Meet Till & Eliza in Aly Martinez’s newest fighter
series!
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EXCERPT
FIGHTING
SILENCE
"That
wasn't yours to take away," he exploded into the otherwise silent night.
His words echoed off the surrounding buildings, each wave slicing me to the
quick all over again. "That was our place. Not yours." His voice
cracked right alongside my heart.
"Yeah,
well, there was a lot of stuff that wasn't yours to take either." I held
his gaze, desperately trying to be strong, but as his eyes grew wide, I
whimpered.
His long
legs strode forward, stopping only inches away from me. He was crowding me, but
he still leaned in closer to my face. "There is nothing in this world that
was ever more mine than you," he stated. Though it was the absolute truth,
I wished with all my heart that it were a lie.
"Till,"
I cried, swiping the tears from my eyes.
"Why!"
he shouted, causing his muscles to tense under the force. "Goddamn it! I
needed that place."
Porch
lights flashed on from the surrounding apartments, illuminating not only the
dark but also my rage.
I shoved
my hands into his chest. "What about what I needed? You left! I waited in
that fucking apartment for weeks."
He didn't
budge, but my bare feet slipped, sending me toward the ground. Impossibly fast,
Till's hand snaked out and caught my arm. I didn't let his chivalrous gesture
douse my fire. I had six months’ worth of words to say to the man I was
irrevocably in love with.
"You
took what you wanted. Then you left me."
"Doodle,"
he whispered.
I had
been perilously close to the edge of insanity, and with one single word, he’d
pushed me over.
I lost it
completely.
Pounding
my fists against his chest, I screamed at the top of my lungs, "It's
Eliza! My name is fucking Eliza! Not Doodle!" I spun to march away, but
Till's arms folded around me, lifting me off my feet to restrain me.
I was
miniscule compared to him. There was no use in fighting, but I still kicked my
legs, irrationally desperate to get away from him—but only because I knew I
couldn't keep him for forever.
"Stop
it!" he growled into my ear. "I know your Goddamn name—probably
better than I know my own."
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SYNOPSIS
Sound is
an abstract concept for most people. We spend our lives blocking out the static
in order to focus on what we believe is important. But what if, when the
clarity fades into silence, it's the obscure background noise that you would
give anything to hold on to?
I've always been a fighter. With parents
who barely managed to stay out of jail and two little brothers who narrowly
avoided foster care, I became skilled at dodging the punches life threw at me.
Growing up, I didn’t have anything I could call my own, but from the moment I
met Eliza Reynolds, she was always
mine. I became utterly addicted to her
and the escape from reality we provided each other. Throughout the years, she
had boyfriends and I had girlfriends, but there wasn't a single night that I
didn’t hear her voice.
You see, meeting the love of my life at age
thirteen was never part of my plan. However, neither was gradually going deaf
at the age of twenty-one.
They both happened anyway.
Now, I'm on the ropes during the toughest
battles of my life.
Fighting for my career.
Fighting the impending silence.
Fighting
for her.
Every night, just before falling asleep, she
sighs as a final conscious breath leaves her.
I think that's the sound I'll miss the most.
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MY REVIEW
Right from
the jump, when reading the prologue, you are thrust in a fast paced action ride
within the life of Till Page. The boy from the wrong side of the tracks. The
boy who had to carry the weight of the world on his shoulders because the two
people who should have been taking care of him and his brothers couldn’t find
the way to do it. It was Till who had to fight for everything, that is until he
met Eliza. The girl from the same side of the tracks he was so accustomed to,
the girl who stole his essence, that one person he would die for. It was she
who finally fought for him. OH MY GAWD I can’t even really say how much I
enjoyed this story. Everything that Aly Martinez has written I enjoyed but this
book here, this grabbed me by the hands, sat me down, and said you will listen
to these words while loving every moment of it!
Fighting
Silence has that easy flow that instantly transports you into the world of
fiction, but gracefully done so the reader feels like its home. In the
beginning of the story we are in the lives of teenagers who are just starting
to find out who they might be, while knowing the real obstacles of having to
fight hard for what they want out of life because no one is going to hand it to
them. Till Page through the years gets stronger as he grows into the man he
will become and it’s his mission not to be held back by the tragedies he has to
face. But Eliza. Eliza for me has stolen
the entire book. As she grows into the woman she’s meant to be, she has
a strength in her that was surprising! I think I am in love with her spirit
more than Till and that’s a rare thing for me. Heroines have to be pretty
special and Eliza’s take no prisoners
attitude coupled with her overwhelming love for HER Till and all things Page,
is a quality to be admired.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
ALY
MARTINEZ
Born and
raised in Savannah, Georgia, Aly Martinez is a stay-at-home mom to four crazy
kids under the age of five, including a set of twins. Currently living in South
Carolina, she passes what little free time she has reading anything and
everything she can get her hands on, preferably with a glass of wine at her
side.
After
some encouragement from her friends, Aly decided to add “Author” to her
ever-growing list of job titles. Five books later, she shows no signs of
slowing. So grab a glass of Chardonnay, or a bottle if you’re hanging out with
Aly, and join her aboard the crazy train she calls life.
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