Tuesday, September 10, 2013

BLOG TOUR: EXCERPT: BECOMING BRYN by Angela Carling



Title: Becoming Bryn
Author: Angela Carling
Publication Date: June 15, 2013
Genre: Young Adult
Tour Host: Irresistible Reads Book Tours

SUMMARY

For months, Jesse has been envious of her twin sister Bryn and even has a crush on Bryn’s gorgeous, popular boyfriend, Quinton. When Jesse awakens from a coma to learn that everyone thinks she IS Bryn, the option of actually taking over her sister’s life is beyond tempting, but there’s a downside. She’d have to give up Ethan, her best friend and the only person she trusts. Could she actually live as Bryn for the rest of her life? And if her family and friends found out, would they ever forgive her?


EXCERPT

Written from Jesse’s point of view

As we got closer, I could see that just beyond the fence, waiting for the maze to open up was a large crowd of people dressed up as everything from doctors to vampires. We knew somewhere in the masses of people were our friends.

There was no turn lane on the narrow road, so I flipped on my turn signal and began to slow down just before the dirt entrance that led to the market came into view. Brin, who had been straining to look past me for her friends, finally gave up and undid her seatbelt. By the time we stopped, she was hanging out of the sunroof, waving wildly and yelling across the street to a couple of the girls I recognized as cheerleaders on Brin’s squad. I looked up at her, smiling, so excited and confident… then as I glanced in the rear view mirror I saw another car coming up behind us. The car was weaving all over the road and driving way too fast. Worst of all, I could see from the headlights behind him that the driver wasn’t paying attention, that he was looking down at something in his lap.

Like a voice in my head, I remembered my mom complaining about the fact that there was no turn lane to get into the farmer’s market, talking about how dangerous it was. “Someone’s going to die out here,” she’d said. I thought she was acting melodramatic.

I watched helplessly as the car barreled towards us. There was nowhere to go. There were only two lanes and a constant stream of cars came from the other direction. Even if I’d wanted to pull off the road, a huge canal filled with irrigation water made it impossible. Panic began to surge through my veins in the form of adrenaline, yet suddenly, simultaneously, time seemed to crawl putting everything around me into slow motion.  The approaching car, the screaming teenagers across the street, my sister calling out to them, it felt choppy, like an old silent movie. I could imagine in my head a black and white version of the scene with comments added like, “oh no, we’re going to die!” written in old typewriter text against a flimsy screen.

Just before the car behind us made impact, I could feel myself laughing darkly at my own imagery. Then, in my ears and in my bones I heard and felt the crushing of metal as the car from behind struck us with full force, launching us like a pinball in a classic pinball machine, shooting us forward with deadly aim right into oncoming traffic. For a second, or maybe half a second, I was aware of my sister’s legs being lifted from the seat she was standing on, and I knew somewhere above me she was being thrown around like a ragdoll. Then I saw nothing but the enormous cement truck right in front of us. Somehow, I knew, the truck driver had no time to change his course, and my heart, that suddenly felt as if it was made of lead, plummeted into my stomach. With only feet between us, I noticed that the word “Rock solid” had been plastered across the black exterior paint of the truck. Clever, I thought morbidly, remembering I had seen similar trucks in my neighborhood. Then before total panic could even really set in, before I could scream or cry, or move out of his path, our tiny economy car and his massive cement truck collided and all of my thoughts and fears and impulses slipped away into total blackness.

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ABOUT the AUTHOR

Raised in Palm Springs California. A desert rat that writes Young Adult novels and loves all kitties and her family. Can be bribed with chocolate. Published books, Unbreakable Love, Shackled and Becoming Bryn.


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