I was excited about this book because I love time travel stories. The Guest Post features the authors love for Doctor Who, which I have been watching since the 4th Doctor, Tom Baker, so now I can't wait to read this!
Fissure by Marilyn Almodóvar
(Chronicles of the Interred #2)
Publication date: May 20th 2014
Genres: Paranormal, Time-Travel, Young Adult
Publication date: May 20th 2014
Genres: Paranormal, Time-Travel, Young Adult
Synopsis:
Baxter Jacobs just survived the worst Sweet Sixteen in history: buried in a coffin, hunted down by assassins, and losing almost everything that mattered to her. She’s ready for some normalcy, but “normal” won’t play any part of this Time Bender’s future.
Now that the immediate threat is over, Baxter learns just how much the English Council expects of the newest Interred. The pressure has her seriously considering her uncle’s offer to take her to New York, especially since she thinks it will keep her Healer, Jack, from overusing his abilities. Knowing the New York Council’s ranks are filled with beings using dark powers, however, makes her hesitate.
Before she can choose, the decision is wrenched from her. Fissures in Time result in a new battle with an old enemy. Someone she thought she’d lost reenters her life, and she’ll discover a web of lies woven into the fabric of Time…lies only she can unravel. Baxter will have to use her growing abilities to try and reveal the truth, even if it forever changes the reality she knows.
There are lies in the fabric of Time only she can unravel.
Now that the immediate threat is over, Baxter learns just how much the English Council expects of the newest Interred. The pressure has her seriously considering her uncle’s offer to take her to New York, especially since she thinks it will keep her Healer, Jack, from overusing his abilities. Knowing the New York Council’s ranks are filled with beings using dark powers, however, makes her hesitate.
Before she can choose, the decision is wrenched from her. Fissures in Time result in a new battle with an old enemy. Someone she thought she’d lost reenters her life, and she’ll discover a web of lies woven into the fabric of Time…lies only she can unravel. Baxter will have to use her growing abilities to try and reveal the truth, even if it forever changes the reality she knows.
There are lies in the fabric of Time only she can unravel.
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Time
Travel in Today's Media
By
Marilyn Almodóvar
I’m a
huge Doctor Who fan, so I guess it comes as no surprise once we get that out of
the way, that the first novel that I’ve published has something to do with Time
Traveling.
The very
first time I watched an episode of Doctor Who, Peter Davison was the fifth
Doctor, and in the mid-eighties. I fell in love with The Doctor, probably
because at that age I had a predilection for blond boys who looked different.
To this day, there is no one more different than The Doctor.
He’s an
Alien from Gallifrey with two hearts who tends to insult his companions when
he’s backed up against the wall. He loves humans and invites them to travel
with him. But the show that started off with a Doctor who was a grandfather
figure has turned, in the last fifty years, into a cult show followed by many
Whovians across the world, something that its first producer, Verity Lambert,
maybe never could have imagined in her wildest dreams.
Doctor
Who works, not only because The Doctor has the awesome ability to regenerate
and thus provide the audience with a new Time Lord, but also because his Time
Traveling on board the TARDIS takes the audience through time and space. On top of that, the core of the show is all
about relationships: love, friendship, family…everything is important when you
travel along with The Doctor.
Twelve
incarnations of the Doctor later (13 if we include the War Doctor), Doctor
Who’s formula is very simple. Alien travels around Earth, meets Human companion
and off they run to fight aliens, and sometimes humans. The Doctor’s most
constant companion is his TARDIS, which he stole a long time ago, in order to
travel through time. This amazing machine was meant to camouflage itself in
order to blend in; however, the chameleon circuit broke and it got stuck in the
form of a Police Box. The TARDIS, which is bigger in the inside, transports The
Doctor from the beginning of the Universe to the end, providing its companions
and the audience a glimpse into the future or past. And this is precisely one
of my favorite things.
Doctor
Who is sometimes accused as a whole of being a bit too sweet and nice, but
there are very dark episodes, and sometimes The Doctor himself is not the
nicest person. All of this serves to remind us that this man, who may look
human, isn’t. He’s an alien traveling through time, helping others discover
different places and historical eras which fuel our imagination.
There
are loads of Time Traveling books and movies, but for me, Doctor Who is the
prime example of the genre. Taking humans who have never even thought this sort
of traveling can be done and showing them--most of the time throwing them--in the midst of chaos,
teaches us all we need to know about human nature. We’re resilient, and this is
one of the best lessons I’ve taken from all my years watching the show. No
matter who you think you are, or what you do in life, whatever life throws at
you, you’ll be able to adapt and continue living, even if The Doctor doesn’t
show up at your doorstep. However, that would be a cool thing, right? So for
now, I’ll continue writing about my Time Bender, all in the hopes that maybe
someday I can hear the TARDIS’ engine roaring quietly outside my door.
(A fellow Whovian! Marilyn, you have won me over!)
AUTHOR BIO:
Marilyn Almodóvar is the author of a series of YA paranormal novels. Born in Ft. Huachuca, Arizona, Lyn is a lover of words whose reading tastes range from Victorian novels to the books of Stephen King. Her favorite past-times have always been reading and writing, two activities that let her escape to other worlds.
It was this love that propelled her to choose Theater and French as majors in University, with a minor in English Victorian Literature. Lyn lived for almost a decade in England followed by three years in France before returning home to the States. A self-confessed citizen of the world, she is fluent in English, French and Spanish, with basic knowledge of the Italian language.
Lyn could happily exist breathing the clean air of Narnia, trapped in a cupboard under the stairs with Harry, fighting alongside Captain Jack Sparrow, doing an internship in Torchwood, or traveling around time and space with the Doctor…as long as she can have Mr. Spock, Captain Kirk and Captain Mal as companions.
Lyn currently lives in Central Florida with her French husband, English-born eldest son, and French-born youngest son. Her debut YA Novel, Interred, was be published by Iambe books on 01/22/2013.
It was this love that propelled her to choose Theater and French as majors in University, with a minor in English Victorian Literature. Lyn lived for almost a decade in England followed by three years in France before returning home to the States. A self-confessed citizen of the world, she is fluent in English, French and Spanish, with basic knowledge of the Italian language.
Lyn could happily exist breathing the clean air of Narnia, trapped in a cupboard under the stairs with Harry, fighting alongside Captain Jack Sparrow, doing an internship in Torchwood, or traveling around time and space with the Doctor…as long as she can have Mr. Spock, Captain Kirk and Captain Mal as companions.
Lyn currently lives in Central Florida with her French husband, English-born eldest son, and French-born youngest son. Her debut YA Novel, Interred, was be published by Iambe books on 01/22/2013.
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