What Kills Me
by Wynne Channing
I love girls who are really good at killing people and don't mind all the blood and gore that go along with it. Not in real life, of course, but in novels. Sheesh. I'm not that disturbed.
If you haven't had a chance to read this book, you must. It really is killer. Here is a short excerpt that will make you love all sorts of gross. I know I do.
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I turned and
screamed.
He was burning
in the sun. Smoke lifted upward from his writhing body. His face, his hands and
chest, were dark red and wet like a skinned animal. Yellow blisters bubbled up
all over him and then burst as the skin tore into open wounds. The pus, viscous
like tomato pulp, hardened into a brown layer. The sun singed off his thick
hair and scabs spread across his scalp.
Still in the
shade, I pulled at my chains with all of my strength. Come on! The bolts loosened. I saw them
spring up with every jerk. Paolo was now unrecognizable, covered in a
smoldering, crackling charcoal crust. He had stopped moving. He was no longer
screaming. Through the haze I could see that the door was already bathed in
sunlight. I’m going to burn.
I let out a piercing
cry and wrenched the chain from the wall. The metal plate shot off and hit
Paolo in the head, causing parts of his blackened face to crumble off. His body
was starting to disintegrate, like a collapsing sand sculpture. I fell backward
and wrestled my shackles under my butt and my legs so that my hands were at
least in front of me, though still bound together by about a foot of heavy
chain. I scrambled to my feet and reached for a handhold.
It’s too late.
I looked up
and into the sunlight.
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About the book (#8
Amazon’s Best Sellers List for Occult): An ancient prophecy warns of a girl
destined to cause the extinction of the vampire race. So when 17-year-old
Axelia falls into a sacred well filled with blood and emerges a vampire, the
immortal empire believes she is this legendary destroyer. Hunted by soldiers
and mercenaries, Axelia and her reluctant ally, the vampire bladesmith Lucas,
must battle to survive. How will she convince the empire that she is just an
innocent teenager-turned bloodsucker and not a creature of destruction? And if
she cannot, can a vampire who is afraid of bugs summon the courage to fight a
nation of immortals?
About Wynne: Wynne
Channing is a national newspaper reporter and award-winning young adult
novelist. Wynne loves telling stories and as a journalist, she has interviewed
everyone from Daniel Radcliffe and Hugh Jackman to the president of the
Maldives and Duchess Sarah Ferguson. The closest she has come to interviewing a
vampire is sitting down with True Blood‘s Alexander Skarsgard (he didn’t bite).
She briefly considered calling her debut novel “Well” so then everyone would
say: “Well written by Wynne Channing.”
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