Hey everyone! Today I'm highlighting the Contaminated series by Em Garner! Check out info for the first book in the series, which just released in paperback, and the second book - which releases on August 26th! Then enter the giveaway for a chance to win finished copies of both books - open to US/CAN only! To see all the blogs participating in the Contaminated Giveaway Weekend, click HERE.
Contaminated (Contaminated #1)
Author: Em Garner
Genre: YA Dystopia/Horror
Release Date: July 22, 2014 (paperback)
Publisher: EgmontUSA
Description:
New in paperback. A
gripping survival story, by a best-selling author, of a strong girl
rebuilding her life in a post-apocalyptic society where a contaminated
drink makes victims act like zombies; just right for fans of James
Dashner, Carrie Ryan, and The Walking Dead.
After the Contamination - an epidemic caused by the diet drink ThinPro that turned ordinary citizens into shambling creatures unable to control their violent impulses - the government rounded up the "Connies" to protect the remaining population. But now, two years later, the government's started sending the rehabilitated back home, complete with shock collars that will either stop the Connies from committing violent acts or kill them before they do any further harm.
Since her parents were taken in the roundup, Velvet Ellis has struggled to care for her 10-year-old sister and maintain a sense of normalcy, despite brutal government rations and curfews. She goes to the "Kennels" every day searching for her parents, and when she finds her mother, she's eager to bring her home.
Sacrificing everything - her boyfriend, her home, and her job - Velvet will do anything to protect her mother. Velvet has to get the collar off her mother before the military comes to take her away. Even if it means risking all of their lives.
Gritty and grabbing, Velvet is an emotionally rich dystopic venture into YA from a well-known and respected writer of women's fiction.
"...suspenseful...this dystopia speaks to a wide range of readers, including reluctant ones."--Kirkus Reviews
"...This has plenty of suspense--it's not a book to read at bedtime."--Booklist
"Velvet may have a softer name than her literary predecessors Katniss, Cassie, and Kaelyn, but like them she has been forced to take on adult-sized responsibilities within her repressive society.... the plot moves quickly...more of a relation-based book than many other teen dystopian novels."--The Horn Book
After the Contamination - an epidemic caused by the diet drink ThinPro that turned ordinary citizens into shambling creatures unable to control their violent impulses - the government rounded up the "Connies" to protect the remaining population. But now, two years later, the government's started sending the rehabilitated back home, complete with shock collars that will either stop the Connies from committing violent acts or kill them before they do any further harm.
Since her parents were taken in the roundup, Velvet Ellis has struggled to care for her 10-year-old sister and maintain a sense of normalcy, despite brutal government rations and curfews. She goes to the "Kennels" every day searching for her parents, and when she finds her mother, she's eager to bring her home.
Sacrificing everything - her boyfriend, her home, and her job - Velvet will do anything to protect her mother. Velvet has to get the collar off her mother before the military comes to take her away. Even if it means risking all of their lives.
Gritty and grabbing, Velvet is an emotionally rich dystopic venture into YA from a well-known and respected writer of women's fiction.
"...suspenseful...this dystopia speaks to a wide range of readers, including reluctant ones."--Kirkus Reviews
"...This has plenty of suspense--it's not a book to read at bedtime."--Booklist
"Velvet may have a softer name than her literary predecessors Katniss, Cassie, and Kaelyn, but like them she has been forced to take on adult-sized responsibilities within her repressive society.... the plot moves quickly...more of a relation-based book than many other teen dystopian novels."--The Horn Book
Mercy Mode (Contaminated #2)
Author: Em Garner
Genre: YA Dystopia/Horror
Release Date: August 26, 2014
Publisher: EgmontUSA
Description:
A
gripping survival story, the second in a series by a best-selling
author, of a strong girl rebuilding her life in a post-apocalyptic
society where a contaminated drink makes victims act
like zombies; just right for fans of James Dashner, Carrie Ryan, and The Walking Dead.
Seventeen-year-old
Velvet, her little sister, Opal, their mom, who is recovering from the
Contamination, and Velvet's sweet boyfriend, Dillon, are attempting to
build a new life amid the
rationing and regulations of the post-outbreak nation. But the outbreak
isn't over: more people turning into “Connies,” more madness erupting,
more killings occurring. And what they are being told is not the truth;
the truth is far darker and more threatening.
“Volume
2 of this smart series builds momentum and suspense, raises stakes and
expands narrative scope—in short, plan on a marathon, up-all-night
read.”—Kirkus Reviews
(Taken from Goodreads)
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Giveaway: (2) sets of the Contaminated series - a paperback copy of Contaminated and a hardcover copy of Mercy Mode. Open to US/CAN only!
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