Wednesday 12 December 2012

Book Blitz: Excerpt, Special Offer & Giveaway: Snow White Sorrow


Hey guys!  Instead of my usual WoW post, I have something a little different for you this week.  Make sure you read the bottom of the post so you don't miss out on an incredible deal!

Title: Snow White Sorrow (The Grimm Diaries #1)
Author: Cameron Jace
Publisher: Akmal Eldin Farouk Ali Shebl
Released: February 2013

What if all you knew about fairy tales was wrong?

Sixteen year old Loki Blackstar is no Prince Charming. His mother is a ghost. His only friend is a red Cadillac that talks to him through the radio. He looks like an Angel but acts like jerk. No wonder he has been banned from Heaven, which is the least of his troubles. Loki needs a job to pay for school and support himself.

Still, Loki has a rare gift: He is a Dreamhunter. One of the few in the world who can hunt and kill immortal demons in their dreams so they never wake up again.

When Loki is sent to kill a sixteen-year-old vampire girl the locals call Snow White Sorrow, he is pulled into a magical but dangerous world. The locals believe the monster to be Snow White.

The real Snow White... living in the ruins of an ancient castle in a small town. She is described as horribly beautiful, terrifyingly enchanting, and wickedly lovely.

What he finds instead is a beautiful monster girl filled with rage and hurt, who has an epic untold story to tell of things such like why the Brothers Grimm altered the fairy tale, who the Evil Queen really is, where the mirror came from, and who possessed it.

Snow White has killed every person who has dared come near the castle where she once lived with the queen. Mysteriously, she lets Loki live, and whispers two words in his ears; two words that will change his life forever.



Excerpt from Snow White Blood Red
Dear Wilhelm Carl Grimm,
    She is not that giddy, naïve, and helpless princess she pretends to be. Please don’t let her fool you with her innocence if you see her sing to the birds in the forest. Resist her charm from bringing joyful tears to your eyes, and shield yourself from her devious beauty before she deceives you into wanting to kiss her awake. It'll  be a kiss of death. Your death. That’s how she fooled the Huntsman, Prince Charming, and me, her birth mother.
    I still remember the original script of the fairy tale, the one you wrote in 1812. It clearly stated that she was my own flesh and blood daughter. I don’t have the slightest idea why you altered it fifty years later.
    What was the point of turning me into an evil, narcissistic, and heartless stepmother, blinded by jealousy and envy of the young princess?
    For years, I have been looking forward to telling you the truth about her, but you were impossible to reach.
    I am glad I found your brother, Jacob. He told me that you wanted to tone the stories down so children could sleep better at night, instead of having nightmares about the Queen who sought to eat her daughter’s heart and liver.
    Shame on you, Wilhelm.
    You, of all authors, knew why I wanted to kill her. My actions were justified. I was trying to save my kingdom from her wrath, before everything we loved was destined to an end. The same way you had to rewrite the true fairytales after cursing us, so the War of Sorrows would end forever after.
    Night after night, and year after year, parents fed their children false bedtime stories, until your lies grew into inescapable memories. Your happily ever after lies, Wilhelm, shaped the so called fairy tale world.
    I wondered why you didn’t burn the original scripts, instead of rewriting them. You must have figured out that sooner or later someone would dig up the truth and expose you. Altering it was the smarter solution. You let children believe that the bites were resurrecting kisses, and that torturing glass coffins were made for sleeping beauties, waiting for a prince to come and kiss them awake.
    A wise man once said that the greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he was someone else. You did the same with us, Wilhelm. You turned us into pastiches of the immortals that we really are, and made it harder for us if wanted to persuade the world otherwise.
    I know that you did it to save us from her. And I appreciate how you concealed our real names, or we would have ended up like Rumpelstiltskin, tortured by those who knew of his real name.
    But sometimes, I can’t help but wonder why no one ever questioned why I was called the Evil Queen, and why I was never given a real name in the books.
    Was I so superficial to the world, so stereotypical and mundane? Why was I treated as if I were the monster of the week?
    You know what I think? I think that the world never got the time to hate me. It just wanted to hate me long before it met me.
    If I tell those who detest me about the true nature of their little princess, would they ever care about me half as much as they care about her?
    I know that deep inside, they adore me. They like the way I talk, walk, dress, and even the way I kill.
    They are just afraid to admit how much they love me. I am the Snow White Queen, strong enough that I don’t need anyone’s pity or love, because I am loved by the greatest and most majestic heart in the world:
    Mine.

Special Offer: until December 13th the prequal pack (all 6 prequels) are only 0.99c!  Click here.
Special Note: All "Likers" of Cameron's Facebook page will be notified of the exact release date, which is also when you will be able to get Snow White Sorrow for only 0.99 for only that 1 day.

Giveaway!
The winner will receive a prequel pack in Kindle format - you do not have to have a Kindle to be able to read it, you just need to have one of these free apps.  This giveaway is open internationally.
 
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6 comments:

  1. I'm so exited for this. The excerpt is amazing! I can't wait to know this version of this story of Snow White. It sounds really intriguing and fantastic. I hope this is really good. Thanks for sharing this, A! :)

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  2. I came across this excerpt earlier today and enjoyed reading it! It sounds better a second time actually. It's been a while since I've read a story based on Snow White, so I'm looking forward to this. Thanks for sharing!

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  3. I was very tempted to do this Book Blitz but I let it! Too many posts, Haha! Anyways. I love the cover for this book! It's gorgeous! I love the concept of another Snow White Story, however, in all honesty I haven't really read much Snow White! So I may enjoy this! :D Thanks for Sharing, A! :)

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  4. That sounds like an amazing book!!!! can't wait for it!!!

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  5. I featured this on my blog too. :) The cover and premise are terrific! I can hardly wait for the release date. Thank you for sharing, dear!

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  6. That cover looks amazing! I've been looking for a good fairy-tale retelling and the premise of this sounds awesome!

    Your header and and background match so perfectly, can't stop looking at it! :)

    Alex @ Possession of Books

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