Lost from Atlantis: Book 1

by David A. Lindsay, Mark Ceasar Borgueta Gariando (Illustrator)

14 year old Katie Sullivan has vanished from modern day Atlanta and appears in 1197 A.D. Europe. Captured and taken as slave Katie makes a desperate wager with the If she can teach him how to fly, she won't only go free - she'll be rich! But if she fails she will die.
As a valued but distrusted advisor she counsels the monarchy on famine, bandits raiding the villages, emergency first aid, Black Plague, saves a woman from burning at the stake, and much more.
Could you convince a king in 1197 A.D. that you're worth more as an advisor than as a slave?

163 pages, Kindle Edition

Published October 16, 2015

About the author

Born and brought up in Dundee, Scotland, David A. Lindsay now lives with his wife near St Andrews in Fife. Gaspar The Thief, a humorous fantasy adventure, is his first novel.

Gaspar The Thief is a featured 'Noteworthy Release' for the week commencing 3 June 2012 at http://noteworthyreleasesdsbooks.blog....

Visit David's website at http://www.highland.co.uk.

Reviews

[Terry Overton · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is a delightful display of strength in a young teenage girl who exhibits more wit and knowledge than the male characters she finds herself with in another era. Her advantage of being from the future provides her with knowledge of things unknown in the time period in which she finds herself. This might have a little edgy language or scenes for the very youngest of readers but would be fine for older children, tweens, and teens. As I finished the book, indeed I wondered what will happen in the next installation of this series set in an imaginary world.

[S.S. Saywack · Rating 5 out of 5]

I simply loved the idea of this story, a modern human somehow transported to the twelfth century. How much more we know about technology, science and other things than the inhabitants of that century, and what a difference it could make to a primitive society. A case of a more humane time confronting a more barbaric one The story was highly clever in parts and flowed along as a series of short stories in many ways, all wrapped up in the narrative of the protagonist, Katie, trying to survive her encounter with the dark to middle ages as someone from the mythical kingdom of Atlantis. From designing a hang-glider to almost discovering penicillin the story was inventive. In which case I am more than happy to forgive the author’s artistic licence, introducing the Black Death a good century before it actually arrived in Europe - it did not distract from a good idea and good story. We are left with a cliff-hanger… the kingdom is in peril and how will Katie save it? Surely her good fortune cannot last? And will she get back to modern-day Atlanta, her home (not Atlantis) and start texting again? A very good read.