Author: Sarah Negovetich
Blurb Description: Straight-laced, sixteen-year-old Rebecca can’t wait for her Acceptance.
A fancy ball, eligible bachelors, and her debut as an official member of society. Instead, the Machine rejects Rebecca. Labeled as a future criminal, she’s shipped off to a life sentence in a lawless penal colony.
A life behind barbed wire fences with the world’s most dangerous people terrifies Rebecca. She reluctantly joins a band of misfit teens in a risky escape plan, complete with an accidental fiancé she’s almost certain she can learn to
love.
love.
But freedom comes with a price. To escape a doomed future and prove her innocence Rebecca must embrace the criminal within.
AUTHOR BIO:
Sarah Negovetich knows you don't know how to pronounce her name and she's okay with that.
Her first love is Young Adult novels, because at seventeen the world is your oyster. Only oysters are slimy and more than a little salty; it's accurate if not exactly motivational. We should come up with a better cliché.
Sarah divides her time between writing YA books that her husband won’t read and working with amazing authors as an agent at Corvisiero Literary Agency. Her life’s goal is to be only a mildly embarrassing mom when her kids hit their teens.
You can learn more about Sarah and her books at www.SarahNegovetich.com
or follow her antics on Twitter @SarahNego.
or follow her antics on Twitter @SarahNego.
#RiteOfRejection Reader Survival Pack
Prize pack includes:
Chapter 17 tissues (because that's when you'll need them), a jumbo sized chocolate bar (a hot commodity inside the PIT), an orange scented candle (courtesy of Rebecca's fondest memory from home, a dandelion pen (as featured on the cover), hand-crafted Molly bag (these are used extensively by the main characters), and a $10 Amazon gift card.
Chapter 17 tissues (because that's when you'll need them), a jumbo sized chocolate bar (a hot commodity inside the PIT), an orange scented candle (courtesy of Rebecca's fondest memory from home, a dandelion pen (as featured on the cover), hand-crafted Molly bag (these are used extensively by the main characters), and a $10 Amazon gift card.
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**INTERVIEW**
**INTERVIEW**
1.
What
does it feel like to have your book out there, for the world to read?
Surreal! I’m not sure it’s really
sunk in yet. Maybe it will hit me on release date. In my head, this is still a
project I’m helping one of my clients with. I’d describe it as equal parts
excited and nervous, with a dash of ‘are we there yet’ thrown in for good
measure.
2.
Tell
us a little about the storyline for Rite of Rejection:
The
story follows Rebecca who is on the verge of becoming a full member of her
society, but instead she’s identified as a future criminal and sent to prison
for life. Except this prison functions as its own little community where the
only thing you can’t do is escape. Having lived her entire life sheltered by
her mother, Rebecca has no idea how to survive on her own. She needs the help
of other teens, wrongly accused just like her. Together they make plans to
create a new life and Rebecca learns how to start living, but when you’re
surrounded by criminals it’s hard to know who to trust.
3. What inspired you to write Rite
of Rejection?
I remember reading a news story
about a senseless crime and wishing there was a way we could know ahead of time
who would do this kind of thing. From there I brainstormed what that would look
like if we could (think Minority Report) and it all snowballed from there.
4. Do an Acronym for Rite of
Rejection (one word for each letter of the title)
Whoops! I should have picked a
shorter title. This was crazy hard and probably doesn’t make any sense unless
you’ve read the book. Spoilers! J
Rebecca’s
In
Trouble.
Eric
Offers
Freedom.
Revolutionaries
Escape
Jail,
Except
Criminal
Trades
Information
On
Niceguys
5. What is your opinion on negative
reviews?
I have a love/hate relationship with
them. So far most of my reviews have been favorable, but I’ve had a few readers
that really didn’t like the book. I’m not going to lie, those reviews sting,
but not as much as I would have thought. While I adore getting those 5*
reviews, I also appreciate the readers who didn’t like it. Negative reviews
remind me that I still have room to grow and learn so I can be a better writer.
They motivate me to work toward putting out an even better book next time.
**MY REVIEW**
Actual Rating: 3.5 Stars!
A Good, but not great new book in the Dystopian World!
I swear I've gone on a Dystopian String this week, starting off with watching (and just sitting in the theatre long after it was over going NO in my head) The Hunger Games: Mockingjay 3, then I read Amanda Thorne's Ruination and almost immediately started this!
While I really LOVED the idea of an Acceptance Ball in the modern world, and to a girl that dreamed and thought about it, to get Rejected for no reason, and pretty much everything else unfair about a system that claims to be flawless- I found that the execution could have been a lot better.
It was nice, don't get me wrong, but I felt like there could have been more anger, more emotion early on from Rebecca, her parents, everyone. I feel like The Acceptance should have been given more importance so that the reader understood what it was to live the 'proper' life, not leave it to his/ her imagination.
Still, the story picked up later on, and I found myself enjoying the book:) I would recommend the book
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