Today we are thrilled to be a part of the Unbreakable blog tour! The second book in the Young Adult Science Fiction/Speculative Fiction Unraveling series by Elizabeth Norris, Unbreakable continues Janelle and Ben’s story – after they’ve stopped their universes from imminent collapse and collision.
For our stop on the tour, we’ve got an extended excerpt from Unbreakable (100 pages!).
About Unbreakable:
Four months after Ben disappeared through the portal to his home universe, Janelle believes she’ll never see him again. Her world is still devastated, but life is finally starting to resume some kind of normalcy. Until Interverse Agent Taylor Barclay shows up.
Somebody from an alternate universe is running a human trafficking ring, kidnapping people and selling them on different Earths—and Ben is the prime suspect. Now his family has been imprisoned and will be executed if Ben doesn’t turn himself over within five days.
And when Janelle learns that someone she cares about—someone from her own world—has become one of the missing, she knows that she has to help Barclay, regardless of the danger. Now Janelle has five days to track down the real culprit. Five days to locate the missing people before they’re lost forever. Five days to reunite with the boy who stole her heart. But as the clues begin to add up, Janelle realizes that she’s in way over her head—and that she may not have known Ben as well as she thought. Can she uncover the truth before everyone she cares about is killed?
The Excerpt:
Some days are so perfect, they just don’t seem real.
They’re the days when you wake up and aren’t tired, when the sun is shining and the breee kicks up from the ocean, keeping you from getting too hot or too cold, and everything you do goes right. Like you’re inside of a movie with your own soundtrack, when you’re so happy that you can’t help just spontaneously breaking into a smile. Some days are like magic.
But I haven’t had one of those days in a long time.
So long, it feels like maybe I never did. In fact, when I’ve been up for eighteen hours, letting Cecily boss me around in an old snack bar that she converted into a kitchen – one that might be a hundred degrees – it feels like maybe perfect days are a lie.
“What are you doing?” Cecily says, scolding me. “That’s never going to work.”
“My idea, not work? That’s shocking.” I made a big show of rolling my eyes. “Come up with a better idea and we’ll try it.” I almost add that we don’t need popcorn, but I keep my mouth shut. I can only push her so far. The wrath of Cecily when plans go awry is something I’m trying to avoid.
Check out the first 100 pages of Unbreakable online HERE.
About the Author:
Elizabeth Norris is the author of Unraveling and Unbreakable, and the e-novella Undone. Visit Liz on the web at ElizabethNorrisBooks.com and LizNorris.blogspot.com, as well as Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Goodreads and Pinterest.
The Blog Tour:
Check out the other stops on the tour for more about Unbreakable!
- April 16th: Fic Fare
- April 17th: The Reader Lines
- April 18th: Confessions of an Opinionated Book Geek
- April 19th: Good Choice Reading
- April 22nd: The Book Monsters
- April 23rd: Ruby’s Reads
- April 24th: Adventures of a Book Junkie (Too Fond of Books)
- April 25th: The Nocturnal Library
- April 26th: Reading Teen
The Giveaway:
We are giving away a copy of Unraveling and Unbreakable! The contest is open to addresses in the US and UK, and will run until Sunday, May 12 at 12:01am EST. To enter, use the form below!
Good luck! And make sure to stick around as later today Thea reviews Unraveling (book 1 in the series).
49 Comments
LB
April 30, 2013 at 8:07 amAwesome giveaway!
LB
April 30, 2013 at 8:10 amThe show “Awake,” which ran for only one season. Man and family in car accident. He wakes up. In one reality, his son his dead. In another reality, his wife is dead. He switches back and forth, and they realities are somehow connected.
Linda W
April 30, 2013 at 9:09 amMy favorite show that has some alternate reality aspects or parallel universes is DOCTOR WHO.
superbwg
April 30, 2013 at 10:30 amFringe Fringe Fringe Oh I love me some Fringe!!!! I loved the alternate universes in the show
Serenity
April 30, 2013 at 10:49 amStar Trek Reboot alternate timeline is technically not part of the original universe, but it is totally canon!
Vanessa
April 30, 2013 at 10:59 amI have recently become a Fringe fan.
Serena
April 30, 2013 at 12:43 pmI loved The Breach and the two follow-up books. Really great use of alt-universes, alt-time lines.
Ellie
April 30, 2013 at 12:56 pmFringe!
Rachael
April 30, 2013 at 3:46 pmStar Trek!!! All. Of. Them.
Rachael
April 30, 2013 at 3:47 pmStar Trek!!
Mary Anne
April 30, 2013 at 4:11 pmI really liked the “Touchstone” series by Andrea Host. Available in e-format; I don’t know if you can get it in regular book format.
Cee
April 30, 2013 at 4:13 pmFringe! Anywhere with my Lincoln Lee. ;D
Allison
April 30, 2013 at 5:48 pmOh man, I can’t pick between Fringe and Doctor Who!
