Title: Dawn of Ash Author: Rebecca Ethington Genre: YA Paranormal Expected Release Date: Feb. 23rd, 2015 Hosted by: Lady Amber's Tours
Blurb: Underneath the deep red barrier Edmund has placed over the city, Prague is in ruins…
Vilỳ hide in the darkened alleys, waiting to attack anyone who passes, while Edmund’s men roam the blood-soaked streets, scouring every crumbling building in a mad attempt to flush out Ilyan and his men.
Among the danger, Ilyan and Joclyn are trapped, unable to leave the city. trying to keep their people safe behind a powerful shield, unseen from Edmund and his scouts.
Wyn spends her days haunted by her daughter and watching Thom waste away from the mysterious curse slowly taking him.
Ryland has risen above his father’s control, ready to take his place as his brother’s second. However, Sain needs his help first for a simple assignment, or so he thinks.
Their safety is about to be shattered.
A mole behind those safe, Cathedral walls has begun whispering through the survivors that Joclyn is unstable, that her magic is an uncontainable force that will destroy them all in the end.
Determined not to let the rumors affect her, Joclyn battles ahead, only to have reality and sight intersect in an explosion that shatters the walls between future, past, and present, leaving her imprisoned in a seamless existence she must learn to control … before Edmund and Ovailia control her.
Before Sain unfurls the plan he has been orchestrating for centuries.
Rebecca Ethington is an internationally bestselling author with almost 700,000 books sold. Her breakout debut, The Imdalind Series, has been featured on bestseller lists since its debut in 2012, reaching thousands of adoring fans worldwide and cited as "Interesting and Intense" by USA Today's Happily Ever After Blog.
From writing horror to romance and creating every sort of magical creature in be-tween, Rebecca's imagination weaves vibrant worlds that transport readers into the pages of her books. Her writing has been described as fresh, original, and groundbreaking, with stories that bend genres and create fantastical worlds.
Born and raised under the lights of a stage, Rebecca has written stories by the ghost light, told them in whispers in dark corridors, and never stopped creating within the pages of a notebook.
Joclyn Despain has been marred by a brand on her skin. She doesn't know why the mark appeared on her neck, but she doesn't want anyone to see it, including her best friend Ryland, who knows everything else about her. The scar is the reason she hides herself behind baggy clothes, and won't let the idea of kissing Ryland enter her mind, no matter how much she wants to.
The scar is the reason she is being hunted.
If only she knew that she was.
If only she had known that the cursed stone her estranged father sent for her 16th birthday would trigger a change in her. Now, she is being stalked by a tall blonde man, and is miraculously throwing her high school bully ten feet in the air.
Joclyn attempts to find some answers and the courage to follow her heart. When Ryland finds her scar; only he knows what it means, and who will kill her because of it.
Blurb:
Joclyn is in hiding, hunted by the man she still desperately loves. Ryland is gone, his mind erased, no memory of Joclyn remains. But, Joclyn’s heart desperately begs her to hold out hope. While, in reality the black eyed monster that possesses him, attempts to kill her over and over.
If it wasn’t for Ilyan, Joclyn would be dead by now.
Ilyan. The man who once stalked her, is now Joclyn’s protector, the only thing she has left. He protects Joclyn from the men who seek to end her life, and while she is haunted by dreams where Ryland begs her to break the bond between them.
Ilyan is there. Always there.
Ilyan trains and prepares her, teaching her everything she needs to know in the hope that one day she can avenge Ryland, if not protect herself from him.
And then there is her father.
The man who has never been there, is suddenly responsible for everything. And who he is has made Joclyn into something she never wanted to be.
The Silnỳ.
Rebecca Ethington is an internationally bestselling author with almost 700,000 books sold. Her breakout debut, The Imdalind Series, has been featured on bestseller lists since its debut in 2012, reaching thousands of adoring fans worldwide and cited as "Interesting and Intense" by USA Today's Happily Ever After Blog.
From writing horror to romance and creating every sort of magical creature in be-tween, Rebecca's imagination weaves vibrant worlds that transport readers into the pages of her books. Her writing has been described as fresh, original, and groundbreaking, with stories that bend genres and create fantastical worlds.
