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Finch by Gabriel Madison

In Finch, mysterious underground inhabitants known as the gray caps have reconquered the failed fantasy state Ambergris and put it under martial law. They have disbanded House Hoegbotton and are controlling the human inhabitants with strange addictive drugs, internment in camps, and random acts of terror. The rebel resistance is scattered, and the gray caps are using human labor to build two strange towers. Against this backdrop, John Finch, who lives alone with a cat and a lizard, must solve an impossible double murder for his gray cap masters while trying to make contact with the rebels. Nothing is as it seems as Finch and his disintegrating partner Wyte negotiate their way through a landscape of spies, rebels, and deception. Trapped by his job and the city, Finch is about to come face to face with a series of mysteries that will change him and Ambergris forever.

Forever Young by Patricia Hebert

Twelve year old Sarah Cahill and her family are moving from the home they love on Bainbridge Island, Washington to Stockbridge, Massachusetts. Her first day at school she discovers that everyone at Stockbridge Elementary believes her house is haunted. Unhappy with the move, and the new target of the class bully, Sarah doesn’t know how she will survive the changes in her life, until she finds out she’s not the first person living at 54 Ice Bend Road to face such hardships.

Three Seeds by Gabriel Madison

An unnatural cold front grows each day, bewildering world leaders and scientists, while leaving people across the world in a state of panic. All of North America is covered in snow. Earth is slowly reverting into a frozen oasis, causing religious groups to scream of the end of days, while others believe it’s the beginning of a new and foretold era.

Rosemary Anderson finds herself working as a receptionist, living on an old southern plantation and wishing for excitement. David, the man claiming to have rescued her from a car wreck three years earlier, has maneuvered himself into her life, but only shows up occasionally to ask Rose strange and cryptic questions about a past she no longer remembers.

Rose’s desire for adventure comes true, when strange men arrives at her plantation, and suddenly assails her. Rose narrowly escapes with the help of her mysterious friend David. David flees to Atlanta as he leads Rose through a hidden and treacherous world filled with death, power, secrets and passion. While trying to protect her from immortals shrouded by shadows, an ancient secret society and antediluvian beings from a forgotten time determined to either capture… or kill her.

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I am a 30-something SAHM with two adorable boys and a supportive husband who is very tolerant of my reading addiction. I love to read and easily go through about a dozen books a month – well I did before I had kids. Now, not so much. After my first son was born, I began to take my hobby of reviewing a little more serious and started Literary Escapism to help with my sanity. I love to discuss the fabulous novels I’ve read and meeting all the wonderful people in the book blogging community has been amazing.

2 Comments

  1. Wow! Where did these come from? They sound wonderful. I especially like the sound of Finch, with its dark mystery element. Gosh. Also, Three Seeds, though sometimes apocolyptic type stuff freaks me out. But the mystery thread there sounds cool.

  2. I was immediately drawn in to the cover art on this post. Fintch is so grungy – I would expect to see more from this artist or in this style at least in the dark urban fantasy and sci-fi realm.

    Three Seeds illustration is such a beautiful harkening back to the Alphonse Mucha art nouveau style that I cringe at the type face… ouch. This story blurb might entice me to purchase it in the future though.

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