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Beyond Endless Tides #1
The White Queen
Deep in the world's oceans, asperini (merfolk) are on the brink of extinction. The planktonia numbers are diminishing and when they fall, everything else will follow. To secure their survival, some believe they must abandon the oceans and start new lives living on land as nghozas (humans).
Morg, born to a shawl implementing this belief, is disgusted by the notion and wants nothing to do with it.
She dreams of a future when the madness has ended and with a new friend embarks on a journey to make her dream a reality. Her journey is vast and brutal, and many dangers lurk in the silt beneath the ocean floor.
Morg, born to a shawl implementing this belief, is disgusted by the notion and wants nothing to do with it.
She dreams of a future when the madness has ended and with a new friend embarks on a journey to make her dream a reality. Her journey is vast and brutal, and many dangers lurk in the silt beneath the ocean floor.
118 pages, Paperback
First published March 31, 2014
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Charles F. Bond
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Charles Bond is a writer of fantasy short stories and novels and paranormal short stories.
Visit: http://www.charlesfbond.com/
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Charles Bond was born in Basildon, Essex and lived in the little town of Stanford-le-Hope. At aged 9 he moved with his family to a farm in the north-east of Scotland.
Growing up he was often caught day-dreaming and would have to be yelled at to bring him back to the real world. Which worked for a short while, but the moment he was alone, back he would go to whatever had so captivated him earlier.
He's always been a writer. He wrote many wise words in letters to friends if he felt they needed his guidance. And any time he's left an area, he'd always maintain and relationship with someone through letters. Sadly, he reflects, the internet and social media changed all that and he admits to have fallen folly to new age and technology.
Has he grown up? Not yet, He's still living in other worlds, only now he writes about them.
Charles Bond is a writer of fantasy short stories and novels and paranormal short stories.
Visit: http://www.charlesfbond.com/
Like: https://www.facebook.com/thepigginauthor
Charles Bond was born in Basildon, Essex and lived in the little town of Stanford-le-Hope. At aged 9 he moved with his family to a farm in the north-east of Scotland.
Growing up he was often caught day-dreaming and would have to be yelled at to bring him back to the real world. Which worked for a short while, but the moment he was alone, back he would go to whatever had so captivated him earlier.
He's always been a writer. He wrote many wise words in letters to friends if he felt they needed his guidance. And any time he's left an area, he'd always maintain and relationship with someone through letters. Sadly, he reflects, the internet and social media changed all that and he admits to have fallen folly to new age and technology.
Has he grown up? Not yet, He's still living in other worlds, only now he writes about them.
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August 28, 2016
Well I have just read the latest Kindle English Vernacular Edition and am pleased to tell you that the complaints about the 'Mer words' have been resolved. As has been reported the glossary does not work on the Kindle format, so the writer has changed to better use of English terms and it now reads beautifully.
The editing too is much improved and, as a bit of a 'grammar Nazi' I found nothing to complain about; but for a couple of editing points. Spelling checkers do not flag the wrong word if spelled correctly - but no more than half a dozen cases in the whole piece. (passed instead of past for example in just a couple of occasions...)
All in all a very well written, thoroughly engaging and delightful book and I am looking forward to reading more!
Mr. Bond has drawn a wonderful, believable and easy to visualize, undersea world, with engaging characters that the reader will care about and warm to.
Sexual references are nicely handled by no more than gentle allusions that are required for the storyline, being common sense and prosaic; nothing to disturb the good taste of any reader.
I heartily recommend to any lover of fantasy fiction as a promising new writer with hopefully much more to come.
The editing too is much improved and, as a bit of a 'grammar Nazi' I found nothing to complain about; but for a couple of editing points. Spelling checkers do not flag the wrong word if spelled correctly - but no more than half a dozen cases in the whole piece. (passed instead of past for example in just a couple of occasions...)
All in all a very well written, thoroughly engaging and delightful book and I am looking forward to reading more!
Mr. Bond has drawn a wonderful, believable and easy to visualize, undersea world, with engaging characters that the reader will care about and warm to.
Sexual references are nicely handled by no more than gentle allusions that are required for the storyline, being common sense and prosaic; nothing to disturb the good taste of any reader.
