The Watcher Trailer Reveal

Author Lisa Voisin’s THE WATCHER will be releasing exactly one month from today, on March 4th, 2013 and we’re super excited to be able to share with our blog’s readers a short excerpt from the book and to be a part of the book’s awesome trailer reveal!

There is also a giveaway for a pre-order copy of THE WATCHER for US/Canada residents. So be sure to enter below.

THE WATCHER is author Lisa Voisin’s debut novel and is a book Eileen Cook says, “…is sure to keep readers turning the pages late into the night.”

And after having read both the excerpt and the book’s description, we couldn’t agree more! But we’ll let you decide for yourself. They’re both included below. As is the book’s wicked cool trailer!

With some gothic techno beats, super cool images and a description that is meant to tease, this trailer totally sets the mood for this story. What do you think?

About the Book

Title: THE WATCHER
Author: Lisa Voisin
Publisher: InkSpell Publishing
Publication date: March 4, 2013
Pages: 508
Format: Available to pre-order in Paperback
Find it: Goodreads | Amazon | Barnes & Noble | Inkspell | Kobo

Millennia ago, he fell from heaven for her.
Can he face her without falling again?

Fascinated with ancient civilizations, seventeen-year-old Mia Crawford dreams of becoming an archaeologist. She also dreams of wings—soft and silent like snow—and somebody trying to steal them.

When a horrible creature appears out of thin air and attacks her, she knows Michael Fontaine is involved, though he claims to know nothing about it. Secretive and aloof, Michael evokes feelings in Mia that she doesn’t understand. Images of another time and place haunt her. She recognizes them—but not from any textbook.

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About the Author


A Canadian-born author, Lisa Voisin spent her childhood daydreaming and making up stories, but it was her love of reading and writing in her teens that drew her to Young Adult fiction.

When she's not writing, you'll find her meditating or hiking in the mountains to counter the side effects of drinking too much coffee.

She lives in Vancouver, B.C. with her fiance and their two cats.

Find her: Twitter | Facebook | Website | Blog

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Instead of saying more, he brushed his fingertips along my cheek, and his halo glimmered. I could hear the waves slapping the rocks behind us, the wind driving them in. That same wind whipped against my skin, but the touch of his hand on my face was all I could think about. It sent a current through both of us and filled me with longing for something I wasn’t sure I understood.

“I’m sorry.” He stepped back and shoved his hands into his pockets as the light around him faded. “You don’t know what it’s like. Being near you now, remembering those moments we had…” His hair blew into his eyes, but this time he didn’t move. I wanted to brush it back, but I didn’t know how he’d react. Would touching him be bad?

“You want to know who you were?” he asked. “You may look different, but you’re the same. I look into your eyes and see you.” He took in a deep breath, fixing his attention on the horizon. I’d seen and heard so much now that the logical part of my brain had long since given up arguing with me. I could feel what he was saying was true. All of it.

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• Must be 13 or older to enter.
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Blood Song - Rhiannon Hart

Synopsis: I wanted to turn but I was held captive by the song on the wind. I’m coming, I told the voices. Please, wait for me.
When her sister becomes betrothed to a prince in a northern nation, Zeraphina’s only consolations are that her loyal animal companions are by her side – and that her burning hunger to travel north is finally being sated.
Already her black hair and pale eyes mark her out as different, but now Zeraphina must be even more careful to keep her secret safe. Craving blood is not considered normal behaviour for anyone, let alone a princess. So when the king’s advisor, Rodden, seems to know more about her condition than she does, Zeraphina is determined to find out more. Zeraphina must be willing to sacrifice everything if she’s to uncover the truth – but what if the truth is beyond her worst nightmares? (From Goodreads)

I got off to a slow start with Blood Song. It starts out with Zeraphina at home in her run down castle in her freezing cold country. In the beginning all we know is that she craves blood, feels drawn to the North, and she has an overbearing mother and a pure white princess of a sister who is her exact opposite. But not much happens in the first few chapters other than travel arrangements to go to meet Zeraphina's sister's prince of a fiance.

The beginning feels a bit simplistic in both world building and character development. I don't think I connected with Zeraphina until much later in the book. Her mother didn't make a lot of sense to me because she's the queen of her country, she's the one in charge, yet all she worries about are dresses and the way her daughters present themselves. She's more of a Mrs. Bennet than a Queen Elizabeth and that felt a bit incongruous.  I actually think what kept me interested in the beginning were Zeraphina's animals - a cat named Leap and an eagle named Griffin that follow her around wherever she goes.

Things started getting more interesting once there was actual movement. But still it wasn't until the last 70 pages or so that I found I was really into the story. Most of what came before was Zeraphina trying to figure out who she is and what secrets the king's advisor, Rodden, is hiding. Yet once she actually ends up in the country to the north that she's felt so drawn to and finally learns everything things start getting really good.

It's near the end that this book really pulls out the fantasy adventure aspects and Zeraphina's personality is drawn out. The things people fear in the world are truly terrifying and the land they live in is dark but vivid. The concept behind her blood cravings turns out to be very interesting (and I was very happy that they weren't vampire things, they were just vampire-like). I also really like the idea that people just accept the way the world is, and have no idea that there is a force out there making it that way. And I love that when Zeraphina finds this out, she does something about it.

I actually felt like as I was reading, Rhiannon Hart was growing stronger as a writer. I felt like I was watching her own progression. So the beginning was a little weak, but by the end I was entranced. If I get the chance, I'll definitely pick up the second book in the series. Because, now that I know Zeraphina and Rodden a little better, I feel invested in what happens to them.

I'm so glad I got a chance to read this Australian book, so thanks so much to Dani @ Refracted Light for organizing the book tour!