BIR2010: Lani Woodland Character Interview and special giveaway

BIR2010

Welcome to back to the BEST I'VE READ 2010! BIR2010 will run from December 6th through December 14th. This will be a annual event and this year its compromised of 9 blogs. Each day each blog will have multiple post and giveaways happening each day until its over. Then on the last day there will also be a Grand Prize Giveaway on the BIR2010 Blog.

Now I bring you such a awesome book and you know why? Because the main character has my name. Seriously Intrinsical is one of my top favorites this year. Intrinsical is written by Lani Woodland. Lani took time out from writing the sequel to Intrinsical to provide us with a great character interview and Lani has given a wonderful chance to have your name in the sequel to Intrinsical. Enjoy!

Yara Silva's Interview:

Once Upon: So Yara, tell us how you really feel about being a Waker?


It would be a lie to say I’m thrilled about it but I’m okay with it

now. I’ve realized that it’s part of me. Like having a nose you hate

when you’re little and then grown into as you get older.



Once Upon: Where do you and Cherie love to hang out and why?



We like to hang out at the Dos
Lagos shopping center in Corona. They have lots of cool shops and some
great places to eat. There’s a movie theater and an

open-air auditorium where bands play on the weekends. Sometime they

have some good jazz bands there too. There is a pretty lake with a

cool bamboo-covered walkway. If we’re not there we usually go to the

Crossings and people watch by the big fountain while sipping

smoothies. LA and San Diego are fun to visit too but we’d rather spend

our money on food, clothes and movies than gas.



Once Upon: Can you describe to us how the Orange Groves are? 



The groves are awesome. I got to
know them really well last year. They are really

pretty, and a good place to be alone. When you’re inside, you can only

hear your feet crunching the leaves as you tread, and the songs of the

birds. It’s really peaceful. Unfortunately, spiders love it too and

you have to watch out for them. After everything that happened last

year I still love to visit them. It centers me, for lack of a better

word and I love spending time there. My mom told me there used to be a

lot more of them around Corona but all the development has knocked

most of them down. I know some of them were destroyed in a fire a long

time ago too. Fire season in California is pretty scary sometimes.



Once Upon: Do you ever plan on visiting Brazil again?


Yes, I’m spending the summer with
my parents and grandma in Brazil. I’m really excited that I get to spend
time there with my family.



Once Upon: Do you feel its easier now for you to talk with the Ghost? Easier?


Yes, it is easier but it’s still not
something I enjoy doing.

Sometimes it still freaks me out.



Once Upon: If you had a choice to go to any school which one would you pick?




Well I’m looking at colleges right now and my life plan of being a

journalist and going to Columbia has recently shifted. So my choice of

school is up in the air.



Once Upon: Tell us Yara what your favorite 3 books are?




The Summoning by Kelley Armstrong. I have sympathy for Chloe

How to Take the Ex out of Ex-boyfriend by Janette Rallison. Sometimes

I just love a good laugh. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte and I really loved
the modern retelling Jane by April Linder

Intrinsical
Yara Silva Trilogy #1
Author: Lani Woodland
Released: August 17th 2010
Publisher: Pendrell Publishing
http://www.laniwoodland.com/
http://www.intrinsicalthebook.com/
http://laniwoodland.blogspot.com/

Summary: Sixteen-year-old Yara Silva has always known that ghosts walk alongside the living. Her grandma, like the other females in her family, is a Waker, someone who can see and communicate with ghosts. Yara grew up watching her grandmother taunted and scorned for this unusual ability and doesn't want that to be her future. She has been dreading the day when she too would see ghosts, and is relieved that the usually dominant Waker gene seems to have skipped her, letting her live a normal teenage life. However, all that changes for Yara on her first day at her elite boarding school when she discovers the gene was only lying dormant. She witnesses a dark mist attack Brent, a handsome fellow student, and rushes to his rescue. Her act of heroism draws the mist's attention, and the dark spirit begins stalking her. Yara finds herself entrenched in a sixty-year-old curse that haunts the school, threatening not only her life, but the lives of her closest friends as well. Yara soon realizes that the past she was trying to put behind her isn't going to go quietly.

So just in case you didn't understand the giveaway. Lani is giving away the chance for your name (either First, Middle or Last name) to be in the sequel to Intrinsical. That's very cool right?

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