THE CADET OF TILDOR
by Alex Lidell
Release Date - Jan
10, 2013
YA Fantasy
Alex Lidell (www.alexlidell.com) was a finalist in the 2010 Amazon Breakthrough Novelist Award competition and lives in New Jersey. This is her first novel.
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Tamora Pierce
meets George R. R. Martin in this smart, political, medieval fantasy-thriller.There is a new king on the throne of Tildor. Currents of political unrest sweep the country as two warring crime families seek power, angling to exploit the young Crown's inexperience. At the Academy of Tildor, the training ground for elite soldiers, Cadet Renee de Winter struggles to keep up with her male peers. But when her mentor, a notorious commander recalled from active duty to teach at the Academy, is kidnapped to fight in illegal gladiator games, Renee and her best friend Alec find themselves thrust into a world rife with crime, sorting through a maze of political intrigue, and struggling to resolve what they want, what is legal, and what is right.
Alex Lidell is a YA fantasy writer and author of ABNA Finalist THE CADET OF
TILDOR (Penguin, 2013). Although English is Alex’s primary language, it wasn’t her first. Coming from Russia, Alex learned english in elementary school and fell in love with reading when the school librarian put Tamora Pierce’s ALANNA into her hands. Years later, in college, it was another book that re-united Alex with russian, which she had shunned in adolescence. The Three Musketeers.* Alex thanks both books, and the writers who created them.
Beyond writing, Alex is also a photographer, a horseback rider, and a paramedic. The latter two go hand in hand more often than one would like. She is trying to self-teach herself and her horse to sword-fight.
Alex would love to see THE CADET OF TILDOR in the classroom and is working on developing teacher guides for the novel. She enjoys “e-meeting” both students and educators.
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Meet one of the characters:
Name: Diam
Age: 8
Physical description: Blond, small for
his age little independent little boy, always found in company of his huge
white dog - and usually in some place neither belongs.
Quote that really fits
this character’s personality:
“The courtyard is closed for the ceremony,” she [Renee]
said pointedly.
The boy [Diam] crossed his arms. Green eyes came up to
meet hers. “How can grass close?”
Good quality: empathetic
Vice: won't do as he is told, acts before he thinks.
Make sure you stop by a few of the other blogs to meet some of the other characters
in this fabulous novel!
Giveaway!!!
Alex is
offering the below giveaway. AToMR Tours is not handling this giveaway.
$20 Amazon Gift Card, PLUS a copy of
THE CADET OF TILDOR with swag – US
$20 Book Depository Gift Card –
International
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