Genre: Thriller, Young Adult
Publication date: July 2nd 2018
Book Blurb:
Viola’s always been that girl from that family, so a scholarship to a prestigious private school in Florida was supposed to be her ticket out of poverty and into a brand-new life. But Viola’s secrets have followed her. Her relationship with the intelligent and gorgeous Riel should have been the salvation she needed—he understands her troubled past better than anyone. But then weird things start to happen.
Frightening messages.
Missing personal items.
The unsettling feeling that she’s being watched.
Viola’s never been one to give her trust easily, but she’ll need to trust in Riel if she’s going to survive her stalker. Because she’s not fighting for a new life anymore—she’s fighting to stay alive.
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Excerpt
I tip the driver what little money I have left, grab my duffel, and step from the rickety bus. I look up at the beautiful administrative building as the bus pulls away. This time tomorrow this place won’t look so welcoming.
I lug my stuff down the short walkway, then key in the access code to open the night door.
“Hello, Viola.”
With a gasp, I spin around.
A man dressed in all black with a hood steps toward me. “You’ve been out whoring around,” he says, his voice garbled and distorted. “I saw the video.”
Fear punches through me, but I don’t hesitate as I grip my duffel and swing out. He blocks it with his left arm, sending it bouncing across the sidewalk, and knocks me down with his right. My head hits the concrete, and I wince.
With a disoriented moan, I try to roll over. The man yanks my arm and drags me around the side of the academy and into the surrounding woods. Somewhere in the back of my mind I know I should be fighting, I know I should scream, but the dizziness unbalances me.
He releases me, and pain immediately registers in my head. With shallow, shaky breaths, I squint into the darkness and see the man standing above me, shadowed, and backlit by the moon.
As I regain my bearings, I narrow in on the academy through the trees, estimate the distance, and roll to my hands and knees.
The man pushes me back over with his shoe and presses it into my ribs.
I squirm and shove at it, gasping for air, the reality slamming into me. This is him. I wasn’t being paranoid. Someone has been following me, watching me.
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Meet The Author
Shannon Greenland is the award winning author of several novels including the teen spy series, THE SPECIALISTS, and the YA romances, THE SUMMER MY LIFE BEGAN and SHADOW OF A GIRL. She also writes thrillers under S. E. Green and lives off the coast of Florida with her very grouchy dog.
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Thanks for being on the tour! 🙂
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Thank you, Giselle, for the opportunity! 😀
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I had to skip your review for now, as I’m on this tour and haven’t got my thoughts in order yet! I’ll have to come back and read it after to see if we had similar thoughts on it!! 👍🍻
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Ahhhhh, noooo, my post is an excerpt only! No reviews xD I’m gonna see what you have to say on it though! Thanks anyway!
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Ha ha ha!! Well, I skipped for nothing!! 😕
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xD ROFL!
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Whoa. This seems like a great and intense book! Just entered the giveaway. 😀
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Oh, thank you! I’m excited you joined the giveaway 😀 Fingers-crossed!
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Just from my own point of view, I don’t go for stories like this.
I realize we want drama, but I don’t like this formula to capture it. It’s like, here’s this female protagonist, going about her business.
She’s threatened. The antagonist is unseen, can go anywhere, and do anything. He can harm her anytime he wants.
The protagonist has nothing to do except be a victim. I hate seeing it when a character is relegated to being a victim. Let her go to a prep school in Texas, packing a short-barrel 9mm. Then we’ll see how far the perp gets.
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Lolll, I think I know what you’re getting at. It’s seems lurid and as if the story is just to see a victim squirm and suffer, right? Some kinda schadenfreude?
I chose not to review the book as it wasn’t my cuppa tea. The tone of voice and how fast the love interest was thrust in to the story.
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Right. And a character can’t have any personal growth if they’re just going along squirming and suffering. We, the reader, want to see personal growth in a story, because in real life we all want to be better tomorrow than we were today. And you can’t have any personal growth or character development if a character is just being made to squirm and suffer.
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I agree! But I don’t know if the characters grew or not, although you can check out Bookworm drinketh’s review as she’s read it: http://thebookwormdrinketh.com/2018/07/07/blog-tour-watching-you-by-shannon-greenland/
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Oops. Got repetitive there. I meant to hit the backspace instead of the send. That’s what happens with the little buttons on a smartphone touchscreen.
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xD hahahahaha, I was wondering abt that. It’s alright! I prefer typing on a PC/Laptop, too 😛
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