ECW Press is having a LAVENDER SPIKE giveaway on Goodreads, ending May 29th
Follow this link to enter: https://www.goodreads.com/giveaway/show/435384-lavender-spike or find it on Goodreads under science fiction in the giveaways! xx
Come join me and Sylvain Neuvel, author of The Themis Files, The Test, the Take Them to the Stars trilogy, and his latest, The Many, for the launch of my book LAVENDER SPIKE! It’s free, come enjoy a chit chat and refreshments, get your book signed, and mostly, come celebrate, connect, and build community! I’m looking forward to seeing you there!
(Copies of Lavender Spike will be sold on site)
This gritty and relentless dystopian novel from Tremblay (Off My Feet) posits a near-future world with an economy built on art.
Isobel “Izzy” Ker is a Purist artist, working in an archaic, bland style that makes her an enemy of the New Art Government and the Triggers, celebrated artistic leaders whose “gore-porn” creations are incredibly addictive, and who have cultlike followings of cruel lackeys called Hounds. Living in the resource-poor Dumps outside the protective dome of rich Mahl City, Isobel struggles to survive and keep painting. When Hounds raid her hideout, she’s forced to join the Half-Lights, a crew of anti-art rebels and thieves determined to bring down the government. The Half-Lights send Isobel into Mahl City as their spy—but Isobel’s new life posing as a Trigger proves seductive, and when her friend and fellow rebel Joanie tries to help her, the danger only increases. In an adventure that is twisty, cathartic, and extremely fast-paced, the two friends discover a new side to their world and themselves as they experience both the pleasures and horrors the art-worshipping city has to offer. The worldbuilding occasionally feels heavy-handed, especially in early chunks of exposition, but there’s no denying its originality. Replete with mind-bending thrills and chills, this proves hard to look away from. (June)
rachel(le) tremblay 