F E L I X f r o m N o V a i n L o s s appreciation...
F E L I X f r o m N o V a i n L o s s
appreciation post (featuring Song Yoong Ki from DOTS as Felix)
Exclusive excerpt (shared for the first time ever)Right. Relax, you’ve got this.
Felix is talking to himself now. That’s
what he’s been reduced to, he who was once the best lieutenant of his year. His
brain, which was designed to be the most highly-intelligent lethal weapon on
Earth, has forgotten how to work properly. It’s frozen. All it can do is count
down the crazy things he has done in the past few days.
[…]
“What the timers are you doing?” a voice
hisses at him from downstairs.
Felix almost jumps a foot in the air.
That’s her voice. Her words. And he
didn’t hear them inside his head this time. She’s here. He looks down
carefully, concealing his face inside the cloak’s hood.
There, between his boots, is a small gap
in the platform, through which he can see the below-stage room, where the techs
and stage hands are running around, taking care of every detail that keeps the
huge Dome up and running. Then he sees it: the source of the voice. There’s a
person standing directly below him.
No, that can’t be right. He looks up
again, trying to concentrate on the Clock.
“Pssst.”
What the merc?
There, right below him. A flash of red.
He moves his foot a little, so that he
can see beyond the hole in the platform. He sees a glimpse of her hair first,
glowing as it catches a thin ray of light from the Stadium.
Then he sees the rest of her.
His heart leaps to his throat.
He bends on one knee, letting the cloak
billow dramatically around his boots, and pretends he’s fixing a circuit in the
corner of the Clock.
“Astra,” he whispers, blinking, trying
to clear his vision.
She -because it is her, unbelievable as it is- looks up at him, a question in her
green eyes.
“What?” she mouths. “Tell me you have a
plan.”
What plan? Oh, right, the plan. He nods.
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©2017 M.C. Frank, excerpt fron NVL
N O V A I N L O S S s y n o p s i s :
A soldier is summoned to the North Pole, days before the year changes, told to fix the great Clock for a celebration. He has no idea what to do.
A girl, hunted for the crime of being born, almost dies out on the ice. She is rescued by the last polar bear left alive.
A library waits for them both, a library built over a span of a hundred years, forgotten in the basement of an ice shack.
The world hasn’t known hunger or sickness in hundreds of years. It has also forgotten love and beauty.
This is the One World.
The year is 2524.
Inspired by the short stories of Ray Bradbury, this futuristic young adult novel in three parts is set in a world where Christmas -among other things- is obsolete and a Clock is what keeps the fragile balance of peace.
Written in three parts, this is the breathtaking story of how two unlikely people change the world, and each other, one book at a time.
In No Vain Loss, the world is on the brink of the greatest war humanity has ever known. Lives will be lost. New truths will be revealed.
Recommended for fans of:
Hot soldiers (see Kdrama, Descendants of the Sun, and so on)My True Love Gave to Me anthology, Christmas feels and aesthetic
Ray Bradbury-inspired scifi worldbuilding
YA dystopian/postapocalyptic novels
These Broken Stars series
Book boyfriends
A touch of existential issues Huxley-style
Star Wars-style action
Intense romance
Hidden librariesFight for survivalForbidden kissesBromanceBears
Readers say:
Fast, Futuristic, Creative. -Yesha, Books Teacup and Reviews
My new obsession and yours too! No Ordinary Star reads like a love letter to humanity. -S. E. Anderson, author of Starstruck
This book is magic. -Alex Rowe, @captain.valour
I fell head-over-heels in love! -Drew C.
Oh, how I’ve already fallen in love with our two main characters, tin solider and match girl. -Rebecca Raven
Current rating on goodreads 4.8 stars
Pages 230
Release date: 5 Dec 2017
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