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Adrenaline
How does one react to meeting the man of your dreams, only to find out he's not quite what you expected? Find out by joining Mel on this unforgettable mystery!
Mel has been haunted by Elijah night after night as he appears in her dreams... she thinks she's in love, but that may all change when he shows up in her real life. The only catch is he's not exactly human... but what is he? After all, who - or what - can possibly have the remarkable ability to bring back the dead? Mel discovers the truth through a twisted, suspenseful journey to unveil Elijah's mysterious origins.
Mel has been haunted by Elijah night after night as he appears in her dreams... she thinks she's in love, but that may all change when he shows up in her real life. The only catch is he's not exactly human... but what is he? After all, who - or what - can possibly have the remarkable ability to bring back the dead? Mel discovers the truth through a twisted, suspenseful journey to unveil Elijah's mysterious origins.
120 pages, Paperback
First published March 18, 2013
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Kya Aliana
10 books113 followersKya Aliana finished her first full-length novel when she was thirteen. Ever since then, she hasn't been able to stop writing. Now, at twenty, she is the proud author of over eight novels. She is the founder of Aspirations Press (AspirationsPress.com), home of The Dreams Come True Anthology Series, publishing talented young voices 18 and under.
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March 19, 2013
I started writing this book as a short story series, publishing a new part every couple weeks. After a while, it just grew and grew until I knew I had to make this a novella to publish in paperback. The first eight chapters are FREE to read on Figment.com - http://figment.com/books/554969-Adren... - and you can purchase the paperback OR Kindle e-book version for the last five chapters if you like what you see.
Check out my website - KyaAliana.com - for more details about me, my writing, a blog, and even some cool contests!
Thanks all and Happy Reading!
Check out my website - KyaAliana.com - for more details about me, my writing, a blog, and even some cool contests!
Thanks all and Happy Reading!
April 27, 2013
I first have to say how impressed I am by this teenage author. I think she has a promising career ahead of her. I was completely out of my genre with this book so I'm not sure how to give a review on it. My main reason for the 2 stars was the lack of editing and continuity of the characters. I know it was self published. A good editor will do wonders for Kya. Meanwhile, keep writing. Practice makes perfect.
May 14, 2013
Kya Aliana, the wunderkind author of “Impending Doom” and “Sly Darkness” has delivered again.
With “Impending Doom” the young phenom created a teenage horror melodrama for the “Twilight” generation (written at 13 years of age!). The author followed up her smash debut with the atmospheric “Sly Darkness”, a Stephen King influenced horror/suspense novel loaded with shocking twists and turns.
And now fans of the author (and count me as one of them) are privileged to be able to relish her third published feature length book, the riveting novella “Adrenaline”.
“Adrenaline” is a textbook exercise on how to open a story with suspense and intrigue, and keep the reader turning the page wanting—no—needing to know where the story is going next. The author uses masterful first person language to take us into the mind of the Mel, a fascinating character with a sense of mystery and a dark secret lurking inside her. Mel is obsessed with sketching and drawing “the man of her dreams”, and the way both Mel and her dream character are handled is one of the many great pleasures of the book.
As was the case with her previous works “Impending Doom” and “Sly Darkness”, the author demonstrates a unique ability to create a brooding atmosphere of horror and dread. She also continues to write the some of the best, and most realistic, teenage and young adult characters you will find anywhere in fiction. Each character we meet is more fascinating than the last. Except these do not feel like characters. They feel like real people and the author is not afraid to take them to places most writers would shy away from.
On her website, Kaya Aliana talks about how “Adrenaline” started out as a series of episodic short stories. This works in the favor of the novella format because it results in a perfectly paced book that moves at the exact speed it needs to in order to maximize the suspense in this rapidly paced page-turning tale.
Finally, a comment must be made about the writing in this book. In “Adrenaline” Kaya Aliana has taken her writing to the next level. The descriptions are vivid. Words and phrases pop off the page and into the reader’s mind. The sentences have a wonderful ebb and flow to them, bursting with a poetic musical cadence, dripping alive with literary texture and tinged with a wonderful eroticism. The author does not shy away from sexuality and handles it with the same courageous sense of expert craftsmanship that she does horror and suspense.
“Adrenaline” is just that, a rush of adrenaline for anyone craving a riveting suspenseful story from the most talented young author working in fiction today, Kya Aliana.
With “Impending Doom” the young phenom created a teenage horror melodrama for the “Twilight” generation (written at 13 years of age!). The author followed up her smash debut with the atmospheric “Sly Darkness”, a Stephen King influenced horror/suspense novel loaded with shocking twists and turns.
And now fans of the author (and count me as one of them) are privileged to be able to relish her third published feature length book, the riveting novella “Adrenaline”.
“Adrenaline” is a textbook exercise on how to open a story with suspense and intrigue, and keep the reader turning the page wanting—no—needing to know where the story is going next. The author uses masterful first person language to take us into the mind of the Mel, a fascinating character with a sense of mystery and a dark secret lurking inside her. Mel is obsessed with sketching and drawing “the man of her dreams”, and the way both Mel and her dream character are handled is one of the many great pleasures of the book.
As was the case with her previous works “Impending Doom” and “Sly Darkness”, the author demonstrates a unique ability to create a brooding atmosphere of horror and dread. She also continues to write the some of the best, and most realistic, teenage and young adult characters you will find anywhere in fiction. Each character we meet is more fascinating than the last. Except these do not feel like characters. They feel like real people and the author is not afraid to take them to places most writers would shy away from.
On her website, Kaya Aliana talks about how “Adrenaline” started out as a series of episodic short stories. This works in the favor of the novella format because it results in a perfectly paced book that moves at the exact speed it needs to in order to maximize the suspense in this rapidly paced page-turning tale.
Finally, a comment must be made about the writing in this book. In “Adrenaline” Kaya Aliana has taken her writing to the next level. The descriptions are vivid. Words and phrases pop off the page and into the reader’s mind. The sentences have a wonderful ebb and flow to them, bursting with a poetic musical cadence, dripping alive with literary texture and tinged with a wonderful eroticism. The author does not shy away from sexuality and handles it with the same courageous sense of expert craftsmanship that she does horror and suspense.
“Adrenaline” is just that, a rush of adrenaline for anyone craving a riveting suspenseful story from the most talented young author working in fiction today, Kya Aliana.
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