I love the richness of the purple, and that heart-shaped guitar pick. Hubba hubba.
Book Synopsis:
When it comes to relationships, Remy doesn't mess around. After all, she's learned all there is to know from her mother, who's currently working on husband number five. But there's something about Dexter that seems to defy all of Remy's rules. He certainly doesn't seem like Mr. Right. For some reason, however, Remy just can't seem to shake him. Could it be that Remy's starting to understand what those love songs are all about?My favorite Sarah Dessen book, I'm telling you. Don't miss out! You can purchase THIS LULLABY at your local bookstore or on Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and Indiebound.
Other links you might be interested in:
- Sarah's website: www.sarahdessen.com
- Sarah's Twitter: @sarahdessen
- Sarah's Tumblr: authorsarahdessen.tumblr.com
- Sarah's blog: http://sarahdessen.com/blog/
- Penguin Teen on Facebook: www.facebook.com/penguinteenbooks
- Penguin Teen on Twitter: @PenguinTeen
- Penguin Teen on Tumblr: penguinteen.tumblr.com
- The Sarah-land community on Ning: http://sarah-land.ning.com/
May 28: That Summer (Mundie Moms) - http://mundiemoms.blogspot.com/
May 29: Someone Like You (Penguin Teen Tumblr) - http://penguinteen.tumblr.com
May 30: Keeping the Moon (Frenetic Reader) - http://www.freneticreader.com/
May 31: Dreamland (Green Bean Teen Queen) - http://www.greenbeanteenqueen.com/
June 1: This Lullaby (Steph Su) - http://stephsureads.blogspot.com/
June 4: The Truth About Forever (Forever YA) - http://www.foreveryoungadult.com
June 5: Just Listen (Princess Bookie) - http://www.princessbookie.com/
June 6: Lock & Key (Presenting Lenore) - http://presentinglenore.blogspot.com/
June 7: Along for the Ride (The Story Siren) - http://www.thestorysiren.com
Giveaway Info
Thanks to Penguin, I have THREE paperbacks of This Lullaby featuring the new cover to give away to 3 lucky winners! Enter using the Rafflecopter form below. This giveaway is open to US mailing addresses only and ends Friday, June 15, 2012. Good luck!
a Rafflecopter giveaway
So far, I've loved every single one of the new covers. They're all so eye-catching and the slight gradient of the author's name on each cover is a small touch that really gets me. Thanks for hosting the giveaway!
ReplyDeletePfft, and I forgot to answer the actual question. Look how smart I iz. One of my favorite YA couples is Alona and Will from Stacey Kade's Ghost and the Goth series. They're so different from one another and they have quite a few fights, but their chemistry is off the charts and I like the way they balance each other out. I was sad to finish the last book of the series a few weeks ago.
DeleteThe new covers are wonderful. This Lullaby is hands down my favorite book. It is the first one I ever picked up and once I read it I knew Sarah would be my favorite author!
ReplyDeleteI think Jace and Clary from the Mortal Instruments series are the perfect couple. They just understand each other so completely and love each other so passionately. Perfect!
ReplyDeletei like anna and etienne from anna and the french kiss. i liked how they got together and that they were truly friends first before becoming more.
ReplyDeleteThis is my favorite Sarah Dessen and I was so worried about what its new cover would be like-what if I didn't like it since I'm so attached to the old cover? Happily they kept the purple and the heart which appeases me!
ReplyDeleteI love all of Sarah's new covers! They look so cool. I can't wait to read her next book when it comes out in May of 13! (=
ReplyDeleteForgot about my favorite couple! I love Augustus and Hazel from the Fault in Our Stars. They made me laugh and they made me cry. I've read the book so many times since I've gotten it that I've lost count! The pair will forever be my favorite.
DeleteMy favorite couple may be Sarah Dessen's Wes & Macy because I love Wes, and The Truth About Forever was the book that got me back into reading. And I mean, Wes is the reformed bad-boy, what girl DOESN'T want that?
