Title: Evanescent
Author: Carlyle Labuschagne
Series: A Broken Novel (#2)
Genre: SciFi/YA/Dystopian
Publisher: Fire Quill Publishing
Release Date: Nov 16 2013
Editions: eBook & Print
Synopsis:
Her fall has just begun. Only his touch can save her from the shift that could destroy it all. Within my blood runs a thing our kind calls the Shadowing Disease. It shadows over, and bends everything to its will. When the first blood- shift came, it tore through flesh and blood, threatening to bend me, break bone, shatter my mind and entrap my heart with its honeyed, seductive poison. It came with vicious intent, moving my thoughts and altering me forever. The shift has caused a rift within me. No one was safe when it entrapped me in its claws of foul lust. But I have the only antidote against the evil that becomes me - his touch alone has the power to release the spurs of sweet darkness that clung on for dear life. I knew what I had to do; the desperation pulled my mind with the deep determination of a hungry predator. By the time the revelation raised me from the dark dungeon of my bounds - it might have been too late.
Often
Authors have a Playlist for their books do you have a set Playlist for
Evanescent.
(If so
Please Share it with use and if Possible give iTunes or even YouTube Links for
each Song.)
Oh I am very much a book playlist writer. Not only is the
music inspiring, it’s what drives the creative wheel for me. Writing would be
less without it, in so many ways. At times I alter a scene to fit the song. –
it’s extreme but it works for me. Music has always been like a short, intense
shot out of the story bottle.
That s why I am still shocked that not only does my theme
song for the book belong to a local rock legend group on south Africa I was
granted permission to quote the song in my book in exchange for a signed copy
of my book.
A pic with members of Prime Circle with Evanescent. Im the
short one with the insanely cheesy grin, my hubby is the handsome one standing
on the other side of lead singer Ross Learmonth. #blessedLife
Here is the song that so perfectly goes with the theme
behind Evanescent and the perils our main characters face.
The song is called Jekyll and Hyde from the album Jekyll and
Hyde
itunes: (track 12) https://itunes.apple.com/za/album/jekyll-hyde/id714319851
Sia with Shewolf.
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVzljDmoPVs
This song brings to light the struggle within herself
between her human conscience and
that of her darker side, her struggle with the shadowing disease that is slowly
corrupting her from the inside. I love the piece where she is hunter for what
she is (carries with in her blood) perfect for Eva!
Scene: Excerpt from Evanescent:
“Torn between the
Devine light, and the oppressing Shadow.– I was not meant to exist that way.
But knowing that no matter how dark, lonely and scary a reality it had become
for us all, love was always the answer, and love of one’s self was, and is, the
best ability and gift that’s ever existed. For love makes the impossible
possible, without it nothing would survive. Love moves through an eternity of
space and changes all time, and that should be the very thing that drives us. I was new to the thing called emotions and
love. I had been created to shun it, been told it was weak. Brainwashed and
medically controlled by the Council to prevent it from motivating me. The day I
met Troy
I sat in the crossfire, my mind and
the will of the Blood-shift fighting each other for a place in my heart. I
choked back tears of fear as the bitter taste of hate for what I was clung to
my insides. This is how the disease works. It turns you against yourself, so
you can give in to it, to its promising power to take all humanity away from
you – to forget. How could he love a monster?
I could not contain it any longer.
It was who I had to become. I saw my transformed reflection in the pod. I was a
hideous beast. I ran from one side of the room, stricken with fury and a
blazed sai glued to my palm, and tore through the glass of each bluish, domed
pod before me. Vengeance was all that existed as shards showered down on me. I
was deep within my guilt and self-loathing. Blood, oil, and ichor splattered
the walls around me as I kept running; it all stained my skin with their
strange blood – my blood! It was I who had been responsible for their
existence. I let Enoch do this to me, to them.
My mind was
reeling like a speeding craft through all existence, beyond and back. My pulse
beat a solid shame inside the dark fabric of my mind, spreading like a wild
fire through my veins, infecting my body with its venom. This was what a weapon
did – abolish all, leaving nothing in its wake.
The next
hall of tubes were merely shapeless bodies, no faces, no hair, but the blood
leaking through paper-thin skins taunted me. I drew both sais higher, and ran
through the rows once more, cutting, piercing and shattering glass. My rage
showered me with sharp, clear, glass slivers, reflecting the blue liquid from
other pods. I was drowning in a sea of monsters. With each slice of glass on my
skin, the sweet pain attempted to work its magic in killing my suffering heart.
I spun and sliced through a golden tube running up and out from the floor, and
into a row of pods. A huge alarm pierced the air, a siren designed to bring the
intruder down with such a high frequency it shook the stone walls, threatening
to bring the entire structure down, too. I grinned, watching the unmarked
clones drain of the little life they had. There will never be another disaster
like me! My instinct took over and I was deaf, not able to hear a single shard
of glass crashing to the floor, or the shrill that sent waves of paralyzing
noise throughout the fortress.”
Copyright Carlyle Labuschagne 2013 Evanescent a broken
novel.
Song two: Terrible love by Birdy - https://youtu.be/tCf_v94B7Hs
Eva knows the darkness is consuming her, and she loves so
much of how it has changed her, made her stronger but she also struggles with
the fact that it is slowing wining over very thing she wants to keep about
herself. It is a terrible love to love what is not good for you. And her love
for Troy is that too, she is obsessed with making him lover her bad side and
wants nothing else more in the universe than to be eternally his and his hers
in anyway shape or form.
My blood – Ellie Goulding https://youtu.be/Ngr5IPwp4uE
Once again it is the epiphany of her transformation into the
Dark Queen. Her blood holds the key to her salvation and those infected by the
shadowing disease, or the destruction of everything as we know it. It color of
her blood is different and she is ashamed of it, tries to hide it from the one
she loves –Troy. She’s given so much of herself and yet its never the right
way, and she knows that eventually she will either have to be eternally dark or
live being without the power and possibilities it holds.
You can find the rest of my playlist here:
Carlyle is a South African award winning author, with a
flair for mixing genres and adding loads of drama to every story she creates.
For now she is happy to take over the world and convert non Sci-fi believers.
Her goal as an author is to touch people's lives, and help others love their differences and one another by delivering strong messages of faith, love and hope within every outrageous world she writes about.
"I love to swim, fight for the trees, and am a food lover who is driven by my passion for life. I dream that one day my stories will change the lives of countless teenagers and have them obsess over the world literacy can offer them instead of worrying about fitting in. Never sacrifice who you are, it’s in the dark times that the light comes to life."
Carlyle used writing as a healing tool and that is why she started her very own writers support event - SAIR bookfestival.
Her goal as an author is to touch people's lives, and help others love their differences and one another by delivering strong messages of faith, love and hope within every outrageous world she writes about.
"I love to swim, fight for the trees, and am a food lover who is driven by my passion for life. I dream that one day my stories will change the lives of countless teenagers and have them obsess over the world literacy can offer them instead of worrying about fitting in. Never sacrifice who you are, it’s in the dark times that the light comes to life."
Carlyle used writing as a healing tool and that is why she started her very own writers support event - SAIR bookfestival.
"To be a helping hand for those who strive to become full times writers, editors, bloggers, readers and cover artists - it’s a crazy world out there you don’t have to go it alone!"
Founder of SAIR Book Festival
Co-Founder of Fire Quill Publishing.
Founder of Help build a Library in South Africa.
Co-Founder of Fire Quill Publishing.
Founder of Help build a Library in South Africa.
A firm believer in - YA Saves!
Places to find Carlyle
Places to find Evanescent
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