Title: Lailah
Series: The Styclar Saga #1
Author: Nikki Kelly
Release Date: October 7th
Publisher: Feiwel & Friends
Summary from Goodreads:
The
girl knows she’s different. She doesn’t age. She has no family. She has
visions of a past life, but no clear clues as to what she is, or where
she comes from. But there is a face in her dreams – a light that breaks
through the darkness. She knows his name is Gabriel.
On
her way home from work, the girl encounters an injured stranger whose
name is Jonah. Soon, she will understand that Jonah belongs to a
generation of Vampires that serve even darker forces. Jonah and the few
like him, are fighting with help from an unlikely ally – a rogue Angel,
named Gabriel.
In
the crossfire between good and evil, love and hate, and life and death,
the girl learns her name: Lailah. But when the lines between black and
white begin to blur, where in the spectrum will she find her place? And
with whom?
Gabriel and Jonah both want to protect her. But Lailah will have to fight her own battle to find out who she truly is.
"An extraordinarily
imaginative look into the realms of good, evil, and all that comes in
between. Lailah will have you gripped until the very end." -Brittany,
Please Feed the Bookworm
“Lailah: Original.
Swoonworthy. Captivating. Lailah will make you have all the FEELS, and
you’ll find yourself flailing for Book #2, Gabriel!” -Andrew,
Endlessly Reading
“Lailah is a
fast-paced read that will keep you hooked from cover to cover." -Jess,
The Book Bratz
“Lailah is
paranormal romance like you have never read before. With its hauntingly
beautiful writing it will have you craving for more!” -Dana,
Dana Square
“AHHHHHHHH! (in a
good way)” - Ri, Hiver & Café
“Dark. Sexy.
Intriguing. Filled with twists and turns and set on a beautiful
backdrop, Lailah is sure to enchant and haunt you from the start.”
-Rachel, A Perfection Called Books
Q&A with Nikki Kelly!
What inspired you to write LAILAH?
As all the best stories start... ‘I had a dream!’
Seriously, that’s what happened.
I dreamed of Lailah, and the thought of her simply wouldn’t leave me.
If you could only have one book with you on a deserted island, what would it be?
The Lord of the Rings (I’m taking the box set – I don’t care what you say!)
First, they are some of my favorite books of all time.
Second,
because I would be reminded that there are worse places to be than
stuck on a desert island, such as Mordor, and at least I don’t have the
worry of Orcs and the Nazgul.
Who are your favorite YA authors?
Lori Goldstein
Leigh Bardugo
Jessica Brody
Gennifer Albin
Marissa Meyer
Stephanie Meyer
Charlaine Harris
Mary Pearson
Ann Aguirre
Veronica Roth
... the list could go on and on and on...
What book introduced you to YA?
Dead Until Dark (Sookie Stackhouse #1)—Charlaine Harris
How do you write SwoonWorthy moments?
With plenty of swoon ;)
Okay... if you want to get really technical...
When
writing a swoon-worthy moment, I think about the five senses – sight,
hearing, taste, smell and touch – and I incorporate them into the
descriptive language, which helps build the scene. I try to keep an
ambiguity around ‘will they, won’t they’ when writing these moments,
building them up, only to knock them down again, ready for the next
round!
Do you have any traditions you do before you sit and write?
Boil the kettle...
Brew a teapot...
Put my headphones on, and gear myself up for a long writing stretch!
You’re watching TV; what TV show are you watching?
I tend to watch Netflix and almost always re-runs of The Office (American version).
If I switch on the TV, it’s likely that I will be watching The Big Bang Theory.
Who is your ultimate Book Boyfriend? (No cheating!!!)
That’s such an unfair question.
A—I have many!
B—the top spot on that list changes on a book by book basis!
Right
now I am loving Tobias from Divergent, having just read the first book!
Strong, rugged and brooding... *Le Sigh* *Le Swoon* and, yes, *fans
oneself*!
What inspires you most to write? (Songs, dreams, surroundings..etc.)
Lailah
came to me in a dream and stayed with me, so I’d say dreams inspire me
most. But when it comes to the writing process, I would find it far more
difficult to get in the mood to write an action scene, for example,
without first playing the ‘Rocky’ soundtrack! Music is SO
important.
Why did you decide to write YA?
The
best advice I ever received about writing was to 'write what you know,
and write what you love.' For me that was YA Fantasy with some
uber-swoon thrown in!
What books would you recommend to readers who enjoyed your book?
Lailah
is a YA Paranormal Romance / Fantasy, so I'd probably recommend other
YA PNR novels… Oh and I have thrown in a few of my fave YA's that aren't
necessarily PNR!
Mortal Instruments—Cassandra Clare
Sookie Stackhouse Novels—Charlaine Harris
The Vampire Diaries—L. J. Smith
Unremembered Trilogy—Jessica Brody
Becoming Jinn (Spring '15)—Lori Goldstein
Divergent—Veronica Roth
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About the Author:
NIKKI
KELLY was born and raised only minutes away from the chocolately scent
of Cadbury World in Birmingham, England. Lailah was first launched to
wattpad, an online readers and writers community. Within six months, the
novel had over one million reads. Lailah is Nikki’s debut novel, and
the first book in The Styclar Saga. She lives in London with her husband
and their dogs, Alfie (a pug) and Goose (a Chihuahua).
