Blog Tour Stop : Canary by Rachel Alpine
Hi everyone!
Welcome to my tour stop for Canary by Rachel Alpine. I was supposed to be sharing my review with you guys today, but unfortunately the review copy was all funny on my Nook with words chopped off and sentences completely missing and this made it hard for me to read it. I was really looking forward to it because it seems like such an interesting read and that cover is just so different for a YA contemporary, so I was disappointed that I couldn't read it. Instead, I'll be sharing an excerpt of the book with you all. I hope you enjoy it and be sure to check out the other tour stops here.
Summary (from Goodreads)Title : Canary
Author : Rachel Alpine
Publication Date : August 1st 2013
Publisher : Medallion Press
Staying quiet will destroy her, but speaking up will destroy everyone.
Kate Franklin’s life changes for the better when her dad lands a job at Beacon Prep, an elite private school with one of the best basketball teams in the state. She begins to date a player on the team and quickly gets caught up in a world of idolatry and entitlement, learning that there are perks to being an athlete.
But those perks also come with a price. Another player takes his power too far and Kate is assaulted at a party. Although she knows she should speak out, her dad’s vehemently against it and so, like a canary sent into a mine to test toxicity levels and protect miners, Kate alone breathes the poisonous secrets to protect her dad and the team. The world that Kate was once welcomed into is now her worst enemy, and she must decide whether to stay silent or expose the corruption, destroying her father’s career and bringing down a town’s heroes.
Canary is told in a mix of prose and verse.
Kate Franklin’s life changes for the better when her dad lands a job at Beacon Prep, an elite private school with one of the best basketball teams in the state. She begins to date a player on the team and quickly gets caught up in a world of idolatry and entitlement, learning that there are perks to being an athlete.
But those perks also come with a price. Another player takes his power too far and Kate is assaulted at a party. Although she knows she should speak out, her dad’s vehemently against it and so, like a canary sent into a mine to test toxicity levels and protect miners, Kate alone breathes the poisonous secrets to protect her dad and the team. The world that Kate was once welcomed into is now her worst enemy, and she must decide whether to stay silent or expose the corruption, destroying her father’s career and bringing down a town’s heroes.
Canary is told in a mix of prose and verse.
Excerpt
At first, it’s as if I have two faces.One I wear to school, around Jack, my friends, Dad, and one I have when I go home and am alone.My first face is the one you see in magazines like Seventeen or CosmoGirl. The smiling girl advertising clear skin products or lash-extending mascara.You can page through my life and see fashion pictorials that look like a normal teenage girl.You will see me in the pep rally spread. Photos of me helping decorate, hanging up red and gold streamers from the bleachers and signs proclaiming our intended victories.I’m at the game, in Jack’s warm-up jersey with pom-poms in my hands as I cheer on the team.I’m there in Jack’s varsity jacket after the game, his hand slung around me as we walked out of the gym to his car. I’m smiling as people stopped and congratulated Jack on a game well played.You can see me dancing at a party, surrounded by basketball players and their girlfriends as we celebrate another win.I create images all around me, enough to fill pages of magazines, pretending to be as happy and normal as everyone thinks I am.The school year and my life move forward without stopping. But as each day starts and ends, it is harder and harder for me to keep moving with it.I put on my mask and wear it to school. I try to forget about the dark hole that grows between Dad, Brett, and me, but it doesn’t last.Slowly, as the days march on, my mask starts to crack like nail polish that has been on for days. Small bits begin to flake off, giving people glimpses of what lies underneath, how broken I really am.
Rachele Alpine is a lover of sushi, fake mustaches, and Michael Jackson. One of her first jobs was at a library, but it didn’t last long, because all she did was hide in the third-floor stacks and read. Now she’s a little more careful about when and where she indulges her reading habit. By day she’s a high school English teacher, and by night she writes with the companionship of the world’s cutest dog, Radley, a big cup of coffee, and a full bag of gummy peaches. Rachele lives with her husband in Cleveland, Ohio, but dreams of moving back to Boston, the city she fell in love with while attending graduate school there.
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