Today is my stop during the blog tour for The Fallen Prince (The Riven Chronicles #2) by Amalie Howard. Readย an exciting excerpt below!
Title: The Fallen Prince
Author: Amalie Howard
Series: The Riven Chronicles #2
Rating: Not reviewed
Genres: Science Fiction
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Blurb:
Riven has fought for a hard-won peace in her world, and has come to shaky terms with who and what she isโa human with cyborg DNA. Now that the rightful ruler of Neospes has been reinstated, Riven is on the hunt for her father in the Otherworld to bring him to justice for his crimes against her people.But when she receives an unwelcome visit from two former allies, she knows that trouble is brewing once again in Neospes. The army has been decimated and there are precious few left to fight this mysterious new threat.
To muster a first line of defense, her people need help from the one person Riven loathes mostโher father. But what he wants in return is her complete surrender.
And now Riven must choose: save Neospes or save herself.
Excerpt:
The flare of blue fire is blinding. Then again, itโs gone so quickly that even if you were staring right at me, youโd blink and itโd vanish. The emissions from the process of eversionโshifting between universesโare unavoidable. However, I try to be careful, everting in concealed areas away from people, and away from the eyes of the Faction and the Guardians. Theyโre always watching for those who break the lawโthose who donโt
remain where they belong.
Me, more so than ever.
I belong in Neospes, a domed city in a parallel dimension to the Otherworld. But Iโm here in pursuit of a man who everted over a year ago. A man who nearly destroyed my world in his quest for power. A man so consumed with retaliation that to let him loose in either world would be a colossal mistake.
And so I hunt him. Iโve been hunting himโacross thirty states and always a step or two behind. Heโs clever, brilliant, and a master strategist.
After all, heโs my father. And heโs my creator.
I may look like an ordinary girl, but Iโm far from one. Itโs something Iโm still coming to terms with, ever since I learned the truth. I am a product of genetic experimentation and advanced robotics. I am the girl with nanoplasm for bloodโthe perfect combination of human and machine, an aberration of natureโand yet, its greatest creation. I am the only one of my kind.
My name is Riven.
And I am a killer.
About the Author:
AMALIE HOWARD grew up on a small Caribbean island where she spent most of her childhood with her nose buried in a book or being a tomboy running around barefoot, shimmying up mango trees and dreaming of adventure.
An aspiring writer from a young age, Amalie Howard’s poem โThe Candle,โ written at age thirteen, was published in a University of Warwick journal. She was also a recipient of a Royal Commonwealth Society essay award (a global youth writing competition). A Colby College graduate, she completed simultaneous Honors Theses in both French and International Studies, and graduated Summa Cum Laude/Phi Beta Kappa. At Colby, she was cited for research and criticism in Raffael Scheckโs article, โGerman Conservatism and Female Political Activism in the Early Weimar Republic,โ and his subsequent book, โMothers of the nation: right-wing women in Weimar Germany.โ She also received a distinction in English Literature from the University of Cambridge, A-level Examinations as well as a certificate in French Literature from the Ecole Normale Supรฉrieure in Paris, France. She is a member of SCBWI.
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