Early Reviewers
Brighton Academy student Larken Marche is sixteen years old and the only thing she wants to do is play lofting. As the most junior member on the varsity team, she has a real shot at making a career out of the team sport, and in 2201, Lofting is a great career choice.
Her best friend Molly Kostic is the kind of friend that both entertains and frustrates. Capable of telling the truth about half the time, when Molly decides that she likes Larken’s (fraternal) twin brother Oliver Marche, Larken doesn’t know whether to be happy for her or nervous about the possibility that Oliver will become just another proverbial notch in Molly’s belt.
When a strange boy, Elijah Grant, arrives at Brighton via transfer, he looks like a male copy of Larken, down to her nose and chin. Questions begin to circulate about Elijah’s origins and rumors fly about them being triplets instead of twins, or worse, that she, Oliver, and Elijah might all three be clones. Before they can put the rumors to rest, a man is killed in downtown Portland by someone who looks exactly like Oliver, leading to Oliver’s arrest. Larken and Molly work against the clock to rescue a brother Larken knows is innocent. Walking the line between two extremist factions, Larken and Oliver must fight for their right to exist.
- Media
- Ebook
- Genres
- Science Fiction, Young Adult, LGBTQ+
- Offered by
- andrewsweet (Author)
- Published by
- Hesperia Publishing
- Batch
- August 2023 Starts: 2023-08-01Ended: 2023-08-25
- On Sale
- 2023-04-21
- Countries
- USA and Canada
- Links
- Book Information
LibraryThing Work Page - Receipt
- 2 reviewed
Hi Future Reader!
This novel has already been awarded 5 stars from Readers' Favorite and won a BookFest award (3rd place in Science Fiction - Genetic Engineering), so I think you'll love it!
The purpose of this giveaway is to generate reviews. Whether you love it or hate it, please go out to Amazon and leave a review for my newest first-in-series, Brighton Academy. If you're familiar with my award-winning series Reality Gradient, then you'll remember that Railynn Marche adopted two genetically-altered clones (called models in the series). After they died, their "godfather" Alexander "Torrent" Toussaint sent them to Brighton Academy, an elite school that feeds directly into Protege University (fictional) in Portland.
He may have forgotten to mention that they were models in the process.
Larken Marche is all set on the trajectory for greatness, being the youngest member of her junior varsity lofting team (a futuristic sport kind of like lacrosse mixed with jai alai). When her brother is accused of a crime of murder, caught on video, no less, then questions begin to circulate. Larken knows he's innocent, but to prove it, she must excavate her past, an act that threatens to derail her future plans. I consider it a journey of self-discovery, steeped with adversity along the way!
The story is science-fiction, but if you know my writing, you know that I like to get in close with the characters. It's not boilerplate or formulaic, and I don't guarantee happy endings. What I do promise is a deep look into society and what it means to be human, and a bit of levity along the way. But even if you don't, please don't forget to leave a review!
Happy Reading!
-Andrew Sweet (author)
