Last month I received an email from Simon & Schuster asking if I would like to read a book by a debut author from London. I don’t mean London, Ontario, but that lovely place where royalty lives and Big Ben stands and awesome accents are abundant. Basically, I was willing to accept just at the words “UK”, but the story itself did also sound like an interesting read.
Being me, after a couple weeks, it slipped my mind that I had a couple books on the way from various publishers, so I was thoroughly ecstatic when I found a package in the mail containing this:
Hunting Lila by Sarah Alderson
Seventeen-year-old Lila has two secrets she’s prepared to take to the grave. The first is that she can move things just by looking at them. The second is that she’s been in love with her brother’s best friend, Alex, since forever.
After a mugging exposes her unique ability, Lila decides to run to the only people she can trust—her brother and Alex. They live in Southern California where they work for a secret organization called The Unit, and Lila discovers that the two of them are hunting down the men who murdered her mother five years before. And that they’ve found them.
In a world where nothing and no one is quite as they seem, Lila quickly realizes that she is not alone—there are others out there just like her—people with special powers—and her mother’s killer is one of them…
So this week I will be sharing some bits and bobs about this novel as I read it, along with a surprise on Wednesday so be sure to come back that day! In the meantime, here is a touch of awesome for you to whet your appetite upon…
That’s right, yours truly is part of the blog tour and got an adorable little banner to prove it *L0L* The book may have been released in the UK almost a year ago, but Lila’s story is ready to take on our country “across the pond”.
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