Until the End just recently received it's 100th rating here on Goodreads. I'm amazed by this. When I first put it up for sale, I told my husband I'd die happy if it reached 5 people.
So to see it now selling in it's six month and doing well, that's mindblowing to me. I wanted to stop and say a huge
THANK YOU to everyone who has read it and especially to those who have loved it and told others about it. Every person who sends me a friend request, reads a blog post, follows my book reviews or clicks the link to become a fan seriously stuns me. You guys are awesome and I'm feeling very grateful.
I'm also feeling very Christmasy and in the spirit of giving, here is an excerpt from
In the End. January 1st!!!
She’s dead. She’s rotted out. Her pale skin is turning gray before my eyes as it begins to hang from her bones loosely. Her lips fall useless around her yellowed teeth tinged with black around her sickly green gums. It’s her eyes that bother me most, though. Her once vibrant, warm eyes are Death staring me down. There’s a want there, a need to see me dead and destroyed beneath her gnarled fingertips. To see me just like her.
I want to give that to her. I want to die beside her, for her, by her hand. Whatever it will take to make her happy. To show her I love her. That I'm sorry. I want the wrong things and I know it but I still want them. The worst is, though, that I’m also still terrified of them. I’m as scared sitting here across from her in the nothingness of this dark room as I was in the dorms when it first began. When everyone was running and screaming and tearing each other apart with their teeth. I’m a coward. I let her die.
I should have died too.
I shouldn’t be alive.
Right now, I’m not so sure I am.
Published on December 13, 2013 13:16