Time to start a new series from Dan Rix. Devoured the Translucent collection of 6 novels, now eyeing off the Timelooper series. Who doesn't like wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey stuff?
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Time to start a new series from Dan Rix. Devoured the Translucent collection of 6 novels, now eyeing off the Timelooper series. Who doesn't like wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey stuff?
#bookporn Another title from Dan Rix! I like his writing and even though his novels have been a little hit and miss, I always enjoy them. Quick reads filled to the brim with teen angst and antics...
Blog Tour: Entanglement - Dan Rix (Review + GIVEAWAY)
Title: Entanglement
Author: Dan Rix
Date of Publication: November 16, 2012
Genre: YA sci-fi romance
Blurb:
"…the scientific explanation is quantum entanglement, whereby the boy and girl—even when separated by great distances—react instantaneously to changes in each other’s states…" —Dr. Casler Selavio, on the entanglement of halves.
In a world like ours, humans are born in pairs. When a newborn boy takes his first breath in the coastal town of Tularosa, the exact time is noted, recorded in the Registry, and later compared to the birth times of other newborns around the globe. There will be one identical match—his half. They will meet on their eighteenth birthday and they will spend their lives together. Except this time, there is no match.
Hotheaded heartthrob Aaron Harper is scheduled to meet his half in twenty-nine days, and he doesn’t buy a word of that entanglement crap. So what if he and his half were born the same day and share a spooky psychic connection? Big deal. After breaking one too many teenage girls’ hearts, he’ll stick to brawling with the douchebag rugby players any day.
Until the day a new girl arrives at school and threatens everything he takes for granted.
Cold and unapproachable, Amber Lilian hates the growing list of similarities between her and the one boy she can’t read, Aaron: born the same day, both stubborn, both terrified of meeting their halves… . All the more reason not to trust him. That she would rather die than surrender herself as her half’s property is none of his damn business. But once lost in Aaron’s dangerous, jet black eyes, she’s already surrendered more than she cares to admit.
Tangled in each other’s self-destructive lives, Aaron and Amber learn the secret behind their linked births and why they feel like halves—but unless they can prove it before they turn eighteen, Aaron faces a lifetime alone in a world where everyone else has a soul mate … and he’ll have to watch Amber give herself to a boy who intends to possess not only her body but also a chunk of her soul.
ENTANGLEMENT, a 75,000 word YA thriller, will appeal to readers of Michael Grant’s GONE and Ally Condie’s MATCHED.
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What really made me want to read this book was the premise. I thought the idea that everyone had another half who they meet on their 18th birthday was really interesting!
I quite like the way the scientific facts were shown, as I think it wasn’t too difficult to understand and it helps creating the set for the story.
The characters were believable (even though I sometimes questioned Aaron’s actions…). Amber was a really intriguing character from the first moment and it was really good to see how she changed throughout the book.
I thought that the pacing was good, it had lots of suspense and action scenes but there seemed to be a couple of plot holes. Also, Aaron’s parents were pretty much non-existent, which bothered me a bit.
All in all, it was a very interesting and unique read and I deffinitely recommend people checking out this book.
About Dan Rix
Dan Rix lives in Santa Barbara, California with his fiancée, paranormal romance author Laura Thalassa. He started writing his first novel in college while procrastinating his architecture studio work.
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Blog Tour: Broken Symmetry - Dan Rix (Review + GIVEAWAY)
Title: Broken Symmetry
Author: Dan Rix
Publisher: Burning Ember Press
Date of Publication: July 28, 2013
Genre: YA sci-fi
Blurb:
Eleven months after the father of sixteen-year-old Blaire Adams vanished without a trace, he’s found wandering outside The Scripps Research Institute vomiting blood and speaking gibberish, his sole possession a worn leather diary filled with an unrecognizable language. He has a message for her.
As he dies in her arms, he claims he never vanished. She vanished.
In a nearby military quarantine zone, scientists are being called in from around the world to sequence a previously unknown strain of DNA. Scientists…and soldiers.
