Fractured Light
Author: Rachel McClellan
Genre: YA Paranormal/Fantasy
Release Date: February 8, 2012
Blurb:
I’m
dying, I thought. This was unexpected and not at all how I envisioned my death.
I was supposed to die gardening in a flowerbed as a hundred-year-old woman, not
as a seventeen-year-old trapped in a lake beneath inches of ice.
Llona Reese is used to living on the run. After a Vyken killed her parents, she
knew they would eventually come for her too. She can’t take any chances. But
when she starts to make friends for the first time in her life, she gets
careless and lets her guard down. Big mistake. As an Aura, Llona can manipulate light and harness its energy. But if she wants
to survive, Llona will have to defy the Auran Council and learn to use her
power as a weapon against the Vyken whose sole desire is to take her light. Now
she’s caught in something bigger than she can understand, with a power she
can’t wield, and no one she can trust, except, just maybe, a mysterious
stranger.
eBooks vs. Regular Books
I am still in the book camp, although
I'm quickly warming to the eBookers who exist all around me. They look
so cool and sophisticated with their eReaders and touching the screen
like they're Tom Cruise in Minority Report. Who knows what they're
reading on that gadget? It is a mystery, thereby making them a mystery.
I'm not as cool. I carry regular books around, their covers a glaring
button on my chest, exposing pieces of myself to the world. My likes, my
desires, and even my fears. You can tell a lot about a person by the
books they read.
But eBook readers...who are they? Their anonymity
draws me in. There are some books I'd like to keep hidden (tee hee
hee). But I'm frightened by the whole mechanics of it all. What if I
"plug" in and I'm sucked into some other dimension where my mind becomes
trapped by three-horned aliens, and they send one of their protozoan
soldiers to take over my body?
So I'd like to know, for those of you
who are eBook readers, what made you convert? And for those who aren't,
why are you still old school?
About the Author:
Rachel McClellan was born and raised in Idaho, a place secretly known
for its supernatural creatures. When she's not in her writing lair, she's
partying with her husband and four crazy, yet lovable, children. Rachel's love
for storytelling began as a child when the moon first possessed the night. For
when the lights went out, her imagination painted a whole new world. And what a
scary world it was...
Connect with Rachel:
Before I announce the giveaway on my blog for the tour, be sure to enter to win the big tour-wide giveaway on Dark Minds website! The prizes will be awesome surprises - so follow the tour to find out what they are! You can follow the tour & enter the giveaway by going here or by clicking on the tour banner at the top of my post!
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I love all books, but I am especially an ebook fan. I love that I can have an entire library at the tip of my fingers and no matter what the mood I can find something to read that hits my buttons. I switched primarily because of pain in my hands and the larger or thicker books were cumbersome to hold, but a real selling point is storage. I lost several boxes of books, with complete favorite series I had been collecting for ten years, when critters go into them and they had to be destroyed. So in summary - read what I want or where my mood takes me, easy to hold, print font I can always see comfortably, and my library will be there rather than in the dump :) There is also another GREAT ebook reading incentive; indie authors that make their work affordable, as well as being able to find loads of good free books. I have read more really good books that I might never have read had I not read them in ebook form. Congratulations on the tour and this new release. I am looking forward to reading Fractured Light!
ReplyDeleteI initially despised the idea of eReaders, but became a convert with the Kindle 2.
ReplyDeleteI was reading piles of historical romance at the time and it's easier not to have them stacking up taking up space.
It's really handy when I want to read the sequel of a book right away and don't have to wait to get to a bookshop or for an order to come in. I live on an island so they don't keep many titles in stock.
And I enjoy reading on the Kindle. It's easy on my eyes and easy to click through pages.
Hey!
ReplyDeleteI'm Cierra, and I've nominated you for the Versatile Blog Award!
Go to: http://thebookloversreport.blogspot.com/2012/07/versatile-blogger-award.html For the rules and other info!
Thanks for all the great giveaways lately Steph!
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