Showing posts with label darwin's children. Show all posts
Showing posts with label darwin's children. Show all posts

Monday, November 11, 2013

Book Tour Schedule for COMMON DESCENT

Here's the virtual book tour schedule for COMMON DESCENT, Natasha Larry's third book in the YA paranormal series DARWIN CHILDREN...

November 10 - Reading Addiction Blog Tours - Kick Off
November 11 - Texas Book Nook 
November 12 - A Life Through Books
November 13 - Desert Rose Reviews 
November 14 - My Reading Addiction
November 15 - Dalene's Book Reviews
November 16 - RABT Reviews - Wrap Up

COMMON DESCENT, Book 3, Darwin's Children

Natasha Larry

Eighteen-year old Jaycie Lerner’s telekinesis is finally in check – too bad levitating a picnic table is now a workout. Not to mention her previously dormant telepathy is back and raging out of control. As she struggles to manage her frightening power, the Dey-Vah announce they will soon reveal the supernatural world to the human race. To make matters worse, people start dropping dead all over northern Alabama. Then, a mysterious new enemy emerges.

Jaycie must elicit the help of the world’s only master vampire slayer and an assassin who converses with the voices in her head. Strengthening the Core is the only way to protect mankind from the coming vampire army, and that’s not even their most dangerous threat.

Jaycie and her family face their darkest hour when an innocent young girl serves as a pawn to form a deadly Alliance. The perfect vampire, Lilith Bradshaw, becomes an eye-opening example of how far the Alliance will go to serve their own destructive ends. The world around Jaycie plummets into darkness, and betrayals from the past threaten to undo them all.

 

Wednesday, October 9, 2013

Interview with Insane Assassin

All writers know quirky off-the-wall characters are fun to write and add comic relief to novels. Nobody knows this better than Natasha Larry, author of the DARWIN'S CHILDREN yound-adult paranormal series. (And lest you think 'young-adult' means it's just for teen readers - adult readers and reviewers have praised the series and recommended it!)

So hop on over to Rainy of the Dark's blog and read the interview with one crazy-@ss assassin. There's a book giveaway involved, so don't miss your chance to win.

And if you haven't read the current three books in the series, what are you waiting for? They're not only sweet on relationships - both family and romantic - they're suspenseful and full of surprises. Super-powered everyday folks pitted against supernatural villains - a surefire recipe for can't-put-it-down reading!


Book 1
DARWIN'S CHILDREN


Book 2
UNNATURAL LAW








Book 3
COMMON DESCENT

Monday, September 16, 2013

New Book Release - Common Descent, Book 3 of the Darwin's Children Series

At last - the long-awaited third book in the wildly popular YA paranormal series is now available. Ms. Larry has outdone herself this time, and the fourth book is on the way...

COMMON DESCENT
DARWIN'S CHILDREN
BOOK 3
Natasha Larry
Fiction: Young-adult, Paranormal, Supernatural



Eighteen-year old Jaycie Lerner’s telekinesis is finally in check – too bad levitating a picnic table is now a workout. Not to mention her previously dormant telepathy is back and raging out of control. As she struggles to manage her frightening power, the Dey-Vah announce they will soon reveal the supernatural world to the human race. To make matters worse, people start dropping dead all over northern Alabama. Then, a mysterious new enemy emerges.
Jaycie must elicit the help of the world’s only master vampire slayer and an assassin who converses with the voices in her head. Strengthening the Core is the only way to protect mankind from the coming vampire army, and that’s not even their most dangerous threat.
Jaycie and her family face their darkest hour when an innocent young girl serves as a pawn to form a deadly Alliance. The perfect vampire, Lilith Bradshaw, becomes an eye-opening example of how far the Alliance will go to serve their own destructive ends. The world around Jaycie plummets into darkness, and betrayals from the past threaten to undo them all.



Available now in ebook at popular online retailers like Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Smashwords, and more! Coming in print very soon!



