Tuesday, September 2, 2014

Abomination by Audra Middleton




Fantasy
Date Published: June 2014

 
The seeds are planted. Which will take root, change or destruction?

A seed of destruction is sprouting in Forest End, but the kingdom is in too much of an uproar trying to locate their missing princess to notice. Princess Willow has been kidnapped by the enemy. Her mother, the Fauna Queen known as Watcher, is the only one who can reach Luminar and rescue Willow before the winter snows come. While the queen finds a way to save her daughter, the princess is able to plant seeds of change in the enemy kingdom. But if Watcher doesn’t make it back in time to stop the abomination that has been growing in Forest End, Willow’s seeds will never take root.

My latest fantasy novel is due out this month, so I thought I’d share an excerpt here today.

From Abomination, Book Two of the Watcher of Anthelion Trilogy:

Hope stirred in Willow’s belly like bees in a clover patch. “Oh, Ethan! I know how I’m to get back home.”
She dug in the pocket of her dress, squealing in delight when her fingers touched the rough little seed pods she stuffed inside before she left the keep at Fern Hollow. There was too much grass where she stood, so she scurried this way and that, looking for a patch of proper soil, finally tumbling down a dip in the bluff to a patch of earth where the grass thinned out as the soil met the white sand of the beach.
Ethan dropped his small collection of sticks and followed her, perplexed to see the girl who whined so much about the stains on her frock plopping herself down in the dirt, yanking at the grass, scratching at the soil with a crooked little stick so brittle it snapped with each scrape. Once the stick was broken to the nub, she pulled seeds from her pocket and scattered them in the freshly tilled soil.
She looked up at him, blowing a stray curl from her face. “Well, are you going to stand there or are you going to help me?”
Ethan clenched his jaw. “I think you’ve gone batty. It will be dark soon. The cold is piercing already. Get out of the dirt and help me find some wood for a fire.”
“Now who’s daft? Don’t you see? I’m the child of prophecy. From the Flower and the Raven a child will spring; to Luminar seeds of change she’ll bring. I’ll plant these seeds, and then I can go home,” Willow explained, patting bits of earth over her seeds.
“Why would Luminar need to change anything?” Ethan asked, haughtily.
Willow stood up, wiping the dirt off her hands and brushing off her dress. “Maybe staring at everything white, gray, and green all day every day has made you all testy.” She looked up at him with sparkling brown eyes and grabbed his elbow. “These are marigold seeds, Ethan. They’re lovely flowers, bright, cheery shades of yellow and orange, some with little bits of red in them.”
He shook his head. “It’s autumn, Willow. We may have a mild climate, but it is still not the season for gardening. Besides, my father and I rarely come to the shore anymore. Who’s going to tend to your little flower garden?”
Willow scowled and crossed her arms, hope wilting. “God will. Just like he does these white ones.”
Ethan rolled his eyes and went back up the knoll to retrieve his firewood. “Fine then, Willow. You’ve planted your seeds. It will be a spring of change for Luminar. Now will you lend a hand before we’ve no light at all?”



Abomination (The Watcher of Anthelion #2)Abomination by Audra Middleton
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

First, I would like to thank the author Audra Middleton for giving me this book for an honest review. I enjoyed this book, although I haven't read the first book Watcher yet. The story-line is good and the world building is nicely done. The characters are well developed and written. I look forward to reading more from this author.

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Audra Middleton

Audra Middleton was born and raised in Washington State where she lives with her husband and their three boys. She gave up her teaching career to raise her children, and in between diaper changes and baseball games, she began writing books. Once she started, she couldn’t stop, even after she went back to teaching.







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