Blurb: With guardian angels, a cursed
centaur and mythical saints, Lance Corporal Archie Fletcher battles his way
through Transit, discovering an underwater world of ancient secrets and
brawling with wild lions, enraged charioteers and venomous plants. With the
Moon’s trickery endangering his sanity and a three headed dragon that never
sleeps blocking his path, Dead Game is no easy feat. The fantasy will whisk you
away to a parallel world confirming the knowing deep within us all that the
adventure of life must go on.
Archie Fletcher has always been a bit of a
Daredevil. Never giving up without a fight. So why should it be any different
when he dies? Archie dies on a mission as a soldier, going down with his plane.
When he wakes up, he finds himself floating in the sea, the sun talking to him.
Naturally Archie thinks he’s seeing illusions, everything is a dream, and soon
he will wake up in a hospital. But life isn’t always the way you want it to be,
and Archie soon realizes, he’s in Transit- the place between earth and the
Beyond. But Archie proves to be harder to get across the bridge, to the Beyond,
more so than everyone was hoping.
It sure doesn’t help that the Moon is
playing tricks with his mind, a centaur forcing him to battle against a wild
lion, poisonous plants, underwater worlds, stars coming to life and guiding
you, imagination running wild, creating everything possible – and impossible.
And a three-headed dragon protecting the Golden bridge…. Well… I’m just
scratching the surface here.
The characters are well built; Archie
Fletcher, the little daredevil in the family. Always up to no good, but good
hearted, strong-willed and doesn’t take no for an answer. Just…. Don’t let his
imagination run rampant. It can be… fatal.
Felicity (or Hope), Archie’s spiritual guide
in Transit. She’s under lock and key by the Moon (or so the Moon would like to think),
but this little Star has more than a few tricks up her sleeve, and isn’t afraid
of using them. Her job is to make sure Archie gets over that Bridge. Or is it?
Hope has her own secrets – the question is, will they be revealed before it’s
too late?
Emrys is a cursed centaur and has been
living in Transit for many, many years. Acceptance of his world, his place in
it, has made him stay where he is, not seeking toward the bridge to come home. Will
Archie and Emrys remember who Emrys was before coming to Transit, and will
Emrys finally go against it all and claim his rightful place?
These are just a few of the persons we meet
in Dead Game, and each and everyone is fascinating, exciting and brings
something special and unique to the story.
I truly enjoyed reading Dead Game, for
several reasons. Claire has created a story who not only will keep you captured
for hours, but also touches a subject that many of us are afraid of (or don’t like
to think too much about); what happens when we die? Dead Game will leave you
wondering, not only about Transit (the In Between), but also about soul mates, the
road our souls needs to travel to reach our destination, and how powerful our
minds, our imaginations really can be.
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