I hope you’re all sitting down. It is the start of the new year, so I thought I’d shock everyone with my first cover reveal of the year and pick something unexpected. This time there’s no hot guy planting his lips on dreamy girl, no big-haired girl in a gorgeous flowing dress and there aren’t even swirls of pastels or swoopy fonts! I know, process that.
Instead, I get to reveal the fierce cover for Raksha created by Chelsea Starling. This girl looks like she’d happily kick some butt and probably look better after doing it.
Raksha
By Frankie RoseSelf-Published
Publication Date: March 1, 2013
Genre: YA Dystopian
She has no name.
She has her knives; her training; her halo.
The first and second give her the tools and the skill to defeat the opponents she is pitted against each month. The third frees her from pain and fear. From any kind of emotion at all. Everything is as it should be. Everything is as it should be, until…
FearPainAngerHappinessDesireGuilt
Love.
When a newly-named Kit escapes the Sanctuary after killing her best friend, the last thing she needs is another knife in her hand. Or Ryka, the damaged, beautiful blonde boy, who she refuses to let save her. Still learning how to process the onslaught of her new feelings, the sights and sounds of Freetown are overwhelming and strange. There are a hundred differences between her old home and her new one, but one thing remains starkly similar: the matches. Yet where the blood in the Sanctuary landed only on the colosseum floor, Kit will quickly learn that a river of red runs through Freetown’s very streets.
Freed from the oppression of a society who stole her right to feel, the true horror of her old life leaves Kit wondering if she really has been freed at all. Would she be better off without the crippling horror of all the blood on her hands, or is the love of one boy worth living through all the pain?
Raksha is the call of the dead. It is the rumbling chant for fresh blood from the other side, the demand for sacrifice. The colosseum is behind Kit. The fighting pits await.
Author’s Summary
About the author
Frankie Rose was born in the United Kingdom, but now lives with her husband in sunny Australia.
She officially makes things up for a living, and when she’s not doing that, she is generally making paper birds out of receipts and old lists or taking photographs that make her smile.
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Ooh I like!! It sounds pretty awesome as well. This one is definitely going on my ‘want now’ list.
Thanks for sharing
I thought it sounded good too – it overcame my non-dress aversion.
She has some other books that also very chick powah.
Love the cover! The chick seems so bad-ass!
Yes – she kind of looks like one of the girls in the Pat Benatar Love is a Battlefield video with all that hardware. I’d run the other way.
Ooo… this book sounds totally kick-ass. Gotta love the female characters that will cut a bitch. lol
BWUA! It’s an old stand up routine, but Eddie Murphy did this bit where he was pretending to be his mom or something and “she” was yelling at some unruly kids and the line was, “don’t make me break my foot off in your ass!” I’m a horrible, terrible mom, because that turned into the go-to yell at my house, except everyone thought it was hilarious and would fall into hysterics. So it became a joke more than anything. I’d say it in a weird voice whenever I was mock-threatening my kidlet for something.
He’s *twent*cough* and he still thinks it’s hilarious, which probably means we’re both certifiable.
This book sounds great and I LOVE the cover!