When her father’s autopsy reveals a rare chromosomal disorder—a disorder, it turns out, she inherited—Blaire begins to suspect her father’s last words weren’t induced by amnesia. Like her dad, she has an additional set of instructions in her genes—instructions for what, doctors can’t say. Only one thing is certain: it’s what killed him…and it will kill her too.
But now she’s haunted by prophetic nightmares of the Yellowjacket—a young murderer, eyes the black of charcoal, who lures his victims to suicide without ever paying them a visit. The only clue she has to his handiwork is a lingering feeling of déjà vu. That, and the nagging suspicion that all she knows is a mirage. She is certain of two things—though it may mean confiding in the wrong side of good and evil, he has the answers she needs.
And he is recruiting her.
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In fact, I was so delirious I walked right through the front door.
My body froze, sensing my mistake before I fully realized it.
The alley, the door in the garage, the stairs up to room A—not the front door. Neverthe front door. I stood in the black, foreboding office, cold seeping into my blood. A shuffle perked my ears from the couch, where Damian’s slept, shirtless.
My God, did he live here?
If I woke him up now … if I woke up his reflection, who knew what permutations would come to pass. I tiptoed back toward the door, my eyes keen on Damian’s sleeping body, keen on his every twitch … keen on his sculpted abs and chest.
As I inched the door shut behind me, Damian muttered something in his sleep and flipped over. My hand stopped, and I listened through the gap. What if …
No, Blaire. Turn around.
But it was too late. The idea was already spreading waves of anticipation through my body, enflaming my skin.
We were in a reflection. I could do anything I wanted, anything. And he wouldn’t remember a thing.
Before good judgment could kill my buzz, I darted back inside. My heart hammered, echoing in the dark, fantasy world that had become my mind. I climbed onto him, straddled his legs, and traced the creases of his six-pack with my fingers.
His stomach clenched, and his eyes snapped open.
This book caught my attention right away with the cover and the blurb and it was a very pleasant read, although there were some things that should be different.
First of all, I have to say that there is a lot of scientific language, which isn’t always excplained and if that for me isn’t much of a problem, for someone else it might be.
As for the characters, at first I didn’t quite like Blaire because she seemed to be a bit arrogant and self-centered but in the end she does change and grows; I thought that the other characters were quite interesting too (especially Damian!). I have to say something about Blaire’s love interest in the beginning of the book, Josh Hutchinson, who has a very angular jaw…reminds you of something? I am not sure whether this was an accident or supposed to be funny but I laughed anyway!!
The dialogue between the characters was amazing, Blaire and Damian proved to be rather wity and provided some hillarious conversations.
The pacing is alright, a bit up and down though, there are times when nothing is reallt happening and there are others when it’s very action packed.
All in all, it has a couple of flaws but nothing major so I deffinitely recommend it!
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Blog Tour: Entanglement by Dan Rix
“You mean what it was like?”
“What true love is.”
Aaron felt a chill. “Is that why you keep their letters?”
She glanced up. “I want to know what it’s like to have a choice.” Over her head, dust swirled through shafts of sunlight, blazing like flecks of magnesium. “You’re the only boy I’ve ever kissed like that. Are you proud of yourself?”
“Entanglement” è entrato nelle mie cose da leggere perchè si tratta di una distopia, e quando ho capito che si trattava di anime gemelle, amore e affini non ho saputo resistere. Considerando che ad organizzarlo è stata la mitica Dianne di Oops! I read a bookk again, non mi sono proprio potuta tirare indietro. Avendo poi letto un altro libro di Dan Rix ero certa che lo avrei apprezzato…e così è stato infatti.
“… la spiegazione scientifica è il legame quantico, per cui un ragazzo e una ragazza – anche quando sono separati da una grande distanza – reagiscono simultaneamente ai cambiamenti negli stati di ognuno…” - Dr. Casler Selavio sul legame tra le metà.
In un mondo come il nostro, gli umani sono nati a coppie. Quando un neonato maschio prende il primo respiro nella città costiera di Tularosa, il momento esatto viene segnato, registrato nel Registro e più tardi confrontato con i tempi di nascita di nuovi neonati intorno al mondo. Ci sarà un unico identico match – la sua metà. Si incontreranno il giorno del loro diciottesimo compleanno e trascorreranno il resto della loro vita insieme. Eccetto questa volta non c’è niente da accoppiare.
