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Title: MIRROR X
Author: Karri
Thompson
Publisher: Entangled
Teen
Pub. Date: June 30,
2014
I was born more than a thousand years ago.
Put into a cryogenic tube at age seventeen, forgotten during a holocaust that decimated the world, I've finally been awakened to a more serene and peaceful future.
But things at the hospital are new and strange. And it’s starting to scare me.
Everyone is young. Everyone is banded and tracked. And everyone is keeping secrets.
The cute geneticist Michael Bennett might be the only good thing in this crazy new world where “life is precious” but no one seems free to live it. The problem is, I don’t think he’s being totally honest with me, either.
When I’m told only I can save the human race from extinction, it’s clear my freeze didn’t avoid a dreadful fate. It only delayed the horror…
Exclusive Excerpt!
Michael took a seat on the edge of my bed, rocking me toward him. When the side of my thigh met his knee, my heart rate doubled, and I drew in a deep breath.
“Before you were awakened I spent hours at your bedside imaging what you were like, how your voice would sound, how you looked when you smiled. When your red lips pulsed, when your chest heaved, and you took your first breath, I kept my emotions in check. But now, now that you’ve ‘awakened,’ everything is different. I can’t sleep. I can’t stop thinking about you.”
I ignored the pain and tilted closer until the space between our faces was less than a foot. My heart, my mind, my soul—everything yearned for his affection at that moment.
“I feel the same way, too.”
I closed my eyes, wanting this handsome, earnest guy to take me into his arms and tell me he’d make them let me go. My lungs expanded with his warm breath and spicy scent. When his lips met mine, every atom in my body danced, urging me to pull him closer and tighten my grip upon his back.
His kissing became more fiery and I reacted by kissing him harder. It wasn’t until his mouth moved to my neck, that I came to my senses and drew away.
“Not yet,” I said, scooting away.
“I know,” he said between breaths, rising from the bed. His wiped his forehead with the sleeve of his uniform and returned to the chair. “I can’t…we can’t. We can never…,” he said abruptly. “It’s against protocol. I-I should go.”
Karri’s debut YA novel, Amateur Angel, was released May 1,
2012. The next book in that series, Hollywood Angels, came out September 1,
2013. The first book in her upcoming dystopian trilogy, The Van Winkle
Chronicles, will be released by Entangled Publishing Spring 2014.
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Awesome cover! The blurb has me curious about this post holocaust world.
ReplyDeleteI hope all is well, Jennifer!! It's almost summer break for the boys and I still have the same temperament. Wish me luck.
I love it as well! I would be so pissed if I was only seventeen and frozen. Maybe that's just me, lol. But how would it feel to wake up 1,000 years later? Look how much things change just from fifty years ago - I wouldn't know what the hell was going on.
DeleteGood luck, Robyn! Tomorrow is Janie's last day of school! I'm looking forward to a little sleeping in and a lot of fun outdoor stuff. But I know that's in my dreams. I'm most likely going to hear a whole lotta arguing. ;) Good luck to both of us!