Disconnect by Imran Siddiq
Series: Divided Worlds Trilogy, #1
Publication date: February 22nd 2013
Genre: YA Sci-Fi
Series: Divided Worlds Trilogy, #1
Publication date: February 22nd 2013
Genre: YA Sci-Fi
Synopsis:
In space, love has boundaries.
Dirtying fingernails in sewers is fast approaching worthlessness for Zachary, a 16-year old Underworld scavenger. When footage of an Overworld girl, Rosa, is discovered, his intrigue heightens at why she expresses sadness with a lavish lifestyle.
In meeting Rosa, Zachary is scorned by her opinion of the deprived. She pities him and provides a means for them to communicate. With time, friendship and something he’s never felt grows; love for another human. Knowing Rosa calls him when it suits her isn’t enough; he wants to meet her, but how? Relationships in Underworld are few, let alone the impossibility with those above the ceiling.
Underworld will suffer when plans to conquer Jupiter’s moon, Europa move ahead. Worse is Rosa’s father, a disgraced Overworld ambassador,
Zachary must defeat the prejudice of the worlds, sneak within opposing forces, lose friends and challenge Rosa’s sadness. In doing so, a twisted secret is uncovered that may devour the reason he lives; Rosa.
In space, love has boundaries.
Dirtying fingernails in sewers is fast approaching worthlessness for Zachary, a 16-year old Underworld scavenger. When footage of an Overworld girl, Rosa, is discovered, his intrigue heightens at why she expresses sadness with a lavish lifestyle.
In meeting Rosa, Zachary is scorned by her opinion of the deprived. She pities him and provides a means for them to communicate. With time, friendship and something he’s never felt grows; love for another human. Knowing Rosa calls him when it suits her isn’t enough; he wants to meet her, but how? Relationships in Underworld are few, let alone the impossibility with those above the ceiling.
Underworld will suffer when plans to conquer Jupiter’s moon, Europa move ahead. Worse is Rosa’s father, a disgraced Overworld ambassador,
Zachary must defeat the prejudice of the worlds, sneak within opposing forces, lose friends and challenge Rosa’s sadness. In doing so, a twisted secret is uncovered that may devour the reason he lives; Rosa.
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AUTHOR BIO
Imran Siddiq
may have tried to leave Leicester a few times, but its become his place
to wake up to two cats, freeze when the heating’s off and most of all,
get down to writing. At a young age, his primary school
teacher commented on his creativity and ability to tell stories. At the
age of 29, during a night in the jungle, the bug inside awakened, and
for the last 5 years he’s been sacrificing every second that he can to
write. A veteran of writing festivals, a presence on Twitter and
gobbling up all forms of Star Wars and Lord of the Rings, he hopes he
can bring a smile to others in the same way that he had, aged 5, reading
with a torch under his duvet. Imran’s preferred genre is YA Sci Fi,
and he has a tendency to throw a droid in every novel.
Author Links:
Website: http://www.
Twitter: https://twitter.com/
Giveaway!
Imran's also running another giveaway where anyone that leaves a review of the novel on Goodreads before June, will get e-copy ARCs of Books 2 and 3 for free. So get reviewing!
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Excerpt from Disconnect!
Giveaway!
Imran's also running another giveaway where anyone that leaves a review of the novel on Goodreads before June, will get e-copy ARCs of Books 2 and 3 for free. So get reviewing!
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Excerpt from Disconnect!
Zachary
stopped at the clunk under
his boot.
How
had nobody seen the box? With a glance into the darkness of the
Wastelands,
he licked his chapped lips.
Taking
the box, Zachary darted past heaps of tottering metallic sheets. So far
today,
he’d scavenged nothing that was worth shoving into the pockets of his knee-
length coat. If there was one thing to beat today, it was the pride-crashing
kick to the guts of returning empty-handed for a fourth day. As the shortest
scavenger of the stall at five foot six, a barren run made him the easiest
target for teasing.
The
stall’s heckles from the day before still chilled him. The quickest rat with the hunting skill of a slug.
But
thoughts of leaving the vast Wastelands with only a handful of screws and
two-inch nails drowned in his anticipation that the jingling in the box would
be ratchets, fuses and battery cells.
Zachary
sprinted along the ledge of the bay to an overhanging bank. Not even the sick
rested amongst the rusty vehicles deserted here. Using his trusted titanium
screwdriver, he teased off the knot of wires beneath the mesh. Why would anyone
take trouble to wrap and then to discard this box?
Whatever, thought Zachary freeing the last clasp of the lid. Inside
there was a folded note, a silver Intercom-transmitter, and an orange-tinted
bracelet. Result! Twiddling
his long, brown hair, he scrutinised the box for hidden compartments within the
padded interior. The smooth texture couldn’t have started life in Underworld,
could it?
Locked
away from light, Underworld was a murky pit in comparison to the rich nature of
Overworld that few had seen, and finds such as these were rare here. Luck
placed Zachary within easy access of the clutter that lay on the west side of
Underworld, the Wastelands. Spending most of his day amongst the sewer pipes
didn’t bother him for it was far better than the dull lanes of District Two. No
day was the same amongst junk. Every gush from the pipes revealed a new
surprise.
Yay. Thanks for hosting this.
ReplyDeleteI'm also running another giveaway where anyone that leaves a review of the novel on Goodreads before June, will get e-copy ARCs of Books 2 and 3 for free.
PS: I'm due to review Interred within the next week.
I'll add that to the post! Thanks for stopping by, Imran.
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