L’impulsivo e passionale Aaron Harper deve incontrare la sua metà in 29 giorni, e non crede neanche ad una parola sull’entanglement. E allora cosa succede se lui e la sua metà sono nati lo stesso giorno e condividono una connessione psichica? Niente di eccezionale. Dopo aver spezzato troppi cuori di ragazze, è bloccato con scaramucce con i giocatori di rugby.
Finché un giorno una nuova ragazza non arriva a scuola e minaccia tutto quello che aveva preso per garantito. Fredda e improcciabile, Amber Lilian odia la lista sempre più lunga di similitudini tra lei e l’unico ragazzo che non può leggere, Aaron: nato lo stesso giorno, entrambi testardi, entrambi terrorizzati di incontrare le proprie metà… tutti motivi per non fidarsi di lui. che lei preferisca morire che diventare proprietà della sua metà non è affar suo. Ma una volta persa nei pericolosi occhi neri di Aaron, lei si è già arresa più di quello che vorrebbe ammettere. Legati nella vita distruttiva dell’altro, Aaron e Amber scoprono il segreto dietro le loro nascite unite e perché si sentono come metà - ma finché non possono provarlo prima i compiere diciotto anni, Aaron potrebbe affrontare un’intera vita da solo in un mondo dove tutti hanno un’anima gemella… e dovrà guardare Amber donarsi ad un ragazzo che intende solo possedere il suo corpo e avrà presa sulla sua anima.
Penso di essermi innamorata immediatamente della trama, anche quando avevo solo vagamente intuito di cosa si parlava. Mi è bastato poco per capire che questo libro mi sarebbe piaciuto. Forse non come avrei voluto. La storia viene narrata usando la terza persona e alternando il punto di vista di Aaron e Amber, anche se la maggior parte della storia ci viene raccontata per bocca del ragazzo. È lui infatti che vive i cambiamenti più traumatici ed è attraverso i suoi occhi che veniamo a scoprire i misteri che circondano la vicenda. È una storia che si lascia leggere facilmente. Veniamo gettati subito nel mezzo dell’azione che non conosce tregua, il rapido countdown verso il diciottesimo compleanno di Aaron scandisce i tempi, in maniera inesorabile e a tratti anche angosciante. Con Aaron, impulsivo, una testa calda che non sa tenere la bocca chiusa, neanche in quelle situazioni dove la diplomazia sarebbe invece più che necessaria, veniamo a guardare in maniera angosciante il compleanno che segna anche la fine di un’epoca. Nelle teorie che circondano la storia dell’entanglement e delle particelle sono affascinanti e piene di inventiva. È Schrödinger che teorizza il comportamento della quantistica, il teorico dell’indeterminazione, la teoria per cui se si conosce la posizione di una particella non se ne può sapere la sua velocità e viceversa se si misura precisamente la velocità non se ne può conoscere la posizione. Lo stesso del gatto (come mi ha scritto Cristina sulla pagina fb). Secondo i suoi studi ogni bimbo che nasce, in una parte del globo ha la sua metà, un essere visceralmente attaccato a lui, tanto che se la metà muore, muore pure lui. Naturalmente le nascite sono registrate e controllate dal governo centrale, The Chamber of Halves che regolarizza solo il sistema, entrato in vigore solo da quattro generazioni. È tutto completamente fuori controllo, in un mondo che è assolutamente irriconoscibile e che lascia intendere molto più. Ci sono mille segreti e noi non veniamo a conoscenza solo lentamente. Amber, la ragazza, ecco che diventa un catalizzatore per una serie di scoperte che aumenteranno in modo esponenziale i pericoli sulla strada di Aaron, a partire con gli scontri con Clive, il suo ragazzo, ma anche la sua metà promessa. Amber è un personaggio molto interessante, coraggiosa, forte, che non si vuole piegare alle forze che la circondano e la proiettano in un mondo già predestinato, dove tutto viene deciso da altri e che lei è incapace di bloccare e convertire a suo piacimento. I genitori la gettano in pasto ad un destino oscuro, in mano ad una setta a cui non interessa nulla della sua volontà. Tutto è assolutamente tragico e il ritmo serrato porta ad un declino rapido e senza freni, che lascia il lettore interdetto e senza parole fino alla fine. L’azione rapida viene un po’ frammentata da una scrittura per parti, che si amalgama poco in una storyline che non lascia tregua e in qualche modo ci sono delle incongruenze e degli stacchi. Anche i cambi pov sono troppo improvvisi e lasciano spesso interdetti. Se il contorno sci-fi e distopico è perfetto e originale, la romance tra Amber e Aaron è affrettata, poco curata e vagamente innaturale. Dopo neanche una settimana sono già innamorati? E non sono neanche metà, il che lascia intendere molti più segreti di quelli che si possono riconoscere a prima vista. Ci sono momenti che lasciano molti dubbiosi, a volte anche le teorie non spiegano tutto, anche se l’impianto narrativo è assolutamente perfetto.
