Compulsion (The
Heirs of Watson Island #1)
Release Date: 10/28/14
ISBN: 1481411225
Simon Pulse, Simon Teen
448 pages
Summary from Goodreads:
Three plantations. Two wishes. One ancient
curse.
All her life, Barrie Watson has been a virtual prisoner in the house where she lives with her shut-in mother. When her mother dies, Barrie promises to put some mileage on her stiletto heels. But she finds a new kind of prison at her aunt’s South Carolina plantation instead--a prison guarded by an ancient spirit who long ago cursed one of the three founding families of Watson Island and gave the others magical gifts that became compulsions.
Stuck with the ghosts of a generations-old feud and hunted by forces she cannot see, Barrie must find a way to break free of the family legacy. With the help of sun-kissed Eight Beaufort, who knows what Barrie wants before she knows herself, the last Watson heir starts to unravel her family's twisted secrets. What she finds is dangerous: a love she never expected, a river that turns to fire at midnight, a gorgeous cousin who isn’t what she seems, and very real enemies who want both Eight and Barrie dead.
All her life, Barrie Watson has been a virtual prisoner in the house where she lives with her shut-in mother. When her mother dies, Barrie promises to put some mileage on her stiletto heels. But she finds a new kind of prison at her aunt’s South Carolina plantation instead--a prison guarded by an ancient spirit who long ago cursed one of the three founding families of Watson Island and gave the others magical gifts that became compulsions.
Stuck with the ghosts of a generations-old feud and hunted by forces she cannot see, Barrie must find a way to break free of the family legacy. With the help of sun-kissed Eight Beaufort, who knows what Barrie wants before she knows herself, the last Watson heir starts to unravel her family's twisted secrets. What she finds is dangerous: a love she never expected, a river that turns to fire at midnight, a gorgeous cousin who isn’t what she seems, and very real enemies who want both Eight and Barrie dead.
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Belle: Special thanks to the author Martina Boone for generously providing her dream cast....because I am super curious about this!!
Belle: And here's a teaser 'cause I love you guys :P
Belle: Special thanks to the author Martina Boone for generously providing her dream cast....because I am super curious about this!!
The COMPULSION Dream Cast
Before I get
to the human characters, I have to say that setting is very definitely a
character in the HEIRS OF WATSON ISLAND trilogy. Watson Island is loosely based
on Edisto Island, and I borrowed from actual Charleston area plantation history
to create the three plantations that shaped who the three families became.
There was tons of material to work with-I mean, pirate treasure, ancient spirit
witches, blood feuds, lonely, demented characters, curses, forbidden romance .
. . How could I resist?
My dream cast
of plantations would include Boone Hall Plantation, with bits of Magnolia
Plantation and Drayton Hall thrown in. For the ruins of Colesworth Place, I’d love to use part of the columns that are all that’s left of the Windsor Plantation in Port Gibson, Mississippi. There is a
Windsor Plantation on Edisto Island, too, but it doesn’t have the same level of drama and echoing sadness.
Okay, and now on to the fun part. Human characters.
Okay, and now on to the fun part. Human characters.
Barrie.
Barrie first.
I’d love to Jennifer Lawrence play Barrie, of course, but basically, I’d like Jennifer Lawrence to play the main character in every movie, so
that may not tell you much. I might go with Nicola Peltz.
Eight
(Charles Robert Beaufort, VIII)
Liam
Hemsworth, I think, although Alex Pettyfer is probably the default here for
most readers, and of course I wouldn’t turn him down.
Barrie’s cousin Cassie.
Rooney Mara.
This one’s a no-brainer for me. She could do Scarlett/Vivien
Leigh, and I think she’d pull off the various sides of
Cassie with the complexity that Cassie needs.
Barrie’s godfather Mark.
Idris Elba. I
can picture him ROCKING a pink Chanel suit and heels and shaking his booty and
singing along with Whoopie Goldberg in Sister Act doing “Hail
Holy Queen.” I wonder if he’d be willing to shave?
Barrie’s
Aunt Pru.
Hard to
believe that Reese Witherspoon is about the right age, but she is. And she
would do a fabulous job.
Eight’s father Seven (Charles Robert Beaufort, VII).
If they cast Patrick Dempsey as Seven, then McDreamy might finally get the girl he missed in Sweet Home Alabama. Maybe. Eventually. By the end of the series—if I decide that Seven is truly good enough for Pru.
If they cast Patrick Dempsey as Seven, then McDreamy might finally get the girl he missed in Sweet Home Alabama. Maybe. Eventually. By the end of the series—if I decide that Seven is truly good enough for Pru.
Belle: And here's a teaser 'cause I love you guys :P
| Eight spun her toward him and kissed her, a long, deep kiss, until she thought she was going to pass out from lack of oxygen to the brain. “Now I’m better. You?” |
“Yeah. Fan-freaking-tastic.”
“Good, because we’re going to get out of this. Look at me.” He ducked his head so he was eye level with her, and laced the fingers of both hands through hers. He spoke so intently, it was hard not to believe him. Not to believe in him. “We will get out.”
Maybe the human brain was hardwired to require faith. Some people believed in God. Others believed in sports teams. Some believed blindly in their own talent or intelligence, regardless of evidence to the contrary, and then there were those who believed in family no matter how often it betrayed them. The people who mattered were the people you chose instead of the people who were yours only by an accident of birth. Real family was heart as much as, if not more than, blood.
About the Author:
Martina Boone was born in Prague and spoke several
languages before learning English. She fell in love with words and never
stopped delighting in them.
She’s the founder of AdventuresInYAPublishing.com,
a Writer’s Digest 101 Best Websites for Writers site, and YASeriesInsiders.com,
a site devoted to encouraging literacy and all this YA Series.
From her home in Virginia, where she lives with her
husband, children, and Auggie the wonder dog, she enjoys writing contemporary
fantasy set in the kinds of magical places she’d love to visit. When she isn’t
writing, she’s addicted to travel, horses, skiing, chocolate flavored tea, and
anything with Nutella on it.
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