Saturday, March 31, 2012

BOOK REVIEW CORNER – The Complete Poems: Anne Sexton

Guest blogger and Penumbra Publishing author Natasha Larry (DARWIN’S CHILDREN series) reviews the poetry of Anne Sexton in THE COMPLETE POEMS: ANNE SEXTON by Anne Sexton...

THE COMPLETE POEMS: ANNE SEXTON
Anne Sexton
© 1981, Mariner Publishing 1999
Confessional Poetry
Reviewed by Natasha Larry, Penumbra Publishing author and blogger at ParanormalWire.blogspot.com
Available in paperback and hardcover on Amazon and other retailers

I don’t spend a lot of time reading poetry, but there are a few poets I wish I could have dinner with. Anne Sexton happens to be one of them. Sexton was a confessional poet, and was around in the wacky sixties. I consider her one of the greatest women poets of all time.

At age forty, she killed herself, but before she did, she let the world with a mind-blowing collection of poetic verse that will live on forever. This collection gathers all her poetic works into one volume.

Sexton wrote with a naked honestly that, while not always beautiful like Plath, whom some considered her rival, was raw and made her stand out among the other confessionals.

One of my favorite poems is The Truth the Dead Know, which I actually stole for a chapter title in Unnatural Law. It is worth posting at length here:

For my Mother, born March 1902, died March 1959
and my Father, born February 1900, died June 1959

Gone, I say and walk from church,
refusing the stiff procession to the grave,
letting the dead ride alone in the hearse
It is June. I am tired of being brave.

We drive to the Cape. I cultivate
myself where the sun gutters from the sky,
where the sea swings in like an iron gate
and we touch. In another country people die.

My darling, the wind falls in like stones
from the whitehearted water and when we touch
we enter touch entirely. No one's alone.
Men kill for this, or for as much.

And what of the dead? They lie without shoes
in the stone boats.  They are more like stone
than the sea would be if it stopped. They refuse
to be blessed, throat, eye and knucklebone.

Another of her poems stood out for me as one of her best and arguably, most insightful. It is titled Just Once:

Just once I knew what life was for.
In Boston, quite suddenly, I understood;
walked there along the Charles River,
watched the lights copying themselves,
all neoned and strobe-hearted, opening
their mouths as wide as opera singers;
counted the stars, my little campaigners,
my scar daisies, and knew that I walked my love
on the night green side of it and cried
my heart to the eastbound cars and cried
my heart to the westbound cars and took
my truth across a small humped bridge
and hurried my truth, the charm of it, home
and hoarded these constants into morning
only to find them gone.

To me, this poem is less gory and suicidal than most of Sexton’s other works. I’m not going to sit here and pretend I have an English degree, or that I’m interested in analyzing poetry, because I am not. I do, however, know when a writer or poet speaks to me personally. I believe that Sexton is an icon. All lovers of poetry should read her, and all women should respect the fearlessness in her work.

Saturday, October 15, 2011

COMING SOON! Natasha Larry's UNNATURAL LAW (Darwin's Children Book 2)

COMING SOON!

Check out the cover and book summary for Natasha Larry's second book in the Darwin's Children young-adult paranormal series...

UNNATURAL LAW
Darwin's Children Book 2
by Natasha Larry
Young-Adult Paranormal

Seventeen-year-old Jaycie Lerner’s psychokinetic power surge is over, and her astounding powers are under control for the time being – sort of. As she struggles to maintain her humanity in the face of the awesome terror and responsibility of her abilities, she also yearns for the chance at a normal life – and a relationship with Matt Carter, the best friend she had to leave behind. But Matt’s got a few tricks up his sleeve, and he’s not about to give up on his feelings for Jaycie.

