*holds a breath*
I barely can hold back me excitement !
Starting today and during this week, we got the honor to reveal the First Chapter of the anxious awaited Sequel to Crewel here at the Bookworms and then, each day another part will revealed at the following Blogs Cuddlebuggery, Xpresso Reads, The Book Cellar and BookYAReview.
Crewel was one of the surprising and exciting reads from last year, I picked it up hoping to like it but ending up loving it to pieces!!! It was so beautifully crafted with such an unique worldbuilding that took my Breath away!
Quote from my Review
Crewel was brilliant! Gennifer Albin created a unique story with an awe-inspiring world creation. Crewel will appeal to many readers, as it harbors different types of beloved genres, Dystopian, Scifi and Fantasy meshed perfectly with an adorable love story.
The ending was crazy and the minute I closed the book I wanted more! I never ever expected the turn of events and now I’m dying to read the Altered!
And now.. I have to honors to present…
*drum rolls*
The Prologue and .. the first part of the First Chapter of ALTERED!
Prologue
They abandoned Earth. Men left their homes and their shops. They deserted the streets to crack and scatter into the soil, renouncing dominion over the world and rejecting their own progress for the promise of the new and the next. And so Earth sits in splendid ruin.
On the horizon a metro rises in grotesque majesty, and be- hind us the ocean roars with life. Above us the sky twists and turns to watch us—an evolution of stars and light. I know little of this world, but hope gathers in my chest. This is our first chance. Maybe our only one.
Life.
Possibility.
Choice.
I’d been taught there was one reality: a reality guided and overseen and created by others. But standing on the edge of the past, I feel potential coursing through me. The natural strands of life are free here, glorious and unrestrained. Time slides around and wraps me in its protection. Anything can happen, and I feel the pulsing vitality of this truth in my arms and in my aching hands. Loricel was wrong about Earth and what it represents. She told me it was dead, a half-remembered relic of a different time, but this world isn’t doomed.
It’s waiting for me.
Chapter One
A ship’s beacon sweeps overhead, bathing us in light. My hand stretches out it as though to beckon the ship toward us, but I draw my hand back to shield my eyes, fear supplanting the brief thrill of knowing we are not alone on this planet. Fear the Guild has cultivated in me since they took me from my family. It is more powerful than the hope growing roots within me.
The hull of the ship is bloated and torpid, making its flight a reluctant crawl across the sky. It doesn’t change course when it coasts over us, and although the brilliance of the watchlight fades past us, blood pounds through me, reminding me of one thing: even a world away from Arras, where no one has reason to harm me, I’m not safe. But I understand now what I couldn’t before. My parents were wrong about me. They taught me to hide my gift.
But my hands are my salvation, not my curse.
I watch the ship ride low along the skyline, skimming across the glittering night sky. If it stays on its current trajectory, it will collide with the mountain range nestled against the metro I spy on the horizon.
“Did it see us?” Jost whispers as though the pilot might be able to hear us. His usually bright blue eyes are dark, nearly matching his curly, shoulder-length hair, and I can see the fear in them.
“It couldn’t have. Where’s it going? ”
Jost squints in concentration and he cocks his head, trying to see it more clearly. “I think it’s on patrol.”
Then it hits me. The ship isn’t soaring birdlike, it’s hanging from a patchwork of rough strands like a puppet dangling from a master’s strings. The sky is wrong. I thought it was stars sparkling overhead, like the ones that peppered the evening sky in Arras. But these stars are long, and they seem to fade into a tangle of light that twinkles erratically over us. I stare for a long moment while the truth sinks in. These aren’t stars nestled into a night sky.
They’re strands.
It’s the same strange, raw weave that we came through when I ripped us out. Loricel, the Creweler who trained me and the most powerful woman in Arras, showed it to me in her studio, explaining that it was a buffer between Arras and an- other world. She revealed the truth to me that day: that Arras was built on the ruins of Earth.
“It has to be the Guild,” I say. I already knew the Guild had a presence on Earth. If I had stayed in Arras, it would have become my job to help them drill for elements here. Of course they would have security forces guarding the buffer between the worlds. The hope building in my chest evaporates, giving way to complete panic. I spot Erik to my left. He’s too far away from us for me to protect him, but I can’t sit by and do nothing, and before I can plan my next move, the watchlight washes over us again. I respond instinctively; my left hand lashes out and rends the air around us, looking for something to latch onto and warp into a shield of protection. There is no delicate, precisely knit weave on this planet. It’s not constructed like Arras, which means I’m useless here.