Born and raised under the lights of a stage, Rebecca has written stories by the ghost light, told them in whispers in dark corridors, and never stopped creating within the pages of a notebook.
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Blurb: Underneath the deep red barrier Edmund has Vilỳ hide in the darkened alleys, waiting to attack anyone who passes, while Edmund’s men roam the blood-soaked streets, scouring every crumbling building in a mad attempt to flush out Ilyan and his men.
Among the danger, Ilyan and Joclyn are trapped, unable to leave the city. trying to keep their people safe behind a powerful shield, unseen from Edmund and his scouts.
Wyn spends her days haunted by her daughter and watching Thom waste away from the mysterious curse slowly taking him.
Ryland has risen above his father’s control, ready to take his place as his brother’s second. However, Sain needs his help first for a simple assignment, or so he thinks.
Their safety is about to be shattered.
A mole behind those safe, Cathedral walls has begun whispering through the survivors that Joclyn is unstable, that her magic is an uncontainable force that will destroy them all in the end.
Determined not to let the rumors affect her, Joclyn battles ahead, only to have reality and sight intersect in an explosion that shatters the walls between future, past, and present, leaving her imprisoned in a seamless existence she must learn to control … before Edmund and Ovailia control her.
Before Sain unfurls the plan he has been orchestrating for centuries.
Rebecca Ethington is an internationally bestselling author with almost 700,000 books sold. Her breakout debut, The Imdalind Series, has been featured on bestseller lists since its debut in 2012, reaching thousands of adoring fans worldwide and cited as "Interesting and Intense" by USA Today's Happily Ever After Blog.
From writing horror to romance and creating every sort of magical creature in be-tween, Rebecca's imagination weaves vibrant worlds that transport readers into the pages of her books. Her writing has been described as fresh, original, and groundbreaking, with stories that bend genres and create fantastical worlds.
Born and raised under the lights of a stage, Rebecca has written stories by the ghost light, told them in whispers in dark corridors, and never stopped creating within the pages of a notebook.
{A Madness So Discreet is hauntingly
beautiful; treading on the frail line between sanity and madness.}
There have been a lot of varying
thoughts on this book… Some had high expectations and others- it just wasn’t
their cup of tea. I, for one, thoroughly
enjoyed it! It wasn’t really what
I expected, although to be fair, I wasn’t really sure what I expected. I was hesitant at first
because I don’t usually go for this type of genre: asylums, dark, gothic. I usually go for the fantasy, adventure, or
sci-fi novels. But the cover drew me in
and sealed the deal… Let’s be real: WE ALL JUDGE BOOKS BY THEIR COVERS. :o) Have no shame, for it is nothing but the
truth! If you were to go to a bookstore
and weren’t looking for anything specific, you would tend to gravitate towards
books that drew your attention based on its’ cover art. That’s just how it is
done.
Despite the magnificent cover, it is a
dark and twisted tale.This book took me on quite the ride and momentarily left me
without words. There were some shocking
revelations that I did not see coming. At
first, it reminded me of Law and Order.
The first third or half of the book is quite different from the
rest. In all honesty, it sort of wigged
me out. The story flows together well,
it’s just a different atmosphere altogether… you’ll see what I mean. I am so glad I didn’t give up (or get too
disturbed) by the first part of the book!
The second half was much more pleasant, though still hauntingly
beautiful. It reminds me of a mix
between Criminal Minds and BBC’s Sherlock.
Just wait for it.
THE STORY
The beginning- and frankly the first third of the book- sort
of wigged me out. It was disturbing and
implanted horrific scenes in my head as to the hidden truths of the savage,
inhuman way people treat others just because they can, especially when they
believe they have reason to and that their actions are justified.
“They
call us insane, then feed their own insanities on our flesh, for we are now
less than human… They work their discreet types of madness on us, power and
pain, and we hold to our truths in the darkness.”
Part of this story can be summed up as being about secrets: hidden secrets, shared secrets, secrets that
haunt you in the dark and bring about the horrors and terrors of the past. And on occasion, secrets that can connect
people, in the knowledge that they are not alone in their suffering. It was a heart-wrenching and thought-provoking
tale that examines the sanity of us all.
