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Colorimetry is pleased to welcome back Kenechi Udogu. I first met her last summer when she stopped by for an interview on her book, The Other Slipper. She has a new book out... and she's offering 2 eCopies to a Colorimetry readers...
Aversion
by Kenechi Udogu
Kindle Edition
Published December 1st 2012
Premise:
For Gemma Green’s first time, things should have been straightforward. Find your subject, hold their gaze and push a thought into their head to save them from future disaster – Aversion complete. A pretty simple process given that the subject was to have no recollection of the experience. But Russ Tanner doesn’t seem to want to forget. In fact the more she tries to avoid him, the more he pushes to get to know her. Gemma knows she has a problem but is she facing the side effects of a failed Aversion or has the school’s tennis champ really fallen for her?
Meet the Author:Kenechi Udogu lives in London and enjoys writing fantasy fiction and short stories (some of which she posts on her blog). She also hates the cold and hopes to one day figure out how to hibernate in winter.
Find & Follow:
The Power of One
I don’t know about
you, but I’ve always wanted to have superpowers. Right from childhood when I
had to drag myself out of bed early in the morning to get ready for school, I
knew exactly what power I wanted to possess – the ability to control time. It
is one of the reasons I loved the character Hiro Nakamura (from the TV series Heroes) so much. Think about it, the
power to freeze or slow down time to suit your daily needs - only in
emergencies, of course. What could be better than that? Slowing down the bus on
the day you’re running a few seconds late (we all know bus drivers don’t stop
if they see you sprinting in their rear view mirror); stopping the clock close
to an all-important deadline so that you can finish off the half hour work that
still needs to be done; stretching out a good night’s sleep so that you
actually feel refreshed and not half jaded in the morning. The possibilities
are endless. One thing I probably wouldn’t do is time hop to change things in
the past (acts of the past should remain intact to preserve the future), but
sometimes even that thought is tempting. How many times have you had a heated
conversation and afterwards reflected on all the apt things you could have said
to foster your point? Very tempting indeed.
Strangely enough, “time
manipulation” does not feature in the top ten abilities other people would like
to possess. According to a little bit of online research, the most popular
abilities are strength, flight, invulnerability, speed, invisibility and energy
projection. You might have noticed that all of these are physical abilities - I
do wonder what that tells us about our human expectations of superpower. Are we
really all more eager to command the physical than the psychological? If time
bending wasn’t my thing, I’d much prefer a choice from the telepathic range of
abilities – telekinesis sounds like it could be fun; although that’s also still
a form of controlling the physical. Perhaps I’m not so different from everyone
else as I’d thought.
Gemma Green, our
young protagonist in Aversion, has the ability to sense her assignee’s
future acts and try to prevent them from carrying them out. Her unusual powers
are clearly a reflection of my fascination with telepathic abilities.
Personally, I’m not sure I would like a power that was so dependent on other
people’s willpower. I’d probably get really frustrated if my mind bending
tricks didn’t work out and I had to suss a way to fix my mess. But Gemma
doesn’t really have a choice in the matter as she knows no other form of existence.
On top of that, she soon discovers that her abilities don’t quite work the way
she thought they would. Yes, that doubly sucks, but hopefully it makes for an
interesting read.
Whatever superpower
you daydream about, if you are ever granted the good (or bad) fortune to
possess it in a scientifically advanced future where such things are possible,
please use it wisely and remember to wave at me if you fly past the elusive
9.05am bus I finally manage to catch following the manifestation of my
wonderful time slowing powers . Ah, bliss!
Giveaway:
2 eCopies of Aversion available from Kenechi Udogu. Must be 13 to enter and able to download winning book. Enter via Rafflecopter. All the rules under my About tab apply.
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