Stricken by C.K. Kelly Martin Blog Tour with Giveaway :)
Naomi doesn't expect anything unusual
from her annual family trip to visit her grandparents in Ireland.
What she expects is to celebrate her thirteenth birthday, hang out
with her friends Ciara and Shehan, and deal with her gran's
Alzheimer's. What she finds is a country hit by an unexpected virus
that rapidly infects the majority of the Irish population over the
age of twenty-one.
Amnestic-Delirium Syndrome (ADS) starts
off with memory loss, but the virus soon turns its victims
aggravated, blank, or violent. Naomi and her friends must survive on
their own, without lucid adults, cut off from the rest of the world,
until a cure is found.
But there are whispers that ADS is not
terrestrial, and soon Naomi and her friends learn the frightening
truth: we are not alone.
Link
to Goodreads:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35801633-stricken?ac=1&from_search=true
Purchase
Links:
ABOUT THE
AUTHOR
Long before I was an author I was a fan
of books about Winnie the Pooh, Babar, Madeline, Anne Shirley and
anything by Judy Blume. Throughout high school my favourite class was
English. No surprise, then, that most of my time spent at York
University in Toronto was as an English major—not the traditional
way to graduate with a B.A. (Hons) in film studies but a fine way to
get a general arts education.
After getting my film studies degree I
headed for Dublin, Ireland and spent the majority of the nineties
there in forgettable jobs meeting unforgettable people and enjoying
the buzz. I always believed I'd get around to writing in earnest
eventually, and I began writing my first novel in a flat in Dublin
and finished it in a Toronto suburb. By then I'd discovered that
fiction about young people felt the freshest and most exciting to me.
You have most of your life to be an adult but you only grow up once.
Currently residing near Toronto with my
Dub husband, I'm an aunt to twenty-one nieces and nephews, and a
great-aunt to two great-nephews. I became an Irish citizen in 2001
and continue to visit Dublin as often as I can while working on
novels about young people.
My first young adult book, I Know It's
Over, came out with Random House in September 2008, and was followed
by One Lonely Degree, The Lighter Side of Life and Death, My Beating
Teenage Heart and sci-fi thriller Yesterday. I released Yesterday's
sequel, Tomorrow, in 2013 and put out my first adult novel, Come See
About Me, as an ebook in June 2012. My most recent contemporary YA
books, The Sweetest Thing You Can Sing and Delicate, were published
by Cormorant Books' Dancing Cat Books imprint in 2014 and 2015.
Giveaway Details:
- Signed copy of Stricken by C.K. Kelly Martin (INT)
Comments
Post a Comment