Shadow
of the Coalition
The Two Towers, #2
by Jamie A. Waters
Date of
Publication: June 28th 2016
Publisher:
MuseItUp Publishing
Cover
Artist: SuzieDesigns
Genre: Paranormal Romance/Science Fiction Romance/
Dystopian
Romance
From The Book Junkie Reads . . . Shadow
of the Coalition (The Two Towers, #2) . . .
Kayla has something that everyone around her seems to want. Her. She was the something special that many wait a lifetime to see. She was the one that could change it all for everyone. But to do so must become someone she was not. She was hot headed, strong willed, stubborn, determined, and two very different men both want her.
I could sink in to this series. I walked in on but two and must go back to book one to find out what all lead up to this point. I did not feel out of place reading book two but I did feel the desire to start from the beginning when I go to the end.
Jamie Water had done an excellent job creating an excitingly captivating world built with very vivid imagery accomplished with words. I would very much like to read this one again after reading book one in the series.
**This ARC was provided via Bewitching Book
Tours in exchange for an honest review.**
The Two Towers series:
The Two Towers - The Two Towers, #1
Shadow of the Coalition - The Two Towers, #2
BLURB
The award-winning novel, The Two
Towers, continues in Book 2…
What’s stronger? Free will or fate?
It's been a month since Kayla, a
headstrong ruin rat, and Carl, an OmniLab trader, returned to the surface.
After she helped to restore control of the towers to those who would look after
the best interests of the people, she'd found herself irrevocably bonded to
Alec, the new co-leader of the High Council.
Although her heart belongs to Carl,
she finds it difficult to resist the strange bond between her and Alec. Caught
between learning how to handle her new emerging abilities, mysterious
earthquakes, and a strange group seemingly intent on targeting OmniLab, Kayla
and Carl are once again swept up in events that threaten to change the entire
future of the towers.
Kayla got down on
hands and knees to crawl between the floor and a collapsed ancient wall in
Sector 12. It would be a tight fit, but she’d navigated worse in the past.
Taking a deep breath, she sucked in her stomach and squeezed through the narrow
space.
Getting up, she
brushed the dirt off her visor and shone the flashlight around what appeared to
have once been a common room. Living room, she remembered. Although, there
definitely wasn’t anything living in the room now. A thick shroud of dust and
debris coated the surfaces within the room. The remnants of an old fireplace
stood in the corner and pieces of broken furniture were scattered on the floor.
Closing her eyes, a
deep breath helped to focus her thoughts. Using what she now knew as energy
threads, she opened up her senses to explore the hidden world around. The
darkness fell away, embracing the energy swirling in the ruins. The energy had
the flavor of an almost living thing, inviting her to tap into it. She shivered
as it poured in and her blood hummed with the rush of power. Her fingers
unfurled as the energy became an almost tangible thing.
She basked in the
warmth and excitement of the intoxicating power. As the energy flowing through
her increased, it was a little easier to ignore the sense of wrongness and
longing she suspected was from being separated from Alec.
It had only been six
weeks since she left OmniLab towers. After she helped to restore control of the
towers to those who would look after the best interests of the residents, she'd
found herself irrevocably bonded to Alec, the new co-leader of the High
Council. Even though he was enigmatic and alluring, the shared energy bond
scared her more than she wanted to admit. He was likeable enough, but it was an
OmniLab trader named Carl who had truly touched her heart.
Her face warmed at
the thought of Carl. Even though they'd known each other for almost a year, it
wasn't until she recently joined his camp that she began to see him in a new
light. The man had a quick mind and was incredibly devious, two traits she
greatly admired.
Living as a ruin rat
on the surface was a constant challenge. Survival was sometimes dependent upon
outsmarting the OmniLab traders and their crews. Kayla enjoyed the challenges
Carl provided, pitting her will against his. He seemed to understand her better
than anyone else had in a long time. Of course, it didn't hurt that he was sexy
as hell too.
With a sigh, she
pushed away the errant thoughts and focused back on the dilapidated room. The
energy continued to flow around her, and she focused on channeling it until the
mental image of the room began to shift and transform. The dingy walls became
brightly painted surfaces covered with family photographs. A child played on
the floor while her parents sat on the couch and watched an antique vidviewer
on the wall.
She opened her eyes
and stared at the verisimilitude of the ruined room. A wave of vertigo swept
over her as the mental image overlapped with reality. Shaking her head, she
pushed aside the image but the memory of the past refused to leave completely.
An old photograph
caught her attention and she crossed the room toward the cockeyed frame. The
glass was cracked and the picture faded, but she gasped at the sight of the
image. The family looked exactly like the one she'd imagined. The energy flow
spiked, and she swallowed nervously trying to regain control.
Veridian’s voice
interrupted over her headset. "Kayla? You okay? Your vitals just
spiked."
"Uh, yeah. Sorry
about that," she said in a rush, not wanting to alarm her scavenging
partner on the surface. He'd been monitoring her progress for the past hour.
"I just found an old photograph and it surprised me. That’s all."
Okay, Kayla, keep it
together. You know this energy shit is freaky and you haven’t figured exactly
how it works yet. Just relax.
A slight vibration
under her feet caused her to freeze. The floor felt secure, but vibrations
didn’t usually happen without reason. More curious than alarmed, she bent down
and pressed her gloved hand against the ground. The vibration grew stronger.
"Kayla, get out
of there now!" Veridian’s voice shouted over the headset. "We’ve got
seismic activity on the monitors."
The walls began
shaking violently. A rumbling noise grew in intensity. Dust and debris fell
around her. She crouched low against the wall, powerless to do anything else.
The picture frame on the wall crashed to the floor. There was a loud cracking
noise and she threw her arms up over her head as part of the ceiling collapsed.
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Author Info
Jamie A. Waters is an award-winning,
science-fiction and paranormal romance writer. Her first novel, The Two Towers,
was a winner of the Readers' Favorite Award in Science-Fiction Romance and the
CIPA EVVY Award in Science-Fiction. The highly anticipated second book in the
series, Shadow of the Coalition, is scheduled to be released Summer 2016 by
MuseItUp Publishing.
Jamie currently resides in North
Carolina with her teenage son and two neurotic dogs who enjoy stealing socks.
When she's not pursuing her passion of writing, she's usually trying to learn
new and interesting random things (like how to pick locks or use the
self-cleaning feature of the oven without setting off the fire alarm). In her
downtime, she enjoys reading on her Kindle, playing computer games, painting,
or acting as a referee between the dragons and fairies currently at war inside
her closet.
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