Welcome to my stop on the Indigo Awakening Blog Tour hosted by YA Bound! To see the full schedule click here.
Indigo Awakening (The Hunted #1)
Release
Date: 12/18/12
Paperback/e-book
304
pages
Summary
from Goodreads:
Because
of what you are, the Believers will hunt you down.
Voices told Lucas Darby to run. Voices no one else can hear. He’s warned his sister not to look for him, but Rayne refuses to let her troubled brother vanish on the streets of LA. In her desperate search, she meets Gabriel Stewart, a runaway with mysterious powers and far too many secrets. Rayne can’t explain her crazy need to trust the strange yet compelling boy—to touch him—to protect him even though he scares her.
A fanatical church secretly hunts psychic kids—gifted “Indigo” teens feared to be the next evolution of mankind—for reasons only “the Believers” know. Now Rayne’s only hope is Gabe, who is haunted by an awakening power—a force darker than either of them imagine—that could doom them all.
Voices told Lucas Darby to run. Voices no one else can hear. He’s warned his sister not to look for him, but Rayne refuses to let her troubled brother vanish on the streets of LA. In her desperate search, she meets Gabriel Stewart, a runaway with mysterious powers and far too many secrets. Rayne can’t explain her crazy need to trust the strange yet compelling boy—to touch him—to protect him even though he scares her.
A fanatical church secretly hunts psychic kids—gifted “Indigo” teens feared to be the next evolution of mankind—for reasons only “the Believers” know. Now Rayne’s only hope is Gabe, who is haunted by an awakening power—a force darker than either of them imagine—that could doom them all.
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About the Author:
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Bestselling,
critically-acclaimed author Jordan Dane’s gritty romantic thrillers
are ripped from the headlines with vivid settings, intrigue, and dark humor.
Publishers Weekly compared her intense novels to Lisa Jackson, Lisa Gardner,
and Tami Hoag, naming her debut novel NO ONE HEARD HER SCREAM as Best Books of
2008. She also pens young-adult novels for Harlequin Teen. Formerly an energy
sales manager, she now writes full time. Jordan and her husband share
their Texas residence with two cats of highborn lineage and two lucky rescue
dogs.
Social
Media Links:
Thriller/Crime
Fiction Blogs:
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Blogs:
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Book Trailer:
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My Review:
The first couple chapters took me some time to get through, and then all of a sudden I was sucked into this story. It's brilliant, you guys. Why is it brilliant? Because of the narration. Everyone involved in this story has a voice, so the whole experience is so rich. It was so easy to get wrapped into this story and it took me a little by surprise.
I'm not entirely sure what I was expecting with this book. With the cover, my first thought was werewolves - which, not even going to lie, is what got me interested in the first place. Then I read (okay skimmed) the synopsis and thought it would be about something cultish. But it's none of these things - it's kind of about superheroes and ghosts and government-like operations. And it's AWESOME.
We start from Rayne's perspective, and even though there's really no one main character, she sticks out to me as one. I love that she has no special talents and is a straight-up human, yet she's so involved in all this and manages to make herself useful. Also, this is another book in a handful that has a boy who I immediately picture as Jamie Campbell Bower (this has been happening since the Mortal Instruments trailer released). I think it has a lot to do with the fact that he always has his hood up and is pretty much a shady, but sweet, bad-ass character. I also thoroughly appreciated how much he actually respected Rayne, treated her as equal, and let her make her own decisions - whether it was "good" for her or not. Seriously, that's what makes a dreamy dude.
Then you have an inside track into the bad guy's minds. The depth these characters were given made their motivations so much clearer than most books do, and avoid the cheesy - this is why I did this, mwah ha ha - confession at the end of a book. It's also makes this read more like an action movie, where you can see things coming and you get really anxious wanting to scream at the characters to watch their backs.
Somehow Dane managed to pull off two different love plots, three different aspects to one event going down, and nothing was overwhelming and no situation was glossed over. It's really impressive.
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The Giveaway
Up for grabs:
HarlequinTEEN
prize pack, includes (US only):
· INDIGO
AWAKENING by Jordan Dane
· ON
A DARK WING by Jordan Dane
· IN
THE ARMS OF STONE ANGELS by Jordan Dane
· THE
JULIET SPELL by Douglas Rees
· BELONGING
by Karen Ann Hopkins (ARC)
· DANCERGIRL
by Carol M. Tanzman
· 2
Harlequin notebooks
4 Infinity
Bracelets: (US only)
For anyone
who has read an advance copy of INDIGO AWAKENING, you know that a silver
infinity bracelet plays an important part in the story. Special bracelets will
be given away on the virtual tour so the lucky winners will be part of Rafael’s
street family. Rafe’s bracelet was in black leather, but I’ve added a white
leather braid as my personal remembrance to you for being in MY family.
