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Fellowship
The Angel of Death is real.
Eighteen-year-old, Ian Hobart couldn’t believe it. Didn’t want to believe it.
But his parents and older brother were Taken.
And the Cleaners want him and his three younger siblings.
In desperation, Ian and his siblings escape to the wilds of the Blue Ridge Mountains. They rely on their evasion and survival skills, but with winter approaching food is scarce.
When they run out of resources, the mountains are brutal and unforgiving.
Ian has nowhere else to turn. He asks his best friend for help, and puts them all in danger.
Get your copy of this fast-paced story and find out who survives...
A companion book to Lynette M. Burrows' My Soul to Keepseries you won't want to miss.
Buy Fellowship today!!
Eighteen-year-old, Ian Hobart couldn’t believe it. Didn’t want to believe it.
But his parents and older brother were Taken.
And the Cleaners want him and his three younger siblings.
In desperation, Ian and his siblings escape to the wilds of the Blue Ridge Mountains. They rely on their evasion and survival skills, but with winter approaching food is scarce.
When they run out of resources, the mountains are brutal and unforgiving.
Ian has nowhere else to turn. He asks his best friend for help, and puts them all in danger.
Get your copy of this fast-paced story and find out who survives...
A companion book to Lynette M. Burrows' My Soul to Keepseries you won't want to miss.
Buy Fellowship today!!
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Published May 1, 2022
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About the author
Lynette M. Burrows
5 books26 followersLynette M. Burrows is a survivor. She survived moving to seventeen different schools before she graduated from high school. She contends that this makes her uniquely qualified to write a dystopian novel or two.
Lynette enjoys coffee, the pleasure of real books, and the crack of a nine-millimeter, not necessarily all at the same time—although they all appear in her stories. Spiced with a dash of intrigue, a dollop of mayhem, and a liberal dose of automatic weapons her stories are action-filled science fiction with characters who discover their inner strength and determination and make courageous choices for themselves, their family, and their world.
The White Box stories, her collaborations with Rob Chilson, appeared in Analog Science Fiction Science Fact Magazine. She’s also had stories published in regional and national children’s magazines.
Her five star debut novel, My Soul to Keep, takes place in America but it’s not the nation you know. Readers have said it has the social significance of The Handmaid’s Tale and the suspense and that it will keep you turning pages.
She blogs regularly about inspiration, books, story research, writing, and other subjects of interest. She loves to talk to people about books or writing or that odd thing that no one knows about your occupation. Talk to Lynette on her website, Facebook, or one of her author pages.
Lynette, her artist husband and their pack of Yorkies live in Oz, otherwise known as Kansas.
Lynette enjoys coffee, the pleasure of real books, and the crack of a nine-millimeter, not necessarily all at the same time—although they all appear in her stories. Spiced with a dash of intrigue, a dollop of mayhem, and a liberal dose of automatic weapons her stories are action-filled science fiction with characters who discover their inner strength and determination and make courageous choices for themselves, their family, and their world.
The White Box stories, her collaborations with Rob Chilson, appeared in Analog Science Fiction Science Fact Magazine. She’s also had stories published in regional and national children’s magazines.
Her five star debut novel, My Soul to Keep, takes place in America but it’s not the nation you know. Readers have said it has the social significance of The Handmaid’s Tale and the suspense and that it will keep you turning pages.
She blogs regularly about inspiration, books, story research, writing, and other subjects of interest. She loves to talk to people about books or writing or that odd thing that no one knows about your occupation. Talk to Lynette on her website, Facebook, or one of her author pages.
Lynette, her artist husband and their pack of Yorkies live in Oz, otherwise known as Kansas.
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October 29, 2022
Fellowship is an alternate reality story about life in the United States, specifically around the Blue Ridge mountains, where the controlling portion of the American government is operated by a group called the Fellowship. It seems to be something like the propagandized Soviet Union, where if you didn’t completely believe in the government, you would disappear. It’s an interesting dichotomy between reality and a dystopian nightmare.
I found the story to be missing a theme. Of course, there is the political angle, but not much additional background on how the world became this way. The same thing happens during the events in the story, with touches on the idea of an underground network, outdoor survival, and political hierarchy, but none of these themes are ever fully explored. It seems like the story can’t decide what it wants to focus on.
I also didn’t find the characters fully developed, particularly some of the secondary ones. Our protagonist Ian is looking after his three siblings, but none of them really stand out. I think that there is also a fourth one, but they seem to get lost, along with the parents. I didn’t have any strong feelings for any of these secondary characters. There’s an attempt to create a relationship between Ian and his best friend Monty. I wanted a lot out of this relationship, but it didn’t seem to come together.
Overall, I was disappointed with this story. It’s well written, from a technical standpoint, but its inability to focus on what kind of story it wants to be when it grows up, turned me off. It can’t seem to decide whether it wants to be The Handmaiden’s Tale or The Stand. It wasn’t a bad read, but it didn’t capture my interest either. A weak three out of five stars on Goodreads.
I found the story to be missing a theme. Of course, there is the political angle, but not much additional background on how the world became this way. The same thing happens during the events in the story, with touches on the idea of an underground network, outdoor survival, and political hierarchy, but none of these themes are ever fully explored. It seems like the story can’t decide what it wants to focus on.
I also didn’t find the characters fully developed, particularly some of the secondary ones. Our protagonist Ian is looking after his three siblings, but none of them really stand out. I think that there is also a fourth one, but they seem to get lost, along with the parents. I didn’t have any strong feelings for any of these secondary characters. There’s an attempt to create a relationship between Ian and his best friend Monty. I wanted a lot out of this relationship, but it didn’t seem to come together.
Overall, I was disappointed with this story. It’s well written, from a technical standpoint, but its inability to focus on what kind of story it wants to be when it grows up, turned me off. It can’t seem to decide whether it wants to be The Handmaiden’s Tale or The Stand. It wasn’t a bad read, but it didn’t capture my interest either. A weak three out of five stars on Goodreads.
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