TOUR SCHEDULE: http://www.itchingforbooks.com/2014/10/blog-tourthe-last-changeling-by-chelsea.html
Series: Faerie Revolutions #1
Release date: November 8th 2014
Publisher: Flux
Purchase: Amazon
Synopsis via Goodreads:
A Kingdom at War . . .
Elora, the young princess of the Dark Faeries, plans to overthrow her tyrannical mother, the Dark Queen, and bring equality to faeriekind. All she has to do is convince her mother’s loathed enemy, the Bright Queen, to join her cause. But the Bright Queen demands an offering first: a human boy who is a “young leader of men.”
A Dark Princess In Disguise . . .
To steal a mortal, Elora must become a mortal—at least, by all appearances. And infiltrating a high school is surprisingly easy. When Elora meets Taylor, the seventeen-year-old who’s plotting to overthrow a ruthless bully, she thinks she’s found her offering . . . until she starts to fall in love.
Chelsea Pitcher is a native of Portland, OR where she received her BA in English Literature. Fascinated by all things literary, she began gobbling up stories as soon as she could read, and especially enjoys delving into the darker places to see if she can draw out some light.
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Changing the World: My Inspiration for THE LAST CHANGELING
I’ve always wanted to save the
world.
Don’t get me wrong, I’d have to
be incredibly naïve to think I could accomplish this on my own. Besides which,
countless atrocities have been committed throughout history in the name of
“saving the world.” But making improvements, leaving the world better than I found
it… that’s something that’s always been on my mind, since I was a little girl.
So when I sat down to
write THE
LAST CHANGELING, this underlying theme of changing the world was my
number one inspiration. And luckily, with dual storylines in the
human and faerie worlds, I got to explore this issue in multiple ways.
In
Elora’s case, she was born into a world of corruption and war, and she’s
determined to make things better for her people. But finding a course of
action
is difficult, especially since her mother is the Queen of the Dark
Faeries—a faerie
with quite the talent for keeping her subjects fighting amongst
themselves . .
.
“She separated them into courtiers and servants, and encouraged
her courtiers to treat each group of servants differently, to instill jealousy
between them. Thus the satyrs fought with the nymphs, the pixies distrusted the
sprites, and each servant was so busy fighting another, they didn’t realize the
Queen was abusing them all.”
Meanwhile, in the human world,
Taylor’s struggling to make a connection in a school full of students who brush
him aside. When he finds himself at odds with a narcissistic teammate, he can
either stay in the background, or finally take a stand . . .
“See, Brad was on our side. He was supposed to be our lead
defender. But he was better at skirting the rules, and the guys on the team
tended to follow him—if nobody
called him out. So I had to decide if I wanted to keep quiet (as usual) and let
Brad cheat, or speak up and get punched in the face. Every day. For the rest of
the year.”
When Taylor and Elora meet, they inadvertently get entangled
in each other’s lives. But while supporting Taylor’s efforts to improve the
school come
s
naturally to Elora, helping Elora is a bit more complicated for
Taylor . . .
b
ecause Elora needs a human offering to ensure her revolution’s
success,
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2 comments:
Cool guest post.
Thanks for participating :)
Thanks so much for being on the tour!
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