Oblivion - A Nevermore Book

Zusatztext "Teens who have stuck with Creagh’s complex! darkly romantic...Nevermore trilogy...will not be disappointed by this finale.... As with the previous books! Creagh’s strength lies in her ability to sustain these rich! vivid dream sequences while orchestrating a shifting series of plot surprises...for fans of Maggie Stiefvater’s Raven Boys series and Meg Wolitzer’s Belzhar (2014)." Informationen zum Autor Kelly Creagh is a 2008 graduate of Spalding University’s MFA in Creative Writing program. When not writing! haunting bookstore coffee shops! or obsessively studying Poe! Kelly’s passions include the ancient art of bellydance. She lives with her squirrely! attitude-infused dogs—Annabel! Jack! and Holly—in the heart of Old Louisville! Kentucky’s largest and spookiest Victorian neighborhood. Kelly is the author of the Nevermore trilogy. Visit her at KellyCreagh.com. Oblivion 1 A Valentine Dear Varen, After putting your name on paper, it seems I can hardly hold my pen steady. So this won’t be neat. I’m not good with words like you are, so it won’t be eloquent, either. Valentine’s Day is this weekend. I’m in English class, and Mr. Swanson wants us to work on composing romantic sonnets. He’s gone over the format twice, but thinking about iambic pentameter and quatrains makes me feel like I’m trying to solve a math word problem. At least, I’m pretty sure my poetry reads like one. If you were here, I know you’d already be done with yours. I also know it would be beautiful. I can see your desk from where I’m sitting. I won’t find you there even if I look, but part of me is always afraid that I will. Sometimes I wonder if that’s what you wanted. For me to be afraid of you. For everyone to be afraid, so no one would try to get close. They tell me that I died. They say that I was dead, and I want to tell them I still am. At least that’s how I feel. Because I know where you are and what’s become of you. Because I couldn’t stop it and I couldn’t bring you back. Because Reynolds was right when he told me I couldn’t reach you. Everything’s broken. And yet here I am, writing you what must be a Valentine. Because even though I know I shouldn’t still love you, even though I know that is the last thing I should have room to feel for you, more than anything, I want to tell you I do. *  *  * Isobel lifted her shaking pen from the vein-blue lines of her notebook, wondering how the confession had managed to escape her. She’d never written like that before, where the words just poured out, unstoppable. The final line burned into her retinas, echoing a truth that she’d hoped to keep hidden away, locked inside with everything else. She smacked a hand on the paper, crumpling it. What was wrong with her? Why couldn’t she let go? Why, when he had let her go? The lunch bell rang, the noise shredding her already frayed nerves. “Okay, folks,” Mr. Swanson said, standing from behind his desk, his wooden rolling chair sliding back to bump against the chalk tray. “I’d like to go ahead and collect these today, even if you’re not finished. I’ll hand them back tomorrow, so you’ll have the first few minutes of class to do some revising, and then I’ll grade them over the weekend.” Everyone got up, papers flapping, and the unanimous flutter in the room reminded Isobel of a flock of birds taking wing. Tekeli-li . . . Afraid someone might catch sight of Varen’s name, Isobel ripped her own rumpled paper free and stuffed it into the middle of the notebook. Glancing up, she saw that Mr. Swanson had moved to the door. Like a ticket taker, he collected papers as her classmates filed into the hall. “Another reason I should gather th...

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Kelly Creagh
• Editore: Atheneum Publishing
• Lingue: Inglese
• Raccomandazione d'eta': 12 a 99 anni
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 28.07.2015
• EAN: 9781442436275
• ISBN: 978-1-4424-3627-5
• Dimensioni: 148 mm x 218 mm x 37 mm
• Categoria: Narrativa > Romanzi