ReplyDeleteMy favorite couple would have to be Wes and Macy as well! They're just SO perfect for each other. And if tv counts as YA, then Rory and Jess from Gilmore Girls :) YA is the best for couples.
ReplyDeletebmont178@yahoo.com
Remy and Dexter are my absolute favorites. :) But some others... well. I really like Wes and Macy, of course, and also Katniss and Peeta, obviously.
ReplyDeleteMy favorite book is Along for the Ride, I've read it probably 5 times and take it off my shelf every summer- but I also love to read all of Sarah's books every summer and What Happened to Goodbye is another close favorite along with Just Listen.
ReplyDeleteI love Lyra and Will from His Dark Materials :)
ReplyDeleteFirst of all, this is my favorite re-cover yet! I just ADORE it!
ReplyDeleteAs for couples, I'm a big fan of Meghan & Ash, Katniss & Peeta, Katsa & Po (K&P seems to be the power-couple initials) and my favorite Dessen couple is Wes & Macy for sure!
Blessings,
G.C.
Oh so pretty ^_^. The new ones are all so pretty. I love the heart shape guitar pick too! I think my favourite book is either Just Listen or Lock & Key.
ReplyDeleteIt's hard to pick a favorite couple.....but since I read The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer recently, Mara and Noah are still fresh in my mind!
ReplyDeleteSome of my favorite YA couples are:
ReplyDeleteBriony and Eldric from Chime by Franny Billingsley
Adam and Mia from If I Stay & Where She Went by Gayle Forman
Taylor and Jonah from Jellicoe Road by Melina Marchetta
The partners in these couples help each other heal and mature individually, and they grow together in their relationships. They communicate, get to know each other, fight, support each other, and engage in thoughtfully* romantic gestures -- with hefty helpings of hormones and angst.
*Yo, there's a difference between thoughtfully romantic and generically romantic!
(By the way, I need to get the paperback of Where She Went because the bonus materials provide a glimpse of Adam and Mia three years after Where She Went concludes. Generally, Speak paperbacks have awesome bonus materials that make them worth owning.)
[commenting as Justine]
Ugh! I love all of the new covers of Sarah Dessen's books! She is one of my all time favorite authors and for that reason, my other favorite YA couples, besides Remy and Dexter, are Macy and Wes from The Truth About Forever.
ReplyDeleteRon and Hermione is one of my all time favorites. As far as Sarah Dessen characters my favorite couples are Remy/Dexter and Annabel/Owen. I also really enjoy the couples in Stephanie Perkins books.
ReplyDeleteI really like this! I don't think it's my favorite of the covers yet but it's still really gorgeous.
ReplyDeletemy favorite YA couple has to be Ky and Cassia from Matched or Tally and David from the Uglies series. These couples amaze me by how they keep finding their way back to each other no matter what tries to tear them apart. Their love is so strong that in the end, it is impossible to end their love. I love that about them.
ReplyDeleteI love the new cover! I actually named one of my cats Dexter, because I was reading This Lullaby when I got him, and I really liked the name :0)
ReplyDeleteI love so many YA couples! I think my two favorites would have to be Mia and Adam from Gayle Forman's If I Stay series and Amy & Roger from Morgan Matson's Amy & Roger's Epic Detour <3
So many good YA couples to choose from! But I really love Gemma and Kartik from Libba Bray's Gemma Doyle trilogy and Hazel and Agustus from John Green's The Fault in our Stars. Both couples are just so heartbreakingly wonderful.
ReplyDeleteI love Auden & Eli from along for the ride. Learning to let go and find love. AWWWW!
ReplyDeleteI just recently read the novel Matched by Ally Condie. I've got to say the main character Cassia and her true love Ky are my new favorites!
ReplyDeleteWes and Macy from the Truth about Forever and Owen and Annabell from Just Listen! Those are two of my favorite books and they make such cute couples!
