Welcome to our stop on the Black City blog tour for Elizabeth Richards. the tour is hosted by Good Choice Reading and the schedule can be followed HERE. Today we dive into which Elizabeth highlights on Natalie.
BIO: (via Elizabeth's blog) Elizabeth Richards is an award-winning journalist, who spent her early career reviewing video games before making the bold (or crazy) move into travel writing, despite suffering from terrible travel sickness.
In her spare time, she ran a successful lifestyle website aimed at teenage girls, where she got to interview many of her favourite bands, go to gigs and basically blag loads of free swag all in the name of ‘research’.
Elizabeth lives in Buckinghamshire, England, with her husband. Black City is her debut novel.
Character Highlight for Natalie
Name: Natalie Buchanan
Age: 16
Favorite color: Silver
Favorite food: Lasagna
Likes:
* Kissing Ash
* Sneaking out of the house at night
* Reading Sentry Youth Monthly with Polly
* Cats (especially her kitten, Truffles)
* Science class
* White orchids
* Shopping in Chantilly Lane Market
* The smell of bonfires.
Dislikes:
* Her mom controlling her life
* Wraths
* Having a bodyguard
* Evangeline Marwick
* Art class
* People looking at her surgery scar.
Excerpt:
“Since when did you start thinking it was okay to torture innocent kids?” I say. “Seriously, what’s wrong with you, Mother?”
“Don’t you talk to me like this, young lady—”
“Or what?”
“I’ll have you punished.”
“For what? Pointing out it’s wrong to hurt people?” I say incredulously. “If that’s suddenly a crime, then go ahead, punish me.”
Who would play them in a movie: Aimee Teegarden
Black City Chronicles #1
Author: Elizabeth Richards
Reading Level: YA
Release Date: November 13th 2012
Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons BYR
Available: Amazon
• BN.com • IndieBoundSummary: A dark and tender post-apocalyptic love story set in the aftermath of a bloody war.
In a city where humans and Darklings are now separated by a high wall and tensions between the two races still simmer after a terrible war, sixteen-year-olds Ash Fisher, a half-blood Darkling, and Natalie Buchanan, a human and the daughter of the Emissary, meet and do the unthinkable—they fall in love. Bonded by a mysterious connection that causes Ash’s long-dormant heart to beat, Ash and Natalie first deny and then struggle to fight their forbidden feelings for each other, knowing if they’re caught, they’ll be executed—but their feelings are too strong.
When Ash and Natalie then find themselves at the center of a deadly conspiracy that threatens to pull the humans and Darklings back into war, they must make hard choices that could result in both their deaths.
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This book sounds so interesting!
ReplyDeleteI can't wait till I can read this book!! It feels like I've been waiting forever!! -Katelyn
ReplyDeleteAll these character highlights are making me psyched for tomorrow!!!!
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Glad for the highlight. I always miss so much somehow.
ReplyDeleteThis book sounds great! I love reading the character profiles and I always love seeing how people would dream-cast roles from books. Thanks!! :)
ReplyDeleteI like character profiles a lot and I wanted to know more but I know then I might get spoiled haha So I have to wait for the book! Thanks for the post :)
ReplyDeleteShe sounds like a fun character.
ReplyDeletesound fantastic! thanks for the great post!
ReplyDeleteI love having the chance to get to know all the characters before I read the book.
ReplyDeleteI really can't wait to read this book. I have been waiting to get my hands on it for a long time.
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