Meet Till
& Eliza in Aly Martinez’s newest fighter series!
Author: Aly Martinez
Publication Date: February 23rd 2015
Plot: 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.
☆✮ My Review ✮☆
☆ I received an ARC via TRSOR PR in exchange for an honest review. Thank you! ☆
Fighting the Silence was much different from what I had anticipated. Nonetheless, it turned out to be great and very heartfelt!
Till and Eliza were all each other really had counting on them. With them against the world, they grow up in a world tainted of black and white.
With their friendship dwindling over the crossfire of love, Till does not feel that he is good enough for Eliza and conceals a secret from her that he is going deaf.
Their journey is satisfying as it is heartbreaking, as they go through their rough patches and mending their relationship, till eventually giving into the inevitable…their indestructible and unwavering love for each other.
It was an intriguing and cataclysmic journey that author Aly Martinez illustrates for us, as we not only get to see two individuals fight the bleak odds, but also for their futures despite what obstacles are but before them…
Such an unbreakable bond that transcends defies time, family, and the tumultuous cards at hand that you are dealt with!
Fighting the Silence was much different from what I had anticipated. Nonetheless, it turned out to be great and very heartfelt!
Till and Eliza were all each other really had counting on them. With them against the world, they grow up in a world tainted of black and white.
With their friendship dwindling over the crossfire of love, Till does not feel that he is good enough for Eliza and conceals a secret from her that he is going deaf.
Their journey is satisfying as it is heartbreaking, as they go through their rough patches and mending their relationship, till eventually giving into the inevitable…their indestructible and unwavering love for each other.
It was an intriguing and cataclysmic journey that author Aly Martinez illustrates for us, as we not only get to see two individuals fight the bleak odds, but also for their futures despite what obstacles are but before them…
Such an unbreakable bond that transcends defies time, family, and the tumultuous cards at hand that you are dealt with!
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☆✮ Excerpt ✮☆
"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 f*#king 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 f*#king 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."☆✮ About the Author ✮☆
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