ReplyDeletewes and macy from the truth about forever. this my favorite book of sarah's and i love there interesting get to know you game that they did. love wes and his artistic hands with the heart
ReplyDeleteFavorite YA couple? The pair that immediately came to mind was Katsa and Po from Graceling. They're wonderful together, and Po helps Katsa on her way to finding who she wants to be. I also love Alex and Deryn from Scott Westerfeld's Leviathan trilogy. They're the perfect foils to each other, and they're wonderful co-conspirators. It's a partnership through and through (although that might have something to do with the fact that Alex thought Deryn was a boy for most of the series, hah).
ReplyDeleteI like Anna and Etienne from Anna and the French Kiss because they are two very real characters. And they are so cute together.
ReplyDeleteWes/Macy and Remy/Dexter are my fav YA couples -- what can I say? Sarah Dessen's teen romances make me giddy. LOVE THEM.
ReplyDeleteRemy and Dexter are definitely one of my favorite YA couples - probably the first YA couple I fell in love with! I also love Lola and Cricket from Lola and the Boy Next Door :)
ReplyDeleteI love Tris/Tobias from the Divergent trilogy by Veronica Roth. They're definitely my #1 OTP. I love them because they trust each other and their romance forms from their friendship. I'm also a big fan of Clara and Tucker from the Unearthly series by Cynthia Hand. Just because they're too cute together.
ReplyDeleteI love Remy and Dexter because he brings out the more relaxed and open side of her. My other favorite YA couple is Amy and Roger from Amy and Roger's Epic Detour - even though they've got their own crap, they still manage to help each other through their respective problems. And last but not least - gotta love Mclean and Dave!
ReplyDeleteAll of my favorite YA couples tend to go into battle with each other. The couple that is always there supporting the other and fighting for something bigger than them. Tris and Four, Isoboe and Finnikin, Gabi and Marcello. I also really love the quad-angle love story in The Host, very gripping.
ReplyDeleteMy favorite Ya couple is Nick and Milo from Here by Author Ella James. Even thought there's is a unique type its still a great connection.
ReplyDeleteMy favorite YA couple...frankly it's a toss-up between Wes and Macy, Remy and Dexter, andddd Cammie and Zach from Ally Carter's Gallagher Girls series.
ReplyDeleteI like Conrad and Belly in "The Summer I Turned Pretty", I'd say they're one of my favorite YA couples!
ReplyDeleteI could probably go on for days about my favorite couples, but at the top of the list is Wes and Macy from The Truth About Forever. They have so much chemistry between the two, and I really loved that Macy's dad's last present to her was one of Wes's sculptures.
ReplyDeleteI LOVE the cover!!
ReplyDeleteRemy and Dexter are probably my favourite YA couple still after so many years. I also LOVE Owen and Annabel from Just Listen. Oh and Violet & Jay from The Body Finder series. SO MANY YA COUPLES.
My favorite YA couple has always been Macy and Wes from the Truth About Forever. They are so comfortable around each other and open/honest about everything.
ReplyDeleteMy favorite Sarah Dessen couple is Macy and Wes. I especially love how in Just Listen you see them at the diner eating breakfast, I love the proof that they're together and happy.
ReplyDeleteBella and Edward are a nobrainer though their love kind of creeps me out. Another nobrainer is Katniss and Peeta.
There are so many awesome couples it's not even funny.
ReplyDeleteMy favorite Sarah Dessen couple is probably Macy and Wes from The Truth About Forever. I love how much they understand each other, and I love how the catering thing changes Macy for the better. I actually started playing the "Truth" game with one of my guy friends. It helped our friendship a lot.
One of my favorite couples in general is Nora and Patch from the Hush, Hush series by Becca Fitzpatrick. I love what an unexpected match they are, but they fit so well together.
I really like Ruby and Nate from Lock and Key. I feel like they learn and grow so much from each other throughout the book.
ReplyDeleteMy favorite couples from Sarah Dessen's books are Macy and Wes from The Truth About Forever, Remy and Dexter from This Lullaby, Ruby and Nate from Lock and Key, and Mclean and Dave from What Happened to Goodbye. All of them have different qualities that make them wonderful. They have the honest, comfortable, joyful relationships every couple would want.
