Connect

Mason Chronicles #2

by Richard Jones

"What shall a man profit if he gain the world and lose his soul?”
--Recorded Wisdom of Before, vol. 2, ch. 1

Picking up right after the thrilling events of Contact, we find Mason and his team of Contacts fractured. Mason, C’er, and Tank race towards a destination that remains unknown to them, while Diana sets out on her own path towards revenge. Meanwhile, Dathan's horde of Brothers continue their crusade across the wastelands of the world of After. They offer a simple choice to all those they Join them and rebuild world from the ashes, or be burned to nothing.

Connect continues The Mason Chronicles through the world of After. It is a harsh and unforgiving place and Mason is its perfect paladin. He travels with a prophet named C’er whose precognitive abilities are normally maddening, but somehow stifled by Mason’s presence. For this task he has made two contacts so far. First is a mutated giant named Tank who has exceptional abilities with all forms of tek, but otherwise has the mind of a young child. Second was Diana, a teenage girl with natural affinity for all forms of weapons and combat. While Tank needs to bring the group someplace special, Diana is bent on revenge against Dathan and his army of "Brothers"who destroyed her village.

Meanwhile in a mysterious Facility from the time Before the world of After came to be, a small group of people struggle to restore systems that they do not fully understand. Systems that may not want to be fully restored...

160 pages, Kindle Edition

First published June 30, 2013

About the author

Rich Jones lives with his family in the north eastern United States. He has worked in the Healthcare and Information technology fields for many years. His interests run to Reading Science Fiction and Fantasy, Rock and Heavy Metal music, practicing Martial Arts and technology in general. He has only just started to publish the writing that he has been doing as a hobby of years.

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Reviews

[Jack · Rating 3 out of 5]

I enjoyed this quite a lot. Had a good flow and enjoyed the banter between Mason and Ce'r. The action in this book is pretty. However, what really made this book really quite annoying was Elia. She was just stupid and bitchy. Another thing, is that the author should be careful of not doing Mason too over the top. He's a great character, but he should be written with some subtleties of his greatness? Or his darkness. Writing about how his dark brooding gaze stopped the world with fear is a bit too much. While the author didn't do that, it was almost like that.

Anyhow, awesome book except for Elia, she kinda of soured the experience.