Blog Tour: Book Highlight: Black City + Giveaway

"A dark and tender post-apocalyptic love story set in the aftermath of a bloody war.
In a city where humans and Darklings are now separated by a high wall and tensions between the two races still simmer after a terrible war, sixteen-year-olds Ash Fisher, a half-blood Darkling, and Natalie Buchanan, a human and the daughter of the Emissary, meet and do the unthinkable—they fall in love. Bonded by a mysterious connection that causes Ash’s long-dormant heart to beat, Ash and Natalie first deny and then struggle to fight their forbidden feelings for each other, knowing if they’re caught, they’ll be executed—but their feelings are too strong.
When Ash and Natalie then find themselves at the center of a deadly conspiracy that threatens to pull the humans and Darklings back into war, they must make hard choices that could result in both their deaths."

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Elizabeth Richards is an award-winning journalist, who spent her early career reviewing video games before making the bold (or crazy) move into travel writing, despite suffering from terrible travel sickness.

In her spare time, she ran a successful lifestyle website aimed at teenage girls, where she got to interview many of her favourite bands, go to gigs and basically blag loads of free swag all in the name of ‘research’.

Elizabeth lives in Buckinghamshire, England, with her husband. Black City is her debut novel.

My thoughts:

All I can say is AMAZING! You can read my review HERE 

It's not your typical story. It's has one of the most ambitious plots with a delicious ending!

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Review: Black City

Title: Black City

Series: Black City # 1

Genre: Young Adult- Paranormal/Dystopia

Author: Elizabeth Richards

Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons BYR

Release Date: November 13, 2012

Book: ARC sent by publisher

"A dark and tender post-apocalyptic love story set in the aftermath of a bloody war.
In a city where humans and Darklings are now separated by a high wall and tensions between the two races still simmer after a terrible war, sixteen-year-olds Ash Fisher, a half-blood Darkling, and Natalie Buchanan, a human and the daughter of the Emissary, meet and do the unthinkable—they fall in love. Bonded by a mysterious connection that causes Ash’s long-dormant heart to beat, Ash and Natalie first deny and then struggle to fight their forbidden feelings for each other, knowing if they’re caught, they’ll be executed—but their feelings are too strong.
When Ash and Natalie then find themselves at the center of a deadly conspiracy that threatens to pull the humans and Darklings back into war, they must make hard choices that could result in both their deaths."

You know, there aren't many books that can get me hooked by the first page. With Black City, it is inevitable. 

The plot of the book is what got me. The world building, with the time that they are living in really created a nice picture in my head. Once emerged in the story, I did not want to leave. (Confession: I read this story at my desk...at work!) When I have to put my work stuff aside, just to finish a book cause I can not stop thinking about it means, I've got it BAD. Let me tell you that Ms. Richards sure knows how to throw one over the reader. Some of the plot twist left me gasping,"NO!" I'm still feeling the book hangover today as I write this.

The characters of the book are awesome. Natalie and Ash are facing some hard times in a harsh world. I really love how well both these characters grew along with reader. It gave the reader a front row seat to an awesome reading adventure.

The love interest is what you want it to be. Hot and forbidden, this love sky rockets sky high. The way it grows is so freaking exciting! Watching these two fight with every single chapter and then gets closer, exposing secrets, its get better and exciting as the ending gets closer...

Take it from me when  I say Black City is an phenomenal book! Flat-out entertaining, Black City ignites the YA world with brilliance. The maddening love with the witty world building, once in the book you won't want to come out. Black City is awesome!

I give it 5 BITES!

Happy Reading!