Today I'm hosting a stop for the new YA fantasy-dystopia, Doomed! Enjoy!
Check out the rest of the tour here!
_______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
About the Book:
Beat the game. Save the world.
Pandora’s just your average teen, glued to her cell phone and laptop, surfing Facebook and e-mailing with her friends, until the day her long-lost father sends her a link to a mysterious site featuring twelve photos of her as a child. Unable to contain her curiosity, Pandora enters the site, where she is prompted to play her favorite virtual-reality game, Zero Day. This unleashes a global computer virus that plunges the whole world into panic: suddenly, there is no Internet. No cell phones. No utilities, traffic lights, hospitals, law enforcement. Pandora teams up with handsome stepbrothers Eli and Theo to enter the virtual world of Zero Day. Simultaneously, she continues to follow the photographs from her childhood in an attempt to beat the game and track down her father, her one key to saving the world as we know it. Part The Matrix, part retelling of the Pandora myth, Doomed has something for gaming fans, dystopian fans, and romance fans alike.
About the Author:
Tracy Deebs collects books, English degrees and lipsticks and has been known to forget where—and sometimes who—she is when immersed in a great novel. At six she wrote her first short story—something with a rainbow and a prince—and at seven she forayed into the wonderful world of girls lit with her first Judy Blume novel. From the first page of that first book, she knew she’d found her life-long love. Now a writing instructor at her local community college, Tracy writes YA novels that run the gamut from dark mermaids and witches to kissing clubs and techno-Armageddon stories… and she still has a soft spot for Judy Blume.
Website | Blog | Twitter | Author Facebook | Book Facebook | Goodreads
_______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Excerpt!
Adrenaline surges through my system, making my heart pound heavily as blood thrums in my ears. “What do I do?” I yell. “What do I do?”
In my head is the original warning, about having only one life. If this thing kills me now, I’m out for good and I’m not sure what that means for the fate of my computer. Or the rest of my little corner of the world.
“Run,” Eli says, ripping his eyes off his onw avatar long enough to check out my predicament.
“Yeah. That’s so not going to happen. In case you haven’t noticed, I have a gigantic dragon lady on my chest!” I recoil in horror as I get my first good look at her. She’s huge, and while her top half is that of a woman – with snake hair – her bottom half is covered in black scales. She has huge claws, a long barbed tail, and her legs, while stationary, are moving – undulating really, and I realize they’re made of snakes, too. Snakes that are looking at my avatar like they want to take a bite out of her. Me. Whatever.
“That’s Campe,” Theo says calmly, and I almost hate him for being such a know-it-all. He hits a couple of buttons on my keyboard. I buck and roll on-screen, but the huge, nightmarish beast doesn’t move. Big surprise. One of the claws rakes my shoulder, and I swear, I almost feel the pain. I know I’m sweating.
“She’s going to kill me!” I screech, just as Theo’s computer beeps and he’s finally thrust into the game, too. He takes off running in my direction, but I’m too busy thrashing around to pay much attention to what he and Eli are doing.
“Hold on,” Eli tells me. “I’m almost there.”
“I’m doing my best.” I hit the monster in her face, and it surprises her enough that I’m able to shove out from under her, but once she recovers, she’s enraged. She kicks me, and the vipers that make up her legs his as they try to take a bite out of me.
I kick back, catching the beast in her scaly stomach. She screams as she goes down on top of me. My breath whooshes out, and I try to stay conscious as I shove at the thing. But I’m in bad shape. I’m bleeding from my left leg and right shoulder, and from the way my avatar is struggling to draw in air, I’m afraid I might have broken a rib or three. So much for boring – the game has gone from mundane to terrifying in the blink of an eye.
I look up just as she flexes her long, terrifying claws. They’re mostly black, but they’re tipped in deep red, and I’m praying that’s her normal look, not my blood. She leans over me and her teeth elongate, growing until they’re huge and so close to me that I imagine the feel of her hot, stinky breath on my face. I turn my head, close my eyes, and prepare to die before I ever had a chance to live.
In my head is the original warning, about having only one life. If this thing kills me now, I’m out for good and I’m not sure what that means for the fate of my computer. Or the rest of my little corner of the world.
“Run,” Eli says, ripping his eyes off his onw avatar long enough to check out my predicament.
“Yeah. That’s so not going to happen. In case you haven’t noticed, I have a gigantic dragon lady on my chest!” I recoil in horror as I get my first good look at her. She’s huge, and while her top half is that of a woman – with snake hair – her bottom half is covered in black scales. She has huge claws, a long barbed tail, and her legs, while stationary, are moving – undulating really, and I realize they’re made of snakes, too. Snakes that are looking at my avatar like they want to take a bite out of her. Me. Whatever.
“That’s Campe,” Theo says calmly, and I almost hate him for being such a know-it-all. He hits a couple of buttons on my keyboard. I buck and roll on-screen, but the huge, nightmarish beast doesn’t move. Big surprise. One of the claws rakes my shoulder, and I swear, I almost feel the pain. I know I’m sweating.
“She’s going to kill me!” I screech, just as Theo’s computer beeps and he’s finally thrust into the game, too. He takes off running in my direction, but I’m too busy thrashing around to pay much attention to what he and Eli are doing.
“Hold on,” Eli tells me. “I’m almost there.”
“I’m doing my best.” I hit the monster in her face, and it surprises her enough that I’m able to shove out from under her, but once she recovers, she’s enraged. She kicks me, and the vipers that make up her legs his as they try to take a bite out of me.
I kick back, catching the beast in her scaly stomach. She screams as she goes down on top of me. My breath whooshes out, and I try to stay conscious as I shove at the thing. But I’m in bad shape. I’m bleeding from my left leg and right shoulder, and from the way my avatar is struggling to draw in air, I’m afraid I might have broken a rib or three. So much for boring – the game has gone from mundane to terrifying in the blink of an eye.
I look up just as she flexes her long, terrifying claws. They’re mostly black, but they’re tipped in deep red, and I’m praying that’s her normal look, not my blood. She leans over me and her teeth elongate, growing until they’re huge and so close to me that I imagine the feel of her hot, stinky breath on my face. I turn my head, close my eyes, and prepare to die before I ever had a chance to live.
_______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Giveaway!
Tracy has generously donated two finished copies of DOOMED to give away! The giveaway will end on January 7. Good luck!
a Rafflecopter giveaway
