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When the World Grows Cold: Beyond the Peaks
Ginna and Danny have been back from their time travels with Jon, Jael, and Martina, for almost 30 years. Danny has settled into a normal Twenty-first Century life. But for Ginna nothing has been 'normal' since her return--for she discovered she was pregnant, with no idea who could be the father of her child. Then Celestia, daughter of Jon and Martina, appears from the GAP-to take Ginna, and her daughter, Annemarie, to the future-- hoping to help them find answers to their many questions. In this distant future, people who follow the True King and read the Book, are a tiny minority, driven from the cities, and forced to eke out an existence in the wilderness. Will Ginna find what she so desperately needs to know--in this treacherous world? * * * "M.F. Erler is an intriguing story-teller. The Peaks at the Edge of the World was hard to put down. I had many sleepless nights because I couldn't wait to find out what happened next!"
376 pages, Paperback
First published November 14, 2013
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March 31, 2019
Thanks to LibraryThing for the complimentary advance review copy of When the World Grows Cold.
Ginna's fatherless daughter Annemarie drifts from singing in church to less salubrious venues like bars, and falls in with a bad crowd. Then Celestia appears from the future. It seems there's a very strange relationship between the two girls, one that will lead Ginna and Annemarie into a future that turns their dreams into their destiny.
This fourth volume in Erler's Peaks Saga reads like the love child of Narnia's allegory and Dr. Who's spatiotemporal adventure, with a delightfully original concept, from the earlier books, of the mechanism of time travel and its consequences. It's very much distopian, with hunters both biological and human pursuing rebels against the world order.
And the rebels, at least the ones we see, are Christians who believe they're enduring the tribulation described in the apocalyptic passages of the Bible.
Somehow, though. it all comes together into a very readable book. The pace could be faster, and there could be more suspense, but it's still a fun read and I recommend it for readers of postapocalyptic fiction.
Ginna's fatherless daughter Annemarie drifts from singing in church to less salubrious venues like bars, and falls in with a bad crowd. Then Celestia appears from the future. It seems there's a very strange relationship between the two girls, one that will lead Ginna and Annemarie into a future that turns their dreams into their destiny.
This fourth volume in Erler's Peaks Saga reads like the love child of Narnia's allegory and Dr. Who's spatiotemporal adventure, with a delightfully original concept, from the earlier books, of the mechanism of time travel and its consequences. It's very much distopian, with hunters both biological and human pursuing rebels against the world order.
And the rebels, at least the ones we see, are Christians who believe they're enduring the tribulation described in the apocalyptic passages of the Bible.
Somehow, though. it all comes together into a very readable book. The pace could be faster, and there could be more suspense, but it's still a fun read and I recommend it for readers of postapocalyptic fiction.
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