Make Way for The Fearless Blog Tour – Stop #5

It is my great and significant pleasure to introduce Emma Pass and her most recent book, THE FEARLESS!

 

 

 

I adore Emma and I adored her first YA novel, ACID, so I am completely delighted to have her here today. But, really, Emma isn’t here it all — her main character, Cass, is speaking to us about her life and her story.

 

So, without further ado…

 

Interview with Cass from THE FEARLESS

 

 

Hi, thanks for coming to speak to us today. What’s your name?

 

Cassandra Hollencroft. But you can call me Cass.

 

 

How old are you?

 

17.

 

 

Where do you live?

 

Hope Island. It’s a refuge off the south coast of the UK. I came here when I was ten, with my mother and my little brother, Jori. We were fleeing the Fearless.

 

 

Who are the Fearless?

 

They’re monsters. Evil monsters. They’re faster than us, stronger than us and they aren’t scared of anything. Whoever invented the serum that created them ought to be left in a locked room with one.

 

 

What’s your family like?

 

Jori’s the only family I have left now. My father was taken by the Fearless during the Invasion, and Mum died a few years ago. My brother means everything to me.

 

 

What do you do for a living (if anything)?

 

I’m training to be in the Patrol, Hope Island’s guard. OK, so it means standing guard on the sea wall in all weathers, but I want to trade with the Barterers… and I’m good with a gun.

 

 

What do you love?

 

It’s not what, it’s who. Jori. And my parents, even though they’re not here any more.

 

 

What do you hate?

 

The Fearless. They took away my home, my family, my future. Yeah, so they used to be people too. So what? I wish I could destroy them all.

 

 

What scares you?

 

The thought that I could lose everything all over again. I can never let that happen. Never.

 

 

If the world ended, and you were one of the few people left, what would you do?

 

The world has ended… so I guess I’d just keep doing what I do now.

 

 

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Emma Pass has been making up stories for as long as she can remember. Her debut novel, ACID, is out now from Corgi/Random House in the UK, and from Delacorte in the US.  It won the 2014 North East Teenage Book Award, was shortlisted for the Doncaster Book Award, nominated for the 2014 CILIP Carnegie Medal and has been longlisted for the 2014 Branford Boase Award and a Silver Inky Award in Australia. Her second novel, THE FEARLESS, is also out now in the UK from Corgi/Random House and will be published in the US in early 2015 by Delacorte. By day, she works as a library assistant and lives with her husband and crazy greyhound G-Dog in the North East Midlands.

 

Where can you find Emma?

 

Website: http://emmapass.com/

 

Blog: http://emmapass.blogspot.com/

 

Twitter: http://twitter.com/EmmaPass

 

Facebook: http://facebook.com/EmmaPassAuthor