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The Hereafter: A Futuristic Fantasy
What If Humanity's Only Hope Of Survival Is To Let Go Of Their Happily Ever After?The Hereafter promises eternal life for all humanity, but Nature cannot allow it to continue. Krysta is a psychic tasked by Nature with shutting down The Hereafter, but how does she convince humans to give up their afterlife?
Krysta gathers an unlikely group of characters from conflicting ideologies on the same path to restoring the natural balance in the middle of growing apocalyptic devastation to their
Malaya – a strange street girl with mysterious friends.
Malachi – an Agent of The Hereafter lured from the world view of his training by Krysta's convictions and his attraction to her.
Agent John – a militant Agent of the Hereafter who believes only in doing his job.
Terry – a detective sick to the soul of feeling like a pawn in other people's games.
An earth shattering earthquake serves as a catalyst and Krysta finds the key to humanity's collective consciousness in an unexpected place.
Meanwhile her group of unlikely allies make their way across an earthquake-torn city to face down Kaylamarr Cromwell – a man hell bent on restoring the threat of divine retribution to people’s lives.
Will Nature ever allow humankind to outgrow Her or will we always be at Her mercy?“Well written and cleverly plotted. The separate strands twist and turn to build a story that you don't want to put down but also don't want to end. Although when it does it leaves you thinking the author got it just right.” - Amazon Review
Intrigued? If you like musing over the idea of death and life's other big questions, and if you like an 'only a small group can save the world' type adventure story, then please click on the Look Inside or download a sample to your kindle to read the prologue and the first chapter.
Krysta gathers an unlikely group of characters from conflicting ideologies on the same path to restoring the natural balance in the middle of growing apocalyptic devastation to their
Malaya – a strange street girl with mysterious friends.
Malachi – an Agent of The Hereafter lured from the world view of his training by Krysta's convictions and his attraction to her.
Agent John – a militant Agent of the Hereafter who believes only in doing his job.
Terry – a detective sick to the soul of feeling like a pawn in other people's games.
An earth shattering earthquake serves as a catalyst and Krysta finds the key to humanity's collective consciousness in an unexpected place.
Meanwhile her group of unlikely allies make their way across an earthquake-torn city to face down Kaylamarr Cromwell – a man hell bent on restoring the threat of divine retribution to people’s lives.
Will Nature ever allow humankind to outgrow Her or will we always be at Her mercy?“Well written and cleverly plotted. The separate strands twist and turn to build a story that you don't want to put down but also don't want to end. Although when it does it leaves you thinking the author got it just right.” - Amazon Review
Intrigued? If you like musing over the idea of death and life's other big questions, and if you like an 'only a small group can save the world' type adventure story, then please click on the Look Inside or download a sample to your kindle to read the prologue and the first chapter.
241 pages, Kindle Edition
First published January 1, 2010
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About the author
Alex Vrettos
4 books5 followersAlex'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 something far more intriguing about an unanswered question than there is about an answered one. That makes life a little like a treasure hunt without any treasure in that respect and so that is why he reads, writes and watches movies. Stories are a way to explore the unanswerable questions like this one and find an answer every time. Each story is a treasure map and the treasure is guaranteed, real or imagined.
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 something far more intriguing about an unanswered question than there is about an answered one. That makes life a little like a treasure hunt without any treasure in that respect and so that is why he reads, writes and watches movies. Stories are a way to explore the unanswerable questions like this one and find an answer every time. Each story is a treasure map and the treasure is guaranteed, real or imagined.
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September 23, 2019
I rarely give up on completing a book even if it isn't my cup of tea. I was intrigued by the concept of a guaranteed technological afterlife but found the story to be a very dull and torturous read. I just couldn't get through it.
September 26, 2019
DNF after chapter 1 (13%).
I'm shocked to see this was written by an adult. It really reads like something written by a teen (though obviously by a male, given how women are described). It's simplistic, naive, meandering, and entirely lacking in the depth you associate with life experience. It's too grandiose in its claims and style to be read by an adult.
The idea is interesting, but I couldn't push myself to read further; the writing is just too bad. For a teen's first attempt, it would have been a good effort - I would have encouraged them to take a creative writing course to build their skills.
Also features basic typos and grammatical errors.
The author may wish to take this to Wattpad or similar to start getting help via reader feedback. That, or hire a very critical editor as a consultant.
I'm shocked to see this was written by an adult. It really reads like something written by a teen (though obviously by a male, given how women are described). It's simplistic, naive, meandering, and entirely lacking in the depth you associate with life experience. It's too grandiose in its claims and style to be read by an adult.
The idea is interesting, but I couldn't push myself to read further; the writing is just too bad. For a teen's first attempt, it would have been a good effort - I would have encouraged them to take a creative writing course to build their skills.
Also features basic typos and grammatical errors.
The author may wish to take this to Wattpad or similar to start getting help via reader feedback. That, or hire a very critical editor as a consultant.
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