I heartily recommend to any lover of fantasy fiction as a promising new writer with hopefully much more to come.
March 16, 2015
This book unfortunately fell somewhat short of my anticipation.
To begin with it needs another round of editing. For example, as soon as one starts to read this book they read the following:
“She could feel the many eyes of her Inyarl Shawl, on her back, piercing and burning, willing her on.
‘Move forward,’ one of her onlookers urged, ‘you have to get closer.’
She didn’t want. She wanted none of this. Tamur was back there and, Orn, and Haspur. To think they wanted her to do this filled her with sense of unease; her haspur more than others. Her body had been ready for mating a whole revolution of solitaire, and Leader Lyon had wanted to put her to an nghoza male sooner but her haspur had refused.”
As you can see, the author has begun his story with a pronoun without telling us who it refers to. He lists a serious of three individuals using an incorrect punctuation. Haspur is first spelled with a capital “H” and afterwards with a small one.
Although there is a glossary at the end of this book, going back and forth, especially for a e-book version, creates an annoying distraction in trying to read this book. Instead of trying to add to the fantasy aspect of the book by using these terms, the author should have used their meanings instead.
In addition, before the story actually begins the author writes that the book “contains non-graphic scenes of an explicit nature some younger readers might find offensive and may need permission before reading.”
I feel the problem here is younger readers are somewhat naïve when it comes to knowing what is offensive, the parents are the ones who need to know this, yet there is no warning of this in the book’s description.
While the story itself has potential in being a good read, however the negative aspects have taken this potential away.
Give the above I can only give this book 3 STARS.
To begin with it needs another round of editing. For example, as soon as one starts to read this book they read the following:
“She could feel the many eyes of her Inyarl Shawl, on her back, piercing and burning, willing her on.
‘Move forward,’ one of her onlookers urged, ‘you have to get closer.’
She didn’t want. She wanted none of this. Tamur was back there and, Orn, and Haspur. To think they wanted her to do this filled her with sense of unease; her haspur more than others. Her body had been ready for mating a whole revolution of solitaire, and Leader Lyon had wanted to put her to an nghoza male sooner but her haspur had refused.”
As you can see, the author has begun his story with a pronoun without telling us who it refers to. He lists a serious of three individuals using an incorrect punctuation. Haspur is first spelled with a capital “H” and afterwards with a small one.
Although there is a glossary at the end of this book, going back and forth, especially for a e-book version, creates an annoying distraction in trying to read this book. Instead of trying to add to the fantasy aspect of the book by using these terms, the author should have used their meanings instead.
In addition, before the story actually begins the author writes that the book “contains non-graphic scenes of an explicit nature some younger readers might find offensive and may need permission before reading.”
I feel the problem here is younger readers are somewhat naïve when it comes to knowing what is offensive, the parents are the ones who need to know this, yet there is no warning of this in the book’s description.
While the story itself has potential in being a good read, however the negative aspects have taken this potential away.
Give the above I can only give this book 3 STARS.
July 12, 2017
"The White Queen" gives a different twist on the world of the mer people. Their people are soon to become extinct, or have the leaders been telling lies? Morg must discover the truth. What she discovers is that she is crucial to to plan to save the mer people, but it involves mating with the dreaded humans. The writing is good, with a few grammatical errors, and the plot is interesting and provides plenty of action. What I didn't like was the use of the mer people words. Although there was a glossary at the end, it is distracting to have to flip back and look up each new word unique to this world. And that's rather difficult when reading an ebook. The author would have been better off adding enough descriptions so readers could visualize what these words meant. In addition, that would have helped in creating a better image of the world these people lived in.
August 13, 2014
I think this book was quite good... Except it was too short and it was hard to follow the book since the writer replaced many words by imagery words like brother/sister mermaid was remur. Although i was kind of used to the words and i didn't need to use the glossary at the end of the book. The story was fascinating and i think it was interesting. This book was a kind of mixed type of romance and imagery world. I don't think that the book was a waste of time but... some people would less likely to be interested in books like this. Now days in fashion are angels, demons, vampires and werewolves. I am saying big thanks to the writer who wrote this book (Charles F. Bond) i hope there will be more books to read in these series. Don't Stop.))))
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