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Convergence
In the end, everything connects...
After fleeing Sunridge and returning to the UK, Nothing In The Cage are faced with two hide and wait for Harpocrates to catch up with them, or show Dawn Chorus they’re unwilling to play by the rules. Realising that a life in the shadows is barely survival, the band decides to do what they do best – make music.
Cage embark on an album release and tour designed to taunt Dawn Chorus while infiltrating the dark underbelly of their London meeting house and its members. Meanwhile, Costas and Task uncover revelations that show how intertwined everything is, and just how precariously balanced on a knife edge it’s become. The past, present and potential futures collide, forcing Nate and the band to confront who they want to become, in the reality-bending, globe-spanning conclusion to The Orpheus Files.
After fleeing Sunridge and returning to the UK, Nothing In The Cage are faced with two hide and wait for Harpocrates to catch up with them, or show Dawn Chorus they’re unwilling to play by the rules. Realising that a life in the shadows is barely survival, the band decides to do what they do best – make music.
Cage embark on an album release and tour designed to taunt Dawn Chorus while infiltrating the dark underbelly of their London meeting house and its members. Meanwhile, Costas and Task uncover revelations that show how intertwined everything is, and just how precariously balanced on a knife edge it’s become. The past, present and potential futures collide, forcing Nate and the band to confront who they want to become, in the reality-bending, globe-spanning conclusion to The Orpheus Files.
385 pages, Kindle Edition
Published August 31, 2024
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About the author
Alice Ewens
7 books13 followersAlice Ewens is a storyteller and story collector, a certified worrier, queer fiction writer and poet, music nerd and wannabe rockstar. What might happen if Joan Jett and Stevie Nicks ran at each other really fast, then ate a lot of cake. Born in Medway, in the South-East of the UK in the mid-80s, Alice briefly attended Bath Spa University to study creative writing. It didn’t work out. She worked as a transport consultant engineer for 10 years but that stopped working out, too. She now lives in Bristol, in the South-West of the UK, with a husband and a cat, is an avid tea-drinker and a fan of a well-placed swear word. She now works part-time in marketing and devotes the rest of her time to artistic pining. Alice's work is often confessional and maximalist, peeling back the layers of society to peer at the goings-on beneath. She hopes you won’t hold this against her.
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September 23, 2024
Readers, take your time and consume this book as an experience!
Many times throughout this book, I wanted to skim paragraphs just because I was so anxious to see what would happen next, but to do that would be a complete disservice to the awe-inspiring prose and the absolute attention to detail that the author demands. Ewens has a gift. And they are a gift to the literary community. Each page, sentence, verse, is so well crafted, you won't want to miss a single word.
And the story! I have been following Nate, Jack, Saide, Junk, Shins, Cora and their friends and enemies from book one, Resonance. You really do have to start at the beginning to fully understand the plot and many subplots. And the ending will be much more fulfilling having done so. In fact, new readers are lucky because they won't have to wait. I think binge-reading the trio would have the most impact. In fact, I may do that again. But in Convergence, we get the whole picture. No loose ends, no cliffhanger that'll piss you off. The ending was so poignant, I shed tears.
In a phrase, this series is about the power of music. But the story is so much more. It's adventure and friendship and romance and sci-fi and scary stuff and evil greed and a rollercoaster of a series I highly recommend to anyone who has a heart.
Many times throughout this book, I wanted to skim paragraphs just because I was so anxious to see what would happen next, but to do that would be a complete disservice to the awe-inspiring prose and the absolute attention to detail that the author demands. Ewens has a gift. And they are a gift to the literary community. Each page, sentence, verse, is so well crafted, you won't want to miss a single word.
And the story! I have been following Nate, Jack, Saide, Junk, Shins, Cora and their friends and enemies from book one, Resonance. You really do have to start at the beginning to fully understand the plot and many subplots. And the ending will be much more fulfilling having done so. In fact, new readers are lucky because they won't have to wait. I think binge-reading the trio would have the most impact. In fact, I may do that again. But in Convergence, we get the whole picture. No loose ends, no cliffhanger that'll piss you off. The ending was so poignant, I shed tears.
In a phrase, this series is about the power of music. But the story is so much more. It's adventure and friendship and romance and sci-fi and scary stuff and evil greed and a rollercoaster of a series I highly recommend to anyone who has a heart.
November 2, 2024
Amazing ending to an amazing trilogy! Highly recommended!
November 19, 2024
How did I not write my review when I read this?
This was EVERYTHING.
Alice's writing is just the stuff of dreams.
So poetic.
So beautiful.
So clever.
This whole world of characters that Alice has created feel so real. Everything about this series is just so tangible I can taste it.
Absolute perfection.
Exquisite.
Cannot recommend this series enough. The writing is second to none.
Read it all, you won't regret it.
5*****
P.s. I cried my eyes out. I cried my forking eyes out. So. Damn. Good.
This was EVERYTHING.
Alice's writing is just the stuff of dreams.
So poetic.
So beautiful.
So clever.
This whole world of characters that Alice has created feel so real. Everything about this series is just so tangible I can taste it.
Absolute perfection.
Exquisite.
Cannot recommend this series enough. The writing is second to none.
Read it all, you won't regret it.
5*****
P.s. I cried my eyes out. I cried my forking eyes out. So. Damn. Good.
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