Title: Room 3
Author: Jonathan D Allen
Reading Level: Adult
Release Date: November 5th 2012
Release Date: November 5th 2012
Size: 436 pages
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Torn away from everyday life and held prisoner in a tiny cabin, Kelli Foster must harden herself to survive torture and isolation. When Carla is introduced to Kelli’s small world, the experiments they are forced to endure take a dark turn. Kelli is forced to choose: Save her own life, or free her new friend? Sacrifice her dreams or sacrifice her love?
Following a failed escape attempt, Kelli, Carla, and Kelli’s lover Samarta work together to unravel the mystery behind the shadowy group that has kidnapped them all. Their path to freedom lies through mind-bending discoveries and globe-trotting adventures, culminating in a battle between godlike beings that hold Kelli’s fate in their hands.
(Excerpt from Authors website)
April 10th
Here I am, alone again, an alien in an empty motel room somewhere in Texas, listening for footsteps outside the door. Someone on the outside might think I waited for an eager lover who’d taken a few hours away from his wife, or even my own people, beamed down from the mother-ship. Good guesses both, but you’d be wrong. Instead, I’m waiting for death. Maybe worse than death; I admit my imagination escapes me a little with these things.
I do hear footfalls, though, and every time I hear them, I’m almost positive that the Organization has found me and is ready to take what they think is theirs. Some nights I wonder if they’re right. Maybe I should be their property. Maybe I overstepped my limits by escaping them and coming to this weird world that seems so familiar and yet so damned alien at the same time.
The central question of my existence, or anyone’s existence if they really think about it – if someone creates you, do they own you? Does that mean they can destroy you, too, like the parent who brings you into this world and can take you out again? It sounds absurd but don’t be so sure about your own answer if you’ve never found out that your entire existence is a lie.
Okay, they didn’t create me. Not really. They only shaped me, and God knows what they’d do if they got their hands on me again. Maybe killing me would be too nice. They have worse things to do to a person.
On the other hand, I suppose freedom in itself is a sweet and noble goal, but can you call holing yourself up in a motel room and jumping at every sound freedom? Sometimes I wonder if I’ve replaced one prison with another, though this prison is a lot safer and comfier than the one where I had to ingest mass quantities of drugs on a daily basis.
I feel like I’m losing my mind an inch at a time. Don’t get me wrong, I never thought life on the run would be easy, and Sam says things will be getting better soon, but come on. Things have to change; I just don’t know how they could or will. Foresight has never been my thing.
I think that’s where this journal comes in. Am I a writer? Not sure. My family tree includes a pretty famous writer, or at least a reasonable facsimile of one, and if my creator could do that, what else could she do? My memory tells me that the last journal I kept ended about the time I turned 13 and discovered boys, but I can’t trust that period of my life.
It doesn’t matter. In the end, like most folks who put pen to paper, I have a story to tell. A weird, poisonous story that hangs on me, dragging me down any time I start to feel I might be a normal human being, but no story is perfect, right? It’s time to get rid of it. Maybe it’ll be like passing a kidney stone: excruciating but necessary.
Nothing can be normal until I get this stone out of my system.
Born and raised in the rural Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, Jonathan wrote his first fantasy/sci-fi novel at the age of 13. After studying writing and communication at James Madison University, Jonathan turned his passion for writing into a full-time technical writing career in the DC Metro area, working for companies like Sprint/Nextel, Time Warner Cable, and Sirius XM Radio, where he had an opportunity to combine his love of music with his love of writing.
He may have drifted away from fiction at times, but it was always his first love – and he always returned to it. Now living in Bethesda with his fiancée, two cats, and two quirky guinea pigs for whom his publishing company is named, he crafts the kinds of stories that he had always hoped to read but just couldn’t quite find.
Wow, what an intriguing excerpt Melissa, thanks for sharing! That blurb sounds terrifying- experiments and torture? *shudders* I hope this one has an HEA even if it's dark up until then:)
ReplyDeleteVery interesting...now i want answers! Thanks for sharing this as it was new to me!
ReplyDeleteWhoa, this sounds intense and terrifying! I hadn't heard of it before. I'm curious now!
ReplyDeleteEek, this sounds incredibly creepy, but also interesting!!
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