| Title | : | Beasts and BFFs (13 to Life, #0.5) |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | |
| ISBN | : | - |
| Language | : | English |
| Format Type | : | Kindle Edition |
| Number of Pages | : | 31 |
| Publication | : | First published December 17, 2010 |
Meet Jessie Gillmansen as she realizes that things might not be what they seem in the town of Junction.
Beasts and BFFs (13 to Life, #0.5) Reviews
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I loved the first book in the 13 to Life series, 13 to Life. That said, I was excited to see catch a glimpse of what happened before the series begins. When I discovered Shannon Delany’s prequel story, I was elated and decided I needed to get it immediately.
It was so nice to be back into the world of 13 to Life. Though you don’t get a lot of that exciting werewolf action, you do get an insight into the characters and see why they have some of the feelings and thoughts that they do. And, you get to see what Jessica was like before she met Pietr.
Beasts and BFFs was the perfect filler to hold me over until the next 13 to Life book comes out. I can’t wait to see what Shannon Delany has up her sleeve next, since this story made me hungry for more! -
DNF at page 4.
I could have completed this book. It was short enough that I could have powered through it, but the poor editing had me gritting my teeth.
I find myself slightly upset with how the authors coordinating conjunctions connecting two independent clauses are separated by a period instead of a comma. It makes the flow of reading less than smooth. Some editing would have definitely helped polish this book to make it more reader friendly.
There is also an over use of unnecessary descriptors, making it feel as though the author was using a thesaurus to find new words and decided they needed to pick 2 or 3 of them instead of just one. -
I have not yet read 13 to Life so this was my first glimpse at the characters and the first time I've read a prequel short story before reading any of the books in a series. It was a great introduction to the series and to the three female characters - Jessie, Amy and Sarah.
The author's writing style is very easy and has a nice flow and the short story has just enough mystery to lure you into reading the full length book.
This story does not require readers to have read 13 to Life in order to enjoy or follow along. Reading this has officially piqued my interest in starting 13 to Life, which has been sitting in my eBook's to read collection. Review to come this week. -
I found this prequel story for free on Barnes & Noble and had to download it - I did enjoy the first
13 to Life novel but haven't had time to read the rest, and a prequel story wasn't going to spoil the rest of the series for me. While the entire "book" was 31 pages, only about 8 of those pages were the prequel story - the rest was a preview of 13 to Life (the prologue and first couple of chapters).
There was a certain atmosphere in the story, as Jessie, Amy, and Sarah go for a run and hear an animal in the woods. I was hoping for more details about the initial wolf attacks in the other town or even more details about Amy's hatred of Sarah and why Jessie was being so nice to her (I feel like this was covered in 13 to Life, but I read that a while ago and I don't remember).
Overall, this was a fun extra but doesn't really add much to the series. -
Tan cortito que no me ha sabido a nada
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Short story - prequel to
13 to Life.
I wasn't really impressed with this. Catty girls jogging in the woods and something rather large is snarling out there.
I think my beef is probably with the format of free ebook, where the story is only 13 pages long with a bonus 1st chapter of the book. I don't usually read the sneak previews because I then think I've read the book, but that's just me.
Anyhow, no interest to continue the series.
*Free Kobo download a while ago. May still be available. -
I have to say that I really thought this whole little story was pointless. It didn't add anything to the story line or really give us any insight to the characters.
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Jessie has gone for a run with two of her friends and while on the run they encounter something in the woods that isn't your typical animal.
I have the whole series but I haven't read it yet but plan to really soon. I decided to start with the prequel so that I would have a little insight into who the main character is. I like Jessie a sweet character who cares about her friends even if they don't care for each other. This is a perfect little teaser as an introduction to the series. I'm looking forward to diving into the series. I also really enjoyed the authors writing style it's a short story but it flows smoothly and the story is captivating. -
This is a such a super short and plotless story, it is clearly designed only to get the reader to read the preview to the first 13 to Life novel. There's nothing wrong with sticking in a preview to the next installment of a story, but I expect the main story I'm reading to be an actual story. This reads like watching only the opening scene to a teen horror flick.
