Title: DON'T JUST SPEAK LOVE
Author: Chalie Teh
Publish Date: 01.26.13
Publisher: Chalie Teh
Category: YA Paranormal, Romance, Fantasy, Contemporary,
Family, Action
Recommended
for: 12+ young adults
Grammar/editing: book received as an
unedited ARC / errors excused
Received from: Chalie Teh (in exchange for an honest review)
Goodreads: Don’t Just Speak Love
Date completed: 10.27.13
Description from the publisher:
Eighteen-year-old
Averie’s life is turned upside-down when she’s instructed by her long-missing
mother to enroll in an international college despite her being a local.
Soon
after, Averie discovers she is a nephilim—part human part angel—and her young
life drastically changes from awfully droning to incomprehensibly hectic as she
juggles college work, bullying, demanding training sessions with a surprising
fit seventy-year-old, family issues, and the one thing she’s most skeptical of:
love.
When
adults in her life don't fulfill their rightful responsibilities, she’s forced
to take those neglected responsibilities into her own hands and set everyone’s
life back on the right track.
With
the aid of a special Japanese classmate Sasuke, and a fiercely determined and
righteous attitude, will Averie be strong enough to overcome the challenges in
her difficult adolescence?
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I stared at him
in shock; this was getting completely out of hand. At this rate, he would
really be failing Ms. Psychotic’s class.
Slinging his
backpack over his shoulder, he said to me, “Let’s go?”
There was a
collective gasp of shock in the lab. Following his lead, I packed up as well,
and before long, the two of us were out of the lab, leaving the rest of the
class gawking in disbelief.
When we were out
of view, Sasuke turned to me. “Let’s chill at my room until the next class.
What do you think?”
For a moment, I
wondered what room he was talking about, but I quickly realised it could only
be his hostel. With no other idea in mind, I agreed. Sasuke led the way, and I
found myself outside a boys’ toilet soon after.
“Wait here,” he
said before disappearing into the toilet.
Maybe he needed
the washroom badly?
Seconds later,
Sasuke emerged from the toilet and indicated for me to come in. “No one’s
inside. Come on.”
“What? Are you
serious? This is the gents!” I told him, as though he didn’t know already.
“I need to zap
us there. We can’t just walk into the hostel during school hours. There’s a
guard on duty,” he explained.
“Oh. Okay…” With
little choice, I stepped into the gents with Sasuke.
“Ready?” he
asked, holding out his open hand.
I took it and
closed my eyes. “Ready.”
The same old
discomfort washed over me.
“We’re here,” he
said, and I felt him letting go.
I opened my eyes
to a small, neat room with two beds, two desks, two chairs, two wardrobes—all
mirroring each other—and some shelves against the wall between the desks. Only
one side of the room seemed to be occupied, so I asked, “You don’t have a
roommate?”
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Set in Singapore, this story is
about several special students attending the Black Gold International College
(this would be Junior High and High School to American students). Averie Teh and Takahashi Sasuke are new
students who will complete the last six weeks at their new school. On the first day, they find that they are
also nephilims, children with mortal mothers and archangels as their
father. After school, they train with
Sir Albion Savant, a 70-year old nephilim.
They will need to train to help protect the world from Lucifer’s plans
to conquer the world.
This is a well-thought out story
with action that keeps moving forward. I
truly felt as though I had traveled to Singapore, England, Japan, and Canada in
this story. The scenes were
well-described, but not belabored. My
only criticism for this book is that it does need some editing for American
children to understand and some grammar corrections, but only if the author
intends to market in the US.
I enjoyed this story. This is Ms. Teh’s first novel and I hope she
will continue writing. She has a fresh
voice for the young adult genre. We need
to maintain our open ears to listen for her.
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AUTHOR BIO
Chalie
Teh lives in Singapore—a sunny island in Southeast Asia, which occupies only a
little red dot on the world map. She is twenty-one this year and mum to a
perfect Shih Tzu dog called Blythe.
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