Reflection Pond (Reflection Pond, #1)
Release Date: 04/01/14
Urban Fey Press
242 pages
Summary from Goodreads:
Sometimes you find home, sometimes it comes looking for you.
Callie knows a lot more about pain than she does about family. She’s never belonged, at least, not until she falls through a portal into her true home. The beautiful faerie city of Eirensae doesn’t come free. Callie must find her amulet and bind herself to the city, and most importantly, avoid the Fallen fae who seek her life. Seems like a small price to pay for the family she’s always wanted.
Then she meets cynical and gorgeous Rowan, who reads the darkness of her past in her eyes. He becomes Callie’s part-time protector and full-time pain in the ass. He has secrets of his own for Callie to unravel. What they don’t know is that the future of Eirensae lies with them, and the once peaceful city is about to become a battleground for power.
Callie knows a lot more about pain than she does about family. She’s never belonged, at least, not until she falls through a portal into her true home. The beautiful faerie city of Eirensae doesn’t come free. Callie must find her amulet and bind herself to the city, and most importantly, avoid the Fallen fae who seek her life. Seems like a small price to pay for the family she’s always wanted.
Then she meets cynical and gorgeous Rowan, who reads the darkness of her past in her eyes. He becomes Callie’s part-time protector and full-time pain in the ass. He has secrets of his own for Callie to unravel. What they don’t know is that the future of Eirensae lies with them, and the once peaceful city is about to become a battleground for power.
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Character Interview:
Name: Callie, Calla Lily
Age: 17
Appearance: Long blond hair, blue eyes. In a perfect world,
where Reflection Pond was made into a movie, Annasophia
Robb would play Callie.
Personality: Reserved, quiet, shy, with a short fuse ignited
by fear. She’s had a hard past that makes her hesitant to trust people or rely
on them. She has a soft side that longs for magic and kindness. She believes
that she can leave her past behind and make herself into a new person, if only
given the chance.
Here is Rowan’s (the male main character) first impression of Callie:
It wasn’t because she was pretty—of course she was,
beauty was a given in Eirensae. Sometimes he longed for the diversity of the
human world, where no one was glamoured to perfection. He wanted scars to map
out a history that actually meant something. Flawlessness turned his stomach.
The girl’s arched mouth fell into a gasp as she looked
up at the glamoured ceiling. A blond cascade of hair skimmed over her shoulders
as she leaned farther backwards, trying to take it all in.
Rowan didn’t believe a single word that came out of
her mouth. He couldn’t lie, but he didn’t think she was like him. It didn’t
matter if she looked like Sapphire. Lots of girls had blond hair and blue eyes.
Lots of girls were beautiful. It didn’t mean she belonged here. No one fell
through the pond by accident.
And an excerpt from Callie:
She must be crazy, going through with this party.
Callie pressed her fingertips to the mirror, half expecting her hand to
disappear through it as she saw in the movies. Maybe she was dreaming. Maybe
she’d fallen asleep in Nate’s bed and created another reality so she wouldn’t
have to face the real one.
When she was little, back before she’d realized that
the world was an awful, cruel place, Callie had dreamed that her mother was a
princess. She’d drawn pictures of castles sparkling with jewels and white
knights on horses. She convinced herself that one day, a carriage would come
for her and never look back. Then she’d been placed with the Johnson’s and
Callie had lost all hope.
And maybe she was crazy, but was it so wrong of her to
be curious? To ask, what if? She glanced again at her reflection. They’d pinned
flowers in her hair and covered her eyelids with glitter. Maybe she wanted
this.
Maybe this was the most excited she’d been.
Ever.
Callie’s interview. This takes place just before Reflection
Pond, when Callie is a foster child.
- If you had a free day with no
responsibilities and your only mission was to enjoy yourself, what would
you do?
Read. The best way to escape your life is to take on someone else’s. I can
be anyone as long as I’m inside a book.
2.
What
impression do you make on people when they first meet you? How about after
they’ve known you for a while?
I think I come off as quiet and maybe a bit standoffish. It’s not that I’m
trying to be that way, it’s just hard for me to trust people. I don’t have many
friends and very, very few people know what really happened to me. Fosters are
like that. You can’t hold too tightly to anything, because tomorrow it will be
taken away from you.
3.
What’s
your idea of a good marriage? Do you think that’ll happen in your life?
No. Just no.
4.
What
are you most proud of about your life?
My ability to blend in. Inside, everything is a mess, but on the outside you
just see a girl who is making it through every day. Maybe I don’t smile enough,
but no one is looking hard enough to notice.
5.
What
are you most ashamed of in your life?
Not being able to defend myself. If I were stronger, I could’ve had a different
life.
6.
If
you could spend the day with someone you admire (living or dead or imaginary),
who would you pick?
Joan of Arc. Not only did she have visions of the future, but she used them
to change history. She had to convince people she wasn’t a heretic, and though
she eventually died for her visions, she brought about great change in a small
amount of time. She was strong and brave, living in a man’s world, and that’s
the kind of person I want to be.
7.
Do
you think you’ve turned out the way your parents expected?
I have no idea. I’ve never met my parents, though when they gave me up, I
hope they didn’t expect me to have so many foster homes.
8.
What
do you believe about God?
I’ve never been very religious. Once, I lived in a home that required us to
go to church. It seemed to me that God was just an excuse people used to do
things. You can get away with nearly anything if you claim you did it in the
name of God.
9.
Is
there anything you’ve always wanted to do but haven’t done? What would happen
if you did it?
I want to get out of Pennsylvania, and I will, as soon as I turn eighteen. I’ve
got enough money saved for a bus ticket. Florida, California, New York. I don’t
know where I’m going, but I know I’m leaving. What would happen? I don’t know.
That’s the best part.
10.
What’s
the worst thing that’s happened in your life? What did you learn from it?
I’m not answering that.
11.
Tell
me about your best friend.
I don’t really have a best friend. I guess it’s my boyfriend, Nate. He’s the
only person who’s put up with me for this long.
12.
What’s
the worst thing you’ve ever done to someone? Why?
The worst thing I’ve done? Being born. Obviously I was a burden to my
parents.
13.
What
would you like it to say on your tombstone?
That’s cryptic. My name, I
guess.
14.
Describe
your ideal mate.
Mate? You’re kidding, right? A book. A book is my ideal “mate.”
15.
What
are you most afraid of?
Being unable to defend myself. Being trapped.
16.
What’s
the most important thing in your life? What do you value most?
Freedom. Well, I’ll value it when I have it, anyway.
17.
What
do you like best about yourself? Least?
I’m determined, it’s probably my best quality. The least? My fear.
18.
How
do you feel about your life right now? What, if anything, would you like to
change?
I feel like I’m stuck, but only for a little while longer. Like I said,
eighteenth birthday, bus ticket, sayonara Pennsylvania and being a foster.
19.
Are
you lying to yourself about something? What is it?
Lying? I’m not much of a liar,
I prefer to omit things. If I ignore it, it doesn’t really exist.
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About the Author:
Kacey Vanderkarr
is a young adult author. She dabbles in fantasy, romance, and sci-fi, complete
with faeries, alternate realities, and the occasional plasma gun. She’s known
to be annoyingly optimistic and listen to music at the highest decibel. When
she’s not writing, she coaches winterguard and works as a sonographer. Kacey
lives in Michigan, with her husband, son, and crazy cats. Along with her
novels, Reflection Pond and Antithesis, Kacey's short fiction can be found in
Sucker Literary Vol 3, and the upcoming Spark Vol 7, Ember: A Journal of
Luminous Things, and Out of the Green: Tales from Fairyland.
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