Book Review
of Hotblood
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Synopsis:
Hotblood
A House of Slide Novel
By Juliann Whicker
Genre: Paranormal Upper YA
He stole a kiss from the wrong
girl…
Left without a soul, 17-year-old Dariana Sanders waited to die. There was nothing left to live for, nothing to feel besides the aching cold that never stopped.
Her parent’s marriage was in
shambles, and her brother, the only one who understood, the only one who knew
how to make the cold go away, was gone forever.
The only thing Dariana knew with
absolute certainty was that nothing could possibly be right again.
Enter Lewis Axel Nialls. Luckily
for her, impossible is right up his alley.
He can save her from the forces
that wish to destroy her. Of course who’s going to save him, from her?
Excerpt:
This excerpt from my book, House
of Slide, Hotblood is a scene after Dariana has stolen the Hotblood soul and is
coming to terms with the life she had after her brother took everything from
her along with her soul.
That night I dreamed I sat at the
piano, my feet swinging unable to touch the pedals as I carefully plunked out
notes. Devlin’s laugh distracted me from the complicated chords and I looked up
to frown at him but he had his cello. With a flick of his fingers he sent me
off on a goose chase, trying to keep up with him. I was laughing so hard I
couldn’t play the right notes but it didn’t matter since he followed me when I
stumbled and made every mistake beautiful. The dream shifted until I played in
the moonlight of the darkened music room, the notes perfect and dead. I watched
my fingers move effortlessly across the keys, the sound distant, hollow. I let
my fingers stop but the music continued, a piano playing the heartbroken chords
of moonlight sonata.
I blinked awake in my bed but the
song continued, distant, but definitely Beethoven. I jerked my blankets back
and threw open my door. I didn’t think; I moved following the ghost of song, a
melody that played out the ache inside of my chest. I ran down the stairs and
through the hall and stopped at the door across from the room with jars. When I
stepped through the door, I could make out the contours of a piano in the
corner. It was beautiful— the black reflecting the light from the moon shining
through the window, the white keys punctuated with sharps and flats. I was
still for a moment feeling the cold that had wrapped around my heart for so long.
Devlin had taken away music.
I stepped forward and knocked the
bench over with my knees. The rattle as it hit the floor startled me and I
reached for a leg to pick it up. Instead the leg came off in my hand, like
pulling the leg off of a spider, I thought as I gripped the carved leg in my
hand. Devlin had taken away dancing. My hand seemed to rise on its own
volition, the leg above my head. I closed my eyes and for a second felt a
flicker of the stillness and control I’d caught the first day of knitting, but
the thought of Devlin taking away the beauty of music shattered the calm.
There was a crack as I brought the
bench leg down on the keyboard. Devlin had taken away color. There was an
anguished screech, a sharp crack as the keyboard buckled in the middle. Devlin
had taken away my mother, crash, my father, smash, and myself. I kept hitting
the piano, the splintered wood flying all around me. I felt the sting as
slivers found my skin, my cheek, arm, but I kept smashing, until the leg I’d
used was a splintered mess. I grabbed what I could of the former beauty and
shoved it with all my strength. The crunch and tinkling as it struck the wall
wasn’t enough.
I stood panting needing something
else to destroy, grabbing fistfuls of my hair, wanting something to hurt, but I
already hurt. The pain inside of me was more than any pain I could ever inflict
on anyone or anything. I crumpled to the floor feeling like I’d been beaten up.
In the end Devlin hadn’t just taken apart my life, he’d taken himself too. He’d
taken the brother I loved and turned him into a monster. Thinking of Devlin as
a monster was more than I could bear. I buried my head in my arms and cried
until I thought my body was going to shake apart.
Thanks again for having me!
Author
Information:
Juliann C. Whicker was raised with
chickens, goats, and a cow named Mrs. Mooley who everyone (neighbors included)
chased down the street in a small college town. She now lives in Southeastern
Ohio with her four children, husband, and all the ticks and poison ivy a soul
could crave.
Book Review:
This is the most unique paranormal
book I have read in a long time. This
was totally unusual. I loved the concept
of two people being soul mates, and it’s even better when one is missing a soul…
or loses a soul. You simply have to read
to understand because if I say anything more I will give the plot away.
Then there is the baby sister with
bigger brothers who are totally overprotective, a distant mother, an absent
father, societal unacceptability, fighting, and love… pure, first love. I don’t think I’ve ever read a book quite
like this one. Definitely sigh worthy.
I would give this book 4.5 out of 5
clouds.
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