And yet, I can feel the strands of Earth. They snake against my skin, and if I could calm my racing heart, I think I could even hear them because the space around me crackles with vitality. These aren’t the uniform strands of Arras, but they’re composed of the same material. They’re loosely connected and flexible. Their vibrancy shivers across my damaged fingertips, the threads more alive than any I felt in Arras. There the weave pricked dully at my touch after my hands were scarred during Maela’s torture session. But these threads aren’t neatly woven into a pattern and they are full of unexpected life. During my time at the Coventry, I could warp time strands into a separate moment, protecting Jost’s and my conversations and giving us time alone. Those moments were easy to construct because of the uniformity of the Coventry’s weave. However, the Earth strand doesn’t warp into the bubble of protection I expect. In- stead the thick, golden strand coils into my fingers, pulling farther and farther into the sky until it snags across the hull. The ship groans loudly, changing from tarnished steel to bloody rust, bits flaking and falling off. It crumbles more with each second until it plummets to the surface in a flood of sparks and debris.
… to be continued tomorrow at Cuddlebuggery
Holy freaking epic!!! I was do dumfounded when I read the last paged of Crewel not expecting what I was reading .. and I’m excited to find out more!!
And here you can will find the other Bloggers participating in this awesome event!
Release Schedule
- Monday, May 20—Prologue and Part One of Chapter One Bewitched Bookworms
- Tuesday, May 21—Part Two of Chapter One Cuddlebuggery
- Wednesday, May 22—Part Three of Chapter One Xpresso Reads
- Thursday, May 23—Part Four of Chapter One The Book Cellar
- Friday, May 24—Part Five of Chapter One BookYAReview
Official Tour Page on MacTeen Books.
Crewel by Gennifer Albin
Get your own: amazon | BookDepository
Incapable. Awkward. Artless.
That’s what the other girls whisper behind her back. But sixteen year-old Adelice Lewys has a secret: she wants to fail.
Gifted with the ability to weave time with matter, she’s exactly what the Guild is looking for, and in the world of Arras, being chosen as a Spinster is everything a girl could want. It means privilege, eternal beauty, and being something other than a secretary. It also means the power to embroider the very fabric of life. But if controlling what people eat, where they live and how many children they have is the price of having it all, Adelice isn’t interested.
Not that her feelings matter, because she slipped and wove a moment at testing, and they’re coming for her—tonight.
Now she has one hour to eat her mom’s overcooked pot roast. One hour to listen to her sister’s academy gossip and laugh at her Dad’s stupid jokes. One hour to pretend everything’s okay. And one hour to escape.
Because once you become a Spinster, there’s no turning back.
Altered by Gennifer Albin
Adelice always knew there’d be a price to destroying the Guild, but is she willing to pay it?
After a daring escape to Earth from Arras, sixteen-year-old Adelice Lewys thought she would finally be in control of her own destiny. She would be free to be true to herself and to her heart—to love Jost, the boy the Guild said she could not have. But Earth is not abandoned, as she’d always been taught it was. It’s inhabited with survivors waging a war against Arras. The world that was supposed to offer a new beginning is still tangled up in the past.
Now Adelice is being called upon to harness her phenomenal power and break Earth from the grip of the Guild. But even as she uncovers the truth about her parents and her former life, she discovers that nothing on Earth is as it seems either. Everyone has secrets, especially those she loves most. What’s more, those secrets are driving Adelice and Jost away from each other, and Adelice into his brother Erik’s waiting arms. Now torn between two brothers and two worlds, Adelice must decide what—and who–she’s fighting for, before it’s too late
Note, this is obviously the cover, but I had to do something as the cover is not yet revealed!!! I cannot wait to see how pretty the cover from Altered will be!!!
Find Gennifer Albin
And now.. we excited (yes, I know I’m always excited.. but truly .. I am ) to offer you
one Galley of ALTERED
This Giveaway is provided by Macmillan .. because they are made of awesome! US/CAN only . Enter via the Rafflecopter below!
Now, have you read Crewel, were you as amazed as I was about this unqieue and beautiful story??? And the ending? Holy gosh!
How do you like the Prologue.. Talk to me 🙂
Much Love,
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omfg. I need this book so bad!!! <3
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OMG I looove the sneak peak!! It has me so excited! Like you, I was totally FLOORED with the ending of Crewel. Waiting this long for book #2 is like torture!!
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I loved “Crewel” (I’m all late) just noticed the face on the cover!!!!
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I love this author! I had the pleasure of meeting her at an author event and she is one of the sweetest, nicest ladies I met!
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I haven’t had the pleasure of reading Crewel yet, but it sits on my Kindle waiting for me to hurry up already! I can’t wait to read it, so I can hurry up and get to Altered! I am such a fan of these covers, too!
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Gimme, Gimme, Gimme!! I loved, loved, loved Crewel =D I read the prologue and first chapter and now I NEED Altered! =)
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I cannot WAIT to read this! And I could stare at those covers all day. They’re so pretty. Thank goodness they match!