So I’ll go with both
Hebe
April 30, 2013 at 7:03 pmI’m going to throw in a word for the Dark Tower series by Stephen King, which is mind-blowingly awesome in my opinion.
Victoria Zumbrum
April 30, 2013 at 8:22 pmI love Fringe. Thanks for the giveaway.
erinf1
April 30, 2013 at 8:36 pmDoes anyone remember Sliders? with Jerry O’Connell? I loved that show!
Lexi
April 30, 2013 at 8:53 pmFor TV, Doctor Who and for books, too many to mention though Neil Gaiman has a good one but I forgot the title
Scarlett
April 30, 2013 at 9:00 pmIt has already been said, and I’m sure it will be said many times more, but Doctor Who would have to be my most favorite. Whooligan for life!!
Katya
April 30, 2013 at 9:15 pmDoctor Who!
Anna
May 1, 2013 at 12:26 amTo whoever said “Awake”–that show was so so so good and I was mad it got cancelled after just one season–there was so much more interesting ground to cover 🙁
Abbey
May 1, 2013 at 9:54 amI love Andrea Host’s Touchstone series.
Darith L.
May 1, 2013 at 4:46 pmEasy. Once Upon a Time!
Donna L.
May 1, 2013 at 11:05 pmI haven’t watched anything new with an alternate or multiple universe theme but I did like Stargate SG1, Stargate Atlantis and from the 80’s Quantum Leap was a big favorite for me as a kid.
I really enjoyed Unraveled and am looking forward to reading Unbreakable.
Thanks for the giveaway!
Bridget Howard
May 2, 2013 at 12:23 amI would have to say the Lux series by Jennifer Armentrout is my favorite, but I did really enjoy Unraveling as well!!!
Nikki Egerton
May 2, 2013 at 8:13 amHas to be Doctor Who! I’m completely obsessed!
Gilly
May 2, 2013 at 11:13 amMore and more curious to see how this series continues!
cat falls
May 2, 2013 at 12:15 pmDr. Who or Star Trek!! Both are amazing (one is more historical, while the other is scifi)!
sarac
May 2, 2013 at 6:46 pmI love Charles Stross’s Merchant Princes series. And of course, Dr Who!!!
Beth D.
May 3, 2013 at 4:05 amDoctor Who, definitely.
Becky C.
May 3, 2013 at 11:23 amLoved many shows with alternate timelines, but Star Trek is my favorite.
Alyssa Susanna
May 3, 2013 at 4:40 pmStrangelets by Michelle Gagnon wasn’t bad! But Unraveling is my favorite. Thank you for the giveaway! 🙂
Jill the OWL
May 3, 2013 at 8:19 pmDoctor Who!
Stacy Li
May 4, 2013 at 4:02 pmDoctor Who of course!!
scribe kira
May 4, 2013 at 7:33 pmdoctor who
Lozza
May 5, 2013 at 8:03 amAt the urging of my husband I’ve just started watching Dr. Who and it is growing on me.
Pabkins
May 5, 2013 at 2:48 pmThe Abhorsen Trilogy by Garth Nix…I think that might work. If not I’d have to say hmmm….Narnia? Hehe
Lauren
May 5, 2013 at 4:46 pmI think Looper (starring everyone’s favorite bald badass) is my new favorite.
Justine
May 5, 2013 at 7:27 pmStar Trek!
Claire
May 5, 2013 at 8:41 pmDoctor who is very nice! I just wish that I had time to watch it….T-T
Sarah
May 6, 2013 at 10:09 amFringe!
Stephanie T.
May 6, 2013 at 11:30 pmThe Doctor Who parallel universes always get me in a tickle just thinking about it!
Emilia
May 9, 2013 at 4:47 amI don’t really have a favorite show or book that is about parallel universes, but I know I really need to get on the Dr. Who bandwagon! I think I would like it!
Sherry Knack
May 9, 2013 at 9:40 pmI have say I really liked the show Sliders. Of course the world of Unraveling is pretty interesting too.
Mehray
May 10, 2013 at 7:48 amooh, this is tough but my favourite book has got to be The Infernal Devices series by Cassandra Clare <3
Thanks for the giveaway (:
Amairany Ra
May 10, 2013 at 9:43 pmMy favorite book with a parallel universe is The Shadow Society by Marie Rutkoski, it´s about Darcy whos comes from a parallel Chicago were Shades exist (creatures) and the Great Chicago Fire never happened.
iatetheoreos
May 10, 2013 at 9:55 pmDifficult to chooses but I love HIS DARK MATERIALS, both the books and the movie.
Christine
May 11, 2013 at 12:39 pmMy favorite is definitely the Harry Potter Series.
Sherry Knack
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