The
Best Type of Romance
So we’ve all picked up a realistic fiction book, one where the heroine
meets the hero in a real-world setting, like a bar, a club, or even a library.
They fall in love instantly without knowing it and go their separate ways, only
to reunite at the end of the novel and confess their mutual attraction. The
second most cliché type of romance novel I’ve encountered is this: a popular,
gorgeous girl falls in love with the quite unpopular nerd, or vise versa.
What I prefer mirrors one of the oldest
romances ever recorded and interpreted to this date: Romeo and Juliet. In this
type of romance, there are boundaries that keep the
heroine and hero apart, be it feuding families, social classes, race, or
anything of that nature. If the author is not feeling depressed, struggling to
pay off mounting debt, or dealing with any other scenario that will put them
down, both characters will survive.
In The Sacrificed, there are
two classes: the winged and the walkers. Though both Emerald, a walker, and
Dusk, a winged, share godly appearances and caring personalities, there is one
defining factor that keeps them apart. The council restricts the interference
of all walkers in winged affairs. No trade, no friendship, and especially no romance.
That is, until Dusk drops down onto the streets of Centsia, and meets
Emerald for the first time. Here’s a quick excerpt, to give potential readers
an idea of what to expect with the novel.
…
Slowly, ever so
slowly, she dropped to her knees and peered around the corner.
A winged boy stood
there, muttering to a few walkers. It was impossible to distinguish the color
of his eyes, or even his expression from her sheltered position, but his
features were still rather shocking. His hair was a creamy white, a pigment
that Emerald had only ever seen on the heads of other winged. His skin was
pasty and faded. She wondered between pounding heartbeats how the winged
remained so pale when they spent so many of their days in the sky above Centsia,
arcing near the curve of the sun and circling back around again as they went to
and from their duties. The boy’s wings, however, were by far his most striking
feature. The feathers seemed to form intricate pictures as they fluttered in
the midnight breeze. Emerald continued to stare as the boy withdrew something
from his pocket.
It was bread.
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The Sacrificed by Jordan Link
YA Fantasy
Blurb:
But
everything changes when she meets Dusk, a winged from the place that she
previously scorned. He opens her eyes to a new possibility: the possibility of
the unity of winged and walkers, of freedom, and of love.
Together,
they decide to challenge the upper level’s supreme, winged council. But when a
friend betrays them, they must choose whether to sacrifice their beliefs and
save their own lives, or to remain along the thin line that divides the city in
two. Success could mean liberty; failure, death.
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About the Author:
Jordan Link is
currently contracted with Entranced Publishing for her novel "The
Sacrificed", which will be released on May 6, 2013. She won first place in
Jack L. Chalker's Young Writers Contest of 2012 for her short story “The
Bubble”, and attended Balticon 46 last year. She earned an honorable mention on
December 3rd for the Young Voices Foundation Short Story Contest and will be
published in their anthology "Oh, the Stories They Tell!" which will
be available on Amazon. Her early love of reading inspired an equivalent
passion towards writing, and she plans to continue doing so.
Author Links:
Twitter:
@JordanLink3
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Welcome to Romance Reader, Jordan!
ReplyDeleteCongratulations on the release of THE SACRIFICED!
All the best!
It's always fun to read about YA romance. Congratulations on your novel!
ReplyDeleteThanks!
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