Rising

by Patrick Sean Lee

In the spectacular and corrupt city of Polit, sixteen year-old Alana Bendrece and her family live in squalor, in the walled-in ghetto called Black. After having killed an attacker from outside her caste neighborhood, she is arrested, quickly tried, and then condemned. Hours later Alana is flown in a Helicere II aircraft to a land far, far away…an island only a chosen few even know exists. A place reserved for "special cases". Blindfolded, and with her hands lashed behind her back, she is pitched out the cargo door as the aircraft approaches the island. Terrified, she falls, and falls, and falls… But death doesn’t capture young Alana, instead, the thick cords of a vast net stretched along the shoreline of a frightening beach. What awaits her in this strange new land is at times confusing, wonderful, and yet more horrific than anything she has experienced in her life. There are people inhabiting the amazing island called "Folly"—those who live high in the massive branches of five hundred foot-tall trees, and those who dwell in a Medieval-like walled city many miles away from the mighty giants of the lush forest. Alana soon discovers that despite her rescue by a young tree dweller, someone living in one or the other—or both—of these vastly different groups on Folly wants her dead, and they will destroy the island and every person on it in order to get it done.

289 pages, Kindle Edition

First published June 15, 2015

About the author

Patrick Sean Lee was born in Denver, Colorado. He currently lives is Southern California with his wife. The
Redemption of Marvin Fuster is his first novel, begun in 1998 and completed in 2012.
He is the author of many short stories that can be seen at Amazonbooks-Patrick Sean Lee, and is completing work on his second novel, One Year on Meade Street which will be released in September of 2013.

In addition to One Year on Meade Street, Patrick has written a YA fantasy, "Dreams of Shadows", which will be released in late summer or early Fall, 2013.

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Reviews

[beth lozano · Rating 1 out of 5]

This book reads as if unedited

Grammar errors, spelling errors, plot elements that don’t hold together, invented names and words that never can be defined from context… this book appears to have been voice dictated and never reviewed or edited at all. Where were his beater readers? Where was his copy editor? Compared to other books of his that I have read, this one is not worth anyone’s time.

[David Richards · Rating 3 out of 5]

Started off really good, but finished weak and same-y. Found myself skim reading. Never ending chases through jungle, all a bit predicatable apart from some charecters turning out good/bad and vice versa. Nice village in trees inc people destroyed a real downer. Also found it was one of a searies at the end. Ho hum