Overwhelm
Release Date: November 13th 2015
Summary from Goodreads:
The living crystals that feed elemental power to Atlantis are
exhausted. They give and give, but the Altantians just want more energy to fuel
their magical city. Sixteen years ago, the crystals came up with a plan to make
it all stop, a plan that revolves around three teens:
KALIOPE is a soulsinger, an empath with the power to sing the
souls of the dead to their next lives. She just wants to grow up, but her
mother won't let her.
DANICA is Kaliope's whipping girl. She gets punished whenever Kali
disobeys.
CHIARAN is a firestarter, so reckless even his family considers
him a monster.
When Chiaran arrives in Atlantis, he's the first fire person to set foot on the island in a hundred years. Kaliope naturally considers him an enemy and uses the last of her depleted power against him. But the battle reveals that the two have more in common than anyone could have guessed.
Anyone, that is, except the crystals.
Three teenage antiheroes, a bisexual love triangle, and an island
about to sink.
Overwhelm is a darkly sensual fairy tale about growing up against
all odds.
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About
the Author
Láyla
Messner is a young-adult author and the founder of ChrysalisSanctuary.com for
healing childhood sexual abuse. She has an M.A. in embodied writing from
Goddard College and her novels provide New Sexual Mythology for teens. She
believes that love is real. She does not believe in unsolicited advice or the
word "impossible."
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Two Ships on a Sinking Island:
Teasers from the bisexual love triangle in
OVERWHELM by Layla Messner
In OVERWEHLM (An
Atlantis Fairy Tale), Kaliope is caught in the middle of a bisexual love
triangle that wants to tear her, and her world, apart.
Her sexual confusion
tortures both her lovers, but she’s not trying to be confusing; she’s just
confused.
“I stuck around
I did behave
I saved you every time
I was a fool for love”
I did behave
I saved you every time
I was a fool for love”
– Tegan and Sara, I was a fool
Kaliope woke to Danica
shaking her. Her guardian was hunched over her, partially blocking the late
morning sunlight. The look of misery on the other girl’s face made Kaliope’s
stomach contract.
Oh, no.
Her fingers crawled up
Danica’s arm. She reached the firm curve of shoulder and her guardian’s eyes
narrowed. Dani was holding her breath; her breasts had gone still. Kaliope
tapped the skin over the shoulder blade. Obediently, the other girl turned.
Kaliope pressed her
fingers over her own mouth to stifle a cry.
Fresh, bleeding lines
crisscrossed Dani’s back, from her mother’s whip.
Warmth drained from
Kaliope’s face.
“Oh, Kali, no.”
She launched herself
off the bed, dodging Danica, and just made it to the bathing room in time to
lean over the bathtub. Her stomach convulsed again, sending its contents
burning up her throat and erupting out of her mouth. As last night’s dinner
spewed into the bathtub, she braced her hands on the side of the tub, heaving
again and again.
Fingers against the
clammy skin of her shoulders. That was enough to restart the heaving, even
though there was nothing left in her stomach but bile.
Tender hands gathered
her hair away from her face.
She shoved Dani away,
unable to stand it, any of this. Kaliope’s hair trailed forward after that,
sticking to the side of her mouth.
She dry-heaved for a
while, nothing more to give. Eventually even that subsided, and she slid down
the tub to the floor. Danica was still there, of course, leaning against the
wall and politely studying her own hands.
“It’s okay,” Dani
said. “I’ll heal.”
Kaliope wiped her
mouth on the back of her hand and looked up.
“Kali, no,” Danica
said again. Like she knew what Kaliope was about to say.
She probably did. They
knew each other. There was that.
“We can’t do this
anymore,” Kaliope said. “This—this is why.”
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