BLOG TOUR - Quanta Reset
Quanta Reset by Lola Dodge
Genre: Young Adult
Series: The Shadow Ravens #3
Release Date: September 27, 2016
SYNOPSIS
Quanta has escaped her laboratory prison, but that’s where the good news ends. Life at the Shadow Ravens’ compound is a disaster. She’s drowning in visions of the dark pasts and darker futures of her fellow Ravens and is plagued by her own panic-inducing memories, but Lady Eva still expects her to“ train” and “ participate in missions.” Plus, the food tastes like burnt plastic.
The only bright spot is her genetic pairing to the brilliant Altair Orpheus. As their relationship grows, she’s positive that chemicals aren’t the only things drawing them together—although chemistry is definitely involved. While they test the limits of her game-changing new ability to reset time, word arrives from Eva’s agents: Doctor Nagi is still experimenting with her DNA. If he succeeds in duplicating her power...
Forget the Shadow Ravens. The whole world is toast.
EXPERT #1 - Quanta's POV
Futures fizzed through my dreams. Tair and me giggling and smiling. Then Tair and me running and dying. Tompkins staring blankly into space. The Ravens and Eva and Nagi. Millions of possibilities swirled. The past tugged at me, too. Like an underwater cave of phantoms, dying to pull me in. Darren’s chemical-green eyes bored into me while he cackled from the darkness.
I woke up panting. And on the floor. Gulping deep breaths, I tried to concentrate on my stinging back, hoping the pain would push away the ghosts. There were a million and one terrible things in those dreams, but one image stuck out more than all the others: A future Quanta on her knees, clapping her hands to her ears, surrounded by limp bodies. So, so many bodies.
I pulled my blanket down around me and tried to even out my breathing. If my vitals spiked too much, Tair would come running, and I’d have to explain. I didn’t want to explain, even to him. The nightmares didn’t bother me. Darren was dead, and he could laugh all he wanted now that he wasn’t breathing. The past was like a bonfire I’d passed through. It couldn’t hurt me anymore. But the future...
It’s just a possibility. I hugged the blanket tight. It doesn’t have to happen. Either way, it sucked that reality was my biggest fear. I couldn’t let myself kill that many people. I’d end it before it went that far. And wasn’t that another chipper thought?
I grabbed the closest paper and pencil from the floor and started sketching. A timeghostly forest hovered at the edge of my vision, and I focused on it, losing myself in the shapes of the trees and mountains. By the time the paper was filled, my cold sweat was gone and panic had stopped making my vision shake. Action. I had to do something or I was going to lose it. But what?
EXPERT #2 - Tair's POV
The results couldn’t be right. It wasn’t possible. I ran them again. And again. Each time, the data told the same story. Quanta was destabilizing. A ragged breath escaped me as I collapsed onto a stool. I slipped off my glasses to rub my forehead. A notification popped up on the closest screen, but I likely already knew the contents, and I tuned out the pinging sound.
The Red Helix marked unstable DNA, and more power meant greater instability. Less control. And more chance of losing that control permanently. Genetics had grown exponentially since the Seligo were created, but the science had never been exact. There were too many factors in the equation. Eye color could be programmed, intelligence could be raised, but every tweak changed something else downstream. Reds had superhuman abilities, but the smallest change knocked them out of balance. A change in environment. Exposure to new stressors. History was peppered with examples of Reds who’d lost the battle against their own powers. They caused large-scale death and destruction. It had been decades since the last incident, but only because the Seligo killed most of the girls at birth. Now Quanta... After all she’d survived...
Despair clenched my chest. Air hardly flowed into my lungs. Her slipping control was just a symptom of the changes happening in her body. Gradual deterioration that would end in... Another notification pinged on-screen. I ignored it, slumping until my elbows rested on my knees. We could develop serums to help stabilize her. All I had to do was keep her safe and secure until we figured out what was pushing her toward the edge. Her condition wasn’t a death sentence. Not yet.
The notification pinged again, and I finally swiped at the screen. "What?" "Um." A girl’s face popped up. "Altair?" "What do you need, Sam?" I’d expected Eva directly—not her com commander. "Just wondering why Quanta and Cipher broke into the barracks."
"They ----." I snapped. "What?" "You didn’t know?" Sam peered at me through the screen. "Have you told Eva?" I jammed on my glasses as I headed for the door. "Not yet, but..."
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
LOLA DODGE
Lola is a compulsive traveler, baker, and procrastinator. She earned her BAin English from Stonehill College and MFA in Writing Popular Fiction from Seton Hill University—and hasn’t stopped moving since. When she’s not on the road, Lola spends her time indoors where the sunlight can’t melt her, writing or bingeing on anime and cherry soda. She can be summoned in a ritual involving curry, Hello Kitty idols, and a solid chocolate pentagram.
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