ReplyDeleteAnother non-Sarah Dessen couple I love is Katniss and Peeta. Their relationship is a bit different from others, but that's what makes them unique to me.
-Kim T.
From Sarah's books, Remy & Dexter are probably my favorite couple with Wes/Macy & Eli/Auden a close second.
ReplyDeleteAnother couple I adore is Ron/Hermione (we all know they were together before they did get together).
I love Macon and Halley!
ReplyDeleteAnna and St. Clair because they fight and had issues, but worked through them like actual teenagers might. I liked the chemistry and their sarcastic banter of Riley and Beck from the Demon Trappers series.
ReplyDeleteFirst of all: Beautiful re-cover!! I also love the richness of the purple.. purple is a favorite color of mine, it looks truly beautiful!
ReplyDeleteAlso; some of my favorite YA couples are: Rose & Dimitri, Katsa & Po, Eragon & Arya, Murtagh & Nasuada and from the Sarah Dessen book Just Listen, Owen and Anna :)
Why they are my favorites: Some of them don't even become an official couple.. it's the chemistry between all of these couples that I simply adore.
Tris and Four!!!!! From Divergent. Love them :)
ReplyDeleteI love this cover! It's absolutely gorgeous! I'm going to have to buy all of them haha.
ReplyDeleteSome of my favorite YA couples are - of course - Annabel Greene and Owen Armstrong from Just Listen, Auden West and Eli Stock from Along for the Ride, Tris and Four from Divergent, Hazel Grace Lancaster and Augustus Waters from The Fault in Our Stars (WARNING HEARTBREAKER [totally worth it but still]), Harry Potter and Ginny Weasley (duh), Anna and St. Clair from Anna and the French Kiss, Magnus Bane and Alec Lightwood from TMI... I'll stop now, but I honestly could go on for HOURS.
Sarah Dessen's couples, and Tris and Four as well, are some of my favorites because they're realistic. Hazel Grace and Augustus make the list because they broke my heart but they were so very perfect for each other. Harry and Ginny make the list because I was rooting for them to get together from book two, and that's a LONG time to ship a couple since I was one of the unlucky millions that had to wait for each book to come out. Anna and St. Clair make it because - while their situation is unique - the characters are believable and they work together so well. Magnus and Alec - I have no explanation. I just adore them. I can't wait for City of Heavenly Fire to see what happens with them.
I ship a lot of couples...
Love love love Anna and etienne!
ReplyDeleteI love Po and Katsa...they are such a playful couple.
ReplyDeleteI love Perry and Aria from Under the Never Sky, at first they cannot stand each other because of their differences but soon grow to learn and discover how amazing the other character is, classic Pride and Prejudice moment, and I just adore it. Although, as some have mentioned earlier, Anna and St. Clair from Anna and the French Kiss is another amazing couple!
ReplyDeleteI really enjoyed Tally Youngblood's story in Scott Westerfeld's Uglies series. Her relationships with David and Zane show how our tastes in significant others change as we ourselves change and grow.
ReplyDeleteAlso, I freaking love Sarah Dessen.
definitely Wes and Macy. My favorite Dessen book too
ReplyDeleteFavorite YA couple: Peeta and Katniss!!!!
ReplyDeleteFavorite YA couple would have to be Dash and Lily from Dash and Lily's Book of Dares!
ReplyDeleteRemy and Dexter are also a fave of mine. I love this book so much! one of my favorites ever, Dexter is so likable and adorable <3 he's the best.
ReplyDeleteI love the new cover, I love the guitar and the pick is here again! they got this sooo right!
There's so many great couples! I think from Sarah Dessen's books it would have to be Wes & Macy. But I also love Dexter & Remy, and Annabel & Owen.
