Waiting on Wednesday - Week 38

Waiting on Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted by Jill at Breaking the Spine. It's to spotlight upcoming reads which I'm dying to get my hands on! Some are repeated on Books to Pine For posts :).

This week's WoW is:

Thumped by Megan McCafferty

It’s been thirty-five weeks since twin sisters Harmony and Melody went their separate ways. And now their story has become irresistible: twins separated at birth, each due to deliver twins…on the same day!
Married to Ram and living in Goodside, Harmony spends her time trying to fit back into the community she once believed in. But she can’t forget about Jondoe, the guy she fell for under the strangest of circumstances.


To her adoring fans, Melody has achieved everything: a major contract and a coupling with the hottest bump prospect around. But this image is costing her the one guy she really wants.
The girls’ every move is analyzed by millions of fans eagerly counting down to “Double Double Due Date.” They’re two of the most powerful teen girls on the planet, and they could do only one thing to make them even more famous:


Tell the truth.

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Release Date: April 24, 2012

I enjoyed the first book Bumped and it's quite an original concept, and even more a dystopian! Gotta get my hands on it :)

What are you waiting on?

WWW Wednesdays - Week 17

WWW Wednesdays is a weekly meme hosted by Should Be Reading. Just answer the following three questions:


1) What are you currently reading?
2) What did you recently finish reading?
3) What do you think you'll read next?

What are you currently reading?

I'm reading Legacy by Cayla Kluver now and LOVING IT! I haven't read a historical fiction book in ages, and this one really takes the cake :)

What did you recently finish reading?

I just finished reading Sloppy Firsts by Megan McCafferty, which is book 1 in the Jessica Darling series. LOVED IT! Review coming soon.

What do you think you'll read next?

Like last week's WWW Wed, I'm going to read Stay by Deb Caletti next. It's available this month on PulseIt, so I don't wanna miss out on this chance!

That's it for this week's WWW Wednesday! What are you currently reading? Leave a link/comment!

Bumped by Megan McCafferty

Bumped by Megan McCafferty


Published: April 26th, 2011
Publisher: Balzer + Bray
Series: Bumped, Book 1
Rating: YA 14+
Format: eGalley
Source: NetGalley
Amazon ❘ Goodreads


When a virus makes everyone over the age of eighteen infertile, would-be parents are forced to pay teen girls to conceive and give birth to their children, making teens the most prized members of society.

Sixteen-year-old identical twins Melody and Harmony were separated at birth and had never met until the day Harmony shows up on Melody’s doorstep. Until now, the twins have followed completely opposite paths. Melody has scored an enviable conception contract with a couple called the Jaydens. While they are searching for the perfect partner for Melody to bump with, she is fighting her attraction to her best friend Zen, who is way too short for the job.

Harmony has spent her whole life in religious Goodside, preparing to be a wife and mother. She believes her calling is to bring Melody back to Goodside and convince her that “pregging” for profit is a sin. But Harmony has secrets of her own that she is running from.

When Melody is finally matched with the world-famous, genetically flawless Jondoe, both girls’ lives are changed forever. A case of mistaken identity takes them on a journey neither could have ever imagined, one that makes Melody and Harmony realize they have so much more than just DNA in common. 

**This Review is based on an ARC (Advanced Reader's Copy). The final text/cover may be different.**

What a controversial subject! Bumped is such a different dystopian– nothing about the world ending, or a new race of humans taking over, or people dying here and there. It just looks at the more REALISTIC side of life...teen pregnancy.


When everyone over the age of 18 becomes infertile...who's left to give childbirth?? That's right! Teens. Megan McCafferty has looked at such a big issue in our world today and seems to give us the pros and cons of it in her book Bumped. I've read several mixed reviews of this book so I wasn't very sure what to expect. But guess what? I LOVED IT. It's so different, yet it kind of ties in with the whole "depending on children and teens thing" that they have in Gone by Michael Grant...except without the powers and supernatural stuff.


I found it interesting to look at the story from two perspectives, the twins Melody and Harmony. I was generally more lenient towards Melody, as I found Harmony sometimes too religious, but then in the middle of the story, when things start unravelling, BAM, Harmony's story became more in demand. Melody's the much funnier one I have to say though. Her sarcasm and remarks are sometimes really hilarious!
Harmony's perspective I have to say was much for interesting though. It's cool to see how someone who is extremely (or not SO extremely) religious sees the rest of the world with their eyes. How they perceive different things done, well, differently than the way they do it themselves. Just saying.
I LOVE Zen, and hate Jondoe. Just saying.


Some of it didn't make any sense at all, because there was a whole new vocabulary in this time period (I definitely know it's past 2025 in this book :P) and it was just kind of confusing with all the pregnancy talk and stuff. Like "pregging" and "bumping" and other stuff. I kinda ended up ignoring all the random vocab talk (it kinda reminded me of Uglies by Scott Westerfeld's world!) and went straight on into the story.
I found it interesting how media plays such a big in this novel. It kind of connects our world to theirs– there isn't so much of a difference if you think about it. We spend LOADS of time on Social Networking sites and in Bumped there's something called MiNet which is quite similar. It keeps updating statuses and such. And the media...from the start of the novel we can see how much advertising works into this book. Babiez R U is a huge example, and of course there's a link between quikiwiki and wikipedia, supplying tons of information.

Overall, Bumped is portaying what could happen in the near-future. It's got a realistic side to it, and it's a different and amazing dystopian which enthralls readers and leaves them wanting more with a cliffhanger ending. I have McCafferty's other book Sloppy Firsts, which is part of the Jessica Darling series, and I still have yet to read that. Can't wait for book 2 of Bumped!

If you like this, try...

• Uglies by Scott Westerfeld (Review ❘ Amazon ❘ Goodreads)
• Memento Nora by Angie Smibert (Review ❘ Amazon ❘ Goodreads)

WWW Wednesdays - Week 12

"WWW Wednesdays" is a weekly meme hosted by Should Be Reading. To Participate, just answer the following questions:


What are you currently reading?
What did you recently finish reading?
What do you think you'll read next?

What are you currently reading?

I'm currently reading Haven by Kristi Cook, and I'm around halfway through that, and yesterday I started Bumped by Megan McCafferty. I LOVE Haven, and it's too early to tell with Bumped– I'm only on the 5th page! But it sounds very interesting :)

What did you recently finish reading?

I just finished Desires of the Dead by Kimberly Derting, and if you see the WoW post below, you know how much I'm raving about this series! Totally loved it, The Body Finder and this review will be up soon...hopefully. If I'm still alive making it through the enormous t0-be-reviewed list I have.

What do you think you'll read next?

The Girl in the Steel Corset by Kady Cross comes out next week...so I'll be reading it this weekend in time for me to review it on the release date (which not to mention, I'll also be reviewing another book released on that day, Angel Burn). It sounds very cool, very different from most type of books! I've also heard very good things about this one, so I definitely need to start reading it!

Well, that was the WWW Wed of this week! What are you currently reading? Leave a link/comment!