Wednesday, January 14, 2015

Spotlight and Giveaway! Tainted Energy by Lynn Vroman with excerpt



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Tainted Energy
Release Date: 2014

Summary from Goodreads:
For seventeen-year-old Lena, living in the trailer park with the rest of town’s throwaways isn’t exactly paradise. Dealing with a drunken father who can't keep his fists to himself doesn’t help matters either. The only good thing in her life, other than track, is the mysterious man who visits her dreams, promising to find her.

When a chair burns her arms, Lena chalks it up to stress-induced crazy. Yet as bizarre incidents escalate, even being crazy can’t explain it all away… until one day dream guy does find her.
Tarek lost Lena seventeen years ago after she was accused of treason and marked Tainted. He finally discovers her reborn on Earth into a life of suffering as punishment for her crime.

However, someone else has already found her… and wants her dead. Willing to sacrifice everything, he fights to keep her safe so she can live the only life she’s ever known—even if that life doesn’t include him.

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Excerpt
Nothing annoyed me more than crappy best friends. The type who did stupid stuff, like grab my shoulder and scream right in my ear, "Help me, Barbara!"

I jumped and a cloud of popcorn exploded above us. The kernels remaining in the tub I threw in Zander's face.

We sat in the back row, Night of the Living Dead on the screen. No emergency exit signs interrupted the darkness, adding a little more to the scare department. But Zander killed the mood as soon as the graveyard scene popped up.

"You promised to watch, now watch." I chucked the popcorn tub at him when he wouldn't stop laughing.

"Fine, but my hands are stayin' in my pockets this time." He rubbed the tiny crescent-shaped marks on his left hand. "I have no idea why you watch these things. You can't sit through one without a week of nightmares."

"Not true. The Ring was just extra freaky."

"Ah, and so were The Shining and Paranormal Activity..." His southern accent rolled off his tongue like sap from a maple tree. "I think you like bein' afraid all the time."

I hated it when he was right. "Shut up."

Fear triggered the fight-or-flight mechanism in our brains. The signal that proved we still
wanted to live. That was my theory, anyway.

Maybe I was a masochist, but I did like experiencing the fear. It ensured the numbness
hadn't completely taken over. Numb could be good. A takeover, though…not so good.




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About the Author
Born in Pennsylvania, Lynn spent most of her childhood, especially during math class, daydreaming. Today, she spends an obscene amount of time in her head, only now she writes down all the cool stuff.

With a degree in English Literature, Lynn used college as an excuse to read for four years straight. She lives in the Pocono Mountains with her husband, raising the four most incredible human beings on the planet. She writes young adult novels, both fantasy and contemporary.



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10 comments:

  1. I enjoyed the excerpt, and this book is right up my alley since I love YA books! Thanks for this awesome giveaway!

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  2. The Night of the Living Dead is my fav zombie movie so this excerpt definitely caught my attention

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  3. Great excerpt! Thank you for such a great giveaway!

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  4. Enjoyed reading the excerpt, thank you!

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  5. What a fascinating book! Loved the excerpt. Thanks for the great giveaway!

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  6. I know that feeling of doing whatever you have to so you don't feel dead inside. I'm looking forward to reading this.

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  7. Thanks for the giveaway! I sort of have a thing for books when someone thought to be imaginary turns out to be real (see also Sarah Rees Brennan's Unspoken).

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  8. Looks like a book I'd enjoy.
    Thanks for the contest.

    slehan at juno dot com

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  9. Great excerpt! Looking forward to reading this book

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