ReplyDeleteI love Edward and Bella as a couple. I think they were meant to be together forever. Tore923@aol.com
ReplyDeleteMy favorite couples come from Sarah Dessen novels, Macy and Wes, Colie and Norman, Annabel and Owen and so on. I just love how Sarah's main characters are able to find someone that they can be themselves with, someone who helps them transition from the bad things that have happened in their lives to a person who's stronger and better for those things, not broken, but put back together.
ReplyDeletei love peeta and katniss for sure! Also, macy and wes.. i love re-reading that book becuase of wes!! (:
ReplyDeleteI think Macy and Wes from The Truth About Forever are my favourite couple because I really like how they get to know each other and understand one another.
ReplyDeleteOh goodness, it's so hard to choose favourite couples - Lola and Cricket are always a favorite, as are Mia and Adam from If I Stay/Where She Went. Aria and Perry from Under the Never Sky are phenomenal together, I love their shared strength. I also believe Rachel Cohn & David Levithan's couples are so sweet and hilarious together: Nick & Norah and Dash & Lily.
ReplyDeleteMy favorites are Anna and Etienne from Anna and the French Kiss, Lola and Cricket from Lola and the Boy Next Door, and Julie and Matty from Flat-Out Love. The reason they're my favorites is because although they're all so real and flawed, they know how to love each other truly, support each other, and become best friends - with lots of chemistry:)
ReplyDeleteI love Saba and Jack from Blood Red Road quite a lot, because they are both such strong, confident characters that I never fail to toor for despite their flaws.
ReplyDeleteLilian @ A Novel Toybox
Dexter and Remy are definitely on the top but my absolute favorite is another Dessen couple:Macy and Wes.
ReplyDeleteJace and Clary from the mortal instruments series. They have been through soo much but yet they still love each other.
ReplyDeleteI have too many favorites to list them all here, but I really LOVE Beck and Riley from the Demon Trappers series. They can be so wonderful to each other when they're not being stubborn idiots!! They have been through so much, and they are always trying to take care of each other even though they're too blind and hurt by past feelings to see how right they would be together.
ReplyDeleteI love Remy and Dexter, but I have to say my all-time favorite is Annabel and Owen.
ReplyDeleteEtienne and Anna from "Anna and the french kiss", Sam and Grace from "Shiver", because those are couples where you can truly appreciate that they are meant to be together, they complement each other.
ReplyDeleteI love love love Annabelle and Owen from Just Listen by Sarah Desson!(: Theyre just so cute and opposite and im.just like in love with them cause gahhh i dont know i just think theyre just a beautiful couple!(:
ReplyDeleteRemy & Dexter are my favorite YA couple of all time. This Lullaby is my favorite book as well. Another couple I absolutely adore in YA are Amy and Roger of Amy and Roger's Epic Detour. I also love Macy and Wes from The Truth About Forever
ReplyDeleteI love Wes and Macy from The Truth About Forever so much. The way they bond and learn all about one another is what makes there love so special!
ReplyDeleteI love love love Macy and Wes from The Truth About Forever and their ongoing game of truth they are just so cute! I also love Owen and Annabel she just grows so much from him. Although another couple I love that isnt from a Sarah Dessen book would be Rose and Dimitri from Vampire Academy they just go through so much!
ReplyDeleteWes and Macy from The Truth About Forever are the best! :D I also like Remy and Dexter.
ReplyDeleteI love any cover which accurately depicts something from the novel. I hate it when it is "false advertising" on the front cover.
ReplyDeleteSome of my favorite YA couples have to be: Wes and Macy from the Truth about Forever; Cricket and Lola from Lola and the Boy Next Door; Murphy and Rex from the Peaches series; Witch Baby and Angel Juan
ReplyDeleteMy favorite couples are Wes and Macy!!! I LOVED reading their story--I can reread it again and again and fall in love with Wes again as well :)
ReplyDeleteThis is totally my favourite Sarah Dessen novel too. Dexter charmed me completely. As for my favourite couple? Either Will and Lyra from His Dark Materials, or maybe Howl and Sophie from Howl's Moving Castle. :D
ReplyDeleteWes and Macy from Sarah's The Truth About Forever are my favorite couple, closly followed by Remy and Dexter!
