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In the misty, coastal forests of Oregon...
16 year old, Mark Poe, drives his truck along a logging road, feeling freedom on the wind -- freedom to explore the woods. Though, he forgot to fill the gas tank before his expedition. He gets lost, runs out of gas, and is stranded at the end of a delapidated logging road. Mark drove into a terrifying game, without a rule book. The only goal is life.
16 year old, Mark Poe, drives his truck along a logging road, feeling freedom on the wind -- freedom to explore the woods. Though, he forgot to fill the gas tank before his expedition. He gets lost, runs out of gas, and is stranded at the end of a delapidated logging road. Mark drove into a terrifying game, without a rule book. The only goal is life.
79 pages, Hardcover
Published October 2, 2021
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About the author
J.P. Biddlecome
18 books8 followersJ.P. Biddlecome debuted in 2019 with Infantry Soldier, a civil war historical fiction. That same year he self-published Big Noise, a YA survival adventure, which won the Author of the Year Award. The following year, Oldman, a hunting adventure for teens. His proudest achievement was his 2021 release, Red on White, a castaway survival romance that won the Reader Views Choice Awards.
J.P. currently calls Southern Oregon home, where he can be found hiking, fishing, playing video games, and writing with his wife and fellow author, Rebecca J. Bastian.
Linktree: https://linktr.ee/j.p.biddlecome
J.P. currently calls Southern Oregon home, where he can be found hiking, fishing, playing video games, and writing with his wife and fellow author, Rebecca J. Bastian.
Linktree: https://linktr.ee/j.p.biddlecome
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September 25, 2022
Well done sir, well done.
Tension is masterfully created. Read it in a couple of hours, a definite page-turner. I appreciated how you wrote him as personifying his allies and enemies in survival. It helped me feel like there was a more developed story since many survival books feel lacking when representing only one personified character. But rather than taking away from the sense of isolation intended to be felt, the feverishness of the implied personhood of the other characters only increased the tension. Interestingly enough, one of the most powerful things a mind can do is to create people to interact with where there are none. This is a near-perfect representation of that.
Tension is masterfully created. Read it in a couple of hours, a definite page-turner. I appreciated how you wrote him as personifying his allies and enemies in survival. It helped me feel like there was a more developed story since many survival books feel lacking when representing only one personified character. But rather than taking away from the sense of isolation intended to be felt, the feverishness of the implied personhood of the other characters only increased the tension. Interestingly enough, one of the most powerful things a mind can do is to create people to interact with where there are none. This is a near-perfect representation of that.
June 27, 2020
The story concept is interesting. A 16-year old boy goes for a drive in the woods, gets lost, and runs out of gas. He has to do what it takes to survive.
To be honest, I must say that the first half of the story is somewhat boring to me, however the last half is very exciting and I couldn't put the book down.
To be honest, I must say that the first half of the story is somewhat boring to me, however the last half is very exciting and I couldn't put the book down.
September 28, 2020
A tale that walks the fine line between survival and madness through solitude…
Young author J.P. Biddlecome tells a story through the eyes of sole character and teen ‘Mark Poe’ in what reads like a diary style account of exploration. It pulls you in quickly and then comes the realisation that he’s lost. ‘Mark’ has been turned around in the Oregon forest and so survival along with trying to keep things together becomes the priority.
The setting is wonderfully described and literally feels as if its closing in. This is written by someone who knows the setting well and so combining that with the urgency to survive comes the real story. From the need to build a fire to quickly diminishing food rations, staying warm and even Coyotes, our narrator faces many different challenges that all centre around survival and in the end he see’s it as a sort of game.
This solitary feeling coupled with a slow burn madness ‘Mark’ experiences makes for a readable and mostly enjoyable read. There are some moments where the narration style comes across as repetitive; ‘I did this’ and ‘I did that’ and similar phrases do appear often and this is something that could have been executed with a little more variety. Being able to show a reader as opposed to telling them is limited in this setting because of the solitary feeling but still it kept my attention throughout and made for an interesting read. For those who enjoy a shorter reads about survival in a wonderfully described setting will find this book well worth a look.
Young author J.P. Biddlecome tells a story through the eyes of sole character and teen ‘Mark Poe’ in what reads like a diary style account of exploration. It pulls you in quickly and then comes the realisation that he’s lost. ‘Mark’ has been turned around in the Oregon forest and so survival along with trying to keep things together becomes the priority.
The setting is wonderfully described and literally feels as if its closing in. This is written by someone who knows the setting well and so combining that with the urgency to survive comes the real story. From the need to build a fire to quickly diminishing food rations, staying warm and even Coyotes, our narrator faces many different challenges that all centre around survival and in the end he see’s it as a sort of game.
This solitary feeling coupled with a slow burn madness ‘Mark’ experiences makes for a readable and mostly enjoyable read. There are some moments where the narration style comes across as repetitive; ‘I did this’ and ‘I did that’ and similar phrases do appear often and this is something that could have been executed with a little more variety. Being able to show a reader as opposed to telling them is limited in this setting because of the solitary feeling but still it kept my attention throughout and made for an interesting read. For those who enjoy a shorter reads about survival in a wonderfully described setting will find this book well worth a look.
May 16, 2022
I really enjoyed it. Having had a vacation in Oregon, I could envision the terrain you described. You had me turn the pages as I enjoyed your writing. It has a nice flow and I wanted to know how it is going to end.
March 28, 2020
I used styles by Edger Allan Poe and other horror/suspense authors to make this book suspenseful, and nightmarish. The character, Mark Poe gets lost in the woods, runs out of gas, and is forced to play a game without a rule book, the only goal is life.
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