April 02, 2013
Sweet Oblivion Spotlight
Author: Bailey Ardisone
Published: December 30th, 2012
Word Count: Approx. 107,000 words
Genre: YA Romance/Fantasy
Synopsis:
sweet adjective ˈswēt
a : pleasing to the mind or feelings
obliv·i·on noun ə-ˈbli-vē-ən, ō-, ä- 1: the fact or condition of forgetting or having forgotten
Have you ever wanted to forget? Nariella Woodlinn has. Many times. Especially when her already frustrating life gets turned upside down by a mysterious boy who randomly shows up in her small town and she can’t seem to understand anything about him, despite how much she tries.
obliv·i·on noun ə-ˈbli-vē-ən, ō-, ä- 1: the fact or condition of forgetting or having forgotten
Have you ever wanted to forget? Nariella Woodlinn has. Many times. Especially when her already frustrating life gets turned upside down by a mysterious boy who randomly shows up in her small town and she can’t seem to understand anything about him, despite how much she tries.
Nari hates
everything about her life except for her best friend Rydan, but now that
they’ve been separated during their senior year of high school, she has to
learn to make new friends without him. When strange, unexplainable phenomenon
start becoming an everyday part of her life, Nari struggles to come to grips
with reality. And with love.
Naminé has responsibilities. Duties. It is her obligation to fulfill all that is asked of her by their King. But when a glimmer of hope is introduced to her by a prisoner she tends to and it means life or death for her and her people, she does all that she can to turn that hope into reality and finally end the vicious war that has been ensuing since she was born. Even if that means keeping it secret from her King. Even if it means carrying out the biggest betrayal against the King ever seen during her time.
She has hope. She will fulfill her duty. She will not let her people down.
Some secrets are best kept in Oblivion.
Naminé has responsibilities. Duties. It is her obligation to fulfill all that is asked of her by their King. But when a glimmer of hope is introduced to her by a prisoner she tends to and it means life or death for her and her people, she does all that she can to turn that hope into reality and finally end the vicious war that has been ensuing since she was born. Even if that means keeping it secret from her King. Even if it means carrying out the biggest betrayal against the King ever seen during her time.
She has hope. She will fulfill her duty. She will not let her people down.
Some secrets are best kept in Oblivion.
Excerpt:
But in that short,
torturously way too short, second that I got to look at him, something odd
stuck out in my mind. He was effortlessly balancing a sharpie on the tip of his
left index finger, looking very bored. Too bored. Hmph.
I refuse to succumb
to the charms of a man just because they speak in an alluring accent and look
completely devilish. And hot. That will be the last time I ever let myself fall
prey to his cunning tricks.
… I hope.
As the novelty of surprise
wore off the longer I sat listening to Mr. James go on and on about whatever, I
couldn’t shake this eerie feeling that started creeping up my spine. For
whatever reason, the new guy was beginning to freak me out. I had this strange
alarming sensation in my gut, as if telling me he was dangerous. But all of it
was nothing compared to what I felt out in the hallway after class ended.
I had slowly stood
up to gather my things, hoping that everyone, and I mean everyone, would
leave and I could get to my next class without speaking to anyone. Or at least
one particular person.
But as soon as I
walked out the door, he was there next to me, making me almost jump to the roof
like a cat with my hair standing on end. He looked amused and wore a very
adorable smirk. He had backed me up against the lockers, pinning me with only
his aqua eyes and as he leaned down, both hands in his pockets, I stood there
trapped by my own wonder at what was about to happen. But all he did was lean
into the left side of my hair and took a long inhale of breath through his
nose, like he was smelling me.
“Mmmm” was all he
moaned, before he gracefully skipped backwards like a mountain lion and walked
away, leaving me now completely and utterly freaked. What the heck was that?
That had to be the creepiest thing I have ever experienced.
And hottest.
But I refuse to
acknowledge that part.
I began to dread
going to anymore classes today, afraid he would be there. It all came to
nothing though, because it turns out, I didn’t end up seeing him again the
entire rest of the day. Thank the Lord! Something was finally going my way.
The next day, I was too afraid to walk into
Literature. I stood there at the door, hand over my heart, trying to calm my
nerves down. I don’t know what it was, but something about that guy has me
frightened. I asked Zaylie and Desmond about him, but none of them saw him.
Zaylie doesn’t even remember seeing him in class yesterday. That right there
had me reeling, expecting to see him anywhere I turned and being the only one
who did. If I’m starting to see ghosts, someone please just kill me now.
Bailey Ardisone is a collaboration by two sisters born and
raised outside of Chicago, Illinois. They took the last names of their two
grandmothers and combined them together to form their pen name. They both
married the love of their lives and spend their days submerged in books,
movies, music, or art and love traveling. Fantasy books and movies have been a
huge part of their lives and are obsessed with Lord of the Rings by J.R.R.
Tolkien.
Sweet Oblivion is the first book they have written together and is the first novel of a series.
Sweet Oblivion is the first book they have written together and is the first novel of a series.
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