#Giveaway - Lumiere by Jacqueline Garlick ~ Reviewing in Chaos

Lumiere
(The Illumination Paradox #1)
by: Jacqueline Garlick

Publication: December 12, 2013
ISBN: 1503944557
ASIN: B00VSF8MDI
Length: 400 pages
Genres: Steampunk, Young Adult

Blurb:

Even in a land of eternal twilight, secrets can't stay hidden forever.

Seventeen-year-old Eyelet Elsworth is no stranger to living in the dark. She's hidden her secret affliction all of her life - a life that would be in danger if superstitious townspeople ever guessed the truth.After her mother is accused and executed for a crime that she didn't commit, the now-orphaned Eyelet has no choice but to track down the machine - her last hope for a cure. But Eyelet's late father's most prized invention, the Illuminator, has been missing since the day of the mysterious flash - a day that saw the sun wiped out over Brethren forever.

Alone and on the run, she finds the Illuminator - only to witness a young man hauling it away. Determined to follow the thief and recover the machine, she ventures into the deepest, darkest, most dangerous part of her twisted world.

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR :

I'm Jacqueline Garlick, author of young adult and new adult fiction I love strong heroines, despise whiny sidekicks, and adore a good story about a triumphant underdog. (Don't you?)

I love to read, write, paint (walls and paper). I have a love/hate relationship with chocolate, grammar, and technology and would rather hang out with a dog than a cat. I prefer creating things to cleaning things, and believe laughter is a one-stop-shop solution to all that ails you. You will always find a purple wall (or two) in my house (currently in my writing room), and there may or may not be a hidden passageway that leads to a mystery room. (Okay, so you won't find a hidden passageway, but a girl can dream, can't she?) Oh, and tea. There will always be tea.

My writing style has been described as edgy and rule-breaking, and by some -- a touch Tim Burton-esque. Because of this, I am often referred to as the Quentin Taratino of YA among writing friends.

In my former life, I was a teacher (both grade school and college - don't ask), but more recently I've been a graduate of Ellen Hopkin's Nevada Mentor Program and a studen of James Scott Bell, Christopher Vogler and Don Maass. An excerpt from Lumiere earned me the 2012 Don Maass Break Out Novel Intensive Scholarship.

Lumiere -- A Romantic Steampunk Fantasy - my debut novel, is the recipient of an indieBRAG Medallion !! B.R.A.G Medallion Honoree Oct 15, 2014. I am so proud !!

Also, check out my young adult contemporary romantic/mystery serial, IF ONLY, where reluctant telepathic sleuth Kyla Cooper must embrace her powers and risks all to solve the mystery of what happened to her boyfriend Denver Munro, becoming his voice of truth, before he has no voice at all...

I'm open to reviews and interviews, requests for skype visits, guest blogs, pod casts, and book club meetings! I LOVE TO HEAR FROM READERS!!