Win an ARC of Santa Olivia by Jacqueline Carey!

As you know, I recently reviewed Santa Olivia by Jacqueline Carey (on sale 05/29/2009, though I hear some places have been shipping it early). My review began:

"Fans of Jacqueline Carey will be pleasantly surprised, I think, by her latest offering and its inherent divergence from her usual style. There is nothing of the lush language and sensuous worldbuilding of the Kushiel's Legacy series here, nor any of the tragic melancholia and subverted fantasy tropes of The Sundering duology. No, Santa Olivia is the essence of the desert: sparse, bright, gritty, and full of visions that might mean hope or death.

Santa Olivia is set in an analogue of our world. It's almost identical to our current time, except a terrible pandemic has devastated the human population (at least in America and Mexico) and led to a military cordon being established along the border of Texas and Mexico. The cordon is a sort of no-man's-land, with the small town of Santa Olivia and its citizens unwilling to forsake their homes having been converted into Outpost No. 12, a settlement serving the soldiers from the nearby United States' military base established to police the cordon. Life is hard and hopeless for the citizens of Outpost; there are no civilian police, but gangs tolerated by the MP keep things in a grim semblance of order and arrange nightlife for the soldiers. There are barely enough necessities to go around for Outpost's denizens, much less amenities or distractions. There's no escape: no one from Outpost is allowed to leave, and its uncertain whether anyone outside of the military base knows they're still there." [Read the rest of my review here.]

Well, the publisher is permitting me to give away my copy of the Santa Olivia ARC in a random drawing on this journal! 

Here's how to enter:

If Santa Olivia sounds like a book you'd enjoy, comment on this entry with two items:
1. Answer the following question using my review: What is the group of Orphans called that Loup cavorts with?
2. Promise me that you'll review the book yourself, once you've read it! And comment back here so I can see your review at that time. (Your review doesn't need to be long or elaborate-- a couple of sentences of reaction are fine.)

That's it! You'll be able to enter through next Monday (May 25th), 9 PM EST. I'll draw the winner Monday night.

(Also, please feel free to promote this give-away on your journals. I'd like to spread it far and wide.)