As Jaycie and her family grapple with the day-to-day routine of trying to keep their world together, Jaycie’s mother figure, Allison Young, endures a personal crisis of her own. The superhuman blonde possesses the physical equivalent of Jaycie’s awesome psychic power. So evolved, at ninety-two she still looks twenty. But what good is extended life when everyone else around her is so fragile? With no one to share her unusual life, she’s a uniquely lonely woman yearning for the romantic love she sees all around her. But in a dream she gets her wish – and it quickly turns to a nightmare for everyone else in her life. The memory of a rose is all she can hold onto in the storm of obsession that nearly sweeps her away.

Things quickly turn deadly for the vampires, but the Dey-Vah Guard fairies refuse to acknowledge there’s an imbalance in the nature they protect. As the danger gets ever closer to Jaycie and her family, the race is on to find answers before a secret plot can destroy them all.

High praise for DARWIN'S CHILDREN

Excerpts from reviews for Natasha Larry’s first novel in the series, Darwin’s Children...

“I completely fell in love with the storyline and the characters from page one! ... The characters are very well developed, at times I actually wished these characters could be real and they would adopt me into their family. You can feel the love and devotion the family have for each other through the pages. ... Overall, I loved this book! It captures so many different elements in it, family dynamics, love, romance, paranormal elements, science and genetic elements and learning to deal with your past and love who you are now!” –Belle Books Review

“...this book is amazing. There are some crazy twists and turns. I was seriously shocked at quite a few points in this book. I teared up and I was like, ‘holy snapples!’ There were some definite ‘oh my God’ moments, quite a few of them actually. I just can’t wait to read the next books that come out. I can’t wait to see Jaycie grow even more and see how her family deals with all the coming changes.” –Amber R., Awesome Sauce Book Club

“Darwin’s Children is a layered, smart and complicated story. I really enjoyed the intelligence that was undoubtedly at work writing this book. Darwin’s Children was a book thoroughly unlike anything I’ve read before. Sure, I’ve read books about humans with super abilities, but none with so much thought, creativity and explanation behind the abilities.” –Andrea, The Bookish Babes

“Darwin’s Children is a fun read about a new generation of superheroes.” –My Neurotic Book Affair

UNNATURAL LAW, Darwin's Children Book 2...

Available soon in ebook and print!

Friday, August 19, 2011

DARWIN'S CHILDREN Bewitching Book Tour

Author NATASHA LARRY blog tour event - Check the following dates and locations for Natasha Larry's BEWITCHING BOOK TOURS blog tour promoting her debut book, DARWIN'S CHILDREN, the first in her new young-adult paranormal series.

8/17 7:30 radio interview @ Romance Radio
8/29 guest post @ Pocket After Dark
8/30 @Fang-tastic Books
9/1 interview, giveaway @ www.backofthebookreviews.com
9/2 interview @ http://jacqpaige.blogspot.com/
9/2 Close Encounters of the Night Kind @ www.closeencounterswiththenightkind.blogspot.com
9/3 guest post Mysterious Books @ http://mysteriousrose.blogspot.com/
9/4 review Braintasia Books @http://www.braintasiabooks.com
9/5 @ The Write at Home Mom
9/5 interview @ Dark Angel's Writing Tools

Tuesday, August 9, 2011

Author Natasha Larry - Darwin's Children 'Bewitching Book Tour' Schedule

Follow author Natasha Larry as her debut novel, Darwin's Children, makes the rounds in the 'Bewitching Book Tour.' Here's the schedule of planned events...


August 17 - at 7:30, Romance Radio interview recording
 
August 29 - guest post at Pocket After Dark topic: writing paranormal/fantasy YA

August 30 - Fang-tastic Books
 
September 1 - interview and giveaway, Back Of The Book Reviews

September 2 - interview
September 2 - Close Encounters with the Night Kind.
 
September 3 - guest post Mysteriousbooks Blog url:
 
September 4 - review, Braintasia Books

September 5 - The Write at Home Mom, being a writer and mother
 
September 5 - interview at Dark Angel’s Writing Tools