Tear You Apart
Publisher:
EgmontUSA
Release Date: January 27th 2015
An edgy fairy tale retelling of "Snow White" set in the
world of Kill Me Softly for fans of Once Upon a Time and Grimm.
If you want to live happily ever after, first you have to stay
alive.
Viv knows there’s no escaping her fairy-tale curse. One day her
beautiful stepmother will feed her a poison apple or convince her
on-again-off-again boyfriend, Henley, to hunt her down and cut out her heart
before she breaks his. In the city of Beau Rivage, some princesses are destined
to be prey.
But then Viv receives an invitation to the exclusive club where
the Twelve Dancing Princesses twirl away their nights. There she meets Jasper,
an underworld prince who seems to have everything—but what he really wants is
her. He vows to save her from her dark fate if she’ll join him and be his
queen.
All Viv has to do is tear herself away from the huntsman boy who
still holds her heart. Then she might live to see if happily ever after is a
promise the prince can keep. But is life as an underworld queen worth
sacrificing the true love that might kill her?
Faced with a possible loophole to
her "Snow White" curse, Viv goes underground, literally, to find the
prince who's fated to rescue her. But is life safe in the Underworld worth the
price of sacrficing the love that might kill her?
POP CULTURE CAN'T GET ENOUGH OF TWISTING FAIRY TALES: ABC's Once
Upon a Time and NBC's Grimm continue to pull in high ratings. And with the
anticipated Angelina Jolie Maleficent (2014), the film adaptation of Stephen
Sondheim's Into the Woods (2014), and Kenneth Branagh's Cinderella (2015),
Hollywood is infected with fairy tale fever.
CAMEOS FROM FAVORITE CHARACTERS:
Viv, who first appeared in Kill Me Softly trailed by her brooding boy-toy
Henley, takes center stage in this new Beau Rivage tale. Other familiar
characters including Blue and Jewel are back to help her defy her destiny.
TEENS LOVE THIS FAIRY TALE WORLD: Kill Me Soflty was a 2013 YALSA
Teens' Top 10. Readers have been clamoring for a sequel.
A FRESH TAKE ON THE FAMILIAR:
Drawing on "Snow White," "The Twelve Dancing Princesses,"
and "Rumpelstiltskin," Tear You Apart is very conscious of the way
these stories have pervaded pop culture, twisting known tropes into an exciting
new story that can stand on its own.
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“Not your vanilla retelling, Kill Me Softly
combines the darkness of the original Brothers Grimm, a modern cast of
characters, and just a twist of whimsy that makes the whole town of Beau Rivage
feel so wrong. You know, the good kind of wrong.”—Aprilynne Pike, #1 New York
Times best-selling author of Wings
“Smart, romantic, and inspired, Sarah Cross’s
Kill Me Softly is storytelling at its finest. She breathes new life into
familiar tales, twisting them in fantastically unexpected ways. This book blew
me away!”—Carrie Ryan, author of The Forest of Hands and Teeth
“Incorporating suspense and romance, this
contemporary, edgy, Grimm-based novel is an entertaining and well-written entry
in a popular genre.”—Booklist
“A girl struggles to escape her fairy-tale
fate in this suspenseful fantasy…Clever fun.”—Kirkus Reviews
“A paranormal romance that has the girl
choosing the nice guy over the broody bad boy is a rare gem these days.”—The
Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books
“This modern fairy-tale mash-up will appeal to
fans of urban fantasy and is a solid choice for any collection.”—School Library
Journal
"After the
Ball" is a short story set in Beau Rivage, a city where fairy tales come
to life, and ancient stories are played out again and again. You can read more
about the cursed fairy-tale characters of Beau Rivage in Sarah Cross' novel Kill Me Softly.
Sarah
Cross is the author of the fairy tale novels Kill Me Softly and Tear You Apart (coming January 2015), the superhero novel Dull Boy, and the Wolverine comic
"The Adamantium Diaries." She loves fairy tales, lowbrow art, secret
identities and silence.
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