Book Exerpt: Cin by Christina Leigh Pritchard

Title: Cin
Series: C I N
Author: Christina Leigh Pritchard
Release Date: April 2010

Aunt Millie stood a few feet away. “Alex, honey, could you fetch me one of the chickens, please? I want to fix a nice dinner for Lisa.” Alex nodded his head and snatched a passing chicken by her neck. She clucked and scared all the other hens. They scurried around and hid inside their coop. Alex looked up at me. His eyes were blank.

“I better go get the eggs,” I mumbled, frozen.

Alex took out an axe, stretched the hen’s neck across a tree stump and dropped his weapon. The headless body ran around. That poor chicken. She didn’t even see it coming. Alex didn’t even flinch. Could I call PETA on him?

I doubled over and vomited. Probably not a case for PETA.

I think vegetarian is the way to go. A chicken free diet never hurt anyone; especially not the chickens.

Pig inched closer. He sniffed the air and snorted. “I know, I know, get the eggs.” I took a deep breath. Pink’s song, ‘Funhouse’ played inside my head. This used to be a funhouse. But now it’s filled with evil clowns. Yeah, that’s how I felt. It’s time to start the count down. I’m gonna burn it down.  I think someone already burned this family. They were cranky and angry. Even the animals seemed troubled.

Alex stood inches away with the dead, twitching body of the hen in his hand. “Breakfast is ready.” I turned and narrowed my eyes at the chicken killer.

   

CIN by Christina Leigh Pritchard

CIN by Christina Leigh Pritchard


Published by Createspace in 2010

256 Pages

Themes: Overcoming Difficulties, Family Troubles, Learning to Love

First Sentence: " 'Lisa if you don't finish packing your things, I swear you'll go with nothing," my mother, Amber, threatened."

“Lynn, Lynn, city of sin; you never come out the way you went in.”

Lisa Brown is just about to be shipped off to Lynn, Massachusetts to go to the CIN Boarding school , while her mother checks herself into a psychiatric hospital. As she waits for her Aunt Millie to pick her up, a boy named Michael does instead and after their first conversation together Lisa learns that there are quite a few strange things about who she'll be living with and even the town she's living in. When she arrives at the house she meets Alex, who definitely minds her staying there. Along with meeting a dog named Pig, who constantly follows her around but never lets her touch him, and a cat named Rat, who everyone says to not touch, she doesn't feel very welcomed. But that's not all. In the early hours of the morning shes awakened by Allie, Alex's sister who is no more welcoming than the rest. Morning comes and Millie sends Lisa to feed the chickens, and while attempting to do so, more like Alex doing all of the work, she bumps into Alex and feels a sudden shock. It hurts but she feels addicted to it. This is the first of the many strange happenings she experiences in Lynn. As the book goes on we learn that there is a secret behind Lynn and the other teens there.
                    I really enjoyed this book. While not being the most descriptive book it sure hooks you and is really fast paced. I enjoyed the back-stories of all of the characters and the whole aspect of lightening in this book was really interesting. The characters, especially Alex and Ally, are very interesting and peculiar. This is a great book, especially for readers who enjoy fantasy.

           A little input on what how I pictured Alex throughout the book. I kept picturing him as Jack Frost from the new movie rise of the guardians.
           Anyway, you can purchase this book on Amazon for Kindle or in paperback. Go check it out!


4/5 Stars