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Disruptor
Runaway. Experiment. Superhero?
The streets were the safest place for Dani, until the night she was caught by traffickers who sold her to a laboratory. She survived five years of biotech implants, gene therapy, and other things she could barely comprehend. The pain, though, that she understood. The lab pushed her body past its limits, drove her mind to its darkest corners, but somehow her spirit remained unbroken. She escaped, and sought refuge on the streets once again. But this time she doesn’t run away from cries for help. Now, she runs toward them.
Playboy. Dilettante. Sidekick?
Kevin Moynihan is the youngest son of Point Sable’s most wealthy and storied family. A permanent fixture in the society pages, he’s known for his good looks, his charm, and his aversion to an honest day’s work. His life is a whirlwind of fast women, faster cars, all night parties and endless champagne – until his latest drunk and disorderly charge lands him a stint doing community service in the roughest part of town. The part of town where someone is always screaming for help.
A chance meeting will bring two unlikely people together – first as reluctant allies, then friends, and finally partners.
The streets were the safest place for Dani, until the night she was caught by traffickers who sold her to a laboratory. She survived five years of biotech implants, gene therapy, and other things she could barely comprehend. The pain, though, that she understood. The lab pushed her body past its limits, drove her mind to its darkest corners, but somehow her spirit remained unbroken. She escaped, and sought refuge on the streets once again. But this time she doesn’t run away from cries for help. Now, she runs toward them.
Playboy. Dilettante. Sidekick?
Kevin Moynihan is the youngest son of Point Sable’s most wealthy and storied family. A permanent fixture in the society pages, he’s known for his good looks, his charm, and his aversion to an honest day’s work. His life is a whirlwind of fast women, faster cars, all night parties and endless champagne – until his latest drunk and disorderly charge lands him a stint doing community service in the roughest part of town. The part of town where someone is always screaming for help.
A chance meeting will bring two unlikely people together – first as reluctant allies, then friends, and finally partners.
251 pages, Kindle Edition
Published September 19, 2016
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About the author
Sonya Clark
24 books52 followersSonya Clark discovered she was a writer at the age of thirteen. Ray Bradbury whispered it to her through the pages of his books. The Vampire Lestat encouraged this lunacy in florid fashion, and Pennywise the Clown muttered dire warnings of what would happen should she neglect her calling. It took many years – many, like, a lot, yo – for her to figure out how to actually finish a manuscript. Once she unlocked that mystery, there was no turning back.
Sonya writes a few different flavors of romance – paranormal, sci-fi, and contemporary. She loves music, has a weird thing for the abstract art of Wassily Kandinsky, and a long-standing obsession with Robert Johnson that will one day result in a blues-themed novel. She lives with her husband and daughter in Tennessee.
Sonya writes a few different flavors of romance – paranormal, sci-fi, and contemporary. She loves music, has a weird thing for the abstract art of Wassily Kandinsky, and a long-standing obsession with Robert Johnson that will one day result in a blues-themed novel. She lives with her husband and daughter in Tennessee.
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August 31, 2016
She had been sold off the streets to science, a lab rat for genetic experiments, a slave to their brand of scientific breakthroughs for five years, but this isn’t where we find Dani. We find her after she has escaped, after her torture and pain, after she has become something “MORE.” Dani is still a loner, still surviving on the streets, but she no longer fears danger, because she can be danger’s biggest nightmare, and her heroics to save innocent victims makes her an urban legend called “The Ghost.”Too bad, that is exactly how substantial she feels.
Kevin is the product of an over-privileged upbringing, a charmer, a player with no sense of commitment except to his party lifestyle. His eyes were opened during his community service work at a soup kitchen for the homeless and it looked as if he may have found a purpose in life, to give back for all he has taken, in an area where someone was always crying for help, with little result. What he wasn’t prepared for was to be one of those victims or that his cries for help would bring a hooded stranger to his rescue, the stranger they called the Ghost, someone with eyes he had seen before…
They were from different worlds, but Fate brought them together and a timid trust made them friends while respect made them the most unlikely dynamic duo to hit the streets in the name of justice. When Dani makes it her quest destroy a human trafficking ring, Kevin’s connections prove invaluable and their team is born!
Remember the days of superheroes who were brave, courageous and bold? Sonya Clark has brought them back in Disruptor and she does so with action, intrigue, and two brilliant characters, one who knows who she is, but not where she fits in and the other who is just discovering how much more he can be! Better than comic books heroes, better than movie heroes, we are allowed to create them in our minds through the words of Sonya Clark who knows just what we need to be part of the story! I was “in” by page one. Having this tale start AFTER Dani’s great escape leaves so much story left to learn! Anyone holding out for a fresh hero, wait no more!
I received an ARC edition from Sonya Clark in exchange for my honest review.
