The Mark of Noba (The Sterling Wayfairer Series #1)
by GL Tomas
Genre: Fantasy
Age category: Young Adult
Release Date: 25 August, 2015
Blurb:
Sterling Wayfairer has one goal for his senior year: make his mark. He’s been slipping into the background his whole high school career—distracted by his mother’s mental health, unsettled by the vivid dreams that haunt him at night, and overshadowed by the athletic accomplishments of his popular best friends. But this year is going to be different. He’s going to break a few rules, have some fun, and maybe even work up the nerve to ask his crush out on a date.
But things don’t go exactly as planned. Students are disappearing, Sterling starts losing time, and it all seems to center around Tetra, a girl no one else seems to notice but him. When he finally tracks her down for answers, they aren’t what he expects: He and Tetra hail from a world called Noba, and they’re being hunted by a Naga, a malevolent shapeshifter that’s marked them for destruction.
Tetra and Sterling have distinct abilities that can help them fight back, but their power depends heavily on the strength of their bond, a connection that transcends friendship, transcends romance. Years apart have left their bond weak. Jumpstarting it will require Sterling to open his heart and his mind and put his full trust in the mysterious Tetra.
If he doesn’t, neither of them will survive.
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Excerpt:
I made my way to the top and timed myself at thirty-one seconds.
Not better, but not bad for the days I took off. I thought it might help to
freestyle a bit, to feel as though I’d worked. I didn’t brag about it, but it
was euphoric to swim a fifty-meter lap in less than a minute. Guess that’s what
happened when you kept at something. You got better at it. Who knew?
At my tenth lap, my lats started burning from the resistance. What
better time than now to take a breather. I was nearing the pool’s edge, about
to call it quits, when a vacuum-like pull dragged me back under the water. What
the hell was going on?
I swam with war-like effort, but with every stroke I made, I
seemed to sink deeper…deeper…
Did I push myself too hard? Maybe, but if I didn’t push hard now,
I was going to drown.
Don’t panic, Sterling, you can do this! But no matter how hard I went, I’d reach a certain point and get
sucked back down. I must be losing sanity points on top of oxygen because the
next thing I saw was something I couldn’t believe. Shadows of what looked like
two people. I was too deep to see features, but they were fighting…on top of
the water.
Torpedoes of waves shot toward the pool’s surface with a violent
quickness that almost pummeled me. I had to get up for air and now! The closer
I swam to the top, the stronger the waves became.
There’d been two gusts of waves a minute ago, but now I counted
eight at a time. I was sure I’d surpassed my current record of thirty-six
seconds underwater, but that wouldn’t mean much if I was dead. I mustered what
strength I had left before I had to open my mouth for air, but when I reached
the surface, it was entirely solid.
I didn’t have much strength and soon I’d have to open my mouth. I
used whatever in me I had left to break through the surface. No use—it was hard
like a metal door. I wouldn’t be able to break it open, not with my bare hands.
I was going to drown. I took one deep exhale. It gave me a few
seconds, but my lungs cried for oxygen.
A strong force hit the water. Someone was sinking with me. It was
so fast, but seemed like slow motion. I didn’t make out her face, but I reached
for their hand. Contrasting skin color. My mouth opened, allowing water to
flood my throat, burning into my lungs. I couldn’t fight it anymore. At least I
wouldn’t die alone.
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Om, thanks so much for being a part of our cover reveal! I see you're from CT, so are my and my sister! Hardly see any book bloggers from CT, glad to see some other ladies repping from the Nutmeg state!
ReplyDeleteIt's not a problem. Yeah, we're few and far between over here, but now that I'm done with Grad school until the Spring semester I'm going to blog until my fingers fall off to try to make sure for the lack of the Nutmeg representatives. I can't wait to read this book!
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