Ride of Your Life
Author: Shevi Arnold
Genre: YA Romantic Paranormal
Purchase A Copy: Amazon Kindle Paperback B&N Nook Apple iBookstore
Book Description:
Tracy
was working at the House of Horrors at the Amazing Lands Theme Park
when the fire broke out. Instead of running, she lost her life trying to
save eleven-year-old Mack. Now thirty years have passed, and suddenly
everything changes with the arrival of two new ghosts: a little girl
named Ashley and a cute seventeen-year-old boy named Josh. Josh would do
anything for Tracy, but can he help her let go of the past and accept
his love?
Ride of Your Life is a bittersweet, romantic,
YA ghost story that was inspired by a true event: the Great Adventure
Haunted Castle fire, which killed eight teenagers in 1984. It is a
fantasy novel about undying love, and it won third-place in Smart
Writer’s Write It Now (W.I.N.) contest in the YA category, which was
judged by Alex Flinn, the author of Beastly and Cloaked.
Hang on. Love can be as terrifying as a roller coaster, but it can also be the Ride of Your Life.
(From
the end of chapter one. At this point, Tracy the ghost has desperately
tried and failed to prevent a teenage boy and a young girl from getting
killed on a ride at the Amazing Lands Theme Park.)
People
continued to rush through her, but Tracy ignored the flashing of the
sunlight and shadows on her closed eyelids, ignored the screams and the
panic. She let her consciousness slip away from the scene, let it blur
until it faded into nothingness.
She was in the ghost world now.
Here everything was silent and still, and nothing real could touch her.
Although there was nothing to see, Tracy kept her eyes shut. The
darkness was comforting, like a soft blanket on a cool night.
The
only illusion she held onto was her body. Letting go of that was
difficult, like stepping off a high diving board when she couldn’t see
the water below, like riding on a roller coaster with nothing under her
feet. It was a freefall into the unknown. Her body was what she knew,
even if it was no longer real. It was familiar, and it felt safe.
Everything around her was quiet and peaceful and still. She was alone in
her world. Completely alone.
Then Tracy felt something hit her in the chest, and she returned to the Amazing Lands Theme Park with a scream.
About the Author:
Shevi
Arnold loves writing, illustrating, and making people laugh—and she’s
been doing all three since 1987 when she started working as an editorial
cartoonist for a newsweekly. She’s also worked as a comics magazine
editor, as an arts-and-entertainment writer specializing in comedy and
children’s entertainment, and as a consumer columnist.
Nowadays,
though, she enjoys writing (and sometimes illustrating) humorous
fiction, fantasy and science fiction, mostly for children and young
adults. Shevi grew up in Philadelphia, and her family had a season pass
to Great Adventure in the early 1980s. She was nineteen-years-old and
studying overseas when a fellow college student asked her if she knew
about the Great Adventure Haunted Castle fire. Eight teenagers had lost
their lives.
Like many, Shevi was shocked by the news.
In her mind, she wanted to give that tragedy a happy ending. Ride of
Your Life is the result. Her previous books are Dan Quixote: Boy of
Nuevo Jersey--a humorous novel for middle graders about individualism
and friendship overcoming peer pressure and bullying--and Toren the
Teller's Tale--a YA fantasy about the magic of storytelling and one
girl's struggle to accept that magic within herself. Why My Love Life
Sucks, the first in the Gilbert the Fixer, is a funny YA science-fantasy
novel about the ultimate geek having to confront his ultimate
fear--getting stuck with a gorgeous girl who wants to be his platonic
best friend literally forever.
Connect with Shevi:
Websites: http://www.shevistories.com and http://www.sheviarnold.com
Thank you for hosting me on my blog tour. I hope you have a wonderful summer!
ReplyDelete