Ci sono diversi personaggi secondari, a partire dal migliore amico di Aaron, Biff, che io ho semplicemente adorato per la sua simpatia, il suo pavoneggiarsi, ma il suo difendere Aaron a spada tratta. Dominic, un giocatore di rugby che darà ad Aaron del filo da torcere. E come dimenticare il Dottor Casler, il detentore di tutti i segreti e il possessore della verità… da odiare, dal primo momento per la sua gentilezza super finta.
Il particolare da non dimenticare? Una fiala con un liquido rosso…
Uscito il 16 novembre 2012, un libro a metà tra uno sci-fi, una romance e una distopia, “Entanglement” è una storia che tiene il lettore incollato alla pagina e gli impedisce di smettere di leggere. Un must read per chi ha amato Matched, questo è uno di quei libri che sconvolge per la trama ingarbugliata e l’impianto narrativo che vi lascerà senza parole.
Buona lettura guys!
Ringrazio immensamente Dianne del blog Oops! I read a book again per avermi concesso di partecipare a questo blog tour in cambio della mia onesta opinione. Grazie.
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Amber stuffed her hair straightener, skin lotion, and shampoo—the last of her essentials—into the duffel bag, and was all ready to run away. Except the zipper wouldn’t close. She took out her socks. She’d be better off without the useless things anyway.
She took one last look around her bedroom, and the hollow feeling in her stomach deepened. Tomorrow, Aaron would meet his half and forget all about her while she would be trapped forever with Clive.
Unless, of course, she was nowhere to be found.
Amber hauled her bag down the stairs. Her mother was waiting at the door.
“Amber, darling, where do you think you’re going?”
Her mother’s voice made her flinch. “Isn’t it like a hundred years past your bedtime?” said Amber, stopping right in front of her.
“André will be here at six.”
“In the morning?” said Amber.
“You do want to get ready before your wedding, don’t you?”
“Who says I’m going?”
Her mother ignored the comment, but her lower lip twitched. “Clive says he hasn’t been able to reach you.”
“That’s because I blocked his calls,” said Amber.
“You did what?”
”You heard me, mother.”
In one sudden movement, her mom slapped her across the cheek. Amber glared at her, though the sting made her eyes tear up.
“The potentate arranged this for you. It’s your duty. Now go to bed.”
As her mother walked away, Amber could see the tattoo under the deep v-back of her nightgown—the tattoo they carved into her nine days after she was born that said she belonged to Amber’s father.
Amber would get one too.
Defeated, Amber walked back upstairs and collapsed onto her bed. Her mother was right. The idea of running away from her half, from Clive, was almost laughable, like trying to escape from her own body. There was a part of him inside her—in a place she couldn’t reach, otherwise she would have torn it out already. Their bodies were linked. No matter where on the globe she fled, he could always track her.
And now that their channel was mature, prolonged separation would be agony. After a few months of evading him, her body would start to wither. After a few years, they would both die. Being with her half wasn’t a choice—it was a biological need.
Amber buried her head in her comforter and screamed. Why couldn’t she choose her own half? She wanted Aaron.
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