Publication Date: September 19, 2016
Publisher: Sonya Clark
Genre: Scifi |Heroes
Print Length: 194 pages
Available from: Amazon | Barnes & Noble | iBooks | Kobo | Smashwords
Kevin is the product of an over-privileged upbringing, a charmer, a player with no sense of commitment except to his party lifestyle. His eyes were opened during his community service work at a soup kitchen for the homeless and it looked as if he may have found a purpose in life, to give back for all he has taken, in an area where someone was always crying for help, with little result. What he wasn’t prepared for was to be one of those victims or that his cries for help would bring a hooded stranger to his rescue, the stranger they called the Ghost, someone with eyes he had seen before…
They were from different worlds, but Fate brought them together and a timid trust made them friends while respect made them the most unlikely dynamic duo to hit the streets in the name of justice. When Dani makes it her quest destroy a human trafficking ring, Kevin’s connections prove invaluable and their team is born!
Remember the days of superheroes who were brave, courageous and bold? Sonya Clark has brought them back in Disruptor and she does so with action, intrigue, and two brilliant characters, one who knows who she is, but not where she fits in and the other who is just discovering how much more he can be! Better than comic books heroes, better than movie heroes, we are allowed to create them in our minds through the words of Sonya Clark who knows just what we need to be part of the story! I was “in” by page one. Having this tale start AFTER Dani’s great escape leaves so much story left to learn! Anyone holding out for a fresh hero, wait no more!
I received an ARC edition from Sonya Clark in exchange for my honest review.
Publication Date: September 19, 2016
Publisher: Sonya Clark
Genre: Scifi |Heroes
Print Length: 194 pages
Available from: Amazon | Barnes & Noble | iBooks | Kobo | Smashwords
October 14, 2016
Do you love stories about superheroes? Disruptor has all the elements necessary to feed your inner nerd.
Superhero Dani lives in the streets and abandoned buildings of Point Sable since she escaped the Biotech lab that experimented on her for the past five years. Her time there left her with super abilities like strength, agility, hearing and more. Despite her fear of discovery she finds it hard to ignore the cries of distress in the middle of night. She unexpectedly finds herself protecting the weak and in just six short months her acts of heroism are whispered about and she has become an urban legend.
Sidekick Kevin Moynihan is one of Point Sable’s most wealthiest playboys. A drunk and disorderly charge lands him on probation and working the soup kitchen on the lower east side. Kevin may act like a spoiled brat, but as Clark peels back his layers we find there is smarts, talent and humor behind that killer smile. He meets Dani on the streets, and soon becomes more than just a sidekick.
Villains Crime families make up sections of the Point Sable and some neighborhoods look straight out of a post-apocalyptic movie. These are the neighborhoods where the thugs have police on their payroll, and calls for help go unanswered. When Dani sees a group of young women being removed from a ship by Russian thugs she follows. The story that unfolds was intense with kick-ass action scenes as we learn more about Dani and watch her growth.
Informants Others within the neighborhood provide information as Dani slowly builds alliances.
Secret Agency From Dani we learn about her years at the Biotech Lab. Implants, gene therapy, and other things she could barely comprehend but for what purpose? And who's footing the bill? Clark shared a chapter from within this agency and it completely left me wanting more. It also hinted at more a stories about the Disruptor.
Copy provided by author. This review was originally posted on Caffeinated Book Reviewer
Superhero Dani lives in the streets and abandoned buildings of Point Sable since she escaped the Biotech lab that experimented on her for the past five years. Her time there left her with super abilities like strength, agility, hearing and more. Despite her fear of discovery she finds it hard to ignore the cries of distress in the middle of night. She unexpectedly finds herself protecting the weak and in just six short months her acts of heroism are whispered about and she has become an urban legend.
Sidekick Kevin Moynihan is one of Point Sable’s most wealthiest playboys. A drunk and disorderly charge lands him on probation and working the soup kitchen on the lower east side. Kevin may act like a spoiled brat, but as Clark peels back his layers we find there is smarts, talent and humor behind that killer smile. He meets Dani on the streets, and soon becomes more than just a sidekick.
Villains Crime families make up sections of the Point Sable and some neighborhoods look straight out of a post-apocalyptic movie. These are the neighborhoods where the thugs have police on their payroll, and calls for help go unanswered. When Dani sees a group of young women being removed from a ship by Russian thugs she follows. The story that unfolds was intense with kick-ass action scenes as we learn more about Dani and watch her growth.
Informants Others within the neighborhood provide information as Dani slowly builds alliances.
Secret Agency From Dani we learn about her years at the Biotech Lab. Implants, gene therapy, and other things she could barely comprehend but for what purpose? And who's footing the bill? Clark shared a chapter from within this agency and it completely left me wanting more. It also hinted at more a stories about the Disruptor.
Copy provided by author. This review was originally posted on Caffeinated Book Reviewer
February 12, 2017
Female superhero origin story! Disruptor was fun because it was so unique. It gets 3 stars for the story with 1 extra star for the premise. I could have used a more interesting nemesis. But like any other origin story, the best parts are yet to come. I hope the author continues to tell us the adventures of Disruptor and her trusted side-kick, Boy Toy.
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