Vessel | Lisa. T. Cresswell
Released May 2015 by Month9Books
Verdict: I LOVE the idea of being a vessel for information and the cover is so pretty. Definitely on my radar!
The sun exploded on On April 18, 2112 in a Class X solar
storm the likes of which humankind had never seen.
They had exactly nineteen minutes to decide what to do next.
They had nineteen minutes until a geomagnetic wave washed
over the Earth, frying every electrical device created by humans, blacking out
entire continents, and every satellite in their sky.
Nineteen minutes to say goodbye to the world they knew,
forever, and to prepare for a new Earth, a new Sun.
Generations after solar storms destroyed nearly all human
technology on Earth, humans reverted to a middle ages-like existence, books are
burned as heresy, and all knowledge of the remaining technology is kept hidden
by a privileged few called the Reticents.
Alana, a disfigured slave girl, and Recks, a traveling
minstrel and sometimes-thief, join forces to bring knowledge and books back to
the human race. But when Alana is chosen against her will to be the Vessel, the
living repository for all human knowledge, she must find the strength to be what
the world needs even if it's the last thing she wants.
ABOUT LISA T.
CRESSWELL:
Lisa, like most writers, began scribbling silly notes,
stories, and poems at a very young age. Born in North Carolina, the South proved
fertile ground to her imagination with its beautiful white sand beaches and red
earth. In fifth grade, she wrote, directed and starred in a play "The Queen of
the Nile" at school, despite the fact that she is decidedly un-Egyptian looking.
Perhaps that's why she went on to become a real life archaeologist?
Unexpectedly transplanted to Idaho as a teenager, Lisa
learned to love the desert and the wide open skies out West. This is where her
interest in cultures, both ancient and living, really took root, and she became
a Great Basin archaeologist. However, the itch to write never did leave for
long. Her first books became the middle grade fantasy trilogy, The Storyteller
Series. Her first traditionally published work, Hush Puppy, is now available
from Featherweight Press.
Lisa still lives in Idaho with her family and a menagerie of
furry critters that includes way too many llamas!
Giveaway open internationally
Winner will be drawn August 29, 2014
Winners will receive their book on release day
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