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Showing posts with label JL Spelbring. Show all posts
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Friday, September 20, 2013

Author Interview: J.L. Spelbring + Perfection Giveaway

Debut Authors Bash at yareads.com

I'm glad to be apart of the 2013 Debut Authors Bash :) It's a awesome event hosted by Yareaders America.
So many amazing authors and bloggers are participating. My chosen author is J.L. Spelbring, who was my first choice! I'm excited since I recently reviewed her debut book, Perfection, not to long ago :)

A giveaway of a Signed Copy First Edition of Perfection by JL Spelbring! (US Only!)

My Review
The personification of Aryan purity, Ellyssa's spent her whole life under her creator's strict training and guidance; her purpose is to eradicate inferior beings. She was genetically engineered to be the perfect soldier: strong, intelligent, unemotional, and telepathic.Only Ellyssa isn't perfect.Ellyssa feels emotions--a fact she's spent her life concealing. Until she encounters the epitome of inferiority: a dark-haired boy raised among renegades hiding since the Nazis won the war a century ago. He speaks to her telepathically, pushing thoughts into her mind, despite the impossibility of such a substandard person having psychic abilities.But he does.His unspoken words and visions of a place she's never visited make Ellyssa question her creator. Confused and afraid her secret will be discovered, Ellyssa runs away, embarking on a journey where she discovers there is more to her than perfection.

Author Bio
J.L. Spelbring lives in Texas, where she wanders out in the middle of the night to look at the big and bright stars. Besides knocking imaginary bad guys in the head with a keyboard, she enjoys being swept away between the pages of a book, running amuck inside in her own head, pretending she is into running, and hanging out with her kids, who are way too cool for her.

Author Interview with JL Spelbring
1. Could you start off this interview by telling us, briefly, a little bit about yourself?
    Let's see. Besides sitting in front of a computer all day (work and writing), click-clacking away on a keyboard, I enjoy running, Diet Coke, and Chips Ahoy Cookies with Reese's Peanut Butter Cups. Hence the running.  :)

2. What's the most exciting aspect, for you, about being a debut author?
    The most exciting part is seeing what people have to say about PERFECTION. 

3. I love the butterfly usage on the cover and on the pages throughout the book. Could you explain its significance to the story?
    The butterfly is about emerging, becoming something different. Ellyssa, my main MC emerges, emerges from a very strict, in a way, sheltered life, and through her experiences, becomes something more than who she was raised to be.

Thursday, June 27, 2013

Perfection by J.L. Spelbring

Perfection 
by J.L. Spelbring
Released |July 16th 2013 by Spencer Hill Press|
Edition |Physical ARC|
Source |Publisher|

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The personification of Aryan purity, Ellyssa's spent her whole life under her creator's strict training and guidance; her purpose is to eradicate inferior beings. She was genetically engineered to be the perfect soldier: strong, intelligent, unemotional, and telepathic.
Only Ellyssa isn't perfect.
Ellyssa feels emotions--a fact she's spent her life concealing. Until she encounters the epitome of inferiority: a dark-haired boy raised among renegades hiding since the Nazis won the war a century ago. He speaks to her telepathically, pushing thoughts into her mind, despite the impossibility of such a substandard person having psychic abilities.
But he does.
His unspoken words and visions of a place she's never visited make Ellyssa question her creator. Confused and afraid her secret will be discovered, Ellyssa runs away, embarking on a journey where she discovers there is more to her than perfection.

This was a hard book for me to rate and write for some reason. I enjoyed the story and thought the author's writing style was great, but I don't know why I'm having such a hard time writing this review. I really enjoyed the idea of the story. The doctor of the center/Ellyssa father is pretty much corrupt. He's creating the 'perfect' soldiers to establish Hitlers goals of perfection and utopia. If he thinks they aren't perfect in their genetics and abilities, then the soldiers are suppose to eliminate them. (Okay, that is my interpretation! lol)