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Oooo this is the first time I’ve seen the cover Danny, SO PRETTY! I can’t wait for this book, I was surprised by how much I liked Crewel as well. I thought I would like it going in, but like you said, the world building is amazing (even if slightly confusing at times), and I can’t wait to dive back in:) Thanks for sharing the first chapter!
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WOW!! The cover of Altered is pretty. I really enjoyed CREWEL. I thought it was written really well because it was a complex story, but easy to follow. I can’t wait to see what happens next.
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Crewel is so fascinating!! I cannot wait to read Altered. That first chapter just killed it. Now I need MORE!!
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So excited for this next book to release!
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Extremely excited about this book. LOVED the first one!
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Love the cover! Its different to do something like that!
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I cannot wait to see the cover for Altered. I think the US cover of Crewel is one of the prettiest covers ever.
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Pick me! Pick me! I was at a local middle school talking to the kids about being a writer and when they asked me which were my favorite YA books I mentioned Crewel as one of them. How cool would be to bring in an ARC copy of the next book? Waayyy coooollll!
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Love this contest! Would love to read this book!
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Oh, I love these chapter reveals! Thanks so much for featuring this, Danny. I still haven’t read the first book yet, but knowing you loved it makes me kick myself for not doing it sooner, hah.
Funnily enough, I just found out this weekend that there was a face on the first book cover–I never noticed that before! But now it seems perfectly obvious, on both books. Silly old me.
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Such a stunning placeholder!
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Sounds like a great series! Can’t wait!
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Sounds fantastic!! Can’t wait to read it!
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Haven’t read these yet, but they are for sure going on my TBR pile!
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AH! I’m so excited for this book!!! The last chapter of Crewel shocked me. As soon as it ended, I was dying to read more. I just love the world building and how different the story was. I’m so excited to see what this version of Earth is — and of course, more Jost / Adelice time wouldn’t hurt 😉
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Thank you for the chapter reveal! I’m so incredibly excited for this book!!
thanks for the giveaway!!
xo
jaime
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I have heard so much about Crewel, I need to read it before Altered comes out!
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Thank you! This is such a pretty cover
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EEK! So awesome! I LOVED Crewel and I can’t wait to see what happens next in Altered. Thanks for the giveaway!
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Awesome first tease! I need to read the whole thing now!!!!
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I have CREWEL and would love to have ALTERED as well. Thank you so much.
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Book sounds awesome sauce ! Love to read it
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Loved Crewel. So excited for Altered!
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[…] obviously. Last week the first chapter was released online. You can find the first section at Bewitched Bookworm. She has links to the next sections. Enjoy! The Jost/Erik conflict is my favorite […]
Eeeeeeeeeeeppppp!!!!! I. Am. So. Excited!! I cannot wait until ALTERED comes out!! CREWEL was one of my top 3 reads of 2012, only because it’s so hard to choose just one! But I ABSOLUTELY LOVED IT and I feel like it didn’t get anywhere near the attention it should have. Especially considering that some of the books that are so hyped up just aren’t worth it. But CREWEL deserves so much more play. Maybe with the release of ALTERED it’ll get more attention. I hope!! Oh, and I love what you did with the cover so there wasn’t just a blank box 🙂 I think you’re on to something there! Now I’m especially curious to see what it REALLY is!
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I loved Crewel, and absolutely cannot wait to read Altered! I met Jennifer Albin a couple weeks ago at the Rochester Teen Book Festival, and she is one of the coolest people ever! It made me THAT much more excited about her work!
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I LOVED LOVED LOVED CREWEL SOOOOOOOO MUCH! I listened to it via audiobook and when I saw Altered was going to be at BEA I jumped for joy! You will see me in that line bright and early. Look for the 30 something year old gal fangurrling and hyperventilating like a teeny bopper at a Justin Bieber meet -n- greet!
Im so excited *dances* *sings*
Crewel was beautifully written, the story was so amahaziiing. I LOVE Adelice! Maela is an evil *rhymes with witch* but I still love her character!
Then the bomb dropped on us at the end about the earth and all that jazz! OH EM GEE!
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Ah! Ive been wanting to read this series ever since Crewel came out! 😀 TY!!
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I really enjoyed Crewel, and I’m excited to get this taste of Altered!
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These chapter reveals are killing me! I haven’t had the chance to read CREWEL as yet and I’m so afraid to read the ALTERED chapter reveals. Tempting as they are , I don’t want to want to come across any spoilers. I know , I know . It’s my own fault for not having read CREWEL as yet. I’m kicking myself right about now. I’m bookmarking all the posts…now I just have to hurry and get my hands on Crewel
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Crewel was such an exciting book! Definitely need Altered now.
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Woohoo! I’m super excited I won this book. I have read Crewel and loved it. Can’t wait to see what happens.
Thank you a ton for the great giveaway ! I sent you a email with my mailing address.
Thanks again!
Ryver
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Got your mail;-)
And congrats!!!!! Cheers, Danny
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