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Alex Vrettos

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Alex's stories can be a little dark but Alex himself is all sweetness and light. He makes a living hypnotising his clients into happier lives and in the spaces between he likes to spin yarns from the shadows in his soul.

He has two self-published books so far available on Amazon, Nook and Kobo. The Hereafter is an urban fantasy novel about an artificial afterlife and I Am You is a contemporary fantasy novel about two characters without bodies one who lives in The Realm Of Life and the other searching for his host in The Realm Of Death.

When Alex was four years old he asked his Mum ‘how do we know that life is not a dream?’ Through no fault of her own she was unable to give him a satisfactory answer, and so he is still asking today as there's
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Alex Vrettos They could come from anywhere - something someone says, another book or movie. A story usually starts with an idea or concept such as 'what if...?' af…moreThey could come from anywhere - something someone says, another book or movie. A story usually starts with an idea or concept such as 'what if...?' after that a world starts to unfold in my mind where such an idea is best explored followed by some characters who best qualified to investigate on my behalf. The Hereafter was about exploring the sci-fi idea of an artificial afterlife in context of our own world and I Am You grew out of my curiosity of near death experiences are rarely identical one person to the next.(less)
Alex Vrettos I am a big fan of Iain M. Banks and Alistair Reynolds. I have read about the idea of an artificial afterlife for more advanced and alien civilisations…moreI am a big fan of Iain M. Banks and Alistair Reynolds. I have read about the idea of an artificial afterlife for more advanced and alien civilisations than ours so I wondered what such a development would do to the world in which we live. The Hereafter is an exploration of that.(less)
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A Monster Calls – A Hero’s Journey

A Monster Calls is a journey into loss and shame the likes of which you’ve rarely seen before. It is fantastic in terms of the production design, performances and writing. I of course particularly enjoyed the wisdom woven within the story – the dark mythical threads that stimulated the storyteller and remedial hypnotist inside me.


For starters the monster is a mythical beast who enters the modern w

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Dry Water
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Alex Vrettos Alex Vrettos said: " The Truth Unveiled does not waste any time getting started and we immediately join the main character in action whilst dealing with a moral dilemma almost which is a good start.

The voice of the story is consistent and the character well defined thoug
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