First time Author, Terry Lovett has released YA Sci-fi fantasy novel titled, ZIA.
Here's the summary:
Zia lifted the music box lid. She’d never realized there were lyrics to accompany its tune. “Some have a lifetime, some just a day. Love isn’t something you measure that way. Nothing’s ever forever, forever’s a lie. All we have is between hello and goodbye.” Until now, Zia never believed it would be possible to have that one day, that one fleeting moment, with the boy she loves. But today, she’s been given the chance - the use of a Parallax Portal - and for one evening, she and Kiel can exist in a shared time and space. But will being together be worth the pain when the night ends and Kiel’s simulacrum passes back through the portal into his own world? And there’s something else - rather, someone else - confusing the situation. Someone living on the same planet, in the same town, and attending the same high school – popular, painfully handsome Kim. Why now, after years of clandestinely watching and wanting him, has he decided to notice Zia as well? Not that his advances have come too late, but they have created another problem – whom to choose. The boy she wants or the boy she’s wanted. But who can she confide in? Certainly no one living inside Celebration, Florida’s plasma bubble. Her friends don’t even believe Kiel exists! They’re convinced he’s only a storybook love Zia has created as a substitute for the guy she really wants. And her brother is no help. He’s too busy trying to repay the Carbon Copy Pet Cloning Center after running over the family dog. There’s always ADAM, her car’s Auto Drive Action Mechanism. But he’s only worth talking to when he maintains the Queen’s English and doesn’t slip into his annoying Cockney rhyming slang. That only leaves Oma, Zia’s one hundred twenty-year-old great-grandmother, because even though her weekly rejuvenation at the New U Medical Resurrection Clinic creates the illusion that she isn’t much older than Zia, she is, in fact, much wiser. She’ll have the answer hiding somewhere among her memories, a lifetime of experiences scattered across her room in diaries and photos…and music boxes.
The plot sounds interesting enough. Besides the fact that this sounds like an amazing plot line, what I love is how Lovett didn't shy away from use of Asian characters in her story. The American YA genre lacks in Asian American characters and Lovett changes all of that.
Her main character, Zia, is the everyday Caucasian YA heroine. Yet, Zia's love interests are not. They, in fact, are both Asian. For Lovett, this is entirely rare. Asian Americans in teen lit are nearly nonexsistent. Lovett was inspired by her daughter, she says. A year before she wrote, her daughter would "gush over Korean boy-bands and K-dramas..." Because of her daughter's interests she "knew that both Kiel and Kim would be Asian.”
And who were these characters inspired by?
None other than Super Junior's Choi Siwon as Kim And Korean actor Lee Minho as Kiel. Now that's eye candy! Or imaginary eye candy.
The novel isn't child's play, coming in with a "PG-13" rating according to Lovett. But, I'm sure it's a captivating and sexy read many fans will be swooning over until the next installment.
Check it out on Amazon right here:
Zia by Terry Lovett
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