ReplyDeleteAnna and St. Clair from Anna and the French Kiss. They're just so funny together and they're so in lvoe it just makes me want to barf (in a good way). :)
ReplyDeleteGosh, so many couples to choose from. One of my favorites is probably Auden and Wesley in along for the ride. I love how they shape and change each other. Another one is probably kat and hale in the heist society series because they're so different yet kat inspired hale to be better.
ReplyDeleteBella and Edward, Because I love how old fashioned he is.
ReplyDeleteBare with me cause i have many..
ReplyDeletethe romance between zack and cammie (also josh and cammie)(gg series)
ryan and daisy (dead is series)
ash and maggie (iron fay series)
peeta and katniss
why? all have totally gorgeous relationships that we all dream of having with a bit of action in between
qbanchic@hotmail.com
This is definitely my favorite Sarah Dessen novel, and my favorite of the new covers!
ReplyDeleteI have not read this Sarah Dessen book yet and I love me some Sarah Dessen novels. Right now my favorite should be couple is from the Matched trilogy of Cassia and Ky. They just seem to get each other and that reminds me of my DH and I.
ReplyDeleteJessy
I have read this book and I love it!
ReplyDeleteI love Jace and Clary from City of Bones because they go through so much! ha!
email: colombianaircgirl@yahoo.com
Remy and Dexter are my favorite Sarah Deesen couple. I think favorite couple would be Travis and Abby from Beautigul Disaster. I just love their up and down relationship that eventually leads them to trust each other.
ReplyDeleteHands down, Colie and Norman are my favorite Dessen couple, and I love Ron and Hermione from HP of course :D
DeleteOne of my favorite YA couples would have to be Mclean and Dave from What Happened to Goodbye. They just connect on some many different levels and I love their relationship they have with each other. Thanks for the giveaway!
ReplyDeletereadwriteread at hotmail dot com
This comment has been removed by the author.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the amazing giveaway! This is a hard one. Probably either Katniss and Peeta from The Hunger Games or Jace and Clary from The Mortal Instruments :)
ReplyDeleteThis lullaby is my favorite Sarah dessen book also. So I love Remy and Dex! But my all time favorite couple is Daine and Numair from Tamora Pierce's Immortal Series.
ReplyDeleteOne of my favorite YA couple is Anna and St. Clair from Anna and the French Kiss. I love the humorous moments between these two and the sweetness.
ReplyDeleteMy favorite book couple is Wes and Macy but i also really love Annabel and Owen.
ReplyDeleteRemy and Dexter would definitely be one of my favorite couples, if only for the fact that their chemistry really introduced me to/made me fall in love with Sarah Dessen. But, my all time favorite YA TOP is from Dessen's "The Truth About Forever", Macy and Wes. Gosh, they're both so perfect for each other. And at the end, when she finds his angel, it was just such a flawless closing. I've read the book four times, and that part still moves me so much.
ReplyDeleteAnabelle and Percy from the Percy Jackson series are my favorite couple ever :]
ReplyDeleteOne of my favorite YA couples is Daniel and Grace from the Dark Divine Trilogy =)
ReplyDelete~Paige @ Comfort Books
at the moment one of my favorite ya couples is michael and emerson from hourglass/timepiece. i also really like chase and ember from article 5 : )
ReplyDeleteAiden and Alex from the covenant series if you have read the books they are just awesome!!! :)
ReplyDelete-JennyC
I love Jace and Clary from the Mortal Instruments series :)
ReplyDeleteHmm I have to say Alex and Lena from Delirium, Peeta and Katniss from THG, Ren and Calla from Nightshade, Dexter and Remy from This Lullaby, and do much more!
ReplyDeletehopenoellewalker@gmail.com
And because I just love them together!
DeleteI love Auden and Eli from "Along For the Ride" by Sarah Dessen.
ReplyDeletenancyecdavis AT bellsouth DOT net