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Walking Shadows #5
Initus: Special Edition
This hardcover special edition includes the novel Initus along with its companion short story "Into the Sunset."
INITUS
A BEGINNING.
Morgan Travers was little more than a favored intern at a top medical research facility with a bright future ahead of her. She laughed, she worked, she lived, and she’d at last earned the coveted favor of her mentor, Dr. Xi. Morgan was a nobody, but she was going places. Until one choice destroyed everything: her career, her life, her nation. In one horror-filled moment, Morgan Travers became an infamous curse on everyone’s lips.
A REPEAL.
Locked in the darkness until her hair begins to gray, a mysterious offer interrupts Morgan’s sealed fate. If she agrees, she could undo the nightmare, restore order to a land destroyed, and exact revenge on those who had betrayed her. The question is: where is the line and will she be willing to cross it?
The thrilling conclusion to the Walking Shadows series unveils the mysterious, dark origins of its dystopian world at last.
"INTO THE SUNSET"
Where is everyone now? Enjoy a reunion of characters new and old set a few years after Initus, the last book in the Walking Shadows series.
INITUS
A BEGINNING.
Morgan Travers was little more than a favored intern at a top medical research facility with a bright future ahead of her. She laughed, she worked, she lived, and she’d at last earned the coveted favor of her mentor, Dr. Xi. Morgan was a nobody, but she was going places. Until one choice destroyed everything: her career, her life, her nation. In one horror-filled moment, Morgan Travers became an infamous curse on everyone’s lips.
A REPEAL.
Locked in the darkness until her hair begins to gray, a mysterious offer interrupts Morgan’s sealed fate. If she agrees, she could undo the nightmare, restore order to a land destroyed, and exact revenge on those who had betrayed her. The question is: where is the line and will she be willing to cross it?
The thrilling conclusion to the Walking Shadows series unveils the mysterious, dark origins of its dystopian world at last.
"INTO THE SUNSET"
Where is everyone now? Enjoy a reunion of characters new and old set a few years after Initus, the last book in the Walking Shadows series.
286 pages, Hardcover
Published August 5, 2023
15 people want to read
About the author
Talis Jones
29 books49 followersTalis Jones is a Mexican-English author of magic and mischief with several series published in print, digital, and audio.
Dog mom, Broadway enthusiast, and life-long bibliophile, Talis currently resides in North Carolina.
Find out more about Talis and her books at www.talisjonesofficial.com.
Dog mom, Broadway enthusiast, and life-long bibliophile, Talis currently resides in North Carolina.
Find out more about Talis and her books at www.talisjonesofficial.com.
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January 16, 2024
Initus by Talis Jones is partly a prequel as well as a sequel in the Walking Shadows series. I enjoyed it the most of the entire series. It is an exciting story, tracing misuse of biotechnology to gain political power. It is written in first person, with the main character telling the story. The plot unfolds in a fairly linear manner, which makes it easy for people like me to follow.
This is an excellent example of science fiction done extremely well. Descriptions of lab procedures are very accurate, including such things as pipetting and encoding samples. As a semi-retired biomedical scientist, I was impressed. Unlike some popular sci-fi books, there were no major errors, such as occurred in The Martian, where plants transpired mineral water instead of plain water. The banter and gossip amongst the lab mates were also very realistic.
This is a serious story, but I really enjoyed the colorful (and very funny) exchanges between two characters from the Southern Coalition (SC). The Southern Coalition is a wild country with lots of freedom, but no justice or order. Despite its evil aspects, the two young men from the SC are good-natured, fun-loving, and most of all FUNNY.
I enthusiastically recommend Initus as a great read. I suspect you will also love this book.
This is an excellent example of science fiction done extremely well. Descriptions of lab procedures are very accurate, including such things as pipetting and encoding samples. As a semi-retired biomedical scientist, I was impressed. Unlike some popular sci-fi books, there were no major errors, such as occurred in The Martian, where plants transpired mineral water instead of plain water. The banter and gossip amongst the lab mates were also very realistic.
This is a serious story, but I really enjoyed the colorful (and very funny) exchanges between two characters from the Southern Coalition (SC). The Southern Coalition is a wild country with lots of freedom, but no justice or order. Despite its evil aspects, the two young men from the SC are good-natured, fun-loving, and most of all FUNNY.
I enthusiastically recommend Initus as a great read. I suspect you will also love this book.
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January 5, 2022INITUS, the fifth and final installment in the Walking Shadows saga, reaches back in time to the explosive beginnings and gathers the strands of each story, weaving them into the series’ climax that will have the future of humanity teetering on the edge. Morgan Travers began as a mere intern at a top medical research facility but soon rivalries, conspiracies, prison bars, and a tempting offer for redemption will catapult her into the heart of the future. Her choice will alter the course of human history forever. What will she choose?
May 7, 2022
4.5 stars
WHAT A FINALE. This series has been a definite rollercoaster of characters, emotions, and events. So many ups, and downs, and wild in-betweens that keep you coming back. We get to see the very beginning, ya know that mysterious chaos hinted at in book one and one of Fury's flashbacks? Finally we get the story and how various characters' paths have truly become interconnected as this ultimate finale spins together. It's almost like finally seeing a tapestry from a distance rather than with your nose pressed against one section at a time and just wow. Characters new and old come together in this thrilling conclusion racing against the clock to either own the earth...or save it.
WHAT A FINALE. This series has been a definite rollercoaster of characters, emotions, and events. So many ups, and downs, and wild in-betweens that keep you coming back. We get to see the very beginning, ya know that mysterious chaos hinted at in book one and one of Fury's flashbacks? Finally we get the story and how various characters' paths have truly become interconnected as this ultimate finale spins together. It's almost like finally seeing a tapestry from a distance rather than with your nose pressed against one section at a time and just wow. Characters new and old come together in this thrilling conclusion racing against the clock to either own the earth...or save it.
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