There’s just something about it that seeps into your soul and leaves you
contemplating, wondering if maybe some of us are mad, even just a little. Perhaps we are…
“I think
we’re all quite mad. Some of us are just
more discreet about it.”
The book opened ideas to us
about how people in general are fearful of the things that they do not
understand; if they cannot understand it, then it must be absurd, unusual,
irregular. Therefore it is abnormal and
strange and not what a “normal” person would do, so ‘said person’ must be
“abnormal”. And sometimes people are
just forgotten: put away by family members that are ashamed of them, tired of
them, or afraid of them; who don’t understand them.
It was a nice change of pace from today’s popular dragons,
dystopian, and kings & queens story books.
Another nice thing is that this story focuses on Grace, no romance at
all. It’s all about just Grace: her
past, her friendships, her inner-self, and her peace of mind. *Be aware, this book does have a lot of
sexual references in it. Not because of
the actual deed itself, but many times in reference to circumstances of some of
the characters. I just want you all to
be in the know, because it took me by slightly by surprise, how often it came
up.
THE CHARACTERS
I reveled in the relationship between Thornhollow and
Grace! When you first meet him, he
creeps you out… like, a lot. He seemed
insane himself and I was disturbed with his practice of “relieving the insane”.
But you begin to know him and understand him, and you realize it’s not so much him that’s creepy, just his job- at
least the one he has at the beginning of the story. By the middle of the book, I loved him! He is intrigued with the criminal mind and
their thought process and reasoning behind their actions. He is cheeky, like Sherlock, and is by far
not quite a people-person. He and Grace
make a perfect pair in their “crime solving” tag team. Their conversation and banter just continues
improve throughout the story, as they get to know one another and open up to
each other.
“… It opens up a hole
in my heart, it does.” [the Policeman said.]
“The existence of said
organ still being under great question,” Thornhollow said underneath his breath.
“What’s that?”
“I said this man suffered some damage to his
organs.”
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
“Grace’s eyes clouded
as she realized something. “I never
asked you her name.”
“Janet. Jenny.
Something like that. I don’t
know,” Thornhollow said.
“A prince of the
people,” Adelaide huffed.
Falsteed was an interesting fellow and one of the first
characters Grace meets. He was a friend
to Grace, as much as he could be. He was
mostly sweet but just a little creepy, too.
Especially when he starts talking about smells. There was a kindness about him that one would
not expect from someone in the dark, dank cellar of the asylum.
I adored Nell and Lizzie!
They were just the nicest girls and, sadly, unrightfully in the asylum
and the most sane of the bunch in there, aside from Grace (each with their own
quirky qualities). Their relationship
with each other is comical and entertaining.
“Nell,” Elizabeth
chided. “That’s no way to speak.”
“I can’t help me
accent.”
“You know what I
mean.”
I thought this song was really fitting for this book. It's a little more upbeat than the book merits, but the lyrics fit so well with Grace and her forming relationship with her friends in the second half of the book (sorry for the vage comments, I'm trying not to be a spoil-sport and give away any spoilers).
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{I received a free digital copy of this book
for review purposes. Thank you, HarperCollins and Edelweiss!}
OKAY, OKAY... ONE MORE QUOTE TO SATISFY YOUR NEED TO READ. :o)
“We’ll try to visit
them all today while your hair is twisted into this unnatural shape. Doesn’t that hurt?”
“Hasn’t anyone ever
told you that beauty is pain?” Grace asked.
“I’m much more
familiar with the latter.”
“Yes, it does hurt a
little. By the end of the day there’ll
be no farce involved as we try to procure headache medicine.”
Thornhollow shook his
head. “I’ll never understand.”
Grace pulled a mirror
from her purse and inspected her reflection.
“Yet women do these things in order to appeal to men.”
“I didn’t say it
wasn’t appealing. I said I don’t
understand it.”
“Yes, well…” Grace put
a hand to her unmoving hair, and the pins digging into her scalp. “Sometimes the actions of the sane make no
sense.”
Rebecca Ethington is an internationally bestselling author with almost 700,000 books sold. Her breakout debut, The Imdalind Series, has been featured on bestseller lists since its debut in 2012, reaching thousands of adoring fans worldwide and cited as "Interesting and Intense" by USA Today's Happily Ever After Blog.
