epitome of perfect guy. Sadly all she ever manages to come across is his graffiti… Then on the last day of Year 12 (senior year) she misses a Shadow sighting by mere minutes! I’m talking the paint is STILL wet! *tears*
She then proceeds to go meet her chick friends for a celebratory night out and in walks none other than Shadow! But Lucy doesn’t know it’s him!!! *breathe*
Lucy is daydreaming about what she’d say to Shadow the first time they meet, and conversations they’ll have together… while she is unknowingly sitting RIGHT NEXT to him!!! *squee* Then comes the bomb burst…
Lucy and Shadow KNOW each other! Lucy may or may not have kind of broken his nose in Year 10 after he grabbed her butt!! *DIES* I love it! And so begins Lucy and Ed’s (Shadow) whirlwind night of adventure after Ed agrees to ‘help’ Lucy find “Shadow”.
EPIC AMAZING!
I only do this every once in awhile… but I have to share some of the awesome quotes from this book:
“I spent the weekend after our date wishing I could stab him with my fluffy duck pen and staring at the phone wishing he’d call.”
-Lucy
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“It goes like that for a while, me running and leaping and falling and wondering how doing this proves I have balls.”
-Ed
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“Every time he looked at me I felt like I’d touched my tongue to the tip of a battery.”
-Lucy on zing and tingle.
Buy Graffiti Moon on Amazon!
So….I only glanced at the review and went strait to your rating because this is the next book I’m reading on my Kindle. It’s been sitting there for months and I’ve heard such amazing things about it that I’m finally reading it! I mean, 5 stilettos?! I’m so there!
I really want to read this book. More now that I have read your review! It sounds so amazing. I need it now! Fab review chick!!
Lol yeah I would say you put it mildly that you want to have 100 of his babies. I guess I must read this one if he is that amazing and awe inspiring!
Thanks for another EPIC review!
I guess between you and Missie this has made my 12 list for the YA this year
I only have 6 more slots (and we can all die of shock if I actually read 12 YAs this year LOL)
This is the second review on this book I have read today. Everyone is gushing over this book. I have it to read next
I might be back to fight you for Poet after that!
“To put it mildly- I LOVED Poet. I want to marry Poet and have 100 of his babies.”
I love you. That’s really all there is to say about that:) So glad you were able to see past your Poet lust and enjoy the rest of the story, I just thought it was fantastic. I want more of all the characters:) I’ll take Ed though, I’ll leave Poet to you so he can be your personal baby maker:)
We’re review twins today!!!
How could this book has escaped my attention??? What an epic review full of reasons why I have to read this one.. I guess there is no way around it now!:)
I know! I know! I’ll be reading this one soooooon! I can’t wait!!!
Btw… 100 babies? Ouch! <3
I want to read this book SO FREAKING BAD! It sounds absolutely unbelievably EPIC! Hope I can get my hands on it soon!
Awesome review!!! I’ve had this book on my shelf for a while now but after reading your review, it has definitely moved up my TBR pile!
I love this review! Sounds like a book I would like. I think you sold me with this:
Thanks for the review. Putting this in my TBR!
“To put it mildly- I LOVED Poet. I want to marry Poet and have 100 of his babies.”
I love falling in love with characters this passionately.
This book has been on my TBR pile since a long time, but after your review I think I’ll start reading it right away!
Great review! ^^
- O.ops I Read That Book!
Eee! Once I heard this took pllace over one night, I thought of Nick and Norah, toooo! I’ve not read the book but I love the movie XD
Aaaah! This one sounds AMAZING! A M A Z I N G !! It’s possible I may DIE if I don’t read it now. I know BFF has it… *consideres breakign into her house to steal it* Hmmmm…
FAB review! I’m so excited to read it now!