It goes like this: three teenage girls go for a run out in the woods. The redhead hates the blonde and the brunette is friends with both. Some scary unseen beast growls in the bushes nearby and scares them half-do-death, then takes off. Redhead's boyfriend drives up, is seen talking to the hot captain of the football team, and the girls all pile into the redhead's boyfriend's car to go watch said hot football captain practice. The. End.
What is that? That isn't a story! Thirty percent of what was in my Kindle file was the above “story” and the remaining seventy percent was the beginning preview of the first novel. This prequel did nothing to convince me to read it because it showed me how disinterested the author was in writing it. What's more, I can easily read the preview to the first 13 to Life novel on my Kindle by downloading a free sample. This short “story” gave me a tiny glimpse of some characters that I never got to care about. It was completely pointless. -
Wait... what? That was such a tease! LOL But seriously, you are drawn right in wanting to know more about the characters and how they wound up together. Will definitely be looking into the book that follows this quick little prequel.
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Aaaaannd.... the point of this practically 1/2 a chapter "story" is..???
Kinda puts me off from reading the actual book 13 to Life just because of this free download. Ah well... not much I can do about it.
The tiny bit of "story" in this, basically has the feel of a sorority horror flick. -
loved it. It was so nice to be back in the 13 to life world and makes me want to read the 2nd book even more! =)
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A good introduction into the series.
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I can't figure out what the point of this was.
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Read the review on my blog:
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rating: 2.25/5
I didn't get why this couldn't have been added to the first book because I didn't think it added much to the series on its own. -
Este libro me pareció muy corto y narra desde la perspectiva de Jessi Gilmasen y conocer mas de ella y como era su vida antes de que su vida prácticamente cambiará al conocer a Piert y a los Rusakovas y descubriera el peligroso secreto que ellos guardaban.
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Not much happened in this short story. I haven’t read any other books by this author but maybe her other books will be better.
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Nothing new here.
Girl has just lost a parent.
Girl isn't particularly interested in anything.
New Boy arrives.
New Boy captures the attention of every girl within a 20 mile radius (including main character, whether she admits it to herself or not).
New Boy isn't interested in anyone but the MC.
MC's crush notices the attention she's getting from New Boy and begins showing an interest in her, also.
Love triangle will begin in 3,2,1...
Only this novella contains werewolves.
I think I'm gonna go ahead and skip
13 to Life.
Books about werewolves aren't really my thing. The only werewolf book I've read has been
Prince of Wolves and I wasn't exactly blown away.
If I ever decide to read another werewolf book, I'll probably pick up
Shiver.
If I end up liking Shiver, then I'll pick up 13 to Life.
Until then, good day, werewolves. -
To see my full review:
http://bookvacations.wordpress.com/20...
Every once in a while I peruse through Amazon looking for a new series to sink my teeth into, and I always love it when there is a prequel or some other inexpensive short read I can purchase to see if the series is something I’m interested in as, lets be honest, book blurbs don’t always put the best foot forward, as it were. And this is how I came across the series, 13 to life. Unfortunately, I didn’t find this particular prequel, Beasts and Bffs, to be all that riveting. Perhaps it was just way to short for me to make any connections, but I did read it twice (it’s that short) to make sure I didn’t miss anything the first time around, and upon the second read, I still didn’t feel much in terms of the story. Three girls go for a jog, two of them hate each other, and during a bickering fight, they hear something rather large in the woods with them. And that pretty much sums it up. For me, that didn’t spur me on to read the rest of the series, so while it’s not totally off my radar, I’m sorry to say it’s just not one that caught my attention, either. -
This was a decent read for me, even if I haven't read 13 to Life in it's entirety. I almost want to write two separate reviews about "Beasts and BFFs" because as far as the prequel goes, in and of itself, I couldn't give it more than two stars because it failed to grab me - the writing was decent at least. The characters didn't stand out and the situation didn't make me connect to the characters much. It felt quite dry and not enough for me to count as an encompassing short story. However, the excerpt from 13 to Life (though I could've done without the prologue) was a bit better. I did like the main character, though I wasn't too impressed with Pietr (pronounced Peter) as being the new guy that everyone flocks around. I suppose it was a decent teaser, but not enough to keep my page turning interest on its own. I do plan at some point to read 13 to Life to see how it fares, but as far as this free inclusion, it was just so-so and I expected a little more than the standard YA paranormal fare.
