Holy Trinity: An Eagle Tree Story

The Eagle Tree #2

by Ned Hayes

Holy Trinity continues the story of March Wong, the unusual protagonist of the acclaimed bestselling novel THE EAGLE TREE by Ned Hayes. In this short novella, March Wong explores the world of Pacific Northwest lichens and makes a unique discovery.

Genres: Fiction

43 pages, Kindle Edition

Published December 31, 2016

About the author

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Ned Hayes is a voracious reader (and writer) from Olympia Washington, who now lives in Portland, Oregon.

My novel THE EAGLE TREE was a national bestseller, and was named by New York Times bestselling author Steve Silberman as one of the top 5 books on the autistic experience.. The book has also been endorsed by Temple Grandin and many others.

I read in many genres. I especially enjoy historical fiction like Philippa Gregory, Anita Diamant and Hilary Mantel, as well as supernatural historical fiction from Susanne Clarke and Tim Powers. But I also love Annie Dillard, Jorge Borges and Michael Chabon.

I also wrote the historical novel SINFUL FOLK, a book set in the 14th century. The cover of SINFUL FOLK a series of lovely internal illustrations were created by the New York Times bestselling author/illustrator Nikki McClure. SINFUL FOLK was nominated for the "Pacific Northwest Booksellers Award" and received starred reviews from many publications, including BookList.

You can find the rest of my books at Ned Note.com .

Reviews

[Shomeret · Rating 4 out of 5]

This short story is about an autistic teen doing science. He is conducting an experiment in an attempt to achieve something that adult scientists have never been able to do. This is an audacious goal, but it's entirely in keeping with the character of Peter March Wong who we first encountered in The Eagle Tree.

My only problem with this story is a spoiler. March's mother objected that the mold in his room was toxic. March told her it wasn't toxic. I knew someone for whom it would have been toxic. She had a severe allergy to mold. Exposure to mold made her very sick. What if March's mother had such an allergy? What if his uncle had a mold allergy? He had no way of knowing, but he didn't even ask. Experiments require informed consent from those involved. This is a mistake that could have had terrible consequences which wasn't addressed in this story.

March defies limitations and makes mistakes. Hopefully, he learns from these errors. I thought that this was an interesting subject for a story about an autistic teen.

[Mark Heyward Johnson · Rating 5 out of 5]

Another visit with OlyWa

A short and very focused visit with Peter and his biological interests, sprinkled with some winds of Unity of Olympia. In other words, another journey back to one of my favorite places, one that will always live inside of me.

[JenBsBooks · Rating 4 out of 5]

I liked this. Very short, text included in KU, there was audio, but it wasn't included and I wasn't willing to pay for it. I actually tried the "Alexa read to me" figuring of any book, this would be a good candidate, as March doesn't use a lot of inflection and sounds a little robotic ... but I could switch the voice to male (I could overall, but the "reading" voice was still regular Alexa) and it was skipping, so I just read it.

March points out that he hasn't switched from his love of trees to love of lichen, but that lichen are an extension of the tree habitat. This had some interesting facts and I felt like I learned a little something. It got a little religious (not super surprising, given the title), of course March doesn't believe in God.

March's Mom ... on the one hand, she's super supportive and puts up with a ton, on the other hand ... she didn't even peek into her son's room for days/weeks, to notice he'd brought the forest inside and was growing mold and fungus on the walls and everything?

[Sam Blake · Rating 2 out of 5]

I enjoyed the Eagle Tree a lot - it was a well curated novel that had been put together in an intricate way that gave a good insight into autism whilst still being a really capturing story.

This novella, however, seemed like a rushed, rough and ready project that didn’t really add anything to March as a character, with an oversimplified story line that had many unrealistic elements, and wasn’t that capturing anyway.

There were also religious undertones to the book that left a bitter taste in my mouth, especially as it wasn’t listed as a “Christian” book and nor prefaced as such anywhere (although I suppose the title, in hindsight, hinted to this). In parts it felt very preachy without adding anything to the story and I felt almost as though the author was trying to spring it on me

[Sarah Geraghty · Rating 4 out of 5]

Added extra

Another lovely insight into an amazing mind... The magical world of March. So well written and a pleasure to read

[Bret Parker · Rating 4 out of 5]

A heartwarming tale of a budding scientist whose will to discover is unstoppable.