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I LOVED 13 to Life so I nabbed Shannon Delany's prequel story, Beasts and BFFs as well.
This one seemed shorter to me and was another okay like read. Since it's a prequel we don't get to see everyone, in fact we just see Jessie, Sarah, and Amy.
There wasn't much to the storyline here except seeing a moment with the friends, or rather Amy's dislike of Sarah, which we learned why back in 13 to Life!!
But basically the girls have a close encounter with something scary and hairy while on a jog and that was the gist of it.
Again, nothing major happening here either, but it was still pretty enjoyable for a short prequel story. Can't expect too much out of them but it was kind of interesting, because we see how the friends are with one another and Amy's strong dislike of Sarah.
Overall I give this on a 3.5/5 as well, mostly because I was hoping for the appearance of a certain someone, but alas, he was not there...in the way I wanted to see him at least. ;) -
This is a short story vaguely related to the 13 to Life series, it's like a miniature prequel, I only gave it 2 stars as it's not even a novella really, I finished it in like 10 minutes.
I would give it 3 otherwise as it was well written enough that I bought the first book in series to give the series a chance, I wouldn't have bothered if it had poor spelling or was just poorly written overall. Because of the writing style I gave the series a chance, the shortness of this and the lack or really revealing anything storywise would not have tempted me to the next book.
I am curious to see how the style and story progress from the first book. So I would actually not recommend this short and tell you just to go for book 1 of 13 to Life. You don't even need to read this after the first book as it doesn't add anything. -
This prequel to 13 Years to Life was about 12 pages long. I have to wonder if it was originally chapter one before edits. It had that feel. A short introduction to Jessie and her friends. We also get a brief glimpse into the strangeness to come. Actually, I think it works better as a first chapter then the actual first chapter of 13 Years to Life, which I didn't much care for.
A free ebook download worth the 10 minutes or so it would take to read, if you are a fan of the series. If you haven't read 13 Years to Life, this prequel won't really do much for you. And if the publisher ever ups the price to anything other then $0, I wouldn't recommend purchasing it. -
When I saw that this was a short story, I got excited, because I love prequel stories, and I love Shannon Delany. What I didn't expect however was how truly short it was going to be. It's 31 Nook pages...but a good 18 of those was preview of the first book in the series, 13 to Life, and 3 of them were title/copyright pages. So, all in all, it was only about 9 Nook pages. Which, in Shannon Delany pages, is about 5 real book pages. Which is RIDICULOUSLY short.
Excluding that fact, though, the short, short, short story was entertaining, albeit short (did I say that already?).
I mean, I wasn't expecting a novel, but I was expecting a little more substance. -
Free For Kindle - Contains First 2 Chapters of 13 to Life
As someone who already wanted to read 13 to Life before reading this I have to say that if I didn't I'm not sure this would make me want too. It's really short and doesn't really tell much. All I can say is that if you haven't looked at the summary for 13 to Life do so before making the decision of marking it TBR or moving on. To do so based on this wouldn't be fair.
With that said this does contain preview of the first two chapters of 13 to Life. I myself didn't read them as I prefer not to read chapters of a book I plan on getting at some point only to have to go over them again. -
Not what I expected. The actual story was pretty short, and the remaining material was the first two chapters of the next book in the series.
Basically, the main character and two of her friends are jogging in the woods, when they're stalked by a large creature (although, they never actually see what they're up against). When a boyfriend of one of the girls shows up, the creature runs away. All is forgotten when the crush of the MC is shirtless and dripping with sweat. The End.
Overall, if you're looking for a quick read, then I recommend downloading this story.
